FW: FW: FW: FW: RE: This will make you laugh.

Acutally it won't. I love the fact that people want to send me jokes and inspirational emails about keeping my head up and ducks paddleing like hell underwater but, I need to let you all know that there is a protocol to sending Forwarded messages.

IF you are going to send a fowarded message there are a few things you need to do.

1. Rip the FW: off the subject line: It is poor ettique to just blindly send something as you get it be sure to put remove all the FW and RE off of the subject line. So that your intended readers know what they are opening without looking at all the crap.
2. Edit the body: People are busy they don't have time to scroll past all the ">>>>>" and all the extra comments do get to the funny. Make it brief and if you have to open attachements to get to it just do a copy and past and put it in the body of your mail. With virsus and worms just waiting to steal all of your personal data. Be a good neighbor and mitigate the risk.
3. BCC is your friend, use it: BCC = Blind Carbon Copy, it works just like CC with the added advantage of recipents not seeing the other 153 people you emailed it to. ON TOP OF THAT every wonder how you get those emails for she-male ball enhacers? Well at the end of every chain mail and forward there is a spammer just waiting to collect all those work and home email addresses you just wrapped up for him. Every person that is in that chain has their email address ripe for the picking and for free. SO, you can help stop spam by being proactive. If you are sending something out to more than three people. Use BCC and remove all additional email addresses from the body of the email.
4. IF you find something so incredibly funny that you don't have the time or interest to do the things I just said to you then send your FW to superslick17-at-hotmail.com. I read all my FWs at the end of the week on that address. If they show up on any of my other addresses then they get deleted.
   

Listen to Too $hort. Can't turn a ho into a housewife

Cheating wife gets millions in divorce

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) -- A judge has awarded the former wife of a multimillionaire businessman a divorce settlement worth more than $40 million even though she admitted having affairs with her rock-climbing guide and a man she met on a flight to China.

In addition to a $24 million payment, Susan Sosin will keep the couple's $3.6 million Manhattan apartment, $2 million Utah ski house and $800,000 home in Wallkill, New York. But she has to vacate the couple's two mansions in Connecticut and three desert properties in Arizona. In the divorce granted Wednesday, she also gets to keep $6 million in her brokerage accounts, eight cars and $2.9 million in jewelry, including a ruby piece her husband had bought for her but hadn't given to her prior to their divorce. Richard Albrecht, attorney for Sosin's husband, Howard, estimated the total value of the award at $43 million, or 27 percent of the estate. She wanted half, he said.

"My opinion is her conduct in this matter affected the award," Albrecht said.

Susan Sosin's lawyer, Frederic J. Siegel, estimated the total value of the award was about $45 million and said his client asked for about 45 percent of the estate.

"By anybody's standards, it's a large amount of money," Siegel said. "Both parties will be able to move on with their lives."

Siegel said both sides were at fault for the divorce and defended his client as a good mother.

Howard Sosin, 54, who founded AIG Financial Products in 1987, filed for divorce after discovering his wife's relationships in February 2003. During an upgrade of their computer system, he found hundreds of e-mails between his wife and her lover, according to testimony.

Susan Sosin, 51, admitted in testimony that she had become intimate with a guide while rock climbing in 1996, though she said it was a spontaneous and isolated occurrence. During a flight to China in 2000, she met a married man, and that led to a lengthy affair, according to testimony.

"The parties' marriage has been undeniably marred by the defendant's infidelity," Superior Court Judge Howard Owens stated in his verdict. "Although her sexual relationship was not the sole cause of the breakdown, it did effectively terminate the marriage."

Howard Sosin's wealth was estimated at $168 million. Among the assets he gets to keep are $89 million in bank accounts, 10 of the couple's 18 cars, $960,000 worth of private club memberships and $22 million in fine art.

The couple met in 1978 when Howard Sosin was an assistant professor at Columbia University. At the time, she was married to another man and working in retail.

Howard Sosin served as the president and chief operating officer of AIG Financial Products until 1993 when he left the company. Following litigation, he received $182 million from AIG.

Men of the world listen to Tommie Hu$tle on this one. Always remember how you found 'em because more than likely that's how they'll leave ya.

+1 for staying single.

Chillin' just another day at the office.

When I email or call home people often ask me how I am doing, or how things are going, what I am doing. I'll always respond the same way everytime

Chillin' you know me just another day at the office.

People always ask me why do I always say that an the anwser is simple. Everything I work on is classififed. I have to go to great lenghts to attempt to describe something in a way that is not classifed. So in order to talk to people I have to speak in overbroad terms. That happens to be one of them it is basically a catch all for. Hi, I'm fine, I didn't get killed, I did some work, and for me at least everything is ok.

People (especailly women) always want to KNOW what I'm doing. It's part of their nature to disuss issues. Being curt dosen't cut it with the average woman I suspect but, that's the only way I can be.

Discovered!

At work my blog has been a bit of an open secert at least to Shen Long and Ken Obi. It's kinda like Rock Hudson being a ragin homo or Michael Jackson being a real poon hound on the down-low. Well if you get any email from my Google account then you will see the location of my site as my signature, no big thing. I usually use my military address when communication in theater and that address I NEVER give out. It is for work only not even my family know my military address. However there are times when I need a file or something and I will go off the military network to get it. These things are always NIPR (Non-Secure Internet Protocol Routing) basically that means that anything on that network is not classified.

If I ever need to send something to a co-worker or to a Marine and I HAVE to use my Google account then I will rip the signature out. Not that I have said or done anything wrong or bad but, I suspect that I have not wanted to feel pressured to self-censor myself.

Well one night I needed to shoot Ken Obi a file quickly so I used my gmail account and I forgot to rip the signature out. Well, I didn't think much about it and I went to make a headcall. When I came back I saw Ken Obi reading my blog. Talk about shock, I stood there in terror at the realization that someone who actually knew me, that actually knew the events, that actaully knew the timeline was reading everything. I found myself in a weakend postion because of my carelessness. I sat in my chair nervous as hell. Part of it was because I was caught and the other part was becasuse I've never actually watched someone read my work. I didn't know how he would react to my uncensored opinions about things we had experienced and if he would find funny what I found funny. If you have been here you don't have to dig too deeply to figure out who I'm talking about on the Rogue's Gallery.

Well he read the blog for about an hour and I mean he was deep into it suddenly, he breaks into this uncontrollable laughter. I mean he is coughing, wheezing, red in the face, doubled over and when he attempts to explain what he is laughing at he just starts laughing again. I think it took him two days to tell me what entry he was laughing about with a straight face.

The good thing was that he enjoyed my blog which was the most important element because he lives it just like I do and he make it know to me by his actions that he was going to let me keep my open secret. That most of all meant a lot to me.

Hey all

Hey sorry that I've been sparse in my postings but, I've had to step up my responsibilites a lot and now I'm in the air more than I'm on the ground. But, stay tuned.

RIP Kayla Elizabeth Pierce: Age 0

I'm really having to do this more often than I think I should. I just got back from my travels and started checking my mail when I find out a good friend of mine Greg Pierce lost his baby. His wife was in her 33rd week and there were some complications at the hospital. From what I knew the baby was healthy and coming along fine and when I get back I hear the baby's heart just stopped. I haven't had a chance to talk to him and I don't know if I will for a while. Losing a child is unfathomable my brother and his wife went through a similar experience years ago and it just devistates everyone near you. I know when I read this my mind went back to the night I heard my brother lost his child.

There are never words that can properly express the sorrow that you feel for someone who is in this situation. I know when it happened to my brother I couldn't talk to him because I didnt know what to say. I think the worst part about it for me is that her death and funeral happened while I was on travel and I had no idea what happened until 2 days after the fact. It's just another event that I'll have to pack away and grieve about when I get the opportunity. Right now I'm just numb. I've been numb for a while. Greg I just want to let you, your wife, and your family are in my prayers during this difficult time. I don't have the words to make you feel better or change God's will but, know that I'm here and I care.

As for you litte Kayla, rest easy baby girl. Where you are going hearts beat eternally.

Love

Thomas.

9 days with no shower

I've been on travel and needless to say it sucked. I don't like travel much, it's not the journey so much it's the pleasant destinations. I just took a shower. I was unable to shower for 9 days on top of that I couldn't (wouldn't) change clothes. Due to the cold weather I generally slept in my clothes as well SO I was in the same outfit and underwear for about 216 hours. Let me tell you it does a number for your mood.

However you do get an appreciation for simple things. You won't mind a crappy bathroom when all you have is a shitty port-a-john and you really won't mind a shitty port-a-john when all you have is a shovel and some sandpaper to wipe your ass with. I'm not too much made for all this outdoor living but, you do what you gotta do.