One of the most frustrating things about being here in The Suck (or, Afghanistan as some people call it) is the condition I live under where I have virtually no time to myself. Okay, when I’m asleep, technically I get Continue reading
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Fred Embraces The Suck
Posted in Afghanistan, Army, Awesome, Fred, Humor, Random, The Suck, Travel with tags Afghanistan, Army, awesome, blog, deployment, Fred, frog, humor, life, news, no pants, travel on October 31, 2012 by BrainRantsThe Adventures of Fred: Coming Home
Posted in Army, Fred, Travel with tags frog, home, no pants on June 17, 2011 by BrainRants
Fred reads his blog post in Colorado Springs
This is just a short Fred post to let everyone know we’re home. After enduring the usual airline routine and airport hassle, Fred returned to his normal hangout tonight – sitting under a small potted plant in my bathroom. As usual, the travel burden fell largely on me while Fred napped away the trip in my backpack. There’s a special little mesh zipper pouch he rides in to prevent him from accidentally falling out and being left behind. Its sort of like a hammock.
We normally travel like this because Fred has difficulty pulling the rolling luggage, let alone extending the telescoping handle. Also, he prefers to be anonymous during the whole TSA pat-down routine since he never wears pants.
The Adventures of Fred
Posted in Army, Family, Fred, Travel with tags Afghanistan, frog, mom on June 5, 2011 by BrainRants
Fred
How did I happen to gain a tiny, poseable, plaid-shirt-wearing, smiling stuffed frog to travel with? Story is, my Mom sent Fred to me while I was deployed to Afghanistan. According to the note she included in the box (which also contained snack food – thanks, Mom!), Fred was apparently sent to make sure I was ok. My instructions were to make sure Fred came home.
Once that mission was successfully completed, Fred and I had a conversation, and decided that he’d hang out with me whenever I travel:
Me: “Hey, Fred, you wanna keep going everywhere with me?
Fred: [merely smiles]
Me: “Should I take that as a ‘yes’?”
Fred: [continues smiling]
Me: “Dude, you’re not much for conversation, are you?”
Fred: [still smiling]
Thus was born our partnership. Fred enjoys the role of being a small green Waldo (as in, “where is Waldo?”) as you can tell from the smile he has. I enjoy people walking by me on Army installations and random cities around the country wondering why a 42-year old man would be taking a picture of a tiny green stuffed frog that is wearing a plaid shirt (and no pants). I prefer to remain mysterious.
Thus far, Fred has been to: Afghanistan, Kuwait, Germany (stopover), Ireland (stopover), New York, Washington (state), D.C., Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Wyoming, South Dakota, Kansas (duh), Missouri, California, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Tomorrow, we head to Fort Campbell, where Fred will be able to knock out both Kentucky and Tennessee. A well-travelled dude.
Up until I created this Blog of the Truly Random, I’d only click a picture with my BlackBerry and send it to my Mom, who gets a real kick out of Fred’s adventures. Today it occurred to me that this fit well within the bounds of Truly Random, so here you are. I’ll try to update with other posts capturing the places we’ve already been, and will keep everyone updated as to where we have just returned from.
Enjoy…
BrainRants 