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March 25, 2008

Light Blogging from This Contributor

I'm taking a break from the blog for about a week. It's time for a little recharge, some local enjoyment of one my true passions in life and the chance to see some Olympic athletes before this summer, plus a getaway with my wife. Not truly befitting our 10th Anniversary, but as much as her college schedule and our kids in private school budget allow.

Stay out of trouble. And if you don't, make it big enough I can read about it when I get back.

Posted by Eric Earling at March 25, 2008 09:26 PM | Email This

Comments

1. Have a great time!

Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on March 25, 2008 10:27 PM

2. Be thinking about new articles for us.

And I hope your respite is as good as the Shark's. He came back refreshed, rejuvenated and ready for the push to November.

Posted by: swatter on March 26, 2008 07:24 AM

3. Eric,
Good for you. You have been busy lately.

Posted by: tc on March 26, 2008 08:56 AM

4. Happy 10th Eric! My wife and I just celebrated our 10th as well. Truly a milestone, but the kind of milestone that says, "You're just getting the hang of this, buddy."

Mazel tov and felicidades.

Posted by: Chad Minnick on March 26, 2008 10:49 AM

5. Howling Commando Hillary clenched a cheroot in her teeth, bit off the butt end, and spit it out. She snapped a live grenade off her Sam Browne belt.

"Now listen up, you dinks," she growled, glaring at Crow, Sinbad and CBS. "It's bad down there. Snipers. Staging area filled with infillading fire. Almost as bad as our deployment to Seattle in '94 when Kirby's Krazies took the high ground at Westlake. KKKVI, Gunny Godden called 'em."

Hillary flipped the grenade to her other hand, brought a match to sudden brilliant flame by striking against her three-day stubble, and lit the cheroot. She didn't inhale.

She flicked the guttering match into the vast conspiratorial darkness of the transport. "So here's what we gotta do, Howlers. Corkscrew through the flak and hit the ground running, just like always. Lay down fields of fire. Then we rendezvous at the camera emplacement. Courik knows where it's at. Any questions, Commandos? No questions? So it's just like always. We grab out nuts and go. Only fools wanna live forever, and our mamas didn't raise no fools, did they, Howlers? Let's roll."

Posted by: Sgt. Clinton on March 26, 2008 11:27 AM

6. Only the latest of the many 'hits' she has taken, endured, grown from and persevered and continued on. Could we do the same? :)

Posted by: Duffman on March 26, 2008 11:55 AM

7. Long-shot presidential candidate Mike Gravel told supporters Wednesday he is leaving the Democratic Party to join the Libertarian Party.

Gravel, a former Democratic senator from Alaska, said in an e-mail that the Democratic Party "no longer represents my vision for our great country."

Posted by: Ragnar on March 26, 2008 12:12 PM

8. They referenced you again this morning on KJR as "that guy who went to Montreal to watch swimming" when he could have gone anywhere in the world =)

Have fun.

Posted by: Palouse on March 26, 2008 01:25 PM

9. Also a big thanks to Eric for keeping things interesting around here.

Enjoy your week.

Posted by: GS on March 26, 2008 04:46 PM