One AM and not on watch.

Well, I find myself sitting in front of the computer here at work at 0100 in the morning on a night when I'm not even on watch. I'm actually on one of the standby alert crews and I had a perfectly good episode of house interrupted by the cell phone calling me into work. You should see the smile on my face!

Anyway, as some of you may have noticed, I've placed a link to the Allen family blog that Tricia is maintaining from Guam. You should check it out. It makes for wonderful reading and I promise that is more interesting than my ramblings. They even apparently met the Broncos' cheerleaders the other day. It figures. I was living in South America the two years they won the Super Bowl and now when they decide to randomly visit Guam (GUAM!) it happens to be while I'm off island.

We're not entirely destitute out here. Just last week Scarlett Johansen was here at Camp Beuhring signing autographs and taking pictures with the troops. Unfortunately I was on 1st Up duty (no more than 200 feet away from our helicopter for 24 hours) so I wasn't able to go admire her....acting abilities....in person. Some of the guys went up there, though and said that she was very nice.

I was supposed to fly today. Twice! Unfortunately, due to mechanical problems those two flights turned to none. I was going to say they quickly turned to none, but the truth is that when you spend 11 hours sitting around the squadron waiting for the word that your helicopter is ready to go time really doesn't go by that quickly. I did get to watch the 2006 remake of the classic horror flick "The Omen". I'm never sure why modern film makers think that it's a good idea to take an absolute classic, throw modern actors into it, then re-film it almost scene for scene. It wasn't a bad movie, I'm just not sure why they made it. It was really nowhere nearly as scary as the original. I'll have to watch that one again sometime to be sure.