i wore a rockin royal purple silk-blend shirt today. i felt like a million bucks when i walked out of the house.

now the entire right side has come unraveled. i am not sure what to do. i don’t have a jacket.

meh.

so cody is in japan. my cousin is in japan right now, although he isn’t enjoying it. he is a navy medic attatched to some group of marines. he just left his first tour of afganistan after a tour of iraq last winter, and, for a reason he isn’t allowed to disclose, he was put in the psyche ward for several weeks and shot full of heavy anti-psychotics after a mystery incident that was the result of p.t.s.d.

2 days after his release he was in a bar in japan when some unknown marine began badgering him because he was in the navy. he blew the guy off. the guy left. my cousin’s friends arrived. the guy came back with more marines. my cousin continued to ignore the marine’s belligerence, but eventually decided to leave the bar. the guy followed him..and hit him in the back of the head while he was walking away.

matt says he doesnt remember anything until they threw him on the ground and slapped cuffs on him.

the marine is in intensive care with 4 breaks to his jaw and a pulp of hematoma and shards of bones for a face. this is the second time this has happened since matt joined a few years ago, although the first guy got off better with only a broken jaw, nose, and some cracked ribs. the way matthew’s life mirrors my father’s (who was a navy seal in vietnam at age 18) is really strange. bipolarism is rampant on that side of my family.

so all in all, i am glad cody is enjoying his trip. don’t take it for granted, and i don’t mean that to be sarcastic at all. i just thought it was ironic that he was in japan.

danny is bringing me a jacket.