The Official Blog of Rob Smith

Remember that my family will be throwing me a big party in Hebron on July 17th, beginning at 2pm. Everyone from TicketNetwork, all friends, and www.therobsmith.com readers are invited. I think I will also be making an appearance at some other area parties in the days and weeks after I arrive home on July 2nd. [...]

So we’ve been pretty busy over the last few days. Getting an entire National Guard unit transferred from active-duty status back to National Guard status is very complicated. There is lots of paperwork having to do with accrued leave, finance, then other tasks having to do with logistics, travel arrangements, etc. Some tasks need to [...]

First, on the U.S. soccer goal that was taken away – I think it’s unbelievable that a ref is able to make such a big call and not be required to tell the players, coaches, or media which player the foul was called against. To this day no one except him knows who committed the [...]

So I am back at Fort Dix. It’s a pretty surreal feeling being here again and knowing that our deployment is all over. I got here yesterday around 12pm after two days of nonstop travel. Today I woke up around 3am, and I’m reminded of the jetlag I had while I was home on leave. [...]

I will officially never set foot in Iraq again (unless something unforeseen happens). The two people I’m traveling with and I were very lucky to get routed directly to Kuwait from our base, without having to make the planned stop at another base in between. If we had made the planned stop it would have [...]

Congratulations to Roger for getting married – what is he doing for his honeymoon? I already mentioned it, but I think Roger has made a great choice and a huge accomplishment in marrying a doctor. Now he can slack off and play videogames for the rest of his life and still live comfortably.
I saw the [...]

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How did North Korea make it into the World Cup? Most repressed people in that hermit-state can only eat every other day. Maybe the government gives their soccer players the Kim [...]

The new iPhone was unveiled on the 7th by Apple. It will be available later this month with black and white bodies, 16 and 32 GB models. The fact that you can record and edit HD video on a tiny phone is incredible. The screen resolution increase should be good for gaming, and also for [...]

The Subaru definitely looks like the best choice after doing more research. It’s less expensive than anything else I cound find with all of the key attributes I’m looking for (4-door, AWD, V6) and it has strong endorsements from key family members. It seems like retail prices for Subarus in our area run higher than [...]

Perrotti your stance on MLB umpires is a common one, but we know that the umpires’ union would never allow its members to be fired for missing calls. The umpires are under enough pressure already, having been mandated to speed up games and dealing with everything else they’ve been dealing with. We need to help [...]