Trina Letter - Getting to the Reuters of the Problem

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Hey, Navy:

Another peaceful night in paradise as I write this (about 10:00 PM). Danielle is already in bed, YM should be going there soon, and the vampiress Lara is at the other PC. It was another early and long day for me, so after work, I took a nap and woke up with a desire for (surprise) pancakes. Went to the Carson Station for the biggest flapjacks I found in town so far and was pleasantly entertained by the house band who was doing a darn good version of Soul Train. The downside of those places is I come home smelling like I took a bath in a carton of cigarettes, so the washer and dryer are turning behind me as I hammer away here.

We got our first official letter from your United States Navy today, the one from the good Captain Moran explaining the Do’s and Don’ts of being a good Navy family (do they still call them Rocks and Shoals?). Your note at the end of the letter was priceless and it felt good that we could touch something that you were touching just a few days ago. YM is keeping the letter on her nightstand so she can read it, of course (but let’s not mention that it spent the afternoon at work with her, too ;)).

We’re still in a bit of a cold spell here with some intermittent rain, the first steady precipitation we’ve had in a while. The long range forecast for RTC is rain on Monday (10/31), then clear weather with highs in the upper 50s and lows near 40 through the week to Thursday (11/03). This is a forecast for me, but will probably be in the past for you by the time you read this. But what the heck? Gives me something to do.

And tomorrow is the beginning of the Nevada Day three-day weekend, but I’ll probably go to work to grade tests.

Helen Miers voluntarily (yeah, right) withdrew her nomination for the US Supreme Court, which the President “regrettably” accepted. Maybe he’ll nominate someone like, you know, a judge.

Some other quick nuggets from the strange side of the news:

- ROME (Reuters) - The city of Rome has banned goldfish bowls, which animal rights activists say are cruel, and has made regular dog-walks mandatory in the Italian capital, the town's council said Tuesday.
- DUBLIN (Reuters) - Rehearsals for an Irish opera met with an unusual hitch after customs officers seized cocaine from a truck delivering theatrical sets to a Dublin theater preparing to stage one of opera's finest works.
- DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A Turkish court fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law banning characters not used in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said Tuesday.
- STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's prison service may allow babies to live in prison with their fathers, putting men on an equal footing with women in prison parenting, a prison service official said Thursday.

All my love,
Air Force