Well, hello again everybody. Boy I tell you its been a whirlwind few months. Ive lost touch with so many of ya'll its crazy. I got an email from John saying he's got his commission and put on that good'ole butter bar! Thats some real crazy stuff to here. To think, if I ever did happen to see him and we were both in uniform I would actually have to salute him. I doubt thatll be happeninganytime soon though. By the end of next year it wont matter much since my time with the Air Force will be done and we will be returning home. I also have caught wind that Kelsi and Grant got hitched??? Ive only heard a rumor so if someone can confirm for me Ide appreciet it. If its true I could use thier address, We would like to send them a card at the least. I cant say Ive heard to much. But I dont get too many emails anymore. Probebly cause I usually cant reply back. I get so busy I usually read my emails befor a mission and when I wake up. Ok news from me to you. Well theres not too much. By thrusday I will be one of the few 4 analyist qualified people on my entire base! I thinks its really pimp. But the big goal is to walk out of here with a total of 8 qualifications. Ill finally get my promotion to Senior Airman (or SRA as we call it) on Apr 30th....its about time is all I can say. Oh and a big thanks to everybody that gave an interview to the SSO people. I finally got my clearance!! So you guys must not of told them about that one time! Ha ha, just kidding. But seriously thanks. Hopefully ya'll at least got some free food out of it. enough about me. Shelly is still working at the CDC (child devlopment center). Its gotten a little bit easyier since there is a diffrent manager in charge right now. But its still just not the job she is wanting to do long term. She'll be coming back home in may for her sisters graduation and then we'll both be coming back in July for my sisters wedding (Im still in denial BTW). Both of use are going to Disney land the first part of may, so that should be really fun! Well boy. I cant really think of anything else without boring ya'll to death! I hope everyone is doing well! Im really sorry we didnt get a chance to see any of ya'll when we came back home. But alas 1 week to visit just isnt enough time, but then again its almost too much. Either way hopefully Ill see ya'll sooner than later. Please feel free to shoot an email my way. I promise Ill try my best to shoot one back. My email address is still Airman_v@hotmail.com. God Bless ya'll! Dan Oh yah, I almost forgot. HENRY! Well apparently Henry likes to watch Disney movies! I didnt realize it till we bought Lady and the Tramp. I saw him staring at somthing and it was the TV. His head would follow the characters! Its probebly the funniest thing Ive ever seen the cat do. I even recorded him doing it with our kodak camera. Funny stuff. Oh yah and a pic of my me and my future bro in law from when we came back home in january. Remeber kids, Be good. You never know when Henry will be watching!

Happy belated New Year everybody! Im sitting here enjoying some music and just relaxing. Only a week and half till the Mrs and I are visiting for a week. Hopefully this year Ill find a way to get us back home and away from this base. Well I just wanted to wish everybody the best! Dan

Hey everyone!, Just a quick update-again. Works been busy and slow. Ive actually been doing alot myself. I cant really tell ya'll anything about what Ive been doing. But trust me its all good! Ill probebly have to work christmas eve. It does sound however that I will have christmas day off! Shelly's doing good. She's napping on the couch right now. Shes been real busy with those kids at work and its just worn her out. Put new windshield wipers on the cars. Still looking for a way to PCS out of here to back home. I bought a $10 model of my SRT-4 :) Tons of presents under the tree. Had the thermostat in the house replaced along with a faulty wall socket and Ill write more later. OH AND MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!! Dan

Well, its 3:24am and Im awake. Then again nothing new here. Got a call today to come in to work when I was supposed to have the day off. Instead I went to work, came back home for 2 hours and then sat at work for 2 hours till they finally gave up and said I could leave. Let me see, tommorow Ive got to get my hair cut, clip my toe nails and drink plenty of water to hydrate up real good for my PT test on wensday. Yup Im that dull. Oh yah and supposedly work wensday night. HAH! So, well seems like lots happend back home over the past year. Isnt it amazing how our lives can seem to change so much? Funny to think that no matter how much out of control it seems God still always has His hand in everything. Im sure that alot of what I have to deal with day in and day out makes perfect sense to him, and for me thats all I need. I talked to Jon briefly the other day ( last week). I think I surprised him a little. Guess thats what happens when you dont talk to people for a year or so. I wish I was able to call back home more often. But Im normally getting ready to go to work when ya'll are home. So to everybody I havent gotten ahold of, "Hey, how are yah?". Oh and you sure can answer that, go ahead I DARE YA! Shelly and I were eating at outback last weekend ( finally got a weekend off!!) The lady saw my Id card and thanked me for serving our country. And let me tell you, that is one of the few actual sincere thankyous Ive had in a while. Normally they just stick me in a windowless shack and tell me to work. So it was real nice to get out, and well that just made the day a little better. Welp thats enough for tonite. I hope ya'll are doing really well!

Ahh to have a day off of work! I was actually supposed to work tonight but Im getting today off! Not that that matters much since here soon Ill be bustin my tail off. Anyways, Becca I read your comment too late last time, sorry! The guy that came to talk to you is investigating me for an incedent that was supposedly caused by some of my work. JUST KIDDING! (see I still have my lame sense of humor) Actually he was just checking my background for my clearance. I think at the least Caleb might get a call along with maybe some other folks that I put on my paper. I had to put down people on that thing during basic training almost 2 years ago so Im kinda scetchy on who else I put down. Aint too much new going on here. Except lame work stuff of course. Im still working on getting pcs'd back to offut. I figure if they'll move me there, plus a 50g bonus Im sold! (still dreaming) ok well hey Im gonna run and do chores (aka car stuff ;) )

Have ya'll ever noticed how many of those dang moods there are?? I swear I read through them sometimes just to find the really out there ones. Well Hey guys! WAASSSSSUUUUPPPPPP! Had to get that out of my system. Well I had to try and say hi to everyone last night. Im currently working the night shift, so my body refuses to go to bed earlier than 3am-4amish. Thats why I was up late last night. So lemme think whats new?? oh Well to get the bad news out of the way. I did not make rank early like I was hoping. All in all it came down to politcal BS as alot does apparently. So Ill be an lowly A1C till april next year, and then they just give it to me for being in long enough. However I can tell you that I am steadly if not allready becoming the best IA in this squadren, PERIOD! It happens to be something that Im proud of, and it just goes to show that when the Lord is on your side, you really can cut through all the stress and perform better than ever! Im still looking for a way to get Offutt and get out of here. TRUST ME, This assignment is horrible! I work with good people, just alot about this base is so neglecting and abusive its wrong. I can honestly say at this point I will not be re-enlisting. I will not be raising my kids here, period-end of statement. (oh and NO Shelly is NOT pregnant) Another 3-4 years Lord willing, after we get out of here, and I get a stable job, and she's finised college, etc, etc. Well, we still have no church out here. We need alot of prayers on that. My work scheadule is consistantly screwing up sundays. Good thing the Bible is accesable 24-7! Big news, Henry the cat is one.....again! Actually we've had him a year, but since we never knew his birthday we just made it the day we got him. He probebly really closer to 4,With all the shedding that comes with being 4. Well I havent done anything new to my car as of recently. I opted to get Shelly some things she's wanted. Some new jewlry, cause I havent gotton her any in a while and well girls need accesories! (hint, hint GUYS!) I also got her an pink Ipod mini. She loves it cause she can fit all of her music on it (40+ cds worth) and well of course its PINK! Only problem is I want one now ;) Just not pink!!! BLACK... no pink for me..noooo. Oh and new cloths, as always. She's still unable to attend college, weve looked at a couple of online courses, but nothing really matchs up with social work.(another reason why Im trying to get us back home) Gas prices are killing us out here. Where we have to drive at least 45minutes just to get to a freakin target it gets a little pricey. That and this california gas is horrid. so far texas gas was the absolute best, but I will deffinatly go with nebraska gas! We went to Yosimite National Park with my grandparents a couple of weeks ago. My grandpa almost made us sick driving through the mountians, trust me it was his driving. The park was really neat. Shelly and I are going to return ourselves so we can do things at our own pace. Well folks thats about it. Go and rent Lilo and Stitch 2 (I love the stitch movies). Oh yah, theres a Buffet Pizza place next to Oakview called CI CI's Pizza. GO THERE!! ENJOY! They had one in texas where I was in tech school and its was good pizza/all you can eat/ cheap price! Well folks heres some pictures of the car as it sits right now, plus a bonus. Enjoy, and Ill try to put up pictures from diffrent stuff we've done, some other time. And lastly me and my awsome wife out at Downtown Disney!

Remebered my password finally. Well now that its 4AM! Ill just say HI to everybody back home! And Ill update ya'll later cause Im finally feeling tired. Get it TIRED!! (lame 4am car joke- HA HA)

Well well well. Gues after a while, I can update ya'll on whats going on. Well lets start off with the important stuff first..... Not cars! Me and Shells. We are doing extremly well. Shelly just got back from spending the last week with her parent down at Disneyland. She was extremely happy to see me and vise versa. Her and her sister managed to fill up the memory card on the camera!! I didnt think that was possible. 247 pictures!! She had fun, but "It just wasnt the same with out me." While she was gone (car comment) I installed my Ipp coilovers and lowered the car. It looks SCAWEEEEEET! Ill put a picture up so ya'll can see it later. I also went to the track wensday nite. My best run of the nite was a 14.090 at 100mph. I did end up winning 2nd place in the bracket racing event. www.sacramentoraceway.com Go there, click on wensday night at the top of the screen and then scroll down, find my name. I even got a Beer mug that says wensday nite street legal fun drags RUNNER UP. enough about that. Gas prices are insane out here, I cant wait till I get any chance to move out of california. Im hoping Nebraska winter will freak somebody out and they will want to trade assignments. My work is going ok. Im putting in alot of effort, but I think I have a SSgt who is determend to break me, unfortunetly for him I still have a bit of a mechanics attitude. He wanted us to put together an insane briefing in 2 hours (impossible btw), its not even my job. Heck I didnt even know how to use powerpoint. Anyways, I spent 5 hours at home trying to get something together and he blew it off like it didnt mean jack. So I beefed up even more befor it was time to give it. I swear the major downfall I have observed so far about this place is hard workers are blown off, but if you find a way to be lazy or a supervisors buddy your in good shape. Funny thing is I got in trouble for watering my lawn!! I died laughing when I got the notice. I was watering on the right day, but I guess theres specific times. Well I hope ya'll are doing good, Im going to go and mow the lawn. Shelly is at work. And remeber when you think Nebraska stinks, come talk to me. CALFORNIA AINT GOT (Panera, BBQ, GAS, taco johns, oh and now CI CI's Pizza!, the list goes on) ON NEBRASKA! Later People Dan

"And no matter how hard I try I can't escape these things inside I know I knowww.. When all the pieces fall apart You will be the only one who knows Who knows"

HELLO MY PEOPLE! Ha ha sorry Im bored and refusing to study for my test! Well Hows everybody doing? Seriously leave me a remark, happy, sad, strange or crazy? I was actually looking for video I can use to make a video for the song london by three doors down. I think Im going to title it "Soldiers Tribute". Problem is google has gotton bad, so Im having trouble finding material. I need some footage of soldiers returning home from iraq, fire fights, soldiers in their bunks at night, etc. Ive done 4 car videos now and have gotton good enough at video editing that I think I can really turn this out nicley. So anyways, shellys on a plane headed back to omaha. NO SHES NOT LEAVING ME! or at least not permanently ;) We thought one of her friends was getting married, and well they cancelled it without letting us know. So it was either waste the ticket or send her home. SO buda bing. Ive been working the $%&^ shift, 5:30pm to 5:30am!!! YEEE HAAAAA!! Yah, no Im not loving it at all. But for some strange reason I dont think Im gonna just walk in and convince the commander to see it my way. That whole 2 strips- 1 oakleaf thing yah know. Thats ok, hes quit asking me my opinion on stuff here lately. Probebly cause Im no suck up and really tell him what I think. Can you guess who isnt making Senior Airman early? HA HA At least Ive still got the nerve to piss people off when its important! So got new car parts again, next step is coilovers! WHOO HOO! ( Kept it short, cause I know no one else digs car stuff) So has this been entertaining to read. I tried to pizzaz it up some with , shall we say more colorfull metaphores! Actually to be Honest Im just beat! 2 hours sleep last night, only 4 the night befor and I cant sleep now that Shell is gone. :( Lets see, Oh its my weekend today! yah I got yesterday ( eventhought I was on phone standby half the day) today and thursday off then I work over the actual weekend. All of that is ofcourse subject to change. I swear the devil must be writing the scheadule, I cannot get a saturday night or sunday OFF! havent even found a decent chuch Locally yet. We went with a friend of mine a while back ( which reminds me I need to call him!) and havent even gotton back there. The Chapel is okay, but the Lady pastor is really wishy washy. Im hoping stuff gets better here soon, its getting closer to a year here and I am getting tires of having to set everybody strait! Im still hoping that Ill get incredibly lucky and get an assignment back home. Not for me but for Shelly. The poor girl just has nothing here. Between just my crazy work scheadule, and her working ( cause staying at home all day suxs!) If she went to college Ide never get to see her. Can you imagin seeing your spouse for like 15 minutes every other day!?! Well Im going to go and wake up somehow! I hope everything is going great for ya'll!!!! oh yah, I MISS NEBRASKA!!!!!!! Dan Trust in God, cause that californian driving next to you, thinks of his daily cummute as a Demolition DERBY!

Well, Everybody I just wanted to say HI since its been so long. Things here are going pretty good. Im working in a day shop right now so Im getting alot of time of untill We start working 12hour nights again. Shelly is working alot. I had to put her to work, I cant buy car parts on just my paycheck ;) OK OK Im kidding!!! She really is working alot though. Since IM dayshop we are finally able to spend the whole weekend together. Its been real nice too. We've been going to a drive in movie theater and travling down to roseville and the mall. Ive been really busy the past month and will contiue to be for the next month. Ive got to take some tests, so Ive been studying and working out. Henry the cat says hi, BTW. In a month Shells and I will be going to Disneyland for a week. Weve got 5 day passes. I think that will be alot of fun, and hopefully I dont get sick on any of the rides. Well I gotta go and clean up this mess I made before Shelly gets home. Later ya'll!

Well 6 days till Im home for a week. Cant wait. Got a car show to go to!!!! And to think I used to think papio was boring. YAh YA'll need to move out here. I dont care what they say, If you had to live on this base youd kill over. It takes like 45 minutes to drive to a decent target or wallmart. Well anyways itll be nice to be off and have a chance to go to church again. My work schedule been so jacked up we havent had any time to find a decent church around here. Gotta love working weekends! Well hopefully Ill get to see yall while Im back. Just find my buddy rick and youll find me. oh and BTW if I look tired during the day, its normal. Gme till like 6 or so and ill be peppy. LAter folks

Yup its late, and thanks to my night shift schedule at work I cant sleep! Oh well, shop for car parts read up on stuff , its all good! Went to Cold stone creamery for the very first time in my life, well shellys too, so you could say "our" lives.( aww how cute) Sleep deprivation makes you type funny things. anyways coldstone was good. allthough I hope its only expensive here in california. I mean gees I coulda gotten like 2 gallons of race gas for that and had alot more fun. yah well Shellys finally 21. I wish her b-day had turned out better. Shes on the sickly side so this weekend was kinda depressing for her. So I plan on making next weekend as much fun as I can, and take her out like I used to when I had money. Ha lame joke. I still take her out, shame on you for thinking I spend all my money on my car! well anyways shes gonna have a good next weekend I gar-on-tee!! it. ok Im off, gotta see if this guy is gonna sell me a part for my car. ADIOS!

WEll now Im on a role. Well Shelly and I got a christmas tree! We got some awsome lights for it. Just as a note, the jack daniels burger a TGIF's is Awsome. Go ahead try it, but make sure you ask for extra sauce. I havent been up to much else other than making custom car parts. Im still waiting for a spring to come for my wastegate. Hopefully all my calculations are correct. Right now all I have is an exauhst system. If my math is right once I get done putting a racepipe on it with a boost controller and my custom wastegate the car should be pushing 270 horses! Did the math on how much itll cost to do what else i wanna do to the car and its around 3 maybe 4 g's :), 7 If i get stage 3. Ill probebly wait on that till we go back home and Ive got that nice cozy highpaying civilian job. I heard about ese's mom. Wish I coulda been there to help him out with whatever. I need to talk to Jon too. Thats the problem with working nights-- it just messes up you schedule so bad. on my days off I stay up till like 4 am and sleep till at least 2. Oh and we should be coming home for a week in Jan. Nice little vacation anyways,probebly wont get to see everyone. But with as little as I sleep now I might. Ill have to break out the winter jacket! I like this weather here! Anyways Gotta do all the responsible married adult stuff I keep putting off. Later Ya'lls

I just put in Blotto cause I aint got a clue what that means. anyways Hello everyone! Long time no talk. Sorry but I just havent made the time to write back til now. Things are doing pretty swell here in Norcal. Not quite what I had thought california to be but its nice. The base is in a part that looks kinda texas. No snow is kinda nice though, at least for my car :) . You gotta drv at least 30 minutes to get to roseville, Awsome city. Ive got a friend that lives there. Me and Shelly went out with him and his wife to apple grove, One of te numerous "groves" here. Sacramento has some cool stuff, one part called old Sac. That reminds me alot of the old market. But it has alot of candy stores!!! I finally started my actual job, and it is nice to be started. My birthday was yesterday, Shelly got me a new exaust system for my car!!! The new car iss so fast, but it only gets driven on base due to the cost of gas right now. Shelly has a job at the child development center, so far she likes it. She loves the malls out here , just wishes they were alittle closer. Well I hope everyone is doing good. Shelly and I miss all ya'll. Take care and God bless yah. Oh yah leave me a message so I can know how your doing. DAN

OK , Just figured Ide let yall know how the races went. Overall I did really well. I got there and everything had a turbo or super charger. But buy the end of the night I won 3 out of 5 races ( which is really good since almost all of them had a turbo). I beat a VW gti, 87-88 camaro rs ( I faked him out and then beat him in the run too!) , and a supercharged 04 civic SI. The ones I lost to were an 80 mustang with an 302 V8, and Th very first VW GTI I raced ( I wasent using race gas in that race). Overall it was a fun night. One of my instructers was out there with his old cougar, He ran like a 12.50 quartermile time. Alot of people from the base came to watch me. I only had a problem with a ground wire coming loose and looks like a cracked motor mount insert. Well I gotta go study now. Peace out yall.

down till 1 month till IM back in omaha. Ill be back from the 16th- 28th. Then its off to cali. For now, I passed my last visreci block, 98%! Hoo rah. Im done doing marine combat training for now, I was doing it on-off with some of my marine buddies, but I just dont have time now, Gotta get al outprocessed to get outta this joint. I race this friday at the san angelo speedway. Ill let ya'll know how that goes. Well Im going to bed , Gotta wake up at 4:00 AM for PT. NITE YALL!

Hello my people. Figured Ide do what is now my monthly entry. Things are going good down here. 7 more weeks and Ill be home. Itll be real nice to get outta here. I pick up my orders next week. Once I have those I will finally be able to put Shells and I in for base housing. Right now Im in block 14, we'll finish that up next week. 3 More blocks and were done. The picture is of me and my class chillin on some Russian SAM equipment. Bonus points go to whoever can tell me what specific equipment it is ;) Well thats about it. The 4th is coming up. I really excited for 2 reasons. 1st- Shelly is coming down!!! and second this is my first 4th being and active military member. Well Wish I could type sommore but Benard and are are going to the base chapel today. Hope everybody is doing good, and Ill see ya'll In less than 2 months. Take care!

WEll, Hello again to whoever reads this thing still. A few changes from the last entry have accured. No wedding in july. I wont say why, but Im a bit on edge cause of it. I think augest in Omaha is the newest in the works, but I need to find out information about my leave befor we can yet again another "solid date". In the mean time, I will still be stuck in el arm-pito texas, going to tech school for the next 2 1/2 months. Im also training to be an airman leader, so hopefully in 2 weeks I will be putting on my green rope. But we'll see about that. My sister graduted highschool yesterday. I would never tell her, but Im really proud of her for graduating. I really wish I could of been there to see it but Pictures will have to suffice. Erin , congrats to you too. Im proud of you also! Ive been a little sick here lately , but I am planning on giving you a ring ASAP. Well Im gonna hit the sack now, Ive got a feeling that were gonna get a lovely early morning inspection tommorow. Adios for now.

Welp figured Ide finally get around to updating ya'll on whats going on. I passed my block seven test today. In 3 weeks Ill be halfway done with school. Im now phase 3 , which is nice cause I get to enjoy going off base in civilian cloths again! I have my car and am enjoying as only a ricer can :) ! PT got cancelled tommorow so I get to sleep in till 6am instead of 4am. We have a "sports day" tommorow, instead of class. and TGIF!!!! On the side of bigger news. This could be potentially upsetting for some. Shelly and I will be getting married this July. July 2nd to be exzact. She will live down here with me for the last few months I have left here, and will be coming with me to California! I got my assignment at Beale AFB in northern Cali. I spend everynight on the phone with her, making plans, chit chatting, etc. I havent found a church yet, But Someone from Shellys church that used to be stationed down here recomended one I havent been to yet , So Ill probebly give that a shot this weekend. Well Im gonna go and hit the shower. Ill update yal'll later. ADIOS