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Friday, November 28th, 2008
2:30 am	Deer little friends... Points to you if you can think of the novel I paraphrased that from. The quote is kind of obscure, the series is not. I almost hit a deer tonight, on the way home from a friend's house. It's a five minute drive, approximately three miles, and I still almost hit a damn deer. Again. About five months ago, I hit this deer's little buddy in the same car I was driving tonight. It's taken me almost five months to repair the car from the damages that stupid animal inflicted, and if another stupid animal were to incur such damages on my vehicle again, I might just go batshit crazy. Before anyone jumps my shit, I understand they're just animals, they're not out to get me, etc. But you try and rationalize that when a four point buck is shooting a glare at you with his beady little eyes (I swear, they glowed red!) at two in the morning. I really fucking hate deer. Current Mood: Shaken Current Music: Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 24th, 2008
12:24 am	for all you terry pratchett fans... You Scored as Commander Samuel Vimes You are Samuel Vimes! Captain of Ankh-Morpork’s city Watch! You are a knight, married to the very wealthy, noble lady Sybil Ramkin. You often walk the streets at night, and are able to tell where you are by the feel of the cobbles under your boots. You always do what is right – that is, what needs to be done – to keep the city safe, even when it seems bad. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
1:05 pm	yuk yuk yuk http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/cannibal_lunch (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
12:14 pm	little photo op 1. Lake St. Peter Pan/HDR, 2. Pizza Porn, 3. 1st Annual Tennessee Valley Showcase Marching Band Competition (200709.29) - 10, 4. Perfection, 5. 2005-09-02-0090-web, 6. beer_strobe_1, 7. McNaughts Comet Eyre Peninsula South Australia, 8. coffee and chocolate mousse cake, 9. Aglow, 10. Do You Have Tinymeat In YOUR Pants?????, 11. Leopard - Panthera pardus, 12. green spar (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
4:14 pm	lulz peterpagan is a Giant Ape that eats Rocks, kidnaps Blonde Women, has a Computer for a Brain, controls the Weather, and is in League with Dark Forces. Strength: 9 Agility: 5 Intelligence: 9 To see if your Giant Battle Monster can defeat peterpagan, enter your name and choose an attack: fights peterpagan using Strength Agility Intelligence (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
12:11 am	haha awesome! even better that kaylee is my second choice Your results: You are Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 70% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 60% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 60% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 50% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 50% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 50% River (Stowaway) 45% Wash (Ship Pilot) 35% Alliance 35% A Reaver (Cannibal) 30% Inara Serra (Companion) 10% Honest and a defender of the innocent. You sometimes make mistakes in judgment but you are generally good and would protect your crew from harm. Click here to take the Serenity Personality Quiz (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
12:44 am	interesting day well, i didn't get to do my run, so i'm bouncy as all hell at the moment. however... the reason i didn't get to run today is because several tornadoes touched down today (on base even!) and completely trased several areas of hampton roads. suffolk was apparently hit the worst, but base lost quite a few trees and suffered damage to apparently over 500 cars. that's what i was told anyway; i really doubt the 500+ cars figure was accurate. i also heard that about 200 people were injured in suffolk, but no deaths. i fixed the hell out of my truck's brakes today. i can now lock them up with very light pressure on the pedal, and the whole system is tight as a drumhead. i ended up replacing both the master cylinder and the booster, in addition to the driver's rear wheel cylinder and most of the hardware in the driver's rear wheel. i've come to the conclusion that i fucking hate drum brakes because they are of the devil. now i just have to schedule a replacement time for the rear glass. speaking of scheduling... i got a summons today from the commonwealth of VA court system. it's a subpoena for me to appear in court and testify against a guy who was drunk driving and hit someone; i ended up being a witness. the only problem is, it's for june 10th, which is when i'll be back in TN. so i hope they're either willing to pay for my gas (hahahahah!) or take a statement and use that in trial. the guy was drunk as all hell though, no way he should have been driving. AND he tried to run from the scene and resist arrest. moron. and i'm still dwelling on that chevelle. i could turn that thing into a freaking monster... (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
8:24 pm	RavenCon '08 My first Con ever! Had a great time, ran around a bit, drank a bit, met some really cool people, stared at some really hot chicks in corsets, saw a guy get tasered, and saw grown adults make asses of themselves under the influence of booze. All in all, a great weekend! I'm running an eight minute mile now, and I've worked up to three miles a day. Goal is to eventually run 10 miles as a workout in an hour. I figure I'll work up by an extra mile every week, and work on time as I go. I have also decided that whenever I buy/build my house, It's most definately going to have a pool/jacuzzi and workout room. And I've lost 6 pounds in the last week. Doing well so far, but I'd like to get back down to 185. According to multiple sources (mostly online running/fitness mags), my "desireable" body weight is between 168 and 178 pounds. That sounds like complete crap to me, since I haven't weighed less than 170 since my sophomore year of high school. I guess BMI calculations are based on twigs and/or bulemic blue jean models. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 18th, 2008
7:11 pm	71 weeks?! Apparently I haven't updated this thing in... 71 bloody weeks. More than a year, indeed. So here's what's going on in my life (not that I think anyone really reads this anymore...): I get out of the Navy in 34 days. I've been in six years and eight months. I go back to college this fall. I'm going to be staying at my Dad's house this summer. Hopefully I won't rub my parents the wrong way. We get along when I come home on leave, but this will be for almost three months at once. I believe the key here will be keeping a low profile and hanging out outside the house a lot. Gas is ridonkulously expensive and I drive a 22 year old truck with a v8. As bad as that sounds, my truck actually gets about the same gas mileage as modern trucks. Go figure that shit, huh? I get 13 around town and 18 on the highway. One of these days I'm going to install oxygen sensors and tweak the fuel injection system and see if I can get greater than 20... Hopefully I'll be able to find some place to stay in Norfolk for a month. Hotels are nice and all that, but only for a few days at a time, and they're damned expensive after a while. At least the place where I'm staying has free Wi-Fi. I think I'm gonna get that medieval action flick that just came out on DVD tonight. Has Jason Statham in it, can't remember the name. Hell, I may go watch the new Jet Li/Jackie Chan flick tonight. I like going to the movies, now I just wish I had someone to go to 'em with me... I really, really need to do some basic maintenance on my Bronco this weekend. I'm going to start running again. Hopefully tomorrow. We'll see if my willpower is up to it. (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
5:30 pm	randomassshit got told my jeep smells like satan's asshole found out i can drink 1/2 a fifth and show no ill effects (this worries me slightly) had corny pickup line used on me (which actually made me feel better, thanks skylar :) rediscovered my love of junkyards realized i'm a huge poon when it comes to chicks discoverd a new, tasty apricot flavored beer (magic hat no. 9, i believe, or top hat no. 9; can't remember) almost feeling at peace with my job (this worries me even more than #2) getting used to the new, bald me (go buzz cut) found both conan flicks the other day... for $10 total!!! :D Current Mood: good Current Music: people's cell phones... turn 'em the fuck down! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
5:23 pm	iiiiit's fall again! so yeah, i've been noticing that nice cold feeling when i step outside. the one that makes me feel more alive. i'm actually using the heater in my jeep, too, which i great when i wear sandals. that thing is a fuckin blowtorch! i don't think i have any particular favorite season, i love them each when they roll around (probly because it takes a while for that to happen, and i have a horrific memory). fall rocks my face off though, just because of that nice smell of burning leaves, the football games, the cookouts, the longer nights, and the urge to run around bouncing all over the place. yes, cold weather makes me hyperactive, rather than the coverse. fall also makes me feel very witchy, like i ought to be running around with my circle and drawing down the moon on my back porch. actually had a discussion to that effect the other day, and determined that i stopped practicing mostly because my group of friends changed. well, that and the fact that all the pagans i've met who are also in the military are fucking lame. sorry, but it's the truth. perhaps a bit hypocritical coming from me, but i at least try to fit in. most of my friends nowadays are angry nukes, though i try and keep in touch with everyone. but hey, ya move away, ya lose contact, it sucks but that's how things work. back to the original subject: i'm in a pretty damn good mood, and the weather seems to be complimenting that. now if only i could take care of those traffic tickets. heh heh whoops... today's random thought: why the fuck do buckets of beer only have five beers? that's horseshit! 597 DoH (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
3:13 am	on the road again... on the way home from JC tonight... take the highway, hydroplane a bit, tank up, discover that the bronco gets 12.5 mpg around town (really, really need O2 sensors!!!) drive on up memorial, see flashing lights. figure it was some dumbass who ran off the wet rainy road. turns out it was a tree that fell across the road. stop bronco. confer with cop. hook tow chain up to tree, hook other end of tow chain to bronco. remove tree from road (damn thing was blocking 2/3 of the road). feel glad to be driving a 4x4 and have a tow chain handy. there goes my civic act for the day. in other news, i am a damn lovesick retard. *sigh* one of these days i will figure myself out. let alone women. night night. Current Mood: confused Current Music: my own self recriminations running through my skull (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
2:59 pm	heart attack? or just not enough ibuprofen and water? so we pulled into mayport the other day (that's florida). about an hour after we had the reactor shutdown, i was chillin on crew's mess, eating a grilled cheese sammich and drinking some milk, when i had this mysterious chest pain. i joked with the guy next to me about it being a heart attack, and went topside for some sun. over the next 10 minutes or so, the chest pain intensified 'til i could hardly breathe or speak. i called the ship's doc, and he showed up about 15 minutes later, took me belowdecks, and started administering aspirin, oxygen, and nitroglycerine. well, the nitro made my pains go away a little, and the oxygen helped some, too. by this time, the EMTs had arrived, and i was velcro'd to what's called a reeve's sleeve. this device is essentially a backboard that the victim is secured to by about 30 square feet of velcro and vinyl. i had my ass literally carried off the submarine, and shipped to a hospital where they administered more nitroglycerine (pain reduced even further) and started an IV drip. after i was stabilized and whatnot, got shipped to the naval hosipital in jacksonville, where i spent the night and had about 80 EKGs taken, along with probly a quart of blood. next morning, i ran on a treadmill for about 10 minutes, after which the doctors said i was actually healthier than your average 22 year old (heh, imagine that, after all the cigarettes and booze). no chest pain then or after. after all this, and about 5 chest x-rays (approx 3 rem or so) what was i told? that they didn't know what the hell was wrong with me, but that i should take some ibuprofen and drink lots of water. go navy medicene, go. so my doc (the ship's corpsman) is pretty sure it ain't a heart attack, just esophogial spasms (his words, my spelling ;), and no one else will state quantitatively what they think it is. poonjabs won't commit. i am, however, getting out of the latter half of this underway and (i think) getting flown back to norfolk tomorrow. i still have to do the startup tomorrow morning, at 2:30 am. i feel like shit for fucking up the watchbill like that, and i'm a little worried that i might have actually had a heart attack, but not much. i'm tired even though i slept for 8 hours last night, but they say if you sleep too much, you'll feel tired the next day. i dunno. just confused i guess. looking forward to going home on the 23rd. hoping i don't have another quasi-heart attack. jenny got engaged recently. hope her marriage works out. she's been with the guy for a while now (couple years i think), so with any luck, they'll stick. i get scared whenever i hear of one of my friends getting hitched, for obvious reasons. stuff to get: AC/DC, stones, aerosmith, pantera, metallica, beatles, zz top. yeah, i'm on a classic rock/metal kick. ******** random news. i'm being sent to king's bay, ga RIGHT NOW. like some non-descript gov't vehicle just showed up outside to take me there. wierd. Current Music: some random (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 15th, 2006
10:03 pm	randomass update well, life is going along quasi predictably-ish. i still don't have a computer or net access (borrowing someone's comp right now) but am working on that. first and foremast on the new things to acquire is the jeep. she's dying slowly; newest fuckup is my rear main seal. she's leaking oil everywhere, poor thing. that just gives me a reason to get a new engine though. currently on the build list: 351 windsor (got it) t18 4 speed (got it) d20 transfer case (got it) low range kit for d20, and adapter to t18 (don't got it) dana 44 axles (got 'em) 4.10 gears and detroit/posi for D44s (don't got 'em) supercharger for 351 (thinking about getting it) 35" ground hawgs (don't got 'em) hopefully that'll cure all my woes ;) what'd be really cool is if i could get my camaro back and just sell the damn thing. that'd get me out of debt city and make life way easier. gonna go see the new superman flick now, later. Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: pat benatar - hit me with your best shot (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
12:15 pm	random update How You Are In Love You fall in love quickly and easily. And very often. In relationships, you tend to be a bit selfish. You tend to get very attached when you're with someone. You want to see your love all the time. You love your partner unconditionally and don't try to make them change. You stay in love for a long time, even if you aren't loved back. When you fall, you fall hard. How Are You In Love? so yeah... still looking at places to live. at the moment i'm randomly renting a barracks room/staying on the boat. it's not bad, but could be better. so far i've found a house for $650 a month or a condo for $450 a month. probly going to go with the condo just for the cheap factor, but the house is niiiiiiice. i dunno. i'll call the two parties today and see what's up. in other news, it looks like i won't be buying that matrix, and instead will probly buy lida's truck. not as good gas mileage, but way cheaper and i'll be able to haul stuff. yaaaay. still need to fix my damn truck. that may be put on hold yet again until i get everything here straightened up. i guess i could buy lida's truck, haul the random axles and other parts out here, throw 'em in storage, get rid of the cherokee while i'm at it, repaint lida's truck, and sell that for way more than i bought it. *shrug* who knows. and then there's still the issue of getting my truck hauled out here. still have yet to find a long haul shipping company, and i'll probly have to have the damn thing delivered to a street address, vice military. aaaargh... add to all this the fact that the boat will probably be getting underway soon-ish. wonderful news, huh? i figured out why i've been able to tolerate work the last couple of days: i've only been working 55 hours a week (roughly) for my normal salary vice over 100 hours a week. gotta love standdown. too bad it ends soon. oh yeah, and mando PT can suck by balls. busy busy busy busy busy... Current Mood: headache-y Current Music: some dude's cell phone (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
10:46 pm	turka turka turka lurka so i'm in turkey now, and the keyboards are all fuckered up. seriously, it's gonna take me a half a fuckin hour to type a few sentences. on to more relevant things: turkey rocks my face off. i'm staying in in a five star hotel every third night (beeeeautiful, but the booze is priced accordingly). i went and saw some no shit ancient ruins the other day (as in BCE), ate the best meal of my life (sorry mrs. reiff) today, and i've spent over $1500 in a period of 3 days on touristy crap. so far i think i've gotten something for everyone, but we'll see when i get home. this has been the coolest port ever. we'll see how spain is. from what i remember, that was also a thoroughly badass port. to all who read this: sorry about the infrequent emails and the wacky ass time zone differences. you have no idea how much i'm looking forward to coming home and seeing everyone. now i'm going to get some damn sleep. gotta get up at 4:30. you'd think they'd schedule reactor startups at a decent time. sheesh. be home in less than a month! Current Mood: anxious Current Music: some chick playing a grand piano (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 18th, 2006
3:41 pm	durka durka? so now i'm in jebel ali. somewhere in the united arab emirates, which sounds more like some sort of mid-eastern moose lodge than a damn country. it's hot as hell and i got professionally exfoliated by mother nature yesterday due to a no shit sandstorm that picked up when we pulled in. it's been an interesting 24 hours ;) jebel ali seems a lot like bahrain, except not as much of a naval presence. thank god. well, aside from the fucking carrier that pulled in. 6000 fucking surface fags. ick. this place is a huge merchant port though. there's a looooot of money around here, but still amazing levels of poverty. i'd take more pics, but i got shouted at by guys in uniform the other day... whoooops... they were waving sticks at me, but they had guns. on a scale of good to bad, that was damn near bad. in boat related news: everyone is going completely fucking nuts. it's close to the end of the deployment, and we all want not so much to get back home, but to get the fuck away from this place. i'm looking forward to fixing my truck/jeep, getting a place with a few of the guys off the boat, and relaxing during standdown when we get back. oooooh lord that's gonna be good. things to think of doing when i get back: fix truck. build wrangler. buy a grocery getter. learn to play bass or guitar. buy another rifle. take up underwater basket weaving. quit saying durka every other word. durka. drank some beer the other night. that was incredibly good (i can taste the bubbles!), but not quite as good as i've been building it up to be over the last month. same thing with cigarettes. bought a pack last night, just like i always do, and they tasted fucking disgusting! which is fine by me, after all, i'm better off without 'em. i think it's just an oral fixation. i chew on pens, i like gum, and i smoke cigarettes. just not underway. when you suck amine (a CO2 cleanser) out of the atmosphere that's right around 16% oxygen through a burning cigarette, it fucking hurts! i wonder what the fuck is running through my lungs right now... some of our precipitators went fubar (precips clean oil and shit out of the air, like that ionic breeze that you see on TV; hell, i think the commercial even mentions that the same technology is used by the submarine force) and the air was so humid with oil, it was condensing and dripping off the pipes. you no shit god an oily sheen on your skin just from standing watch. again, ick. if i never see 2190 again, i'll be immensely happy. D&D continues to go well (for those of you who care or are interested in such nerdy pasttimes :p), my character is still alive in both campaigns. a-hyuck. got some pretty good prices on rugs today, now i just have to see if i can ship them home. i reeeeeaaallly don't want to leave them on the boat, on account of the fact that they'll stink really bad when i take them off. of course, the damn habib who sold 'em to me reeked of BO. these guys apparently don't believe in showering or deoderant. *shrug* different culture, i spose. or maybe they just want to intimidate you with their palpably rank odor *grin*. missing home and missing old friends especially. damn 9 hour time lag. i really don't want to bother anyone at 7 in the fucking morning. i'm sure some of you are already up, but it still seems ungodly. ah well, i'll try to call some people again tonight. later Current Mood: content Current Music: something with mucho bass from outside (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
9:45 pm	bahrain, anyone? we pulled in yesterday. it's so fucking surreal, because i never imagined i would see this country, or even this part of the world. it was wierd, breaking the routine i've developed over the last two months (two fucking MONTHS underwater!), especially where it concerns my sleep. i tried smoking a cigarette and my lungs just kinda closed up; good habit to be rid of, ultimately. i haven't drunk anything either, don't really feel like it. i think at the moment that i'm just really burned out. absolutely exhausted is more like it. i'm getting so good at running like a machine. little or no sleep, i just do what i'm sposed to (training is effective, kids!). if you stay tired enough, everything goes by in a blur and it seems like it's all over that much quicker. we have a joke on the boat: our racks are a time machine. it's a little dark metal box that you get into, then out of, and magically, it's sometime later. you're not any more tired or rested, you're just awake. great news: my ATM card works! i pulled out 100 dinar today (about $270 US). such a huuuuuge feeling of relief, and yes, happiness that i was financially solvent again. stupid little pieces of paper have a wierd way of making me smile... one of the ways we pass time underway is play D&D. yes, i have begun my descent into true nerdiness. it's pretty cool though, it allows a group of us to transport ourselves away from the boat and become something else. i read a lot too. i think i've gone through 20 books so far. bad news: my CD player broke. ooooohhhhhh jesus that was painful. i haven't been able to listen to music for so long, except on the boat CD player, and that's few and far between. gonna buy another one in bahrain though. apparently, electronics are fairly cheap here; one of my buddies pointed out a $180 mp3 player that's $400 in the states. i might get one just to get one for cheap. who knows. not like i have a computer on me right now anyways. hopefully i'll see a couple of you guys on AIM (not sure if anyone reads this anymore). if i don't see you now, i'll see you once i'm back in the states. i think i'm gonna cry when i come home on leave. relief and happiness, mostly. damn 8 hour time difference makes it hard to talk to people. i think of home and my friends and family every day. lata Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: oprah winfrey show in the background (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 25th, 2005
2:52 pm	quickie in italy right now. it's rainy and wet and cold, but at least i'm on land. the med is pretty cool, and my italian sucks. trying to get yahoo mail and aim to work, but these computers fucking suck *mad* i miss you all! more later, perhaps. Current Mood: tired Current Music: sean paul something or other (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
7:51 am	probly one of the last before i deploy... shit, so i leave for parts unknown (actually, they're pretty goddamn well known) in early november. i'm looking forward to port calls, but not underway time (duh). by this point, i've resigned myself to time underway. it all just goes by in a blur, probably because every day is the fucking same. wake up, eat, stand watch, eat, clean, do maintainence, sleep, repeat. 18 hour cycles. i tried keeping a journal for a while, and i got some fairly humorous stuff. unfortunately i lost the damn thing. if i find it before i leave, i'll post it. if not, i'll make it bigger. in recent news: ran the physical assessment crap. passed that. yay me. realized i am way out of shape though. felt like someone was stabbing me in the chest repeatedly. bettered my run time by a minute and a half though. definately quitting smoking; if it's going to hurt me this much to fucking run, i'm not gonna fucking do it. it's been nothing for me to come home and pound down 3 beers, or 6, or 12... not sure if this is a sign of burgeoning alcoholism, but i doubt it, seeing as it isn't a nightly thing. some days just really fucking suck (especially the ones where the night begins before the day ends). also haven't been sleeping very well, either. can't get more than 4 hours at once, and that's fitful at best. today i actually slept til my body couldn't sleep anymore, and that felt so damn good. it sucks that the only recuperation time i have is on my weekends, when i'm supposed to get shit done. speaking of getting shit done, still have to pack up the apartment, load all my furniture into a truck, and crate all of that shit to a storage unit where it will sit for the next 6 months. wonderful. hopefully during that time, i'll also be able to visit home. drove down to SC over my 3 days liberty to see katie. that was a blast. she has such a nice house, i'm jealous :p. being down there just made me realize how much i love SC, and the south in general. with the exception of VA...i really hate virginia, the eastern part anyways. probably because of norfolk, but you know how that goes. i swear, all through NC and SC, the weather was beautiful and warm and i got great gas mileage (great for the wrangler...), and as soon as i hit the VA/NC border, the skies clouded over, the air grew chill, and my mileage dropped to 16 mpg (see, even the wrangler hates this part of the world!). end result: can't wait to get out of the navy and out of this state. definately moving back to SC/NC/TN when i get out. still don't know if i'm going back to college or if i'm going to get a job. a) i have the GI Bill, and several other loans, grants, funds, etc i can tap into; i will be a very financially solvent college kid. b) college workload is nothing compared to what i do right now (i routinely work 100 hr weeks). c) i can probably get a job in excess of $60k immediately upon getting out, and i'll probably already have a degree when i get out (i'm a few credit hours shy... i have 36 pre navy, and 100+ thanks to various navy activities; now if i could just tie them all together). i'll also be 24 when i get out. i'm still leaning towards college, if for no other reason than not letting my GI Bill go to waste. and another degree (maybe masters) can't hurt, right? my biggest question of all: does life ever get easier? i'm waiting for everything to settle down so i don't have to run around like a decapifuckingtated chicken and can just enjoy what i've worked for. my greatest hope/dream right now is having a place that i know i won't be moving out of in 4 months. perhaps more to come in the future... Current Mood: frustrated Current Music: ACDC (Comment on this)