http://www.roiratjournal.com Adventures of a haole in paradise Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:49:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en July is here and time for the next chapter where Matthew goes diving with sharks.  Tune in next month for the another chapter. Early the next morning I had my usual breakfast at the chow hall then went back to my room and put on my swimming trunks and gathered up ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/163 Yokwe Jara,      It is time to add another installment of my novel. For those of you new to my site, I'm writing a novel and adding a chapter on the first of every month. This is your chance to see a novel in process.  Thanks for coming to my site ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/162 Here's the latest chapter.  Check this site the first of every month for the next chapter to be published. Thanks for reading. The next dawn found Reggie and I eating breakfast together and both nursing hangovers.  We'd hung out in his BQ for some time listening to music then headed down ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/161 Yokwe.  The first of the month is here and time for your next chapter of my novel "Roi-Namur"  Ron flies up every work day to perform his work on Roi.  He showed me around the 4 radar buildings.  The largest of the radar antennas was Altair and stands on its own.  ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/160 Iakwe, it is time for chapter 2 of the novel I'm working on.  Here it is: Chapter 2                  In the morning I found my own way to the cafeteria.  I was told I needed a meal card but they decided to cut me a break recognizing I was new in these ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/158 Hi, it has been a while since I posted because frankly I ran out of humorous and informative stories.  In the mean time I've been working on writing my first novel (actually it is not the first novel I ever started but hope to actually finish it).  To that end, ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/157 Iakwe, This week on Discovery is shark week, one of my favorite weeks of the year television wise.  It sure has brought back lots of memories of my time on Roi and the great diving there.  Tonight they had a show on the 10 deadliest sharks.  Unfortunately I missed the first ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/153 Last night I watched the movie Letters from Iwo Jima which I quite enjoyed. By coincidence today my mother sent me some letters I had written to my family when I worked in Riyadh back in 1991. Though far removed from Roi-Namur I thought it might be interesting to see ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/151 Perhaps when I described the huge tuna that I caught off Airok folks may have had their doubts about the size of the fish I caught despite the photo I included. That's fine. But let me tell you, this week I received some photos from former Roi resident ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/145 Aloha, Today I watched the Pro Bowl in Hawaii and sighted a Kwaj. sign in the stands. I can recall guys going there for the Pro Bowl as the closest professional football game to Kwajalein atoll. I enjoy watching any sport called football, while my favorite is what I ... http://www.roiratjournal.com/142