Happy New Years!!!

Happy New Years everybody!
I officially completed a New Years Resolution! I have not had a SINGLE coka cola in 1 year!!! It was tough at first, then I eventually got used to not drinking them. I may have one tomorrow just to have one, but its a great habit to kick! I feel very good about finally completing a new years resolution, everybody says lose weight (blah blah blah) I wanted something different and I wanted something that was much more difficult, thus Coke!
Well, a year later no coke AND I lost 40 lbs hahaha. Its funny how things work out isnt it?

Anyways, tonight I spent my night with the troops, I had an overall good time...nothing spectacular! Afterwards I wandered around and walked passed the chapel and I heard those guitars screaming for me to play them hahahaha. So I went in and hooked into the amps and played the electric guitar as hard as I could...just because I could. Eventually I had to sit down and tune the guitar, so as I was sitting there and a man walked in, and he was looking for the Midnight prayer service....it had already been over for the past 45 minutes. I told him that I would be more than glad to leave if he wanted time for prayer. Then he smiled, and said "No, I get most of my meditation behind one of those." (pointing to the guitar on my lap). I smiled and told him to pull up a chair, and we got to talking. It turns out that he's an amazing guitarist that owns a guitar that was once owned by Keith Richards....which is cool. We had about a 2 and a half hour talk. It wasnt at all how I had expected to spend my first few hours in the new year, but that is a good thing. I really enjoyed talking to LTC. John, it turns out that he is a Military Intel turned Commanding Safety Officer for the CJTF HOA (Command Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa). What a great guy, hands down a quality person to talk to. In between talking he taught me how to play Little Wing by Hendrix, and I then in turn taught him Purple Haze haha. The more and more I talked with him about music it was cool to talk to learn that we had similar tastes in music...Hendrix, Simon and Garfunkel, Jim Croce, Carlos Santana, John Mayer, and smaller band type deals etc....and agreeing that most music on the airwaves today is garbage. It was a great time, just noodling on guitar and talking. What an awesome way to spend the first few hours of new years...most people think that drinking and screwing are the best after new years...it might be for some, but in this situation sitting down with a complete stranger and talking about music and life is something much more awesome! Take it easy ya'll!
Happy New Years! 2008!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!