We’re homeowners!

We closed on our house in Missouri a few days ago. I was waiting for some pictures to post but due to technical dificulties they kind of don’t exist. However, if you click on the picture to the left here it will take you to a Shutterfly album my mother took awhile back. Just imagine that house, only a few months in the future. Very similar!

Anyway, it’s a pretty big step for us, considering we’ve spent our entire adult lives living in apartments and military housing. I’m very happy with the home, it’s almost everything we were looking for. You never find the perfect place, but I think this one will do nicely for the time being. We are already coming up with all sorts of unrealistic plans for finishing the basement and what not. It’s a strange phenomenon actually, we buy a house and immediately want to change it. Ah well, that’s several years down the road anyway.

We’ll probably be moving in around the end of December. It’s going to be pretty hectic. I hate to say it guys, but this is one year I’m NOT hoping for a white Christmas. As much as I don’t want to leave everyone back in Arkansas I’m very much looking forward to getting up there and settling down for awhile. Maybe I’ll put up a white picket fence and get a dog. I guess it’s finally happened, we’re all grown up!

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The Osan Air Show

We had the annual Osan Air Show this weekend. Now, under normal circumstances it’s only a so so endeavor. I mean, this is Korea after all. They have a few fighters zip around for awhile, some random fly bys of whatever they can scrape up out of Japan and Guam and here on the penninsula, and a smattering of Army equipment and South Korean aircraft. The highlight is the Black Eagles, a Korean stunt team akin to the Blue Angles or Thunderbirds that you’ll see back in the United States. They fly T-37’s and generally put on a decent show, although I wouldn’t call it anything particularily special.

Unfortunately, our short little dictatorial friend up north decided to literally drop the bomb last week and test a nuclear device. This resulted in a bunch of cancellations for our Air Show. Do I think it was intentional on North Korea’s part? Did they blow up a tiny little bomb just to show they can put an end to Osan’s yearly spectacle whenever they want? I’m no expert, but it’s entirely possible. Jerks.

I went and wandered around anyway and took a few pictures. As it turns out, I had my camera set to some ridiculous settings from the last time I was screwing around with it, that made all my pictures come out overexposed and blue tinted. I tried to correct it as best I could on the computer. You can’t really tell since the pictures I put on this website are so small, so it’s not that bad.

Also, I was looking around the picture gallery earlier and realized it was horribly disorganized and hard to find stuff in, so I broke down and rearranged everything into chronological order. Better? I dunno, but it makes me happy.

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Oops

Well, to make a long story short, I managed to destroy my laptop. I’m not going to go into the gory details, suffice to say it doesn’t work anymore and never will again. I’ve concocted a plan to have a computer for the rest of the time I’m here, so it’s not that bad. Unfortunately, I’ve lost all my stuff I had on the other one, including all my email address and phone numbers and stuff. So please, if I know you and emailed you before, send me something so I can add you back into my address book again.

There’s not much else going on over here. Well, I mean, there is the whole North Korea wanting to test a nuclear weapon thing. Personally, I’m convinced this is all just another ploy by Kim Jong-Il to ensure North Korea enters back into talks on the best terms possible. I’ll be absolutely amazed if he actually tests anything, or even HAS anything to test. North Korea is notorious for doing stuff like this, making huge dramatic threats and then changing direction at the last minute, all to gain some strategic advantage in negotiations. We’ll see I guess. I talked to a few South Koreans about it and they could care less, they think it’s all a ploy too. Actually, a few of them thought it was all fabricated by the United States. That’s South Korea for ya.

We should be closing on the house within a week. Ug, Im all stressed out about this, I really need to get out of this country and get on with my life.

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Finally, someone does it

We have one of these horrible things at home. God help you if you make the mistake of bumping it or otherwise bringing it out of it’s slumber. It sits there and jibber jabbers at you for a good ten minutes straight before it gets bored and goes back to sleep. WORST TOY EVER!

Well, finally, someone has found the proper response to Furby’s entertaining banter. A microwave.

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Ok, this is beyond gross

Centipede versus Mouse. Guess who wins …

I’m warning you right now, this has got to be one of the most eerie things I’ve ever seen. I don’t know where that animal lives, but I intend to find out and NEVER EVER GO THERE. Ever. Don’t click on the play button if you are squeamish, the mouse doesn’t put up much of a fight.

And for the record, yes, I really am this bored.

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