September 10th

First off, let me apologize for the lack of update to this thing. I think I may have to go to weekly updates unless everyone wants to hear about how I sit at a desk for 12 hours a day Monday through Friday. Now don't get me wrong, yeah I am at work a lot but somehow we seem to find trouble daily to involve ourselves in. We did get our first real flight here in Guam. Made sure I brought the Ipod and hooked it up to the interphone. And this is the important part, "Symphony of Destruction" by Megadeth was the first song playing as we rolled down the ramp to take off. I know Kent can appreciate it. There seems to be a lot of press these days about the B-52, everyone loves it. Speaking of, keep your eyes open for a possible Time Magazine article coming straight out of Guam and into your homes about the B-52, a little face time for the 23 EBS. To sum up the week, we had some barbecuing, head shaving (I'm still resisting this one), drinking, football game watching, house crashing, food stealing (from eachother), more drinking and then the weekend came. So we all piled into our clown car and got off base early enough to explore the main drag in Guam during the day light . We walked the strip for awhile dodging the occasional massage ninja that would appear as if from no where, greet us and try to convince us to come in for the "happy ending". Tactically very sophisticated, these massage ninjas would sometimes appear in groups. Fortunatley our group of nine was able to fight them off and eventually make it to the Marianas Trench, a Thai restaurant, for dinner. Here is a link to their website so you can be jealous ... Marianas Trench . The food was awesome, I had the Chicken and Beef combination Pad Thai. So awesome in fact I ended up eating my plate and Plinko's plate. After that we went to a couple of bars , drank a little, played some pool, and listened to the live band that was playing at Mac'n Marty's. The rest of the night was a bit of a blur but we did some serious karaoking at some point. Here is a picture of Nadz belting one out and then another of Sean doing his best Van Halen impression . Overall I would have to say we had a pretty good night. Unfortunately UT had to go and ruin it by losing to Ohio State this morning! Alright, so there is your weekly update as to the happenings here on tropical island Nowhere, Pacific Ocean. Let me know how you're all doing. Till the next time ...