JJ's Zamboni ride
Hello people,
Hope your evening is a bit more restfull than mine. I'm downstairs trying to re-create document on the laptop that crashed. JJ just woke up, because he was alone in bed, so he's knocked out on the couch.

Same old same old on this end. Friday morning already, this weekend flew by. JJ and I have tickets to another Capitals game. Should be a pretty decent game, we've got the Avalanche in town. We're loving the hockey games, but I cannot lie, I'm drooling for the prospect of Baseball. These are two things that I must say, I love about the lower-48.

Hope you all had a great President's Day weekend. We didn't get to do to the rink for any puck and skate, JJ opted for playing outside. Sunday we went to a 1500 table gunshow. I was looking for some reloading components, hoping to score some deals. No dice, very little in the way of ammo as well. Most of the dealers I spoke with had sold out of 5.56 within a half an hour of opening on Saturday. We had a good time just putzing around though. A quick stop at Wal-Mart, don't tell Danny but I had to buy cleaning supplies! Sunday we had planned to head out to ride the quads. I had just tuned up JJ's, had it on the trickle charger, and had it running likle a top. Wouldn't you know it as soon as we made it out to ride his Kawasaki wouldn't start. She wasn't getting any fuel, so we went tandem on my Can-Am. I would just like to say that mud is fun!!!!

The leg has improved considerably. I think that the main issue with the socket was due to the fact that it was reduced one or two layers too many. I have continued to shrink, at this point on some days I am in three ply by the end of the day. It's still a bit tender, but more than likely, that is just due to the fact that I continued to wear the leg.

I missed the promotion of a good friend and warrior last weekend. MAJ (now LTC) Marc Hoffmeister was pinned on Baldy. Friends and family made the climb to see him pinned. I found out from another friend, Kirk Alkire of Eagle River, that the flag used in the promotion ceremony was the flag I had carried with me on many missions during our deployment to Afghanistan. I had given the flag to Kirk when he and his buddies rolled through Walter Reed on their ride across the country, honoring fallen soldiers (www.rollinghonor.com). There was also a pretty cool article in the Alaska Star about the ceremony, as well as the upcoming climb of Denali, set up by Marc. You can find the story at http://www.alaskastar.com/stories/021909/New_img_1001.shtml Maqrc and Gayle also recently finishe the Susitna 100. Those two deffinetly deserve eachother, two equally crazy individuals!

That's about it for now, I hope during my rambling, that I didn't lose you. Hope everyone is well. Talk to you later-Josh