tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-288478782011-07-23T16:46:27.201-07:00for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered himmatt mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05295416992070482114noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28847878.post-1156992262553507812006-08-30T18:43:00.000-07:002006-08-30T19:44:22.570-07:00

My recent trip to Afghanistan was wonderful! I've been back now for 3 weeks and have had that place on my mind every day. While I made the trip, I read half of a thousand-page book about the history of the region dating back to 1200 BC, when Alexander the Great invaded Afghanistan. very interesting. Since then, A-land has not not known a significant period of peace....more than 3,000 years of

matt mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05295416992070482114noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28847878.post-1153190987480815912006-07-17T19:36:00.000-07:002006-07-17T19:49:47.503-07:00

a sweet pic of me, rich, and big al.big al sometimes simplifies life for me in one sentence. "Matt, wake up and smell the coffee!" May we wake up and smell the proverbial coffee today.oh yeah, and please pray for us as we head to a really volatile part of the world. we're going to be exploring options for future investment in that country in some sort of humanitarian avenue. pray that we would

matt mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05295416992070482114noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28847878.post-1153190153242634152006-07-17T19:12:00.000-07:002006-07-17T19:35:53.256-07:00

Wow....chuch norris and captain obvious, not to mention roy and andrea demanded i must post....imediately. It feels good to actually know that people have gone out of their way to push a few icons in order to read my thoughts and be disapointed that there's nothing new to read about me. yeah, and for a whole freakin month! What a friend I am!My days have been really busy for the past month,

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I have always loved my time with my family and bros, until I went to China for a couple years. There, when I couldn't be with them or really talk with them very easily, I was overcome with feelings for them. People always say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but everytime I've heard that it was in the context of romance. I don't have any of that in my life yet, but I have discovered what

matt mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05295416992070482114noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28847878.post-1149302285853167822006-06-02T19:02:00.000-07:002006-06-02T19:38:05.863-07:00

Well....where to start.... Since I got home right before Christmas, I've basically been playing catch-up on things that I missed while away in China: family, hunting, fishing, baseball, and bros. My little nephew will be 3 next week, so I've been trying to let him get comfortable with me. He's a really neat little guy, really hyper, cute, and hard-headed. The makings of a true Mann. I've spent

matt mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05295416992070482114noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28847878.post-1148758643889726312006-05-27T12:09:00.000-07:002006-05-27T12:37:23.896-07:00

Hey friends! Welcome to my humble blog. I've been wanting to do one of these for a while now that I've been back on US soil for a few months, but I was nervous my blog wouldn't be as cool as Roy Keely's! But here I am. Most of the stuff like facebook or myspace was total news to me after i got home. Just never had heard of it.Anyways, so i hope that you can keep up with me and what's going on in

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