Highlights: Doug & Meg’s wedding, house projects, movie with Emily
The Marine Foreign Area Officer (FAO) who is coming to Indonesia this summer to continue the same program I’m doing is Capt Doug Krugman. We’ve been keeping in touch lately, and it so happens that he is getting married in San Diego this weekend! They were gracious to invite me to their special day, and it was great to go.
I met Doug once in person, about a year ago. It’s always good to put faces to names, and remember people through shared experiences or events. I’ve been happy sharing tips & recommendations about Indonesia with him, before he goes to Indonesia later in the summer- so this was an opportunity to see him again, share a few more insights, and meet his beautiful new bride, Megan, who will be experiencing Indonesia with him next year!
I’m excited for them both & know they’ll have a great time next year.
My hat goes off to Megan too. She was happy with a small wedding of 36 people (= ha ha! That’s awesome. It was very well put together. The minimalist bar of excellence for me was set by my parents, with 17 guests. I hope to emulate them someday. But the wedding here this afternoon was really beautiful.
In Marine tradition, there was a sword arch, manned by fellow CH-46E pilots from HMM-268 (= good guys! They had a woman pastor officiate the ceremony, which I think is great. I can’t wait to show my Indonesian friends another sample of American tradition. (=
Doug looked sharp his dress blue-whites, but Megan was a tough act to follow in her beautiful wedding dress (= ha ha. She looked fantastic.
(insert wedding video + pics) [5]
The wedding was 10 miles from my house, and I was waiting for a phone call from the Home Depot delivery service, who was scheduled to bring the washer & dryer today. Some strange phenomenon happened with Sprint cell-phone waves, and my phone failed to ring until two hours after the delivery truck had come & gone from the house. There was no way to get them back by 4:30. =/ Damn! Oh well.
I got busy finishing up last minute home projects for a couple hours, then realized this may be my last chance to watch a movie & hang out with my new roommate Emily. She’s stuck in professional mode all day long, managing people; and is still relatively new to the area- so I figured it would be fun to relax and shift the brain into vegetable mode for a few hours (= We watched Shooter. Mark Wahlberg did allright. I guess if you consider the take-away moral of the story, “don’t piss off a Marine Gunnery Sergeant with a rifle”,,, then I can’t be too upset with the plot stretches, or super-human wit which our hero employs to regularly outsmart the bad guys.
In the process of hanging out, I got to teach her how to drive her stick-shift car, without shaking through the first 3 gears. (=
The Marine Foreign Area Officer (FAO) who is coming to Indonesia this summer to continue the same program I’m doing is Capt Doug Krugman. We’ve been keeping in touch lately, and it so happens that he is getting married in San Diego this weekend! They were gracious to invite me to their special day, and it was great to go.
I met Doug once in person, about a year ago. It’s always good to put faces to names, and remember people through shared experiences or events. I’ve been happy sharing tips & recommendations about Indonesia with him, before he goes to Indonesia later in the summer- so this was an opportunity to see him again, share a few more insights, and meet his beautiful new bride, Megan, who will be experiencing Indonesia with him next year!
I’m excited for them both & know they’ll have a great time next year.
My hat goes off to Megan too. She was happy with a small wedding of 36 people (= ha ha! That’s awesome. It was very well put together. The minimalist bar of excellence for me was set by my parents, with 17 guests. I hope to emulate them someday. But the wedding here this afternoon was really beautiful.
In Marine tradition, there was a sword arch, manned by fellow CH-46E pilots from HMM-268 (= good guys! They had a woman pastor officiate the ceremony, which I think is great. I can’t wait to show my Indonesian friends another sample of American tradition. (=
Doug looked sharp his dress blue-whites, but Megan was a tough act to follow in her beautiful wedding dress (= ha ha. She looked fantastic.
(insert wedding video + pics) [5]
The wedding was 10 miles from my house, and I was waiting for a phone call from the Home Depot delivery service, who was scheduled to bring the washer & dryer today. Some strange phenomenon happened with Sprint cell-phone waves, and my phone failed to ring until two hours after the delivery truck had come & gone from the house. There was no way to get them back by 4:30. =/ Damn! Oh well.
I got busy finishing up last minute home projects for a couple hours, then realized this may be my last chance to watch a movie & hang out with my new roommate Emily. She’s stuck in professional mode all day long, managing people; and is still relatively new to the area- so I figured it would be fun to relax and shift the brain into vegetable mode for a few hours (= We watched Shooter. Mark Wahlberg did allright. I guess if you consider the take-away moral of the story, “don’t piss off a Marine Gunnery Sergeant with a rifle”,,, then I can’t be too upset with the plot stretches, or super-human wit which our hero employs to regularly outsmart the bad guys.
In the process of hanging out, I got to teach her how to drive her stick-shift car, without shaking through the first 3 gears. (=
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