Bulgaria awaits!

So I'm leavin on a jet plane, don't know if I'll be back again...

In case you've been following the news, you know el presidente (that's spanish for the man) is in Europe touring around trying not to make everyone hate us United Statesians.  However, some peope just are natural born haters, so he needs protection.  Thusly tomorrow I am going to Sofia, Bulgaria.  I will be rather incommunicado (or however you spell it) until the 12th, or I come out of hiding.  Whichever comes last.  Alas, this means that there will be no updates until said even occurs.  However, this does not mean that people won't come by this my little piece of the internet to see that indeed nothing has changed.  I still have a stupid look on my face.

In other news, I pissed off a colonel today.  Was pumping gas into my gas hog-em-mobile when retreat played.  For those of you who don't know what retreat is, it's the time of day (typically 5pm) when they end official business hours, retire the colors blah blah blah.  It's signaled on base by the playing of To the Colors, and then the National Anthem.  (As a side note, in foreign countries, their anthem is played before the US anthem.  This makes for some really tired shoulders as I'm pretty sure that the Italian national anthem is about 3 days long)  Anyway, so proper courtesy says you face the music, stand at parade rest, and when the anthem plays place your hand over your heart (when in civvies... in uniform you salute like a normal schmuck).  So it starts playing and this guy just keeps washing the windows of his car.  After it was all over, I looked at him and said, "Are you in a hurry man?" 

he says, in a huff, "What's it to you??" 

I said, "well you couldn't stop for a 30 second bugle call and a 90 second anthem.  So I was just curious." 

So he says, "Do you know who I am???" 

I say, "Nope, not a clue"

He says, "I'm Colonel so-and-so (name changed to protect the retarded)" 

So I say, "well what kind of example are you setting???" 

He "harumph"s and leaves. 

Victory is mine!

... and then I found 5 dollars.

Goodbye all!