I keep thinking what an AWESOME gift an Amazon Kindle
would be for my husband. He is such a reader – so when he goes on his little ‘business trips’ he always brings 4 or 5 books with him for the plane rides and the down-time. The Kindle is sleek and only about the width and height of a regular paperback so it would be a cinch to pack it in a backpack. Plus – it can fit not only 4 or 5 books – but thousands of books!
I’ve played around with the Kindle a bit and it’s not like reading from a regular screen at all. The background is white (or – from what I hear whatever color you want) and the text is black – so it’s very easy on the eyes. It comes in two sizes also – the Kindle (6″ diagonal screen) and the Kindle DX (9.7″ diagonal screen).
If it seems like it’s a bit “breakable” think of this – there are already covers you can buy for the Kindle. Plus – the Otter box people already have an awesome cover for the iPod – it’s only a matter of time before one comes out for the Kindle!
Want to learn more? Check out the Amazon Kindle website!
A great blog for military families, “Bursting with Pride” (http://www.burstingwithpride.org/) has posted an interesting article about whether to add to those deployment candy jars and paper chains or take them away.
We’ve never done the candy jars; but we’ve used the calendar method (BIG x’s crossing off days) and the paper chain.
Check out the post on Bursting with Pride!! More ideas can be found on Military One Source!
I know I’ve heard this time and time again being a Navy Wife – “Loose Lips Sink Ships” – it’s probably more important to remember now than ever before with so many people on the Internet. I don’t mean to scare you, but don’t you realize that the “Bad Guys” can find any information they want just by popping into MySpace, Facebook or Twitter and getting a nice close personal look at you, your family and your Active Duty loved one?
For example – say you are excited about your “honey” coming home from a deployment; you post a simple “Ticker” on your MySpace. Now – the entire world can see exactly when your “honey’s” plane or ship is coming in. Doesn’t that make them a target?
Another example – an Active Duty member is posting on his Twitter account about where he is currently deployed to and the fact that there are troops moving in and out. So, now everyone in the world knows that there was an “influx” of troops on a specific day to a specific place. Doesn’t that, again, make them a target?
Be MINDFUL of the things you put online. Just ASSUME that “they” are watching all of your posts, tickers and ‘Tweets’ looking for ammunition. Better to be safe than sorry I would think.
(This post was also posted on another one of my blogs, but, since it happened during a deployment I thought my readers here would “enjoy” it – or, cringe right along!)
Adding to the list of “Things I Couldn’t Handle” would be a toilet overflowing and flooding almost an entire (carpeted) living room. This is what happened to my friend yesterday. I mean, the carpet is drenched! I told her when she called this morning that I’d probably just stand in the middle of it all the cry. So, she had friends come over the steam clean. Oh goodness, I honestly would freak … So, her kids are spending nights over various friends’ houses – last night our one friend got three, tonight I get the baby (I get to practice! lol). He’s a great baby, so we will be fine. I just hope insurance or something will cover part or all of the carpeting or something. Oh goodness …
She’s only got a couple weeks left. She’s only got a couple weeks left! She’s done amazing thus far, she can handle this also. Military wives are AMAZING – seriously.
This affects a LOT of Navy families right now. My husband served 6 months on an IA tour in Iraq a couple years ago and was “voluntold” to go, as are a lot of others I hear of. This article was written by Mark D. Faram; a staff writer for the Navy Times. The “plan” sounds good on paper; but will it happen? Especially since I know for the fact people have volunteered to go on an IA and were passed over for others who did not want to go.
I know there are guys and girls “over there” who do not want to be there; and as far as I know the Navy is the only group doing this “Individual Augmentee” program – but if there is the opportunity to choose (or, for a better word “volunteer”) to be overseas wouldn’t that bring up the MORALE a little bit? I mean, there really are people who WANT to be over there.
But I digress … Here’s a tidbit of the article:
Navy officials want more individual augmentees to be volunteers, not voluntolds, in the coming year. And they’re rolling out some pretty attractive incentives to make it happen.
The ultimate goal — an all-volunteer IA community — should make the duty more predictable for sailors who fear being yanked from ships and squadrons and sent to the war zone.
By summer, officials want 73 percent of the nearly 7,000 existing IA billets to be permanent change-of-station moves. The hope is to get to 100 percent as soon as possible, officials say.
Please read the rest of the article by visiting the Navy Times website.
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