HEY!
Come on now… this is My SISTER…
…whaddya got in trade? :dubious:
Nationals Park is nice and the team will be in town all weekend, too bad they stink. OTOH, there are plenty of good seats!
OOOH! That’s a good idea. She does like baseball. I think that’s the Navy Yard metro stop.
::moving off to the MLB website::
Thanks!!
They are in town and play three games that weekend.
Blues Festival that weekend at Carter Baron and the Navy band does a cool thing at the Navy Memorial.
The Maryland Renaissance Festival is open for business it bills itself (sort of defensively IMHO) as the second biggest in the U.S. – but you have to drive, there is no way around that. About 45ish mins from MonCo
Baltimore is a Metro and train ride away too …
Could I ask why you haven’t seen your sister since age 7 and she’s 24 now?
DC is nice city to walk around in (IMS). You could go to the Smithsonian. Or overpay to do Williamsburg.
I got nothing.
Three words: Operation Desert Shield.
I joined the army in '87 and did one tour where I was able to earn an army scholarship to become an officer. Six months into my college career I was recalled due to ODS. This continued into Desert Storm. (There is this phrase that supersedes all contracts/orders/etc. that is “based upon the needs of the army” …man, I hate that phrase. Afterwards, I was allowed to continue my education and earned my commission as an army officer. Then it was army life for many years. I only had one chance to return home between duty stations for a few days but li’l sis was “away”, for some reason that I did not feel comfortable exploring with Mother after being away for so long. Did not want to open issues during the reunion.
Did I fail to mention that my family is not close? We all are pretty reclusive and private. Reunions are often “did you hear they opened a new grocery store where the pizza place used to be?” type of conversations. We stay away from details. Don’t get me wrong - there is plenty of love, but there is also plenty of history that we choose not to mention. So we just say nice things and love each other without bringing up “pasts”.
We do what we can. Not everybody has an “Ozzy and Harriet” upbringing. Mine was more like Ozzy Osborne. But I was Ozzy.
Within my family, I have since earned the nickname “The Prodigal Son” although I have yet to return home again since then.
Man, but I do miss Texxas.
[Nitpick] The phrase is “present OR accounted for”. When reporting for first formation, the unit leader (either the platoon sergeant or whomever) has already received accountabililty from each squad leader as to who is present, absent, or accounted for (sick call, mess hall duty, whatever else). So when the PSG calls for roll, each SL reports “all present” or “6 present, 1 on (whatever duty), 1 on sick call”. To which the PSG reports “all present” or “all accounted for”.
OR: “7 Present, one AWOL”. YIPES! Somebody’s going to be called on the carpet for that one, eh?
[/nitpick]
Uncle Brother Walker writes:
> …and I guess I made a serious faux pas when I mentioned a taco plate. It
> would be a sin to offer a person from San Antonio mexican food. It is a
> universally known fact that San Antonio has the best mexican food in the
> universe (hence, the definition).
If you do want Mexican food, go to La Sirenita in Hyattsville, not some place full of non-Hispanics. La Sirenita is pretty authentic Mexican food served by recent Mexican immigrants (and, I suspect, served to largely illegal immigrants).
It took me forever to figure out why you were talking about this. The phrase I know is from camp and it’s the phrase I used. I can see the sense of your phrase, but also see the sense of “my” phrase, given it was children etc. It means that not only is the camper present, he or she has been checked in. Easy peasy.
RE you sister. I didn’t mean to pry. I was just baffled–I didn’t know you were in the military. If the weekend goes well, you might want to ask here where she was during your leave. I hope you have a good time. She probably has heard a great deal more about you than you have about her (I speak as a younger sibling myself). So, ask her about her–try not to sound like you’re pumping her for info. She’s 24. Does she work? College? You can tell her funny stories of older relatives from when you were young. Or not. 
No offense taken. Its just that mine is a unique and complicated life. But I’m really an easy going guy. All I want to do is kick back after work, watch some football and hang out with the friends. But, I do love the drama. Fate likes to play chaos with my life all the time, so we roll with the punches and do what we gotta do, eh?
I’m actually looking forward to her visit. I hope we can have fun without some of the family drama that was always around.
RE: your location: Didn’t mean to be fussy, but I was also reading another thread re: army uniforms and got into the technicalities. We used to have to be very specific when conveying information.
-Cheers!!!