We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:19:08 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification *echoing footsteps* Must've been some party -- although I notice nobody cranked up the 'ritamatic. Cassie asked me what I did to celebrate having survived this long (something that never ceases to amaze John -- and anybody else who knows me), but yesterday's power *thwoomp! -- pappffft!* hiccups kept me from sticking anything new in Fototime. Until a couple of minutes ago. Sooo, what sort of excitement marked the preceding day's prestegious Pak event? I donned the new body armor and -- ummmmmm -- I got a haircut. Okay, technically, I got 'em *all* cut. At least the body armor... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:22:59 -0600 *setting up the tend center* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63643 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63643 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:03:47 -0600 I need a 2nd-morning-after Bloody Mary. Anyone else up for one? I say... BAHHHH-TENDAH! Maggie and I need our daily tending-to! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63639 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63639 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:02:20 -0600 Geez, there's all kinds of activity going on back there. Might be the same around here if the temp dropped below 120F and everybody had to keep moving so they wouldn't freeze to death... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63629 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63629 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:17:17 -0600 This contract staff member spent the weekend researching a vehicle and working. I'm doing so many hours I'm lucky I know what day it is http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63628 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63628 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:05:45 -0600 This staffer spent the day helping the hubster manhandle (womanhandle?) 45 pound wall pieces into location. Plus shoveling and such for prep-work. Hands hurt, knees hurt, back hurts. *oof* Now I need a winch to stand up straight. Time for sleep. Nice haircut, Bill :-) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63626 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63626 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:57:45 -0600 One Cosmo with green M&M garnish on the way.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63624 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63624 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:31:06 -0600 I know all about the staff.........that's why I'm not worried about leaving wet footprints. Is my drink ready? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63623 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63623 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:28:09 -0600 Leave it at serfs. Say "staff" too loudly and Maggie'll be out here so fast the drapes'll take a permanent horizontal set... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63620 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63620 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:34:04 -0600 serfs, er, *staff* would demand payment, too!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63619 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63619 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:07:35 -0600 Nuestra Señora de Atocha diorama and you're the Army's *coin* expert? Kee-ripe, they've got a *building* full of four-eyed heraldry gurus and they pay *you* to-- Oh. COIN. Never mind...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63618 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63618 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:31:53 -0600 Geez, spend the weekend writing a proposal to redesign COIN for the Army and what do I come back to? Wet footprints all over the place! I've met AW1 Tim, BTW - with the shape of his head, you could use him as a substitute standard AP round... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63617 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63617 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:22:05 -0600 Aside from the heat, humidity, bugs, gekkos, insomniac birds, hot 'n' cold running power failures and vehicle operators who think the horn is a primary control device, you'd probably think this place was just as cozy as the Jungle Room. Ummmm -- just as *dark* as the Jungle Room, anyway... *thwooom -- papppffft!* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63616 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63616 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:08:40 -0600 Yeah, it's 3:55 tomorrow morning, here. When you work nights, you nap during the day. Unless you're kept awake by the noises emanating from the Jungle Room... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63615 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63615 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:00:54 -0600 My Darling Chief, We were discussing my comfort, weren't we? Why do you think it is that I meet you in the Jungle Room and not there where you are? BTW, isn't it some god-awful hour where you are? Why aren't you sleeping? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63614 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63614 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:51:26 -0600 Soooo, the Jungle Room sounds like just the place to cool off. So to speak... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63613 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63613 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:49:04 -0600 ...it's hot as Hades here in Boston! 82F is hot as Hades? It doesn't get down below 95 around here, even at night... [*not* gonna touch the blowing the google-thingy line...nosirree...nope, nope, nope...]]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63612 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63612 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:38:25 -0600 some party! All the parties WK & I attend are some party! How else do you think we blow your Google thingie? *The Empresa de la Moata pads across the room to the bar in a black bathing suit & flimsy cover-up. Leaving a trail of wet footprints in her wake* That was a very refreshing swim, it's hot as Hades here in Boston! Nice pic Chief. Now that you are all spiffed up, baby.......ready to go again?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63611 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63611 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:18:22 -0600 sepoy who guards our office when we're not there. He took the picture. And standing behind *him* were three ISI guys who dropped in for coffee and cookies. They carry MP5s and don't like messes unless they make them...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63609 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63609 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:27:44 -0600 Lafayette Escadrille.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63607 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63607 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:45:54 -0600 Hmmmm. My first grey hairs coincided with the first time I got shot down. I'll let the psychologists ponder the ramifications of that. Raising kids right ain't for sissies... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63605 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63605 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:50:15 -0600 Chief, At least you HAVE hair :) FWIW, my goatee matches you hair color these days, maybe even a tad lighter. Funny that. All the things I did when I was young and immortal, and not a single grey hair. Plenty of scars, etc, but no grey. However, within 6 months of the arrival of the first child, there it all came. Making up for lost time with the vigorousness of it's arrival it seemed. Ah well. As a trade off, the kids at the local McDonalds give me the senior discount without asking to see my ID. As I have many years to go, yet, I'm not quibbling :) Respects, http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63603 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_morning_aft_1.html#comment-63603 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:17:34 -0600