Old friends

1Not a long entry today, really doing this while I wait for Facebook to load so I can check messages and play Risk. Interesting note on writing...I can't remember the author of this quote, but it was a writer who was talking about what makes a writer. He had had a mentor tell him once that you are a writer when you are actually writing, so don't worry about whether it's perfect, or the right topic exactly. If you are writing everyday, that makes you a writer.
(Of course, *good* writing is another topic entirely.)

I finally managed to meet up with an old buddy of mine today. Ruger is working in the C-130 squadron, which is fairly close to where I currently work, but he was on days I wasn't so this is the first time I was able to get over there to see him. We went and grabbed some breakfast and talked things over. Scott is a nav and we used to be in the 39th together. We have deployed together a number of times, and have an ongoing series of photos, one a year. The first was in 2003 in Kandahar, '04 was also in Kandahar, '05 was in Little Rock because we were both upgrading, '06 was Las Vegas for a weapon school graduation, '07 was Little Rock again. So this will be the sixth (six years of war!)

Also, one of our other pilots (Steve) is heading home soon. Partly as a result of this, I have moved to "nights," which is midnight to noon.

[Edit 7 Mar 08, OPSEC]