One week to go! #ArmyNavy

Throwing away half-lit strands of Christmas lights might be the hardest thing I have to do.

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this along, where Mary, Joseph & Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

Hosted a dining out fundraiser today for the Steilacoom Historical Museum Association. Love having people over at the holidays!

LMAOO.. newlyweds were walking through Boston after their wedding and encountered this.. Love it.. 🤣🤣

So proud of our son and his shipmates. Navy by 💯! #GoNavyBeatArmy

On This Day in 1896: the Glasgow Subway opened. Keep it simple folks 😎

Didn’t see this when it posted in May. Welcome home LTJG McDougall and the rest of the crew of the USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee!

Back from deployment. Welcome home!

Saturday morning work at the food bank. School bags and then stocking shelves. Feels good to help.

Power Red in action. Please donate blood if you can.

CHRISTMAS MORNING!! #MerryChristmas #CalvinandHobbes #Christmas

Tears were shed when I gave the big gift so I’ll count that as a successful year. Merry Christmas everyone!

I think I might be too easy to shop for. 😂 #DavidMcCullough

It warms my heart that the number of pipers in Scotland is growing at record pace! May this wonderful tradition last forever!

Great things about being a high school basketball referee: Rivalry games, rocking gyms, the band, camaraderie with your partners. Bad things about being a high school basketball referee: parents(!) fighting in the stands, waking up at 4:15am thinking about a call.

“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses, because somewhere down the road of history, some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

Conference panel speakers: If you’re on a 30 minute panel with 4 members, don’t take 10 minutes for 1 answer. Conference panel moderators: Cut off speakers when they start to ramble on.

11:56 from walking in to walking out at JBLM Pass and ID for my CAC renewal. Speedily done, and a nice conversation as well.