No, you’re not hallucinating:  I am actually posting twice in a 24-hour time period.  Will the trend continue?  Eh, probably not, but I do hope to post at least a few times a week, every week.  The unfortunate part of my job is that I hear so many amusing things but I can’t post about any of them.  What a waste, right?

So I’m left talking about the generally mundane parts of my life, usually relating to either me or the kids.  Or, periodically, such exciting things as income taxes (ooooooooh).  Since I covered taxes in the last blog entry, and the kids, this time it’s all about me.

Every week, the base Commanding Officer (CO) picks someone to be the “rock star” of his weekly radio show, usually someone recently returning from an IA assignment to the middle east.  This week it was my turn. 

It’s a 5-minute or so interview and he just asks the interviewee a few questions about themselves.  Everything went remarkably smoothly until he asked, “What one moment stands out from your time in Iraq?”  I’m really hoping the editing guys had time to edit that part of the interview (they had very limited time since an exterminator was clearing out the building shortly after my interview - nice!) because I’m pretty sure “uh, um, er, ehh, uhhhh,” came out of my mouth as all the inappropriate things to say passed through my mind (”Well, there was that time I was getting an IV for a migraine as a mortar hit the parking lot by the dining facility!”  “Yeah, the pool party where the star guest was a blow-up lifeguard was a blast!”  “How could anyone forget the time I thought I was being shot at and headed for cover and it turned out to be a car backfiring?”) and I ended up stuttering out something about how hot it got there.  I think that was safe because the interview continued without incident and I wasn’t sent to the mental health clinic after the interview. 

The show was set to air this morning at 7:00am; I usually catch the end of it in the car which was perfect because my interview was at the end of the show.  Of course, because it’s just the way it rolls with me, the power went out across the base this morning from 5:00-9:00am and my ticket to fame and adoration was zapped.  Soooo typical.

Fear not, my loyal claque; they are going to give me a copy of the CD and if it passes several strict reviews by the Editor-in-Chief of this blog (aka “me”), I will hopefully have it posted by this weekend.