Here are a few random notes:
“Canada suffered its first female combat death in Afghanistan when Capt. Nichola Goddard was killed fighting Taliban insurgents west of Kandahar city yesterday.” – emontonsun.com
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Dave’s Pocket PC is alive again!
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Chaplain McConnell looks to the inside and writes about living double lives:
“We are living double lives. I am. I’m Chaplain McConnell on the outside, but inside I’m something else. Sometimes something more, sometimes something less. We are living double lives.”
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Godbit has a review of the new eBible beta. I really like eBible.com so far. If you want to check it out while it’s still in beta, I have one invite available.
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Making java in the field gets easier. Yeh maybe, but it’s still instant Folgers. I think I’d prefer an older method:
“In the Civil War, Northern Union soldiers were issued unroasted and ungrounded coffee beans, along with a one-quart tin-plated steel cup. Soldiers would roast a few coffee beans at the bottom of their cups or in a small frying pan, then use their bayonet socket to crush the beans. They would then pour water into the cup and boil it on a campfire, Stieghan said.”
Oh yeh, that sounds more like it. Ok, military readers and avid campers… what is your coffee solution? How do you make a good cup of coffee when you’re out in the field?
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And finally, If you live in the Springfield, Mo area… GO OUTSIDE! It’s beautiful today.
Amy, I say this to you as a wife who has been through deployment… turn off the news! You know that I advocate being informed, but you’re going to drive yourself bonkers if you’re constantly looking for news from Afghanistan.
Hand this one over to God. If He wants Joel to come home from deployment unharmed, that’s what’s going to happen. If He has other plans, He will carry you through them.
Yes, you do want to know what’s going on over there, but you’re not oblivious to the media’s habit of only reporting the bad news from theaters of operations and ignoring the good that we’re doing over there. Don’t soak up too much news, please. Take it from someone who did that, expose yourself to news in small doses and don’t believe everything you read.
Comment by Patti — May 18, 2006 @ 2:38 pm
Thanks Patti,
Really, I’m not so worried about it. I’ve just realized that most people only hear about Iraq and haven’t any idea what’s going on in Afghanistan. I didn’t have any idea until a week or two ago.
News articles about Kandahar don’t cause me to worry, they just show me how important it is for Joel to go.
If I start to worry, I’ll turn the news off for a while.
As for the article I linked to today… My interest in that one wasn’t because of the location, but the woman who died. Canada’s first female combat death. I’ve been reading a lot about women in combat lately.
Comment by Amy — May 18, 2006 @ 3:07 pm
About coffee in the field. I’ve obviously never been in the military, and have limited camping experience, however. . . In high school my friends and I were just getting interested in coffee and were looking for cheap methods to make espresso. I bough a little campfire espresso maker from Wal-Mart. It was about the size of a mug, and room on top for a small camping cup. You filled the bottom with water, then the filter section with coffee. The water boiled on the bottom, was forced through the coffee, and up into an arched tube that then poured into you cup. It made some pretty thick and intense espresso. We used it on the stove, though it was designed for a campfire. It would definitely be better than instant folgers! Yuck! My parents still love that stuff. My mom drinks instant coffee with powdered creamer, and splenda or sweet-n-low. Fake, fake, fake. yuck, yuck, yuck. I’m such a snob! Nah, I just like my food to be real.
Comment by Hillery — May 19, 2006 @ 9:38 am
Sounds like it worked a lot like my mokka pots. Cool.
I’m looking for a solution that doesn’t require making a fire or plugging something in.
Maybe this Jetboil with the coffee press.
Comment by Amy — May 19, 2006 @ 10:02 am
Still got that e-bible beta invite, Amy?
And thanks for the post on my blog! Glad to see I’m not the only parent pulling out their hair.
Comment by Richard — May 19, 2006 @ 3:02 pm