I'm Back!

Sorry its been so long...but your friend is back. Kinda figured if I was going to have a weblog I might as well update it! I've been here 75 days now which means I am under 300 days until I take the big silver jet outta here. It is definitely hard being away from my girls but I have been trying to keep busy. Actually getting some use out of my golf clubs-I think I have a new Sunday routine. I starts with NOT drinking on Saturday night. Had a couple of hard party nights...didn't realize that I am not 21 anymore. A night at the bar has me out of commission the next day. Aging is sad. Sundays find me on the course and my game is steadily improving. Golfing here can be interesting. Concentration broken by fighter jets taking off, Patriot missile launchers and South Korean air defense guns serving as a beautiful but realistic backdrop. Koreans LOVE to golf. They are all tricked out in the latest gear, collars popped (which I didn't think you could do before midnight), and they are actually pretty good. Me, that's another story.

Went to the ball a few weekends ago. I was, all and all, a fun night. With liberal libations and great tacos on the streets of Seoul afterwards (fancy dinners never have enough food).



Looking forward to the 4th of July... sometimes living outside the USA makes you realize how much you take being an American for granted.
Nothing beats BBQ, Fireworks, and ice cold American beer!

Keep rockin'...keep machen!

Fathers Day # 2

Melissa worked very hard to create this...and it has become, easily, the most meaningful gift I have ever received from her.

Happy Father's Day 2009 from Melissa Petrini on Vimeo.

Hangul, Two Value Meals, and Aloe Healing from the Inside Out

Good day my friends! Sorry it has been a while since my last dispatch. As I sure you all know from 24/7 news coverage things it this part of the world have been absolutely chill.

This is a drink (and I mean nonalcoholic) that the locals love. I don't know what is in it as I can't read Hangul but I know one thing, it has bits of floating aloe in it. I'm not going to lie, it's pretty good!

About a week ago I went to the airport in Seoul to welcome the last group of Soldiers from the states. To satisfy our hunger we hit the airport McDonald's. I know, it sounds so cliche, Americans in a foreign land eating at McDonald's (I wont mention that we ate that the airport Bennigan's the week before but that was chosen because it was the only restaurant in the airport that served beer!) We were in a hurry and needed something quick. I held up two fingers in my vain attempt to order a "number 2". I found out later from a Korean-American Lieutenant that the two fingers sealed my fate. I had just ordered TWO meals! Of course I didn't want to look like I didn't know the culture so I decided to look like a total fat ass with two Big Mac meals. Lesson learned (and I didn't eat both meals).

I blogged earlier about having to do laundry on my own for the first time in a while and was pretty proud at my ability to launder. Well, I must have been a little too cocky. Karma is a biznitch, a biznitch who was presented me with a washer/dryer combo that has a dial completely in Hangul (Korean that is). So here I am just guessing, with clothes that seem to be getting clean, when my realtor provided my with a translation of the settings, crisis averted. Though foreign washing machines take literally 3.5 hours to get a load done. Remember those days Mel?

Have the Army Birthday Ball to attend in Seoul this weekend...wish I had a date...and by date I mean Melissa!

Peace Out!