Even before we bought our first house last year, I’ve wanted to be able to do things for holidays, mainly Halloween. My wife covers more than enough decorations for Christmas, so I typically focus on Halloween. Now, there’s a bush in the front of the house that is large and round, and when Halloween came…
Monday was another day off for me and I wanted to get out and climb something. My eyes are quick to set on anything that I haven’t done, or seems harder than average. I’ve done Cowles Mtn twice and Iron Mountain once. A friend of mine mentioned the Mt Woodson Trail but when I looked…
The other day, I bought a new faucet from Home Depot. I had deviated from the normal store that I visit in El Cajon and decided to go to the store in Santee since it was closer to another errand I was running. Now typically I prefer to shop at Lowe’s if I have to…
In the last three weeks, since my return from deployment, I’ve done a fair bit of shopping. Some of the things I’ve needed, but mostly things that have caught my eye or something I lacked while on deployment. The problem that I’ve found, is that possibly 70% of the items I’ve bought have been returned…
The other day, my wife mentioned she was thinking about getting a new faucet for the bathroom and asked if I could change it out. I told her it’d be easy, I mean how hard could it be to change out a faucet, right? She’d ask about different faucets and I told her that I…
This morning I dropped my daughter off to school and made my way to Cowles Mountain for a second run at it. The first time I was there was with my daughter on Columbus Day and this time I wanted to see how fast I could make it to the top and back. My original…
After an adventure climbing a mountain, I was at a loss for what to do for lunch. I’ve also been on a salad kick for the longest time, and unfortunately, the only good salad I’ve had lately is in Fashion Valley at Stacked. But that’s another story. Having an errand to run near Grossmont Center…
Recently I’ve caught the hiking bug and having heard about Iron Mountain from a few people, I wanted to get out and check it out for myself. Doing my requisite research on Yelp, and a few other sites, I made the plans to see the trail in Poway for myself. Having the day off, I…
This past Monday my daughter had the day off and I was on leave, granting us our first opportunity to spend the day together since I returned from deployment. When we usually take off on our own, we go to Dave and Busters for lunch and some games. It is a sort of ritual that…
Here it is, almost 4am and I’m on watch waiting for that time to come to arrive in San Diego after leaving over 7 months ago. I’m not sure how to calculate the time, as this has been the longest deployment I have ever experienced. I guess that comes with the karma that I built…