Still better then Wayne's

Aussie Rules Football!!

2007-06-30T07:03:00.000-07:00

I went to an Aussie Rules football game tonight and it was pretty sweet!! It was the Brisbane Lions against the Adelaide Power(weird name) the lions lost....they pretty much sucked ass but came through at the end. They were once down by 7 goals but in the last quarter they actually tied the game...but still lost. Ahh well, it was still a ton of fun to watch! And drunk Aussies are pretty damn funny:) This stadium doesn't have any parking, so you need to catch a bus to get to it. Brisbane has a pretty good public transport, and it was free to take. But on the way back we almost started a riot at the bus stop. We were waiting in the line for the bus and it was pretty damn long, a big group of people were pretending to not know what to do and cut the line...but the transit lady was the one that actually let them cut ahead. Well the drunk dude next to us didn't take to kindly to it, nor were the tens of other sober people that actually waited as well. There was a bit of shouting and funny names called but, they still got away with it:) ahh well, shit happens:) The drunk dude ended up standing behind me on the bus and we continued to have a go at the other people and of course the fans from the other team that were on the bus. Man it was great fun:) The bus ride home was nearly as fun as the game:) I now understand the rules to the game a bit and it puts american football to shame, well...actually come to think of it, what game doesn't put american football to shame? :) Come on now, a bunch of fat dudes running around in tights with the play lasting maybe 6 seconds but taking 3 minutes to set up...the only game where 5 mintues last 20:) You guys should check out an Aussie rules game, or a rugby game. The Aussies just had a surprising win over the kiwi's in the tri nations cup(they weren't expected to win and at half time were down 15-6) s that was a pretty cool win tonight. And later this week it's the final game of the State of Origin. Queensland has won the first 2...man the last match was freaking awesome shoot the last 2 minutes of the game were just amazing! Ah well, you guys don't want to hear about sports:) It's just a bit weird that I'm enjoying them over here:)
I sent off a bunch of resumes to the mining companies and it is looking pretty good that I'll be getting a job as a geologist or environmental rep. That's pretty sweet...if it all works out. I have only heard back from one of the diving companies, and that was just to let me know that they didn't have any openings:)

Drill this weekend :)

2006-11-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

Well, this weekend I had drill.....unfortunately I thought it was this one coming up:) So Friday morning I'm laying in bed and get this phone call, just before 07. Who the hell would be calling me this early in the morning??? "oh, hey Sergeant, what's up" "Hey Sgt. Huybregts, I was just wondering where everyone is at this morning?" what do you mean this morning, I thought drill was next weekend I replied. "No, it's today" "crap, I'll be there as soon as I can" The thing is that we went down to the border for 3 days, so I had to run around a collect all my crap for a 3 day trip. Fortunately, they haven't issued me anything, so I didn't have to pack much:) And this is an Engineer Unit, not a Cavalary one, so they like to stay in barracks and "wussy" stuff like that:) Which of course, I don't mind at all:) I get to the unit just under 2hrs late:) I didn't get into trouble, an honest mistake. All the other drills we get called during the week to remind us, they didn't do it last week. Ahh well, no worries:)

Drill was pretty fun, except for the drive down to San Diego. We had one army truck with us and it's top speed was 55mph....it was a very very long drive:) And then one of our guys has a small bladder so we had to make a couple extra stops along the way:) We stayed on the navy base down there, don't know which one. Our mission was right near the border though. We could see that Huge Mexican flag at the crossing, and then some giant arch thing that's supposed to be where all the night life is at? We had to build a concrete wall for a loading ramp...that almost happened:) The ditch was supposed to have been dug by their best man and was supposed to be perfectly level and to specs....well we all know what's supposed to happen and what actually happens tend to be different stories:) We spent the whole day going back and forth trying to correct the mistakes and trying to get our part done at least. We were able to get the rebar put in and set up and built it to the correct height. It wasn't a huge project, just 39feet long and 1 foot wide, with a T just 10foot long. It was pretty frustating though. Oh, this part needs to be brought up 3 inches, and this part need to be lowered 6 inches. And since it's just a giant "wire" frame, it's not solid, so it was always wiggeling and bending. We managed to get it in straight though. The only thing we weren't able to do was put in the "forms" the walls to keep the concrete in place. They are just going to put in the "footing"(the base of the wall) and make that level, the set the forms on that to get the walls to the correct height. It's amazing how easy it would have been if the trench was actually level. It was pretty fun still though. We only have 12 people left in our unit and we work pretty well together, everyone actually worked. That was nice.

I went running this morning, that was very nice. I saw something pretty interesting, no no hot chicks this morning:) There was a hawk sitting on one of the people patio's....on top of their bird cages:) I guess he was looking for some breakfast but couldn't get in the cage:)

End of Oct??????

2006-10-25T13:16:00.000-07:00

Holy crap, it's the end of Oct already:) Let's see.....don't know where to start:)

Army crap:) We had drill the other week and I got to drive this big ass crane thingy, yes, that's the technical term for it and I'm sticking to it:) It's called a Hy-Ex(Hydrolic Extender) a giant hole digger:) You see them when they are tearing up the road, most of them are built by CAT, big yellow ones. They are going to let me dig a hole at the border for our next drill, sometime next month. We're doing a 3 day drill, fri till sun(yeah, I'm still trying to figure out when 1 weekend a month included thur's and fridays?? :) ) but we're going to built a large loading ramp for the border patrol mission. We only have 6 people in our unit, and no one is trained to use any of this equipment:) I'm the only one brave enough, or dumb enough to use this thing, yeah, someone is definitely going ot loose an arm or leg....good thing I'll be inside it:) That should be a lot of fun. I was getting pretty good useing the bucket/scoop thing. I was able to pick up coke cans without crushing them(the can was sitting on a small block of wood 4"x4", and I was able to grab the block of wood and pick it up and move it, with the can still on it...I won a ten dollar bet for it too:) ) I'm pretty confident with my 45minuts of training:) It should be fun and we're finaly going to do a realworld mission. Not just sitting around the armoury all day. We drove the dump trucks again as well, that's pretty fun to. I was noticeing how much my belly jiggled in the truck:) Gotta lay off them Ding dong's and Ho Ho's :)

This weekend is the MuddyBuddy, in San Dimas(San Dimas High school football rules!!!!, those of you versed in Bill and Ted's movie's know what I"m talking about:) ) MY bro and his wife are coming down as well, and Jordan is going to be my buddy for it. It's a team bi-athlon. Mountain biking and running...with a giant mud pit at the end and 5 obsticals during it....and most importantly, a Beer tent at the end of the course and free beer for the competitors:) Yeah, the logic baffles me too:) Going to bust your ass doing this marathon thingy, and pretty much do probably the worst thing to your body after it??? ahh well, we only live once:)

Speaking of Jordan...he got one of my bikes stolen this weekend:( He thought that hiding a nice bike in the bushes was a great way to secure it. The ironic part was that prior going to the party, he had to wait on his friend, to steal their own bike(which was then also stolen with my bike) This is in Isla Vista, the town where all the college kids for UCSB live. Jordan lived there for a year and knows full well how prevelant bike theft is there. This bike was with me around the world, from New Mexico to Germany and Washington to Long Beach...shit happens:)

I'm learning all sorts of interesting things in my English class, not much about english though:) I think it might be a Critical thinking class though, that would make our course make more sense. It's just all sorts of interesting things about our Common Culture and how Corporations and company's manipulate american society. And crazy facts like, between 1890 and 1910, after the 14th amendment passed in the late 60's( I think?) the 14th amendment states:

"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

there were 307 civil rights cases in the supreme court 288 were from Corporations, and only 19 were from black males(from the film, "The Corporation") That just is not right. There's all sorts of other cool things I'm learning about in my English class, my History class I'm learning some "interesting" things as well, like how hypocritical some of our more prominant founding fathers were, and how messed up we treated people. It's a good thing that we can correct our mistakes(well Thomas Jefferson didn't he kept his slaves till he died, and didn't even have provisions to release them after he bit the dust. Here's one of the biggest fighters for equality of man, but yet never released his slaves?), most of the time the hardest lessons are the best learned, though I believe we are still learning from them. I'm also learning cool things in my math class, but they are definately to difficult to explain on the net:) and probably a lot more boring too:)

I Dove a couple times with the Sea Center last week. One of the days we did a "Live Dive" where myself and William(the centers aquarist) go down and do a dive for the visitors. We have one mask that is able to communicate with the people up top and then a camera. I worked the camera and William did the talking:) This was our first time, and we kicked butt with it. Everyone up top was impressed with how well we did, especialy since we can't communicate with each other:) I was able to "understand" him pretty well and did a good job with filming what he was talking about(I don't even have a screen to see what I'm videoing:) ) then on Fri, we did a collection dive for the center, again it was with William and I. He collected a hole buttload of Sea Urchins and Keyhole Limpits. I was able to get a Leather Star, it's between the looks of a Bat star and regular star, but really soft. It was just a little baby to, so it's pretty dang cute:) I also cought a lobster:) Unfortunately it was a legal one:( It was the first lobster I've cought, and I couldn't even eat him:) William wanted a non legal size(he has a collection permit that allows him to collect animals for the center, so he has different rules) for the centers next exhibit, next summer"Crustacions" So I did a good job on my first collection dive as well, Hell yeah:)

My Jeep is finaly fixed, I think:) I got a crack in the windshield the other day. Some jerk pulled out in front of me on the freeway and then wasn't paying attention, went of the road for a few seconds and one of the rocks he flung up hit my windshield and craked it, it's only the size of a dime, but is all spider webby. My insurance company is coming out today to fix it though. You guys are going to Love my personalized license plate "DEDSEXI" hell yeah:) I wish they'd hurry up and send it to me already:)

While we're on the topic of Dead Sexy, I'm still Dead sexy as ever:) I need to find some more black shirts though, I'm Beyond Dead Sexy in Black:) I better be careful though, I might get arrested for being Too Sexy for Society:)

I have some more pics to put up, but I don't have my picture program anymore, so I need to find another one before I can post them(they're just to big to upload) So hopefuly I can get them up soon.

For Jake...

2006-09-15T22:01:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was the 2 year anniversary for Jake. It still seems like it was just last week we were roasting our asses off in the Iraqi heat. God Speed man, God Speed...

I'm still alive:)

2006-09-15T21:57:00.000-07:00

Yes, I'm still alive:) Just been busier then heck. The past couple weeks, the army has got me going all over the damn place, running all sorts of missions:) The first week of Sep and a little more, they had me go to LAX for the added security for 9/11. That was an interesting mission...we'll just leave it at that:)

School has started again, and my classes are going well so far, that's a good thing:) I'm taking Math, History and English this semester, an easier math since I was sucking big time on the next level up:) It's amazing what you forget in 6 years:) I'm my first math quiz, I got 18 out of 20 correct...might have gotten 20, but failed my attention to detail:) misread the question:) That makes me feel pretty good though, no, not the attention to detail part:) I have to write some papers for english class, I will post those up here when I get them done, hopefuly for you to enjoy:) All in all, school is going well so far.

One of my friends from class introduced me to something pretty cool, called Geocacheing. Basicly a treasure hunt type deal:) You get some coordinates online, then put them in your GPS and go looking for it. I've found 2 so far:) It's pretty fun, and you get to look all over the dang place for them. People set them up with different sizes, one of them was in a log, in a cream cheese container and the other was in an ammo can burried(is that spelled right? :) ) in some bushes. This sun I will go up the 7falls trail and look for the one up there, it's in something about the size of a 35mm film canister(for those of you who don't know how big that is, due to the Digital age, about the size of a 50count advil container:) ) That should be a pain in the ass to find, but fun.

Jordan's goofy ass finaly decided to remove his head from his ass and move back in with me. He was supposed to move in with Sara, but they never found a place to move to....well, didn't really start looking for a place to live until the week school started. So they have been living in her backyard in a tent????? Sara's place burnt down 15 june, and she still hasn't found a place to live yet...ummm yeah. So Jordan is moving back in. It kinda sucks, since he kept farting around and not deciding,I thought he was just going to stick it out with her this semester. I was looking forward to finaly having my place to myself again. It was funny, I told him last night to come get his shit, that's when he decided to move back in. It was very frustrating, not knowing whether he was coming back or not. I know now at least:) He's still the best roomate I've ever had though. We never get in each other's way and always have fun talking shit to each other. I'm not sure the neighbours are going to appreciate him coming back again:) Our walls are paper thin, and you can hear converstations on the sidewalk:) We have interesting convo's and definately our morning "who can let the loudest ripper out" competition, though technicaly not socialy acceptable, is just down right hilarious:) Good times shall be had.

I had almost started a new job, working at the SB airport, until the army called me to go work at LAX...kinda funny:) But I will be going back to these guys shortly. I just need to get my study habits straight and on par before I take on the job...we all know how easily distracted I get:) I will be refueling the planes that come in. Opera has her plane at our hangar, it's also the same one the Micheal Jackson got arrested in:) Woo hoo:) but as I found out to my horrible dismay, we also have to do the Lav duties as well, that's some shit, literally. They didn't mention that in the job description...I had enough of those types of duties with the army. That blows, but it still pays a bit more then what I could have made a as Lead for CompUsa....that's just crazy. And with this job, I get to cruise around an airfield in a gocart....or a truckload of fuel....Hell yeah baby:) So if you happen to see in the news anything about the SB airport catching fire for some reason, it WASN'T ME :)

Finally some Photo's :)

2006-08-09T19:47:00.000-07:00

So I finaly posted some pics I've taken over the past few months:) I will get to writing caption's to them here shortly, but at least you get to look at them:) I even put them in sub-folders...wow, pretty nifty eh:) It's only in the Santa Barbara folder though, but it should make things a bit easier when trying to find pics.....hopefully:)

Well, Wednesday night is Trivia night, so hopefully we will win at least a free round of drinks or something. Every Wednesday a small group of us goes to "Cooney's" for trivia night. It's a lot of fun and pretty interesting seeing how much "smarter" you get after a couple drinks:) I think the pub is changing owners or the name of it or something though, so hopefuly it's still going on tonight:)

Surfing lesson, some hike's and a Concert:)

2006-08-09T12:54:00.000-07:00

A couple mondays ago, I took a surfing lesson. It was pretty sweet:) I used a board the instructor provided, one of those "foam Boards" It's like a really strong styrafoam. So it's really floaty, but not manuverable at all. I caught a few waves with it though, that was pretty sweet:) I still need to work on the landings. Haveing to fall off of something to stop, for some reason just doesn't make to much sense:) Now, I can fall off of it no worries, trying to catch a wave, or standing up....but haveint to at the end of your run, that's just silly:) I need to remember I should fall with more then a few inches of water left as well, I was just so happy I lasted so long on the waves:) Didn't really think much about the ending:) It was still a blast though. I have my own boards, one of my buddies hooked me up with it. It's a few inches shorter then the one the instructor trained me on, it's amazing the difference in ease there is. I haven't been able to get up fully on my board yet, I just need some good waves for it:)

I've went on a few hikes up into the hills. There's an awesome trail, 7 falls, that runs up one of the creeks. It's pretty neet, since there's water the whole year, on most of it at least:) There's a couple areas where the water pools up, and some sweet small waterfalls. on two of them you can use it as a slide:) That should be a lot of fun:) We wussed out the 2 times we've been, the sun wasn't out, and the water is just a tad bit cold:) We did sit in the pool for a little bit though, that was pretty nice. We had a snake hanging out in the water with us for a little while, and they have some pretty cool Salamander's in the water out here...plus tons of PollyWoggs(that name is soo cool:) ), tadpoles. There were a few other hikers up there as well, then a bunch of knuckle head college boys running around jumping off of everything possible...that was a lot of fun to watch:) They were having a great time and trying to record each other's feat's. Of course making way to much noise. That's alright though, they didn't hang out to long and hey, they are allowed to have their fun to right? :)

I do have some pretty sweet photos, I'm still trying to remember how to post them up though:)

I went to the "Matisyahu" concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl last night. That was a pretty cool show. For those of you that don't know:) He's a pretty traditional Jewish dude, that totaly loved Bob Marely when he grew up. It's pretty interesting to see him all dressed up in the traditional outfit, but sing reggae with the accent and all:) We ended up liking the opening band a little bit more then him though. Some independent label "Michael Franti& Spearhead" I liked their style of reggae a lot more. We had tickets for the Pit section, so we were waayyy up front about 5 people fromt he stage, that was pretty cool. People were smoking pot something fierce, eh...what can you expect from a Reggae concert(though they did it a lot as well for the Weezer concert as well:) ) :) All in all it was a good night and good music.

Just some Info:)

2006-08-07T19:27:00.000-07:00

These past few days, since the 3rd, I have been up in San louis Obispo with the National Guard. Late in July I came down on orders to go back to Iraq...yes, they want to send me back to Iraq:) But I had in my contract that I had 2 years of stabilization, meaning that I am not allowed to be deployed. Of course the army doesn't really keep good control of minor things like that:) So after the first week of freakn out a bit:) I got the info so that I wouldn't have to go. I just wasn't able to be sure of that until these few days, when everyone else had to improcess. I had to start this as well, since I was supposed to go. But once I got there and was able to find the right person to talk to, I was cleared and re-put into the computer that I"m not allowed to be sent out again till Jan 08. So I"m good to not go:) I will be staying here in the states and Hopefuly transfering into the Coast Guard. The have a Marine Science group out of San Pedro...a little bit farther of a drive for drill, but a much lesser chance of getting sent back to Iraq:) And the Coast Guard actualy does thier job...that would be interesting:)

I spent the remaining time up at Camp Roberts(actually 40 miles North of SLO), since Fri, doing nothing. They didn't have any work or details for the people that weren't going to do. So I guess, it was kinda nice being paid to sit around not doing anything, legally:) That's just pretty funny I think:)

I am taking 3 classes this fall, Math 100(begining Algebra...since I didnt' make the intermediate algebra:) ) then a History class and then English 110, I had to take an assesment to get into that class:) I kicked butt on it I must say, 2 friggn hrs long though, geesh:) I scored really high on it, so at least my English and writing skills are damn good....though my spelling may be slacking a bit:)

The Sea Center has been doing their summer camps. They go from 0830 till about 3(depending on when the parents show up) so I've been volunteering with them, helping them out all day. That did me a lot of good. I first found out on a Sunday evening that I was supposed to go back to Iraq, and the first camp I went to was that next morning. I almost decided not to go, but forced myself. That was pretty much the best thing to do. It was awesome being with 20 5-8 year olds. Taking them down to the beach and around the sea center. The staff were very appreciative with my help, mainly because of me haveing the same amount of energy as the kids:) Yeah, and maybe because I am pretty good with the kids too:) I made the horrible mistake of carrying one of their backpacks once. We were walking to the Tide pools, but they were over a mile away...one way. So of course the kids weren't really used to walking that long, and I don't know, I wish my parents made me some of the lunches these kids had, holy crap they were huge:) But I helped one little girl with her bag, and clipped it to my backpack. Before I knew it there were 7 others attached to me. Pretty dang funny:) If you ever have seen "Labrynth" I looked like one of those creatures that packed everything on their backs:) The people walking along the bike path enjoyed it, and of course the kids loved it as well:)

Testing Testing....

2006-07-26T03:46:00.000-07:00

Testing testing, 1..2..3..:) Ok, so I think this still works:) Tomorrow I will see if I remember how to upload pics:)

Holy crap:)

2006-03-23T08:11:00.000-08:00

I just about had a heart attack:) It's 0545(woke up early for some god forsaken reason) and I'm chillin at my desk. I hear a car door shut, then something fluttering through the air, my blinds are open and I can see something out of the corner of my eye then WHAM! What the hell??? Stupid paper boy, nailed my window:)

I did my speech yesterday, it was an Informative speech and I did it on the positive things in Iraq that the news fails to inform the public about. That was pretty hard for me to finaly come up with the body of my speech....I got it finaly figured out on Tues...yeah, my speech was wednesday:) I just kept going back and forth trying to figure out what to talk about and tell the kids in my class about, so Tues, it all finaly came clear. Unfortunately, I had completely forgotten about all the other parts of the speech I had to do as well, writing an outline, 3x5 cards, taping myself and getting the pics I wanted to show on to transparencies, I didn't realise this until Peter called me Wednesday morning.....yeah, that was horrible:) I was able to get it all done. I just wish I could have figured out what I wanted to say much earlier. I recieved many compliments on it, that's pretty awesome. Our next speech is a Narrative story. I am going to try to talk about when Jake died. I don't know how many half started stories I have written on my computer about that day. I have not been able to tell the whole day of events at one time, always just bits and pieces. It will be good for me to do this, tell it from the most beautiful morning to the solemness of the night when we carried him to the C-130.

Muhahahahaaaa:)

2006-03-20T01:58:00.000-08:00

Bout Bloodywell time eh:) It's been ages since I've written last, sorry bout that. Lets see.......

I don't work at CompUsa anymore. I needed to refocus my priority's. It was taking a hell of a lot of my time and my school work was slacking. Now I'm catching up, which sucks ass!!! I have started volunteering at the Ty Warner Sea Center though. It's a cool little marine museum. I have one more night of training then I will be able to volunteer. Right now I am just taking one 3 hr shift on thur mornings, I will also be able to go out with the aquarium dude(have no idea what his real title is:) ) when he goes diving to collect more animals for the exhibits. That will be cool. Volunteering will be better for my resume if I am to get a job in the environmental industry. Plus, I love the ocean and marine life, yet I always seem to stray from doing things that take me there, another part of my refocusing:) I will be learning alot about the marine life from this area I will get to talk to the visitors explaining what I've learned. I am looking forward to being able to do this.

I have a new Toyota Matrix. That was a pretty hard choice to make:) I realy wanted a Toyota Tacoma 4 door, or another Jeep Wrangler. But went with the more practical choice unfortunately. I love this car, don't get me wrong. I miss the characteristics of a Jeep though and definately a truck as well. So how do we realy know what is the right/better choice? True, I will save a buttload of money in gas from the car, I have gotten 36 mile per gallon doing about 80 on the freeway even(hey, in cali that's the flow of traffic:) ) and it's better for the environment(which I realy would like to help save) but....a car is just not me. A jeep was me, it fit my personality, my style. The top down, wind blowing through what little hair I had, my mountain bike on the back. That's just me, who I am. So how do we realy know??? Ahh well, I just need to find a hot chick with a Jeep or Truck:) Hell yeah:)

My Bro moved to San Francisco a few weeks ago and has a sweet job helping design computer games for Lucas Arts...that kicks ass:) He gets to wear shorts and hawain shirts to work, jackass:) Mrs Huybregts(he hee:) Jess kicks ass:) ) has a sweet job at an Environmental firm. So they are doing well, they just don't know they're about to adopt me:)

My best Mate Mitch is in/on his way or something, to Afgahnistan. I have no idea where he is at or what the hell he is doing...but that's nothing out of the norm....we're good like that:) Mate, don't blow yourself the fuck up. Even though I never gave you noogies or wedgies like I did to chris, I Love you as a Brother. We still have a shitload of stuff to blow up and Trouble to get ourselves into when you get back:)

My mum moved back to Australia the other week. We had to pay the security guards at the airport extra to make sure she got on the plane:) I Love you Mum:) I'm glad you have figured out how to work gmail messenger, we'll try to get dad up and running on it....and not on Chris's name:) oh Hey mum, remember to send me some more Vegemite in the tubes and an Aussie sticker for my car:) Please...Thank you:)

Last weekend I jumped out of a freaking airplane:) It was pretty OK:) The plane flight up to 15,000ft was a lot scarier then jumping out actualy. It wasn't as scary/adrenaline pumping as I was hopeing for. I guess getting shot at and almost blown up kinda makes things less exciting:) Though, my buddy Peter's chute didn't open all the way, but he's crazy so he liked it:) We have to jump tandem and he let his dude know that it takes a lot to impress him.....well if that didn't do the trick:) So that was pretty exciting actualy:) I was scared as hell going up. It really sucked! Then we hit a windsheer so it got realy realy bumpy, that wasn't cool I don't care if I had a parachut one:) then, we sat on the edge of the plane a few seconds. I was like "hey, I'm already scared enough as it is, we don't have to sit here anylonger to try to make me pass out or something" :) 15,000 is pretty high up there, the earth was pretty small:) We finaly did a flip/roll out of the plane.....then calm and peace actualy. Besides the rush/roar of air going past you, doing 120 mph(190 kph) and not being able to breath....and being dumb enough to not move my head to get an air pocket:) We had over a minute of freefall, which seemed like forever(might have been due to the fact of me not realy breathing) until he pulled the cord then it was even calmer...we had about 6 minutes of float time. We got to go through a pretty big cloud, that was awesome. You can't see anything, like being stuck in a giant cotton pillow:) It was cool, just to be completely enveloped by the cloud. When we got through the cloud that was when we saw that Peter's chute was white...not the normal colour for a parachute:) Peter loved it though, being able to freefall twice in one jump:)

That about sums up the past couple weeks:) Well, We got pretty trashed for Saint Patty's day....that was freakn awesome:) Didn't drink green beer though:( The pubs that had it had lines waaayyy to long to get into:)

Last Night II

2006-02-07T18:36:00.000-08:00

So a little more on Last night:) We got there at 2130 to get dressed in our gear, it started at 2200. The Hostess told us to go get some drinks before the party started...Awesome:) The bartenders Hooked our drinks up....took real good care of us:) We walked around the rest of the night letting people know you shouldn't Drink and Dive (one of the volunteers brought that up earlier, it was to good not to use:) ) Holy crap, I just realised that I didn't get any pics of the Mermaid they had there, she was Hot too:) Hopefuly Jordan got a pic of her:) We are on a website http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?id=1182 if this doesn't link, go to www.edhat.com then look for "Feb 6 Waterday" click on that and scroll to the bottom to the "photo gallery" then look for the pic of me and Jordan, we're near the bottom:) You will also get a good idea of what the atmosphere was like at the party. We ended up closeing down the party with two guys from the Brookes Institute, at 0300. It was pretty funny, since the place was closeing down, they were loading up the trucks with all the left over booze:) the guy was grabbing a bottle out the back, when the bar dudes caught us:) We put it back and were heart broken they wouldn't part with one last bottle(probably wanted it for themselves later:) )we didn't get in any trouble or anything:) I burnt my leg on one of the lamps they had, have a funny looking blister on my leg now:) I got this friggn rash from my stupid wetsuit:) I had it outside and it didn't dry out from all the rain we had a couple weeks ago. That sucks, at least it's just on my leg:) I'll put up the pics of last night as well, didn't take to many, but had lots of pics taken:)
I don't know what the heck the deal is, but almost all the pics i was in...I was the only one with redeye....what the heck is up with that???? :) I must be realy evil or something:)

Ohhh, tonight:)

2006-02-07T07:03:00.000-08:00

Ah haaaaaa:) Tonight was great:) Ok, beside the fact, I found out another girl I thought was nice and had a good head about her shoulders....was just another evil woman from the depths of Hades:) Ahh well, it's not the first time I was fooled by a woman I thought was decent:)

Anyways, tonight was awesome. Jordan got home and wanted me to go with him to some party for the "Santa Barbara International Film Festival" The catch was, we had to get into our dive/scuba gear. But.....we got free drinks:) so um yeah, that was a hard one to decide:) There were a lot of famous directors at this party, that was pretty cool. I even was able to get us another gig at another party in April. The Lady thought we were great and wants us to go to her party, dressed up:) She asked me, How much did you get paid to come here...umm yeah, they said"open bar" that was enough for us:) That just isn't right:) I got my pic taken by a bunch of hot rich chicks, so that was cool:) We are supposed to go to another party and movie this friday, maybe we'll see some actors instead of Directors this time:) It was pretty cool. All these people were coming up to us and asking US if they could have a picture with us. Also, there were people that were"let me get my publisist, to get a pic of us" that's freaking crazy:) We had such an excellent time, even though we were the only two dorks there dressed up in scuba gear:) Oh, there was also a Hot Mermaid there too:)

Yeah, Tonight was good:)

A couple things:)

2006-02-01T00:35:00.000-08:00

Alright, what the hell is up with those two reporters getting treated like Hero's? What about the 16,000 plus soliers that have been sent home because of injuries, the reporters went over there willingly, how about more respect for the soldier that's over there, or the indepent reporters that aren't even getting paid remotely(if any) close to those two guys. They wanted to go there, they got blown up, gee, go figure...it's Iraq.

So now something a little closer to home....Goleta post office. It's a giant processing plant or something, it's a pretty big building. it's not very far away from where I live, no we didn't hear any gun shots:) I was watching tv when the "breaking" news came through, worst postal incident in 20 years. The road was still blocked off today, probably won't get any mail in a few days...though the stupid junk mail was still here:) That's kinda weird how she was fired two years ago, but decided to go postal now.

I gave blood today, that was a bit painful. I showed her my one good vein, but she said it wasn't a good one and went for the other arm. She "found" one, couldn't see it but could feel it. She marked my arm so she could find it, went in...and of course, couldn't find it. After a little bit of fishing for this "vein" she passed me off to another lady. She tried for a little bit then pulled out. She went to my other arm and of course goes for the vein I informed the other girl of...ahh well:) They were very appreciative of me being such a good sport:)

I got to give a speech about my most hated food in public speaking. So of course, I talked about beans...the most vile substance on the planet, though it does have an amusing side effect:) The student realy liked it, as well as my teacher, I recieved many compliments on it:)

No soccer tonight, I rode my bike to work(dropped off my camera to one of my friends there, they are taking a photo class) and was pretty dang tired just from the short ride:)

Alll that spare time:)

2006-01-30T12:33:00.000-08:00

Shoot Dad, I've been doing more now since I don't have much free time:) So, my first week of school...

It looks like it is going to be a pretty good semester. My chem teacher seems to be pretty good. She's also the department head as well. Our Lecture class is horrible. They have 18 kids more then they have seats for, which should be illegal. Our lad and discussion classes are full as well, I have to sit in a chair, not a desk and one guy doesn't even get a regular lab area, he has to sign out a box of stuff and work on the bench. That pretty much sucks, I'm not griping about it, that's just how it is. My math class should be ok as well. We don't turn in our homework assignments, which is awesome:) but we have a quiz everyday, and those questions come from the homework. So it behooves you to do the homework. I used my graphing calculator for the first time last week as well(my bro got it for me for xmas, hell yeah:) ) These things are can do anything it seems like. The fun part is trying to figure out how to use it correctly:) Our math teacher also gives us the quiz the last ten min of class...to make sure we stay the whole class....arrrggghhhh:) so we stay there until 2000 pretty much(8pm) The problem is that the trivia night starts at 1930, so I have to show up late to it on wednesdays:( Now the best for last....my Public speaking class....ohhhhh man:) Our teacher is soooo Hot...smoking:) And she's pretty young,(for a teacher, she has a PhD) if she is older then me, she can't be by much...Yes!!! :) One of the guys at work is also in this class, so we get to brag about her at work:) She's a Valley girl(San Fernando Valley) and definitely proud of it. We actualy have to get up and talk in front of the class which is pretty cool. She picks people everyday to do so. Unlike the last public speaking class I took, we didn't do much speaking. I think I should do pretty good in this class:) They must have gotten an extra shipment of hot chicks this semester as well...Hottie overload:) They're everywhere! It is going to be pure hell when the weather gets warmer:) Gotta pace myself, 2,3,4...what's up, 2, 3, 4(if you've seen a night at the roxbary, you'll understand:) )

Speaking of Trivia night. Last wednesday, our team one:) We tied with another team, and again...I got 2 that no one else knew in my team. We didn't win the jackpot though:( We tied with another team, they didn't get it as well. If you win, you have to draw a card from the crown royal bag and if you get the correct one, you win the jackpot, no one got it this time. So this wednesday it should be around 400bucks...with two less cards. We also won one of the rounds(4 rounds of 10 questions) and each round you win, you get a ticket for a free round of beer:) That's pretty cool:)

Work is going well still. Just my expierences with jackass customers are getting more numerous:) Last night was pretty bad, we had a whole bunch of people come in a couple min before closeing, then a few of them want to ask all sorts of questions and were getting pissed because there's no one there. I'm sorry, how about you show up during the day, when everyone is here, so that we can help your properly? I had a super psycho lady at the end as well, I was the last register open. She kept changing her mind, no I want this, no take it off and put this, no I don't want that one, I want this one. It took about 3-5 min...just to ring her up 2 items...this of course after closing time, with 8-12 people still behind her in line, that was interesting:) At least there's a bunch of hot college chicks that come in as well though, to make up for the jackass's:) Plus the people I work with are still a lot of fun and good to work for(the chicks are pretty hot too:) ) Most of the people that leave my line go with a smile, this one lady I had her almost crying because she was laughing so much:) She came to the lines, but couldn't see one that was open(it's weird, people will just walk right by us, with or without or lights on) so I had raised my hand up then both, while saying "pick me...pick me" like Donkey does on Shrek. That finaly got her attention and she obviously likes the movie "Shrek" She was laughing her ass off and we kept joking about it while I was checking her out(no, not that way...geesh I can be professional every once in a while:) ) I believe I made her day, it was great:) Like this old dude, he was 92, he was buying the can of air(we have to ask their age because you have to be old enough to buy it...I know he was old enough, its just fun making fun of that rule:) ) and was talking about how he needed a refill(like being an airhead) and dusting himself off, he was a lot of fun too:) So there are the not so nice people that come in...but there's plenty more fun ones that do:)

I went out sat night. We met at the mini golf in Ventura. Ha, I kicked her butt :) Well not realy, she got like 3 or 4 hole in one's I didn't get any. And it came down to the last hole, we were tied till then. It was like the skeeball thing, where you aim at the hole with the number, she got the 6 hole and I got the 4 hole...so I beat her by 2. We played in the arcade as well, she kicked my ass at dance dance revolution, and unlike myself, she can actualy dance:) Then she slaughtered my ass at he basketball throwing game. I got 31 points twice, she got 47 and like 65, um yeah, I didn't stand a chance:) That was a lot of fun, to bad she lives in LA so we can't hang out very much:( After that I went to my friends from work house, they were having a party, but by the time I got there, most of them were pretty toasted:) I picked up Jordan down there as well, he skated from our house and didn't want to skate back:) He had a good day as well, they have this joint rolling competition every year in Isla Vista(they use a suplement, not pot) so he spent the day there, while I got to enjoy work:)

I am a wanted man:) The Blood Drive people are after me. They're like, Dude, we need more Dead Sexy blood from you, you got the good stuff:) Ok, so they're not saying that exactly...but close enough:) I have O neg blood, the universal donor blood, the stuff that anyone can take(the problem is, I can only get O neg...I can't even get O positive) So they realy need this blood type. I freaking hate needles, most of the time it takes forever to fill up a bag so I'm there for 45min most of the time, but hey, I have good healthy blood that people can use. No matter how much it sucks for me to give it, imagine what the person that is getting it, is going through? So tomorrow I'm off to give blood:)

I returned to the fields of Soccer last tues as well. Almost every guy from work plays. That's pretty awesome. We play at 2100 though. We play at the UCSB fields, they don't close them until midnight and it's Turf, not grass. That's interesting to play on:) Good God am I out of shape as well:) Ahh well, nothing like a few good games of soccer to get you back in shape...or kill me:)

Life is good and it still ain't Easy Being Dead Sexy...Hubba Hubba:)

School

2006-01-23T04:54:00.000-08:00

School starts tomorrow, this should be fun. Mon and Wed are my full days, start at 11 and get done at 2000, tues I only have class from 08 to 1200. I still need to pick up my books, that's going to suck, most of the time the line goes for days during the first week. It's crazy that the book store isn't open on the weekends? what the heck..ahh well. Major Pain is on...this movie is great, and it's pretty funny how they are sensoring what he says:) They even deleted the fart sound in one of the greates farting scenes ever....it's 01 right now...they can at least put that in the movie:) Man, what is america coming too:)

Jordan came back tonight, I'm sure the neighbours are happy:) With all the running around and yelling at each other, just harassing each other...it's good to have him back:)

Muhahahaaa

2006-01-22T01:33:00.000-08:00

Well as you know, my site was hacked:) But thanks to my Bro, Chris, we(he) regained control for me:) Hell yeah baby!!

Holy Crap:)

2006-01-11T01:28:00.000-08:00

I got my haircut today, was trying to get it to look good. Ohhhh nooooo, it might actualy be the worst one I've ever gotten. I've had some pretty crappy ones:) I had gone to the lady before, she actualy did a pretty good job. I don't know what went wrong today. Hopefuly it will look better in the morning:) I friggn hate trying to find a place to cut my hair. I've been to a few places here now, yes contrary to popular belief, I do get it cut more often then you think:) I've been to places where it's cost me 25 bucks, yeah, for a friggn dudes haircut, not like they're doing anything fancy:) And the cheapest so far is 15...and I thought 7.25 on base was exspensive. Hopefuly it will look better tomorrow:) I will try to get a pic to show you.

Dude...

2006-01-08T09:08:00.000-08:00

Man, this first week of the new year went by pretty quick, holy crap! I got my first paycheck friday....a whole 60 bucks, exactly:) Well, 54 after taxes:) There was only one day of work that counted. So for 7.5 hrs of work, that just doesn't seem legal to me:) What did I do with such a Plethora of Wealth you ask, what any other sane man would do... Oh wait, I didn't go to the nudey bar:) I just went to the pub:) It's pretty bad, they are recognizing me there now. It's a pretty small pub and it's mainly just locals that go there...so I probably stand out:) It's a good/bad thing they know me. They hook my drinks up, so I only need one now to feel good:) Is it legal to ask for more Tonic in my Gin? :) I didn't even spend half my paycheck, that's cool:) Ahh well, no matter how measley my pay is, I still enjoy working at compusa:) There are some very, very interesting people that come in though. It's pretty fun, trying to help someone that barely can speak english, trying to ask a question about computers, that they don't know much about:) It's a good thing I've spent many years overseas, so my "bad English" is pretty good:)

Alica....girl, I tell you what!!!!!!! I don't know if you got my text yesterday, but good god woman, it's just not right calling at 0630 on a Sat morning. I know in the big land of Texas, it's already 0930, and the cows and chickens have already woken you up...here in Cali, even the Dolphins dont come out till 08 or 09(that's at least 11 your time:) ) Ohhh man, and just because you were bored even, that's just not right:) You're going to pay for that one....Muhahahaaa. Revenge, ohhh my sweet revenge:)

Hey Sandie, how the heck have you been? it's been a few years hasn't it? I sent you an email from my dad's account with my email addy. So you can email me at that address, or you can send me messages on this:)

Well I'm going to try to get back to sleep, the friggn newspaper boy damn near gave me a heart attack this morning(0445) They actually tossed it into my patio, for once, but they threw is realy hard and I don't know what the heck it hit, but it friggn sounded like a mortar going off:) I heard the bastards laughing as they left. Man, if it's not Alicia calling, it's the paperboy....what does a guy have to do to get some sleep around here:)

Happy New Year!!!!!

2005-12-31T21:53:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to wish Everyone a Happy New Year, this will be the last entry for this year:) woo hooo:)

I started work at CompUsa, it is pretty fun working there. Most of the workers are college kids, so it's a pretty relaxed environment:) I'm just a cashier, so I don't have to do very much...the bottom of the food chain baby:) But, I don't have to mop the floors or clean the bathrooms:) So that, I can't complain about:)

Chris and Jess made in ok, we're going to go hang out with Dave tonight for New Years. So it should be a very good night:)

I hope everyone Will have a great night and I'll talk to you next year:)

Merry Christmas:)

2005-12-28T14:30:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone is haveing a great Christmas!
     My interview went very well I think. They had a list of 10 standard questions and ranked them 1-5, I hope 5 was the better end:) because that's where he marked most of the boxes:) The questions were pretty cool, hadn't heard them before so it was fun answering them, since they weren't what I was expecting:) As long as I pass the background check and pass the urinalysis, I should be good. Since I haven't been cought doing anything illegal and I dont do drugs, I am not worried:) It was weird, when I went to the place for the piss-test, 2 out of the 3 nurses there flirted with me a quite a bit...ohhh man, my Dead Sexiness is returning baby...Wooo Hooo:) They probably just had a real slow day and were happy to just see someone:) There were a couple people there, but it looked as if they hadn't been busy all day:) The store has been real busy so I expect to get a call from them early this week. I thought they would have called by now but he didn't know how long the background check would take. I will be working in the Customer Service and register section. And the person in charge here is also in charge at the one in Oxnard, so there shouldn't be a problem with me transfering next year as well. That's cool.
     Ohhh man, I crashed big time this week on my bike. Just this one day, I bit the dust a couple times:) I think I might have broken my arm or shoulder, but my helmet broke my fall:) There's nothing for it to protect up there anyways:) I got a good bruise on my leg and my shoulder hurt for a while, but besides landing mostly on my head, it was pretty soft sand/dirt so it wasn't too bad, just shaken-up for a little bit:) But the main thing is that I got back up and tried harder. The next day I didn't crash at all, even though I rode harder and faster on all the trails. I've lost a lot of confidence, so I have been spending a lot of time trying to find where it went. Riding is helping me find it:)
    I hope everyone has a Great Christmas:)

Doohhh:)

2005-12-28T07:52:00.000-08:00

I crashed again today:) Got my shin pretty good, should have a good bruise here in a day or two:) Just as the bruise on my thigh is starting to go away, from my wreck last week:) Ahh well, I'm still alive:)

So today I get a check in the mail, for 5,000 bucks. "This is a real check for 5,000.38 take it to the bank and deposit it, no need to wait" What the hell is going on these days. So instead of getting credit card offers now, the company will just send you a check. On the back it listed the terms at least. So for 5 grand, I would pay 29.856% for 60 payments of $161.34. They also at least show you that you will end up paying 4,680.02 in finace charges, plus the original 5 grand, for a grand total of 9,680.40 plus a non refundable 102.05 fee(that is written in the very small print on the back) That is just not right. I guess people are starting to get smarter about credit cards so loan companies now are just sending you a check to sucker you in. What realy bugs the hell out of me is, this 5 grand check was in my mailbox. With all the mail fraud and Idenity theft out there, there is a very damn good chance of me never getting this letter. So someone could have snagged it, cashed it in somewhere(though on the check itself it does state to check 2 forms of I.D. though we all know how well that realy works) and I would have never known about a 5 grand loan I just took out that someone else is useing. That's just not right let alone the friggn robbery of a 30% interest rate. Holy crap! I don't have to fill out any paperwork, nothing. Just sign the back of the check and cash it. Though you do have to admit it is a pretty damn good marketing ploy. Here, it's after christmas, lots of people are broke, so we'll just send out checks for them to cash in. That just makes it too easy. I wonder how many people fall for it?

Something just off the wall. I was just watching the OLN channel, outdoor living network? maybe? But they always have these hunting shows on. It is pretty funny, because they're talking to the dude and they always say how much they love nature, how beautiful the creature is...right before they blow it away??? Isn't that the same thing as if a dentist would say to you "wow, you have such lovely teeth, such a beautiful smile"...yank yank, there goes all your teeth. People crack me up:)

Bout time:)

2005-12-17T06:28:00.000-08:00

I finaly put up some more pics, just a couple of the stuff I've cooked:) I need to now go find chris's wedding photo's:)

I finished my finals this week, thank God that's over with:) I'm not sure how my final project for my mapping class went. The instructor told me I just had to go with what I had, and that he was sorry he didn't try to get me to do something else, since we didn't go over the stuff I was doing in class....but isn't that what college is about, learning? So we'll see what happens:) I did a good job presenting my project and made a pretty good powerpoint presentation, so I was happy with it at least:) I did good in the rest of my classes, so that's pretty cool. It's nice not having to worry about that stuff now:) Though I'm already doing a preemptive strike with my chemistry next semester. I'm going over the stuff I almost learned this summer again:) It's too bad they won't have the books for next semester until the first week in Jan. it would have been nice to get my chem book now to get a head start. Ahh well, I keep forgetting that it's already almost Christmas, that's crazy:)

I have an interview with CompUsa on Monday, that's pretty cool...I think???? I shouldn't be happy about getting a job should I??? What the hell is wrong with me:) We'll see how that goes:)

Geesh:)

2005-12-05T01:21:00.000-08:00

Man, something is all screwy with our cable and internet. It just stopped working on us, I was able to find an open wireless connection, but it barely works and cuts out all the time:) So hopefuly it lasts long enough to post this:)

I had a pretty good weekend. Went riding again, just around the mesa still, hopefuly next weekend I can go up to the Mtns and hit up a trail....if I have my project done:) Jordan and I went out last night, he got pretty trashed...he's pretty damn funny when he's drunk:) They have these alcoholic slushy drinks...ohhh man, they're awesome:) and the best part is you can dance with them...and they don't spill to easy:) Though if you do try to drink it to fast.....Brain Freese:) Ohh man, I had a massive one last night, sucked big time:) There were a bunch of people dressed up as pirates at the club....that was a bit weird:) The best part of a good night out is finding where I took off my clothes to go to bed. I found them under my bed this morning, once they were in the Kitchen:)

I have a plan with for my project, so hopefuly it will work...have no idea if it will:)

Hey Kalith, it's good to hear from you again:) How are things? Yeah, it was my dad's b-day last friday, my Thanksgiving posting, didn't post so I will have to write it again:) I am in California now, I left Washington in March:)

The sun came out this weekend so the weather was beautiful again:) It's pretty rough living here:)

Rain:)

2005-12-03T04:28:00.000-08:00

It rained today, that was pretty cool. So this afternoon, I went out and rode my bike....hell yeah:) That was pretty interesting...there's sooo many different types of mud here, weird. Some of it was super sticky and other stuff was very slippery and the best part, I was covered in it when I got home:) Wooo hooo::) I did fall in a pond though, that was kinda cool:) Most of the time when I ride though it, of course it's dry, but it has a steep bank and it's kinda tough going up it...this time of course it was full of water and completely slick:) Ohh yeah, splat:) good stuff:) It took me just as long to clean it as I spent riding, about an hour. it was well worth it though:)

I went to a bible study thing with my roomate tonight, that was interesting:) I didn't catch fire as I entered, so that was a good sign:) I learned that as Christians, your sole purpose is to preach the word of God. Something about,you can go save/heal the oceans, but you're going to burn in hell. Because you didn't spread the word, but at least while you're in hell, you can look up at the clean oceans that you made. I'm sorry, but I must be missing something here??? That just doesn't seem right to me. I'll go a couple more times to make sure I'm hearing this right:) Plus there's some hot chicks that go too, so there's nice scenery:) Now you see, that to me seems to be a more legitimate reason to roast, then healing the oceans:) Ahh well:)

I'm off to bed to cry myself to sleep because of my stupid final project. I do have an idea that I might be able to work out....maybe/hopefuly:)

Aaarrrrggghhhh!!!

2005-12-01T23:04:00.000-08:00

Today during my GIS class, my mapping class, I found out that I can't do my final project. My project was to map some mtn biking trails and then use the program to find the slope/gradiant to determine the difficulty of the trail. My teacher has been helping me out with the project the past 6 weeks and today the assistant let me know that "no, you can't do that with this program" It turns out that since the trail, is a line, and a line is only 2 dimensions, you can't get slope data for it...even though it is placed on a 3 dimensional plane. Our projects are due in 2 weeks, and next week we are taking our finals for the class...so this sucks big time! It would have been nice to have known this 6 weeks ago. So I have a fun weekend planed now.

My mtn bike is pretty nice, I have ridden it every day, and have found some new trails where I live....I almost killed myself yesterday, so I must be doing something right:) I was coming down a pretty steep hill, not a big one, but all sorts of ruts in it, and my front tyre fell in one at the bottom, and almost went over the bars....sweet:) If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space:)

Dude....

2005-11-24T02:57:00.000-08:00

I need to learn Spanish, not because like 8 out of the 30 cable stations are Mexican and they seem to be having better things on then the rest of the stations:) But they must have some law or something stating that they must have Hot chicks wearing super skimpy clothes. It's friggn crazy:) It doesn't matter what time of day, there's always some chick in barely anything prancing around the show...it's pretty nice:)

Jordan went home for Thanksgiving, so today I cleaned the apartment:) That was fun:) It wasn't too hard to clean, so it wasn't soo bad:)

last week I was finaly able to give blood. I had to wait until I was back from Iraq for year, so that was cool. They were getting mad at me, my blood wasn't flowing fast enough. I don't think she had the needle set in right, it friggn hurt:) Ahh well at least I was able to give blood again finaly:)

Yeah right:)

2005-11-21T01:24:00.000-08:00

So obviously Dad is getting a bit Loopy in his old age...I don't know what part of extra Math and Chemistry classes can be good for me...Did I mention that my math class starts at 0720???? Maybe good for frying my mind:) Nah, it should be good for me. Hopefuly it will be challenging enough to stimulate my mind, it could use a good challange:)

Today I road my bike to he grocery store, I do that a lot:) But I was able to get a 6 pack of Corona, a thing of Orange Juice, bunch of bagels, some salad and a box of Mashed potatoes(the powederd stuff:) ) in my rucksack...yeah baby:) And, the Corona didn't even explode all over the place when I opened it when I got back home:) Hell yeah:) We cooked steak for dinner tonight...yummy:) I crashed on my bike earlier in the day, my love handles protected me though, so I'm fine:) I went on some other trails and these ones had a lot of sand, I still have my road tyres on my bike...so that's not a good combo:) It was still another great day, perfect weather:)

:)

2005-11-19T02:11:00.000-08:00

Yes, I'm still alive:) Barely, but still alive:) Things are going ok here. The weather has been awesome lately, in the 80's and sunny...ohhh man. It's great:) I sold my old Mtn bike frame and am useing that money to get a new Mtn Bike. That is pretty awesome, I can't wait till it gets in:) I will be working on a Bachleors degree now..even if I can't spell it right:) I will be transfering to CSU Channel Islands...next Jan. I have to complete a couple courses here before I can transfer over there. So that's pretty cool. I have to take a ton of Chemistry and math courses now too though....that's freakin horrible:)

Alrighty....

2005-10-08T02:52:00.000-07:00

Soo Chris, you want me to go find them during the day eh???? Yeah, they're in the cracks, no worries...1, you know how bloody hard it is to get one of them suckers out from the crack...you're on crack:) 2) Leopard sharks enjoy the same cracks as the Lobsters as well as Moray eels...so um yeah....I aint sticking my hand in no stinking crack to get a lobster:) where as if you go at night, they're out and about hunting, and your torch can blind them momentarily...so hopefuly that will work...I still need to get the guys to quit being a bunch of wusses and go out at night:)

I got to go riding for 2 hrs yesterday for the Polo team, that was pretty cool...and no, I'm not sore either...Ha:) It is Arena Polo, so there is only 3 people on the field and it's a lot smaller then the regular polo fields:) Plus, because of the setup, we get to play against NCAA teams, like UCLA and stuff:) Woo hoo:) The season doesn't start until Jan...so we have plenty of time to practice:) We will be getting our horses on the 15, then practice will be starting then as well. It was just an intro day yesterday. Then when we start, we can go ride the horses everyday of the week...man, that's just awesome:) I can't wait for it to start up:) I'm not going to start the Capoeira yet. I will wait until I get the polo schedule down before I expand any further:)

I get to go hang out on the beach for my environmental class tomorrow. It's a community project, they are taking us around Coal Oil Point and will discuss the different habitats and how to save them or something:) It's going to be a long day, from at least 10-1500. It's just down from my beach, so I will walk there. It will take probably about 30-45 mintues to get there...I think:)

Yeah Baby!!!! :)

2005-10-05T23:56:00.000-07:00

Holy crap dude, I must say, my cooking skills kick ass!!! And, I have Jordan to back me up on that one:) I've been cooking dinners lately(the past 2:) ) and man....it has been awesome! I cooked Ranch chicken last night and then Salmon cakes tonight. Let me tell you...scrumdiliumptious:) I also learned though a recipe may only have like 5 ingredints....doesn't mean it will be easy to make:) Like tonights salmon cakes...ohhh man that was painful:) First you gotta fine cut the salmon, and the Dill, then you gotta grade the potatoes...and I didn't have to correct type....and I broke the one we had:( oh yeah, that was fun:) That is horrible:) But...it was well worth it:) I even made the Spicey Mayo to go with it(Jordan says it's freakin awesome:) ). So yeah, I've been kicking ass at this cooking stuff:) One of the potatoes wasn't cooked all the way through, so that was the only negative thing about tonights meal. I did take pics, so you guys can at least see how good it was:) Yes, "Betty Crocker's Cooking Basic's" book is doing me good:) That's where I got last night's meal from, then tonight I got it out of my "the Ultimate book of Fish and Shellfish" Hopefuly we'll be able to catch some lobster this weekend. The guys are a bunch of wusses and are afraid to go out at night:) That's when the lobsters are out hunting though. I think I've finaly gotten Jordan to go at night. So that should be pretty sweet. Then I have my cook books to get us squared away for some good grub:) Hell yeah Baby:)

So yeah, I guess you can tell I am doing pretty good:) I'm getting school taken care of, and having fun doing other things. Like tomorrow, I will be going to Polo (with the horses) tryouts for our school team:) I have talked to the head dude for it so that should be pretty awesome. I don't need any experience either:) then I have my class, then I will be going to Capoeira(the Brazilian martial arts, Chris took it) So tomorrow will be a most excellent day:)

Man....

2005-10-04T01:21:00.000-07:00

I can't believe I forgot to tell you about Friday. I had gotten a surfboard cheap, from a friend in the Dive school, and Friday....we went out:) So Jordan, Michelle and I now have boards:) And we all can't surf, so it was fun:) I was able to stand up on the board a couple times....for barely a couple seconds. Just trying to get the concept of popping up, haven't tried to catch any waves yet. I will try to go out tomorrow morning though. I got up at 06 today and worked out, so I will do the same...then go to the beach. It seems to have better waves in the morning and I think there was a swell coming in today so maybe it'll still be here tomorrow morning:) So yes, even though I did spend waaayyy to much time at the bars last week, I did do productive things as well:)

I had a midterm in my history class tonight. That was horrible. I am still pretty sure I passed though. We had 50 multiple choice and then a 2-4 page essay question..worth 50 points. The multiple guess weren't very nice. They were almost all groups of 5. So there would be 5 names and then 5 different things you had to pick from...so if you missed one, then you got at least 2 wrong for that group...and man, it wasn't realy obvious who was doing what:) they all tried to save the planet:) The essay, I got the answer right...but I don't think I wrote it the way he wanted it written. I guess I'll find out next monday:) I am still pretty sure I passed though....not a A...but passing:)

We got to go to some restoration place today for my environmental studies class. They are a big nursery for native cali plants, they grow 100's of thousands of plants for different restoration projects around the county. These people have to go out and pick native species...that haven't hybreded with the same species from a different area. Then they have to seperate the seeds...holy crap that sucks!!! We of course were able to try it out:) Yeah, free labour from the local college:) So that was pretty cool today. Next week, we get to go to the Landfill...Yippee:)

I'm Back:)

2005-10-03T01:24:00.000-07:00

Alrighty then:) So the site is back up and running again:) Had some technical difficulties there for a bit. It should be good to go now though:)

So what the hell have I been up to??? :) Well, no good that's for dang sure:) School is going along well, having fun in my classes doing good I think too:)

I have spent the past 4 nights at the pubs. Had a pretty damn good time, needed it. My heads been messed up lately, trying to sort out and fix some stuff that I don't like about myself. And no, haven't been going there by myself either:) My mates and buddies came with, so it was just some good fun. I learned that Slushy alcoholic drinks are pretty awesome:) Since it's a slushy....they are harder to spill out of your cup:) Hell yeah...can get my dance on pretty damn good:) Except last night, this chick completely knocked it out of my hand, and covered me totaly in it...that sucked ass!!!! My shirt was full of it, there was a solid stream down the leg of my shorts, so it looked like I pissed myself and then of course my leg and sandles are all sticky now...she at least bought me a new one:) That's what's nice about not having school on friday:) and my thursday class starts around 3pm:) Hell yeah:) The worst part is, they close at 0200, so I get home and still wake up around 7 in the morning....arrrgggggghhhhhh. So yesterday, I decide to go to the beach and jump in the ocean(the whole trying to sort my head out bit) Good God almighty....that water was sooooo cold, it burnt me a stinging/burning sensation...that was weird, but it also felt good.....wakes you up real good:) Then that afternoon, got some insane notion about going for a jog....yeah, that sucked too:) My legs were killing me today:) They went out lobster hunting today...still haven't caught anything yet though, the season started yesterday. I didn't get diving because my legs were so sore from yesterday. I'll go next weekend though:) I met a bunch of cool people last night, a couple aussies and some irish dudes, the irish guys came out to the beach with us today, so that was pretty cool. Jordan speared a fish, a decent sized one at that. Ohhhh man, this is just wrong. So he brings it back home. How do you clean a fish???? We both kind rememberd but not realy:) And Jordan hates the gutting part....it was freakin hilarious watching him try to take the guts out:) Ohhh man it was nasty:) I have a seafood cookbook, that had some basic instructions on how to gut and clean the fish:) I ended up doing most of the filleting:) We were horrible:) I took some pics of our lovely attempt:) (yeah, I'll get those up with all the other ones I was supposed to:)) So hopefuly our skills will get better:)

Well, I must get some sleep...these past couple days are catching up to me:) and tomorrow is my long day at school:) So yeah, I'm back online:)

10 Roses

2005-09-07T01:01:00.000-07:00

Ten Rose's...for Ten Crosses. Ten Crosses...For Ten Faces I knew. That was this Sunday. I went to the "Arlington of the West" to pay my respects. Michelle and Jordan were with me, so I had backup:) Still didn't stop me from crying.....on the beach, right next to the pier....with all sorts of people around:) Yeah, so that sucked:) The Vets there are going to place them all in the same row for me, so that I may find them easier next time. That might be a bad thing though thinking about it....when they are spread apart...that's just it, they ARE spread apart. It let's you fool your mind...instead of seeing them all next to each other, all in the same row. I think the impact will be worse..instead of having to walk around a few rows to find them. The people that set it up are doing a Great thing. Every Sunday, they go out and place a cross and a name card for every soldeir that has died, and every Sunday, they take it down..just to do it again the next week. I want to be able to help them, I wish I could.

AARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!

2005-08-30T00:49:00.000-07:00

Good God almighty, I think I'm going to shoot myself:) I had my first classes today. The morning ones are going to be pretty awesome I think. Environmental Studies, and then it's lab. We get to go out on a bunch of field trips and check out some pretty cool things. The instructor is pretty young, can't be much older then me at least and I think I am going to like his teaching. Now....my evening class. First off, it's from 1800-2105(6pm to 9:05 :) ) So that sucks to start off with...second.....holy crap dude, this friggn instructor loves to just flap his friggn jaw off. Holy Crap!!!!!!!! This dude just wont stop talking and...he want's to go until 2105!!!!! He let us out at 2100 tonight and said "well we're supposed to be here till 905 but a few minutes early won't be bad" Ohhhhh man...I don't stand a chance in that class:((((( He is a pretty cool guy at least, and there are a couple moments when it's only slightly painful. I would in all Honesty prefer to sit in those stupid bunkers at Anaconda for 3 hrs with sand alll up in my booty crack then to have to sit through this class! Thank god it is only on mondays. At 1930, I wanted to cry, he put us on a 10 minute break so I was saved.....at 1945 I wanted to cry again by 2000 I was just going bonkers...and you can't even begin to imagine what the heck I was going through that last hour!!! But we don't have any homework for that class, we have reading assignments and then he has questions for us to look at for the test. So we know what we have to pay attention to in our reading, so that is pretty cool at least.

Now for the important stuff.....the Hot Chicks:))))) Thank the Gods for whoever invented the MiniSkirt:))) Goodness gracious they were everywhere today:) And I was fortunate enough to have a few of them in my classes too:) Wooo hooo:) There were actualy more of them in my night class, and there is even a girl from Germany in it as well, so that is pretty cool. So hopefuly my classes tomorrow will be just a fortunate:) Hubba hubba:)

I have been feeling pretty good here lately. Today I even worked out when I woke up this morning:) I don't know if that's a good thing though...because now I have more energy...and I definately don't need that for this friggn night class:) Tomorrow I will ride my bike to school so hopefuly I don't get ran over:) I have my mapping classes tomorrow, so hopefuly that will be fun as well. From what I understand we will be making a bunch of maps and putting all kinds of info on them, so I think I will realy enjoy that one. We will find out tomorrow I guess:) Yeah, gas is up to 3 bucks here, and I just heard it's supposed to be raised 50cents here soon...so umm yeah, I will be riding my bike a lot more now:) It's good that I have a schedule that will let me do this...Mondays suck though. But we have to drive to places for that lab, so it works out...plus the instructor put us into carpool groups...so I can earn gas money that way:)

I'm getting into pretty good shape though, I can fit in to my 31 pants now...without having to suck it in:) And...my 33's i can pull off, without having to unbutton them:) which is a bad thing because I like these pants and I have tons of crap in my pocket...so they like to hang down:) They don't fall off on their own...yet, but probably here soon:) My shirts are long enough though so they at least cover my plumbers crack:) He hee:) So this is pretty cool, I'm feeling realy good about myself, getting into some pretty good shape too:) But like I said earlier, the better shape, the more energy....the harder it is for me to sit in class. So I am hoping that riding to school will wear me out enough to be able to focus better....for a wile at least, until it is easy for me to ride to school. But there is a mtn bike trail along the way to school though, it's a 4.5 mile loop in the hills along the way...so maybe I'll just have to leave a bit earlier and hit that sucker up and then hit class:) SInce my Tues and thurs doesn't start until 1400:) Hell yeah baby:)

Today....was a great day

2005-08-26T04:51:00.000-07:00

Man, today was pretty awesome:) I rode my bike to school, which almost killed me:) It took almost 2 hrs to do and there's one kick ass hill along the way...which sucked ass!!!! Good god man I almost died on that sucker:) But I made it...then called my friend with the pick up truck to come take me home:) I found out that dead skunks smell a lot worse when you ride past them on your bike:) and that small hills ina car are horrible on a bike:) at least when you're not in great shape:) Sooo, I made it to school at least:) I picked up my school books...what the crap is up with paying 70 bucks for a friggn book that's like 80 pages????? that's just not right I tell you:( After I got back home, I went to the beach. I met up with Michelle, this awesome girl I met a couple weeks ago now. Her friend is down, so we played stickball in the ocean, played in the waves and made some sweet ass designer clothing with seaweed and kelp:) It was simply beautiful :) Though a bit stinky I think:) I wish I had my camera...I had a pretty sweet hula skirt in Kelp:) I swam around in the ocean for a bit too, that was pretty nice. Then Jordan(my buddy from the dive program that was in Louisianna for the summer) came back today as well, and we went out clubbing...so that was pretty awesome too. So yes, today was just an all around awesome day:) A good ride in the morning, great fun in the ocean and then a good night out...that's what life should be about!

WHY??? :((((

2005-08-22T21:59:00.000-07:00

God has truely Forsaken me:((( Today I go to the grocery store to get some food. I go to get my favourite cereal "Lilo and Stitch" (it's chocolate cereal with marshmellows:) ) and they don't have it any more:((((((( It just is not fair!!!!! What does a man have to do to get some tasty chocolate, sugar loaded, marshmellow filled cereal around here. Today is truely a dark day in my life...a moment of silence for my fallen cereal please..........ahh, better make it another moment........ok, I'm better now:) Now I'm on a quest to find another kick ass cereal. I setteld for the chocolate lucky charms, not the same...but it will just have to do till I find a better one.

On a lighter note....I kicked ass at dinner tonight...man, it almost made me cry it was soooooooooo good. It still brings a tear to my eye, remembering how good it tasted. I should have been arrested for makeing something that tasty:) It was just grilled chicken, some garlic bread and salad....but man it was scrumdiliumpious:)

I don't work for UPS anymore:) I quit on Friday. Basicly they said that we would not get off later then 0900, sometimes at 0930. The whole month there we didn't get off before 10. My classes start at 0930 so there is no way I'm going to let it interefere with my schooling. Plus I found out that during the holiday season, they start at midnight...so there is no way in hell I'm going to try to do that and go through finals:)

I did pass my Chemistry:) I got a C baby:) Woooo hoooo:) I don't know how the hell his grading system worked, cause the points just don't add up right...but hey, I got a C and that's all that matters baby:)

Wooo hooooo:)

2005-08-08T06:17:00.000-07:00

Well I made it back to Santa Barbara ok...all in one piece...and the car tooo:) It seems like the Rebels have taken over...we must take control over my apartment again:) I fought a long hard battle today, we almost took the living room back over...but the bedroom and kitchen still belong to Rebel hands:) I kicked the closets' ass though...so the Empire has positive control of that:) So tomorrow I will just pull in the reserves to take on the living room, we almost beat it today....but it was Fiesta downtown....so we had to go take a break and a couple beers:) Ok well it was margarita's and other hard stuff, none of that wussy beer crap:) And, I got to hang out with a Dude from Depeche Mode...that kicked ass!!!!! He was a DJ at one of the pubs we went to, and Dave, one of my Dive buddies, he has hung out with him and been pool partners with him as well, so that was pretty cool. Ahh well, I made it back ok, attacking my apartment again:) and will be going to work as well...:) Yippee:)

Soo ummm, yeah....

2005-08-04T16:08:00.000-07:00

So anyway, earlier today, I was cleaning out this sweet ass fish tank that Aaron had given me. So after I get done hoseing it out, I decided to fill the pond up a little bit. Anways....I forgot about it:) And realised it when it started thunderstorming and pouring down a buttload of rain:) So umm yeah, the pond is extra full now:) Ohhh man:) I think it's stopped raining now, so that's good:) But hey, it's the freaking desert out here, it's not supposed to rain!!!!! :)

So todays lesson, don't forget to turn off the water during a thunderstorm:)

P-ville!!!

2005-08-04T15:43:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I hauled ass to P-ville last weekend:) I didn't think I was going to get this week off to do so, and they had already scheduled me to have the week off. I did try to fight it, let them know that I didn't think it was cool for me to leave when they are trying to change the entire system, but they didn't think it was a problem...so I drove home:) I made it here safely, almost in record time I think:) I got to go to Uncle Herbs birthday party...60, man that's getting up there:) I think my dad is 61 though??? I don't know, once you're past like 30...does it really even matter anymore:) Ohh crap, I turn 30 in less then a year, we better make that 50 then:) I'm thinking that by the time I'm 50, I might actualy look like I'm 25..wooo hoo:) Yes, it aint easy being Dead Sexy:) Maybe I should go beat myself with an Ugly stick, then maybe the girls wont be so afraid to talk to me:) Hubba hubba:)

I found the parts to my bike....but not my bike tools yet, that kinda sucks. It would be nice to have them so I could fix my own stuff....so when I crash and blow myself up...at least I know it was my own fault:) I got to see Aaron and his "Wife"??? I'm not sure if he's married yet, they should be though:) And I got to go see Alicia and Melissa, they all live in Amarillo. So that was pretty cool. Alicia still thinks I'm a punching bag though...maybe she wouldn't hit me so much if I wasn't such a smart ass...hmmmmm. Nah, she's just evil like that:) He hee, can't hit me now can ya:) Ohh well, I will head back to Cali tomorrow, I can't wait to get back, the beach is calling for me...Will...Will, we need your Dead Sexyness to Beautify this place...Will, come back:) Ohhh man, I kill me sometimes:) So yea, I'm doing good and staying in trouble...Life is good:)

First day:)

2005-07-25T13:28:00.000-07:00

Today was just a short day, we watched a bunch of those cheesy training videos, about safety and how to load vehicles:) They were at least better then the ones in the army:) But I found out that they hired 3 of us, and the other two guys I hadn't seen before, so at least I know that I actualy earned this job, not that they were just desperate and takeing what they could get:) But the also hired 3 of us because they have a bad problem with a bunch of slackers(which is why I get my packages at 830 at night:) ) So they are hiring us together so that we can get this problem taken care of. So I get to jump right in the middle of the fire:) Wooo hooo:) Shouldn't be to bad, just like dealing with typical soldiers:) Well I'm off to class:)

Woo hoo:)

2005-07-25T02:13:00.000-07:00

So I spent about 150 bucks on new clothes, Costco had some dockers for like 20 bucks and sears was having a sale on short sleve shirts...I still only have 3 of each though, and 2 ties:) so I'll have to rotate till I get more. Sorry Tom, I just have to wear nice clothes:) The supervisors don't wear the uniforms:) That sucks, cause if I was a driver I could wear shorts, dangit...things you have to do up higher on the food chain:) Good god dad, that's not even funny to joke about Mickey mouse ties, that's just not right:) I can't believe you would even threaten me with something like that, I know I wasn't a "Poster" child growing up, but man I don't think I deserve that:) Ahh well, I have my first day in a few hours, it should be just training stuff, we'll see:)

Man:)

2005-07-22T20:16:00.000-07:00

So today I go and check my mail. Inside my box is a completely folded and scrunched manila envelop, with Fragile and Do Not Bend stamped all over it....front and back. What the heck man! It was just a poster from the Cav store, but still, that's some crap.

But to more important news:) You are now looking at the Floor Supervisor for UPS:) Yes, I make sure the floor doesn't go anywhere or do anything wrong:) He hee:) On a serious note:) I will be supervising about 7 people, loading 20 trucks for UPS, so that's pretty cool. I will start on Monday at 0500, I have the 03-09 shift...yeah, the early one:) But we are just going to do some training first so I don't know how long I will have to just show up at 05. But that's pretty cool, since it's finals week next week:) It sucks, I have a test on thur, then have the final on friday...man, that just isn't right:) Any way, UPS is pretty cool, they also have tuition reimbersment, so they will pay for my college as well, plus I get full benifits too, so that's pretty cool:) Yeah, so I'm pretty stoked about being a supervisor:) I've been hired as a "temp to hire" so I'm with a temp agency right now, until UPS wants to hire me full time. So hopefuly that won't take to long:) Then I will be part of a Union:) I think it's temsters 128? I'll find out more on Monday. I have to go and by some dockers and some shirts and ties...man, guess I'll have to go get some long pants:( At least I have to morning shift so it won't get hot:) Man, the chicks at school wont stand a chance with me all dressed nice and spiffy:) Hubba hubba:) It's pretty cool, the schedule won't interfere with my schooling...and I will still have a 3 day weekend since I don't have class on friday, so I'll finish work at 09 and have a nice break:) Hell yeah:)

Ohhh man:)

2005-07-05T03:59:00.000-07:00

Ohh man, that was just nasty:) Peter, just can't hang:) I guess I should start out with, we didn't get arrested:) I did have to pull over on the side of the road, so that Peter could Hurl, which was absolutely nast:) Man, he stunk sooooooo bad, man. Then while we were on the side of the road, some cops pulled up, to check us out. I was out of the car on the passenger side, making sure Peter was hurling out of the friggn car:) Man, the cops were making fun of him and everything, while he was spewing:) Thats just not right:) But funnier then hell none the less:) They took my driver license and checked it out or something, didn't even ask for Peter's...who was spewing in my friggn lunch box cooler:) That was just weird? Why didn't they ask for his, when he obviously drank to much....maybe it is good being older:) That was a close one though:)

We had a very good night. Shooting off fireworks and drinking. We had filled up my camelbacks. Mine had Malibu and coke and Peter had Screwdriver, Vodka and orange juice in his. We were the life of the street:) We went down to the college street, and there weren't as many kids as there normaly would be during the school year, but enough to make it fun. So that was pretty cool...plus we didn't get arrested:) Which is even better, school isn't going to be nice tomorrow, a good thing I did my homework already:) Wooo hooo:)

Woo hooo:)

2005-07-01T21:09:00.000-07:00

I didn't electricute myself...and my apartment hasn't burnt down....yet, either:) The Apartment had crappy outlets, you could almost put the plug in, but they would hang out, or just plain fall out. Soooo, today I got a bunch of the outlets(10 for 3.80, they were cheap:) from Home Depot) and replaced 4 of them so far, they work great:) But now my light switch doesn't work:) They had more wires then the ones I got, so I had to combine them together, they work fine:) It's just that now there isn't a seperate circuit for the switch...so there's power going to them all the time now:) Ahh well, maybe I'll go get one that has enough thingies for the wires. But, I kick ass though:) I guess getting electrocuted would have made for a better story today but.....The 4th is just around the corner baby:) Should have some good ones to make up for it then:)

Good god, chemistry sucked today, he hauled ass through the lecture(he has a tee time of 1330, so he wants to get out early:) ) and I didn't understand a lick of what the hell he talked about:) It was crazy, things about adding 2's and 3's to chemicals to add up correctly so they can go together right...and if you did the formula wrong, you'd just have to keep going back and forth adding more and more

so something about that being the easy way to know you've added the formula wrong:) Man looks like I'll have to do a lot of reading this weekend to figure out what the hell he talked about:) And it looks like for Lab on Tues, we'll be mixing more chemicals together...woooo hoooo:) I only singed a little of my hair off in class on thurs, I was slacking, I know...I'm sorry:( I'll make up for it on tuesday though, Mu ha ha ha haaaa:) Unless of course we're mixing wussy crap together, then I'll be sad:( Ohh well, we'll find out tues I guess:)

I just added a different Poll...about my hair:) I'll let you guys decide:) He hee:) Ohh, I did try to get it cut the other day, but it turns out that it is a breach of the environmental laws. Something about it being illegal to destroy the nesting habitat of the Spotted owl, some endangered species. Ahhh well, I tried guys:)

Yeah Baby:)

2005-06-29T02:38:00.000-07:00

I am a Genious:) Wooo hooo, I got an 82 on my Chem test, a B baby:) I can't believe some of the lame ass mistakes I made on it though...attention to detail!!! Need to remember that for next time:) And it's a good thing I'm taking the summer session, since it is a lot shorter then the regular semester, we get to use our Periodic table cheat sheet(where we get to write what ever we want on the sheet of paper with the periodic table:) ) since we don't have as much time to learn and memorise the chemicals and formulas, where as during the reg semester, we wouldn't be allowed a cheat sheet:) Woo hooo:) Man we did some weird stuff in lecture today...nameing stupid compounds and stuff...I thought I was getting it in class, till we got our worksheet:) Ohh man gotta go read that chapter a few more times or something:) We also found out the 50 of the kids are from the same high school...what the crap is up with that? The other high schools only have a couple kids from them though, but still over half the class is still in High school...friggn nerds....yeah, and the median score of the high school kids was 91 where as the college students were 81...ha, above the median baby:) But what's up with that as well??? Freak'n nerds:)

Ohhh man, and of course, this weekend, only the second most awesome holiday, 4th of July baby(New years in Europe is first of course, more explosives....allowed to run around drunk on castles shooting off huge ass bottle rockets...hey, can't really beat that can we????????) and Peter will be coming down for a few days, that's awesome!! So um yeah, if I don't write anything on the 5th, can you guys PLEASE check with the Santa Barbara area Police stations and set up a Bail us Out fund, Thanks. We all know how Dead Sexy I am, and I don't want to be Bubba Biatch:) I guess if Peter and I were in the same cell, we'd stand a chance of defending ourselves though, and at least could sleep in shifts:)

I learned something waaayyy awesome tonight:) I was watching yet another show on the Roswell incident. They have found a buttload more stuff suporting the truth of the Aliens they found there. They were able to read the letter the base comander had in his hands in one of the photos they took of the "fake" wreckage and it clearly states that the "Disk" will be sent to some base in Texas, and that the Victims will be flown on a special B29 flight or C47 to that base as well. Man that is sooo cool:) So I still have hope of proving that I am not of this Planet:) Though most of my friends would already agree to that, punks:) , but my mother still "claims that I was very stubborn while I was coming out during birth" Then explain why no one knows the exact time I popped out...and why it's not on my Birth certificate...hmmmmmm...Mu ha ha ha haaaa:)

I'm going to have some serious friggn issues if I start dreaming about Chemistry...at least we got to burn some magnesium today:) Wooo hooo:) I only but half the hair off on one hand, and somehow a big chunk on my forearm...up near my elbow??? Ahh well, I still have 4 more weeks to get the rest of it:)

The Empire Stirkes back :)

2005-06-28T03:41:00.000-07:00

We've established a solid beach head, the living room is taken...Wooo hooo:) We might be able to take the bedroom and kitchen by the end of the week, the bathroom and closet are already sympathetic to my cause, so they will be easy to take over.

Why side with the Dark side you ask?? Well lets take a look at some facts shall we. First off, Boba Fett, do I really need to say more...but you know me, so of course I will:) He's only the coolest kick ass dude there is. He has the coolest weapons, sweetest ship...he's so bad ass, he can even talk smack to Darth Vader, which leads us to reason #2...Darth Vader, um duh, he's the Chosen one, hello??? And what side did the chosen one choose???? Yeah, the Dark side baby(forget about the last movie, he was about to bite the dust, he had to save his whiney little son Luke, so he was a bit weak at the end...but the rest of the time he was Darth Vader baby!!! Feared by all, including his master) 3rd, Storm Troopers, an entire Army of brainwashed cloned dudes to do your will, how cool is that??? Then of course we have the Death star and Star destroyers, awesome! So I am one with the Dark Side now...hey, it got my living room clean:)

So I took my first Chemistry test today, have no idea what I got on it. I feel kinda good about....that normaly is bad news though:) I should find out tomorrow what I got:) Maybe it is a good thing that we throw out our crappiest test score at the end of the semester:)

Hell yes, I still have long hippie hair. Remember, I'm one with the Dark Side now, we're not afraid to use our great power to whoop some ass...not like those wussy Light side dudes, bunch of pansies:) Mu haha ha haaaa :)

Alright Butt Monkeys!!!!! :)

2005-06-26T07:48:00.000-07:00

I just got done reading a bunch of your comments about my Excellent Fro:) Now just a few minutes ago I was all about calling the tree trimming service to cut that sucker down, but now after reading how much you guys like it, I will just have to let this sucker just keep growing, cause I love you guys sooooo much:) No Ryan, it's not Illegal to have my hair like this....but yes, it is a wildlife refuge:) I got these hair genes from you Dad, so you better stinking recognise me:) Man Alicia, all this time I thought you were hiding your face cause you were embarassed of me humping everything not fast enough to get away....not because of my hair:) And Tom, scissors???? You think Mere Mortal Scissors can do anything to this head of hair? We're talking at minimum Titanium bladed hedge trimmers....at the least!!!! :)

Make fun of my Hair will ya, wait till I let it grow down to my ass, that'll give you something to laugh about;)

Yep:)

2005-06-26T07:32:00.000-07:00

Thanks bro for the birthday song, or was it Mum??? That's messed up dude:) You're getting more and more like her in your old age:)

So yes, I am now 29, still haven't been arrested yet, man, I must be slacking, what the hell. Still single, so I must be doing something right. haven't blown up the Chemistry lab yet, so I'm definately doing something wrong there:) Man, the last year in the 20's, that just sucks, or I guess I can be like Microsoft or other computer companies, next year, I will just be Version 29.1a then 29.2 and so on and so on, or maybe I'll go backwards, I will be 28 next year then I will go down until I finaly look as old as my age, and just stick with that:)

So at the begining of the month I was in Hawaii for my Bro's wedding. That was pretty cool, and had a lot of fun. Though I did have to stay with my parents, and sleep with my Aunt(that's just sooo wrong in soooo many ways:) well hawaii is the southern most state, so I guess it makes it legal right?) She had to be my drinking buddy, and relaxing buddy, until Peter got there(Chris's best friend) Then I had a partner in crime....but still had to sleep with my Aunt:) Ohh man, it's sooo much fun when you have another smart ass with you to get in trouble...spreads the heat out so it's not just focused on me:) Peter and I also met this older rich chick that is going to pimp us out to her friends next time we go to hawaii...Hell yeah baby, gonna get us some Sugar mammas:) We also got to go scuba diving with some damn big Manta Rays. That was awesome! The biggest one had shown up, it was 16ft wide, man it's awesome when they swoop down at you. You hold your dive light, and that attracks the Krill(little bug things the Manta rays eat:) ) So the Manta's would swoop right down on ya, you weren't allowed to touch them, but I was hit in the head a few times:) Then we went Deep Sea fishing. That was some shit, we didn't catch a damn thing, not even a bite. Though we did get to see some Dolphins so at least we saw something. Note, if you ever want to go Deep sea fishing, make sure you either A. go the whole day, or B. make sure your trip time happens at either the High tide, or Low tide....not in between like ours was. The tides are what tell the animals it's time to come to the surface and eat. It was pretty messed up that the Captian told us this info at the end of our trip, instead of before we signed up. We also went on a Helicopter tour of the island, that was pretty awesome. We got to fly around the Volcano and then to the parts of the island where they filmed Jurasic park. It was too bad we had a pansy ass pilot. I mean hey, we had a turbo engine, and 4 point seat harness's...what part of Barrel rolls does he not understand????? Come on man, make me have Flash backs of Bosnia(I'm tired of the ones from Iraq already:) )It's like going to an all you can eat buffet, and only making one trip!!!!!! Good god man, you've got the power, use it:) But noooo, don't want to get us sick, didn't want us to throw up...boo hoo hoo, pansy:) The flight still kicked ass though, and Chris, Jess and Peter were a bit woosey for a while after the flight...Friggn wusses!!!! :) We got to go to a Luau on Chris's wedding day. That was pretty cool, though we got jipped, they didn't have the coconut dancers....what the crap???? We're supposed to have Hot chicks in Coconut tops??????? Ahh well, the fire dancer dude caught himself one fire though, so that was pretty cool(still not as hot as coconut bra's, but hey I'll take someone catching on fire :) ) The place even got Chris and Jess some Lemon pie for their wedding cake and they were pointed out in front of the audience, so that was pretty cool too, till they started dancing, then all the other couples danced as well, now that's reason to be a bit woosey and air sick:) But, they had an open bar, so Peter and I defiantely took advantage of that:) We went on a Sailboat dinner cruise...which also had an open bar:) It was horrible, our mother brought some bubbles(instead of throwing rice at the wedding, you blow bubbles) on the boat, this was the day after the wedding, and unfortunately the people on the boat were a bunch of weirdo's too, so everyone blew bubbles...except of course me and Peter...hey, you can't blow bubbles if both hands are full of booze:) Chris's wedding was pretty nice. They had it on this pretty sweet beach, that even had a beached turtle, so they held the ceremony right by the turtle...ahhh how romantic...eeewwwwww:) We have a buttload of pics from the wedding so now we just need to find the good ones and I will post them. Man, I have some great ones with my Fro:) wooo hooo:)

So I am now in Summer school and am taking chemistry. There is 105 students in our class, holy crap man, that's all sorts of crazy and like half of them are high school kids, so that's pretty crazy too:) Maybe I mentioned not getting arrested too soon:) I get to take my first test on Monday, so that should be fun!!! I only have labs on Tuesday, Wed and Thur...so if you happen to hear a news report of a large explosion in Santa Barbara on any of those days...I've accomplished blowing up the lab....or catching my Fro on Fire:) Speaking of Fro, I might get it chopped down this week. I think for the well being of the hot chicks in my class though, I should keep it. We all know that they won't be able to handle the Extreme Dead Sexiness of what I look like with a good haircut:) They'll have to arrest me just for looking so Damn Good:) Yeah, you know the deal....It ain't easy being Dead Sexy, but I humbly devote and sacrifice my life, to this Noble cause:) Ohh man, I kill me sometimes:)

Hey Tom, I am actualy a Cancer, I was born on the Cuspus(however the heck you spell it:) ) the first day of Cancer...so I get both traits:) And happy birthday to you to dude:) Hey, are you sure they are going to let you back on the plane, haven't you like exceeded the Maximum Age limit to fly yet??? :)

So hopefuly I will be able to put some pics up tomorrow, after I finish cleaning my apt, and studying:) OK So maybe Monday after my test:)

Happy Birthday!

2005-06-22T06:58:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to Will,

Happy Birthday to Will,

His looks are too Sexy

Ah well, you get the point :)

Happy B-day from your Bro!

Wooo hooo:)

2005-06-02T05:46:00.000-07:00

Alright, I've been slacking the past couple weeks, sorry bout that. I've been doing tons of stuff since then. Got done with finals thank god:) I think I did pretty good on them. Ended up changing my major, now I will get a degree so hopefuly I can go work for the Federal Fish and Game. Get to take Chemistry this summer, Yippee:) Everyweekend we've been going diving I have a few more pics to post of it. It has been absolutely awesome!! We would get out there about 9 or 10, then stay out till 730 at night. We would dive in the morning, then BarBQue till the end of the day. I'd bring my little Barbie down with use so we could grill and drink some beers:) It was awesome, then the guys went home for the summer, this past weekend:( One of the times we ran into the crabs, spider crabs. These dudes are friggn huge:) As you can kinda tell in the pic of the one. My dumb ass kept on playing with them:) Their arms can reach behind them, under them on top of themselves, it was absolutely horrible:) And good god could the pinch. And yet, I didn't stop playing with them after the first one????? One time when I was free diving(just going down on breath holds, no tank), I had grabed one and came to the surface with it. He ended up getting ahold of one of my fingers and was pinching the hell out of it, I had my speargun in my other hand so I couldn't try to pry him off and to top it off...I had surfaced under a bunch of kelp...so now I was out of air, stuck in the stupid kelp, unable to get completely out of the water to get a good breath of air. Stupid crab stuck on my finger, not letting go, no way in hell am I bringing that hand to clear the kelp from my face, he still had one pincher free and no way in hell was I dropping my spreargun(to damn expensive:) ) I was almost in tears, who cares about air, the bloody bastard wouldn't let go of my finger:) I was getting enough air to survive, but good god, just wanted the damn thing off my hand:) He finaly had enough fun pinching the crap out of me and let go, so I survived, with all my fingers, and good enough to go back down for more:) Ohh man, it was great:) those dudes are aggressive as hell, when you got near them, they would rear up, and clash their claws together with such force you could hear them smacking against each other. We had tons of fun throwing them on each other:) Their legs were at least as long as my forearm, so could reach fer days:) We proceeded to go back to shore grill some food, and the fish we caught, and drank some beers, ohh man it was excellent:) The last weekend the visibility was crappy but we still grilled and checked out the hot chicks:)

I had to leave my apartment for a few days last week, they had to fumigate it for termites. So I went camping. The first night I went to Refugio, campground 10 miles away on the beach. Paid 25 bucks(what the hell????) and it was a pretty crappy one, right next to the train, and it was on a hill, so when they were coming from the downhill side, you got to hear the lovely screeching of the breaks alll the way down, so I didn't get much sleep:) But the beach was pretty nice though, and I met a couple german families there as well, they had rented RV's and were camping all over the damn place:) the next night I went to the hills, those are about 15 minutes from my house. Now that was pretty nice. It was a great campground, nice and quiet, and there's a river that ran near by it. They have a ton of Day use areas along the course of it with a ton of swimming holes. So of course, I head down there to check it out:) It was waaayyy cool. I went swimming in the river, it was crystal clear, and a ton warmer then the ocean....which was nice:) Ended up hanging out with some college kids from the university. They were exchange students, mostly Brits, and were about to go back to england. So that was cool hanging out with them. Now the night:) Man, first off, I hear something moving around, and most of the time when you turn your flashlight on, it's nothing, just leaves falling to the ground, but ooohhhh now, this time there were beady little eyes staring back at me, so yeah, that was kinda freaky:) But they walked off, it was only some little small creature. Then later on, something else makeing noise out there. But it was making wwwaaaaayyyyy to much noise. I couldn't figure out what the heck it could be. Most animals are kinda sneaky at night, this dude was just trudging along, without a care in the world. What the hell could it be???? I turn on my flashlight again...this time to my horror, one of the few animals I am actualy afraid of, is right in my camp....a Friggn Skunk!!!! Most animals you can scare off, or if you move around, they'll go away. But oohhh no, a skunk, you look at them wrong and they'll spray you:) Good god man, this sucked, I would much rather have a bear or a cougar in my camp. What the hell do I do??? I'm not in a tent, I am just useing my army stuff:) so I have my sleeping bag in my gortex bivsac(basicly a waterproof pouch that fits over your sleeping bag) I really really don't want to get sprayed, so I zip myself very quietly back into my bivsac. Seal it all the way up and don't move at all till I hear him finaly walk away a few minutes later. After he gets a bit further away, of course I get out of my bag and follow him for a little bit:) Duh, what else would I do? I mean come on now I kept playing with the friggn crabs that were chomping the shit out of me:) No I didn't get sprayed either:)

So I've had a pretty good few weeks:) And on Friday I get to go to Hawaii for my bros wedding....man life is rough:) We're going to go swim with the huge manta rays....hopefuly:) So we'll see what other trouble I can get into out there:) And I'll try to get the other few pics I had from these couple weeks. They aren't as good as they normaly are, the quality. I had a disposable underwater cam, and they didn't turn out so great, all grainy and stuff, and they didn't do a good job of putting them to disk as well:( But they are better then nothing:)

Alicia...

2005-05-07T02:08:00.000-07:00

Now now now, hey, your dog started flirting with me first, so that's not my fault:)

Today was a pretty awesome day, the weather was real nice, though a tad bit windy. I've been cleaning my apartment so that's been fun:) Other then that, that is about it. One of my buddies from school is coming over so we'll proably get trashed and go shoot bottle rockets at the kids on the beach:) It's all good, since we'll stay on the cliff, we'll have plenty of time to run away:)

Oh yeah, I don't know what the hell I've been thinking, but my Bro is getting married here in a couple weeks. That friggn rocks:) The best part is, it's going to be in Hawaii, so I get to go hang out in Hawaii and chase hot chicks there...awesome:) On the darker side of things, that officaly makes me the last one to get married now. All of my good friends from high school have gotten married(some a few times even, and the two that ran away with each other, without getting completely divorced from their prior marriages:) ) man, what the heck is up with that? I need to go beat myself with an ugly stick or something, I'm just too hot for the chicks to handle:) Hubba hubba:)

Hell yeah Tom we'll go hang out whenever you get your sorry ass out of Iraq:) I think the Arizona desert, or Death Valley should be a great place to go camping:)

So hopefully I'll be writing you sometime this weekend. If not, I'll let the cops know not to call you guys until the late morning or afternoon:) And then we'll have another segment.....Bail money for William the Dead Sexy:) hmmm, sounds like a great Reality show in the making, Awesome:)

Yes Dad:)

2005-05-06T04:09:00.000-07:00

Yes, you should be able to still recognise me Dad, though my hair may be out of control...the underlying Dead Sexiness is just to great a force to be hidden:)

What the Heck Tom???? Ya big Wuss:) You want to hang out in Iraq, but you wouldn't come on a hike with me?? What the heck man:) I promise, the animals only bite me:) And I don't mess with the big ones, or the ones that I know are poisoness:)

It rained today. It was weird. This morning when I went to school, the sun was out, then it rained quite a bit actualy then the sun came out again:) Weird.

After school today I watched the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. It was a pretty good movie, yes I went by myself:) We worked a lot on our ROV today and then I went and watched a bunch of slides on Australia for my anthropology class. I think I might actually be dumber for watching those slides:) The teacher himself made them, he must have gone there in like the 70's, went camping in a nice dark blue van:) Ohh man. I wonder if I will get points docked for correcting him on the correct culture:)

Alrighty

2005-05-04T02:24:00.000-07:00

I put up some pics finaly, I will try to take some more here soon, and put them up much quicker:)

last week on one of my rides, I came across a baby skunk. This little dude was pretty darn cute:) I think he had wasted his supply of stink juice though, cause he looked like he was trying to spray me, but nothing was coming out...well no spray, but it did stink. I was following him a good distance away, I have clip in pedals, when I lost balance, and of course happend to fall towards the side that I still had clipped in. So of course I come crashing to the ground, and of course landed in the area where the skunk had just been. That didn't smell to good:) So I followed him some more, he curled up in some tall grass, so I petted him and off I went:)

Yesterday I found another baby King snake. These dudes look pretty cool, black with white banding. I picked this sucker up and he struck at me. I had my biking gloves on, so he didn't get flesh. So I proceeded to let him go and carry on my way:) There's all sorts of cool stuff up on the mesa for me to catch and play with, it's great:) It's a lot of fun riding around or walking, I get to check out all these critters and hot chicks, cant get much better then that....hmmm maybe I'll fill my camelback with beer instead next time. I crash enough as it is already:) But at least then, It won't hurt as bad:)

New topic:)

2005-05-04T02:10:00.000-07:00

So heres a new topic area where I put the lessons I learned:)

1) Baby skunks are cute

2) Baby skunks can be fun to play with

3) Baby skunks smell just as bad as big skunks

4) It's not good to fall where previous said cute baby skunk released his wrath

5) Hot chicks jogging on trails don't like the smell of skunks

6) Baby king snakes are cool

7) Baby king snakes like to bite

8) Not all swarms of flying things are gnats

9) Mosquito's like to swarm as well

10) not as fun riding through a swarm of mosquitos

11) Mud is still fun to ride through no matter how smelly it is or dead it gets

Yes!!!!:)

2005-04-23T01:43:00.000-07:00

I'm still alive!!! Thanks to my cast iron stomache, from many years of army food and of course mum's cooking:) Last night I did one of the more stupider things, yes I know there numerous stupid things I have done, but this one is up there:) I went to ride my bike to the shops and stuff, and was gong to ride along the trails on the beach cliff. So before I took off, I went and grabbed my camelback. There was still water in there from the last time I went, and being quiet thirsty, I took a few drinks from it before the "dusty" taste triggerd my realiseation, that hey, it was over a week since I last used this.....ohhhh man. When I rinsed it out, there was mold and fungus for days...really really nasty. So I proceeded to drink a full glass of orange juice and continued to the shops:) I rode for a good hour after I was done at the shops, it was pretty nice:) Needless to say, my neighbours must have heard some pretty interesting sounds:) Man, there were some beauties I must say...they at least were fortunate enough to not have to catch wind of them:)

So on the way to school this morning the news was talking about how our great comander in chief has decided to let the oil companies access to destroy the alaskan wilderness, I mean, access the oil up there to lessen our dependency on foreign oil. So instead of making laws stopping idiots from buying those super huge gas guzzlers, making car companies design more fuel efficient cars, no he takes the easy way out...while improving his bank roll of course, by destroying prestine lands. The funny thing is, gas prices dropped 5 cents this morning because of this...we haven't even tapped into this new oil yet, but our prices have already dropped. Man. Well, I say, screw it. Make all these huge gas sucking vehicles extremely cheap, lower fuel prices waayy the heck down and just let us use as much gas as we want. The method to my madness??? Oil is not a renewable resource, the sooner we use it up, the sooner we have to come up with ways to live without it, the sooner we can start cleaning up all the mess it has caused our environment:)

I went kayaking today. That was pretty fun. I went with one of my classmate, we went out to the bouey's and hung out with the seals. That was pretty cool:) I got a waterproof cam but it's a disposable one, so you gotta wait till I take more pics and get them developed before I can post those one:( I have taken a few more pics of the area, and a couple of myself...so you can see how scary my hair has gotten:) Ohhh man, it's out of control:)I'll try to post them soon for you.

I am becoming a Bar B Que god I must say....man I'm kicking ass at the grilling:) So I'm slowly upgrading from spegettio's and ravioli to Bar B Que:) Wooo hoo:)

Awesome!!

2005-04-15T21:30:00.000-07:00

Today was a pretty great day. I had just one dive class, and we got out about 1130. So I went to the beach, the weather was awesome today. The beach in front of the school. There was a bunch of old dudes out surfing...the college kids probably weren't awake yet:) Thursday night is college night here. While I was there, there was a Dolphin and it's baby playing in the surf. So that was pretty cool. When I got home, I decided to go down to my beach. I brought my wetsuit and snorkeling gear as well. Needed to do a bit of recon before I decide to bring down my dive gear. I got out past the surf, but there was still no vis. In the afternoon, the winds pick up a bit and the wave's get a bit big:) So I came back in. I need to swim a lot further out it seems like:) I ended up just thanging out at the beach the rest of the time. There were the usual beach fishermen there, they seemed to be getting some good catches. I was watching the surfers, and out of the corner of my eye, out jumps this whale. Way the heck out of the water, then another one. There were two whales jumping up and making some huge splashes. They were probably having a splash making contest:) Then a little ways behind them came two more whales. They continued playing for about 15 minutes. It was friggn awesome. They were about 150 meters off shore, so really close. Man it was great! When Brandi was here, we went out on the whale watching tour and didn't see a dang thing, then while I'm chilling at my beach, there was at least 4 whales, there might have been a fifth. We think they were Grey whales, those are the ones that are migrating through the area now. So that was pretty awesome.

I got to drive the boat again this week as well. We did man over board drills, that was pretty fun! The waves were pretty big as well, some swells were higher then the boat.....it made finding or seat coushin(our man over board) hard to find sometimes:) As well as the boat jumping off the back side of the waves as well. I'm not quite sure that the boat was designed for that:) But she held up:) We got pretty wet as well:) Suprised I didn't get sea sick, there were some pretty gnarly waves....though a lot of fun:)

So this was a pretty good week, and defianely an awesome day:)

Alright Fartknockers::)

2005-04-08T21:11:00.000-07:00

I finaly got the friggn pics of my car put on....so you can stop harassing me about it:) But this also means you get to see how close I came to biting the dust. I wish I would have gotten more pics of it, I will see my godparents this weekend and they took some. So hopefully I can download those and put them up for you. I also put of the pics I took from when Verena came down to visit during christmas. They're from Seattle to SanFrancisco...and didn't really load up in order, so it's not to organised.

Well, the weather is crap today, it was kinda nice earlier, but there's a cold ass wind coming in, and it was pretty strong as well. So that bites, it even almost rained:) It was heavy, heavy mist, enough to get everything wet. Hopefully the weather will clear up tomorrow.

I'll try to come up with a good poll for you guys this weekend:) Now that I'm setteling in, I can try to learn how to use this site a bit better as well, there's all sorts of cool stuff I can get in trouble with...and I'm just not useing it:)

OK:)

2005-04-07T02:48:00.000-07:00

Some good news and some bad news:) Good news is I found my card reader, so I can dowload the few pics of my totaled car, bad news is I can't find my password link to upload them to my site:) Sooo, hopefuly I can find it tomorrow(I have it saved somewhere on my computer:) )

Today I got to drive our schools boat. That was pretty cool and fun as well. It was a bit choppy out there, and it's a small boat that can haul ass:) Ohhh man, it was great. The morning class got to see a whale and it's calf, we didn't see any:( Our instructor said that we should though by the time we're done, so that would be cool....since we didn't get to see one on our paid whale watching trip. There was a seal on the bouey though, that's about it. We circled around one of the oil platforms just to check it out...and we didn't hit anything as well. Don't worry though, we still will be piloting the boat a few more times, so there's hope yet:) I did learn something very important in class today. That there is a Nude beach really close:) Awesome!!!! Hot naked chicks here we come...more likely old fat nasty dudes. I will definately keep you posted though, once I find out how to get there by land:) And who says you don't learn vital information in school:)

The weather has been pretty nice lately, so that's pretty awesome. I burnt the crap out of my stomache this weekend though....ooohhhh my god that sucked soooo bad!!! Well the burn wasn't so bad, it was yesterday. I worked, so I had to be in my wetsuit alll day long. That wasn't very pleasent to say the least. Then it got bad, realy bad. I got out of the showers, and I started itching like hell. Dude, I have never been more insanely tortured in my life!!!! And I couldn't really scratch, cause it's still burnt. Man, I just wanted to shoot myself cause it sucked soooo bad. So I get home, and decide to take a bath, yeah, soaking in water will help. It worked great.....as long as I was in the tub. Man when I got out, right back to itching like hell, but worse I think(if it was even possible) I honestly can't describe what the heck I was going through. I had gotten that after sun stuff, as well as lotion with all the damn vitamins and botanical flavours as well(got them on sunday as soon as i realised I was burnt...and knew tues was going to be hell at work, to hopefuly ease the pain a bit:) ) After the bath of course I slap that stuff on and didn't help a bit. Man I was going absolutely insane. I had never expeirenced something like that before. (maybe cause it was just on my stomache, I wasn't trying to sunbathe, I just layed on the beach to talk on the phone and ended up talking a bit longer then I was expecting)So I did what any other man on the edge would do, I got drunk:) I couldn't get completely pissed though, I had class at 7 this morning. And even though the instructors expect us to show up hungover wednesday is my all day day. First class at 7am, and the last one finishes at 1800(6pm) I really didn't want to spend the whole day like that, so I just got a little drunk, and it worked like a charm:) Ohhh man, it was soooooo nice not to be itching:) And yes, I made it to class on time....without a hangover:) The boat class isn't until the afternoon, from 1400-1800(2-6pm) So I didn't have to worry about driving the boat drunk:)

Everything is going pretty good so far. Haven't hooked up with any hot chicks yet. I did go to the student store to get a book for class. Man, there were hot chicks everywhere:) There has to be at least one of them desperate enough to hang out with me:)

Well I'm off to bed, tomorrow class doesn't start until 08 at least:) What the hell is up with these stupid early classes, man that's just not right:) Tomorrow is just my lab for the remote vehicle class, so it's just 4 hrs, so that's not too bad. We already have a basic design for it, that's pretty cool. I'll try to get some pics of it. We have to have a web blogg for our project as well, so I'll try to get that link so you can check out what we're up to as well, we have 4 groups, so there should be some interesting designs.

Woo hoo:)

2005-03-23T20:42:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I have an apartment and have moved in, now all I need to do is just pack and put all my stuff away:) Woo hoo:) I will put my new addy up top for you guys, then maybe I can start getting some mail:)

I went to my frist couple classes today...ohhh man, one of them was 2 hrs, but it seemed like it lasted 6hrs!!! Holy crap, but the lab for it will kick ass, we get to build a underwater remote control vehicle for our project. So that will be pretty cool. Our final is going to be how well it works, and how well our presentation is, we will be broken up into a couple groups for it, so that should be a lot of fun:) The class is my seamanship class, so I will be able to drive the school boat....woooo hooo:) I guess they always have someone in the class that hits another boat....hmmmmm:)

Yes Ryan....

2005-03-16T21:43:00.000-08:00

That would be pretty messed up to make fun of a dead dude, no matter how funny it might have been too:)

Ok so a quick rundown on what the heck has been going on....besides me almost biting the dust:)

I made it to Santa barbara, almost ok:) I've been staying at my Godparents/hotels/camp grounds since I've gotten here. Hotels are bloody expensive, as well as the campgrounds.....25 bucks a night, what the hell is up with that??? Though I must say, last night my sight was on the beach. No more then 50 meters from the ocean...at low tide, about 20 meters at high tide:) And the sky was crystal clear...absolutely amazing. So last night was pretty awesome. I haven't bothered with the tent, just my fart sack and puss pad:) Thankfully the weather has been pretty sweet.

I have a job, scrubbing boats, which totaly sucks:) It's almost kinda fun in a way though:) I'm either in my wetsuit, or underwater, so I don't realy have to worry about getting sunburnt:) And whenever we get done, there's always hot chicks running or rollerblading along the bike path, so that's always nice to finish off a day to:) Today was a bit rough, you all know how I like the Redwoods, well not when they're growing on the bottom of a boat!!!! All the boats we had today were friggn completely covered in overgrowth. That absolutely sucked. So it was a lot of hard work today. So yes, I will be surely loosing my baby fat finaly...and might even grow a couple muscles as well:) Just in time for the summer babe...wooo hooo:) And since I'm in salt water all day long, my skin is silky smoothe, like a baby's butt....ok well, I'm Wooley like a Mammoth, but hey, I still have silky smoothe skin beneath all that fur:) he hee, speaking of overgrowth:) So I can say, I kinda like my job:) And Hell yes, it is waaayyy better then the army:)

So I have been working for 3 days and haven't been eaten by a shark yet:) I just realised though, sharks attack people becuase they look like sea mammals struggeling on the surface. Well the fins I have, look just like a pair of flippers on a seal. Man that sucks soooo bad:) Well they are going to be in for a big surprise if they ever decide to take a bite out of me. Lets just say, being in the water for about 8 hrs and no pee breaks:) Ya gotta stay warm some how right:) At least there's showers at the docks...and yes, I bring soap and shampoo....and actually use them:)

I found a nice place to live, and hopefully I will be able to move in tomorrow or Friday. It's a 10-15min walk to the beach and there's natural land between the beach and the apartments, with a bunch of trails I can go ride my mtn bike on....I just have to watch out for the hot chicks running:) Oh, and the horses too. So it will be nice living there I hope, I just hope the people above me don't make a ton of noise.

I guess that sums it up. Am doing good, enjoying not being in the army, and after this weekend can say that I live in a beautiful city...with lots of hot chicks:) Hubba hubba:)

Oh, I haven't found my card reader so I can upload the pics I've taken. Hopefully I can find it this weekend so I can get them up. A forewarning though, you might not really want to see what my car looks like:)

Good God man, is he alright:)

2005-03-10T02:48:00.000-08:00

I mean, Good god man, am I alright:) So for some strange reason the Gods like me....really really like me. According to the Chinese Zodiac, my animal is one of the luckiest, I'm the Dragon, Fire dragon to be more precise:) The Gold Dragon of course is the most luckiest. But anyway, time and time again, My luck has come through....or the Gods really really enjoy screwing with me:) It must be a combination of both. Tonight I was driving up to Davis, California. To go to Big Daves house to pick up my diveing gear to go to work either tomorrow afternoon, or Fri. Well, those plans have kinda changed. I totaled my car tonight. Yes, my cute little blue ford Focus, yes the same one most of you made fun of me about, but I loved that car:) And tonight, it is no more:( Today I had actually been driving the speed limit....not because it's the rules...but because I'm a cheap bastard and fuel is bloody expensive here:) So I was doing it to save gas:) And tonight...it just might have saved my life(though when I do speed, it is not above 10 mph over) A van was on the shoulder of the highway, with his hazards on, when it decided to just come back into the flow of traffic....right in front of me. I swerved to the left, just missing the back of it, but throwing my car out of control. I went into the passing lane, then flew back across to the other side of the road...right in front of the van, onto the shoulder of the road....and into the dirt/grass(at least this is softer then the asphalt road:) ). Still unable to gain control of the vehicle, I just kept sliding, until finaly my car went up the side of a hill(the ground was raised for the railroad tracks) thank god I didn't go all the way over, it probably would have sucked worse to hit the tracks?? :) No, as luck would have it, my car rolled instead:) Placing me gently, upside down in the nice soft, moist (thank god for all the rain the past few weeks:) )dirt, and really thick/tall grass:) So now I'm just hanging there. I can still hear the engine reving, I dont think the cruise control ever dissengaged. So I'm trying to find the stupid keys to shut off the car. I shut it off, now I'm thinking, geesh, no one has come by yet, what the heck. It seems like I'm hanging there for a while. I feel around for my hazards and turn them on, hoping it will show someone that I'm still alive in here. I knew I was off the road but I didn't know how far off of it I was. So now I'm just hanging there. Not much I could do. My side was completely crushed, I can't even fit out of the window. So I just hang there. All friggn alone, now that sucked. At least in Iraq, there were always people around. Not now though. So I just wait, cant really do much else. The engine is off, I've checked myself as best as possible. Something hit me in the head, and my head is also resting on the roof now, though the seatbelt is keeping me in pretty good. Then I hear a bunch of voices finaly. A Mexican family had come to help me out. It was pretty funny at first, all the they spoke was a whole bunch of spanish:) All I could tell them I was Bien:) good, that I was ok and not hurt. Then I hear a few thunks, one of them is trying to smash my passenger window, KAA POW!!!!!! All sorts of glass comes flying on me...so I was doing ok till then at least:) They continue to talk to me in spanish and broken english, so that was cool. At least someone was there. I finaly crawl out and recheck myself. Still Good:) The people that helped me out, had already started going around picking up my stuff that had flown out of my car. These people kicked ass, they helped out so much. I wasn't able to thank them though. When the cops and ambulance arrived, they sent me to the ambulance to get checked out and when I came back, the cops had made them leave, so I couldn't thank them for their help:(

It was weird, when I had gotten out, one of them asked if I had just lost control, I had told them no, it was because of the van that pulled out in front of me. They had a confused look on their face. The van wasn't there, the sorry ass bastards just kept going. I had thought that the people helping were the people in the van. I couldn't believe the people in the van weren't there. I had flown right across the front of them, so they knew what happend. Fortunately there was a car that had passed the van as well, so they saw what happend, though only from their rear view mirror. So they weren't able to give a discription of the van. I just saw the it was a white colour, with that wood side paneling. Ahh well, at least there was a witness that saw what happend.

So my car is toast, that friggn sucks. At least i had my insurance all up to date:) And I'm ok, I just have a small knot on the side of my head, from where something hit me, then the top of my head as well, from the car:) And I have a bunch of really small little cuts, from the glass as well as between my shoulder blades that are sore, I'm still trying to figure out why. So yes, I'm still in one piece, though they don't really know why. I told ya, the Gods really like to screw around with me:) So yes, I am fine and good, nothing is wrong with me...well that isn't normaly wrong at least:)

So that's what happend today. I haven't had good internet access to keep this updated as it should....the internet at home really really sucked....ohhh gooody, there is a train track right outside my window...that's horrible:) So I have to do a lot of catching up. I will try to write more in the morning, I need to get some sleep right now though.....a bit of a rough day:)

Snow:)

2005-02-22T08:23:00.000-08:00

Well, it's been pretty much snowing ever since I've been here. That's ok I guess, I was getting tired of having to put up with the beautiful sunshine and warm weather in Santa Barbara:) Ok, well it's not soo great there yet, but it will be soon enough:) I went to the Look on saturday, man that was a lot of fun. I got to see a lot of my old german friends there...and of course got just a little bit drunk:) And of course they took lots of pics too, so I'll have to post them when I get them:) It's a good thing I'm not running for president or something:) I went to Kruezburg yesterday, the really old monastary...waayyy up on the big hill, where the monks don't have anything better to do then to make some really really good beer:) I just had a 1 liter mug...ohhhh man. I am a really cheap date:) That got me pretty good and drunk, good thing Verena was the driver:) Ahh well. I'm haveing a really good time here. It's really nice knowing that I'm not in the army any more:) Looking forward to getting started with school, and of course my new job:)

Made it:)

2005-02-17T12:46:00.000-08:00

Well I made it to germany ok, the flight was alright, there was more turbulance then I had ever had before on this flight...that was crazy. It wasn't real bad, just a whole bunch of it. There was this dude that sat behind me, that was pretty annoying most of the flight as well too, so that sucked a bit:) He kept on bragging about how awesome he was in Iraq..he was in a Signal Battalion......some desk jockey pretty much and he had this most horrible laugh, and super loud as well:) I guess all in all he was just a pretty loud and obnoxious dude...ahh well:) I didn't get to sit next to any hot chicks either. You would think with all the friggn flights I have been on, that the odds of me sitting next to one should be improving...man, what the heck....I still have two more flights on the way back though, so there's still hope:) Wooo hooo:)

My old german phone number still works, 016095662737 From the states, I think you add 49 and take off the first 0. So you can get ahold of me if you like...just remember it's plus 9hrs from california!!!!! :)

Everything else is going pretty good. I have a job lined up alreadz for when I get back. I'll be scrubbing boats and working on them:) Woo hoo, sounds like real fun:) eh, probably not so much....but I will be getting an awesome work out from it so pretty soon, I'll be nice and Buff again:) Ohhh man, could it even be possible to be more Dead Sexy then I am now...I don't think the world is ready for that:)

I'm using a german keyboard, so excuse any weird letters and such, I hope I caught them all. Plus the y and the z are switched around and there's extra letters like ö ä ü that get in the way too:)

A most fun day...not:)

2005-02-10T20:32:00.000-08:00

Well I stayed the night a Big Dave's house in Davis, CA. Today, I went out and got my vehicle registered and got a new license. Man, it only took us 4 hrs to get everything done:) It wasn't toooo bad. I got my car almost registerd first, I had to pay 156 bucks to do so, then I had to go get it smog checked, another 68 bucks...man. But my car puts out 0 emissions on one of the checks, and the other couple are very very low, the dude was impressed. Then I also had to pay 25 bucks to get my drivers license...I scored 100% on my test...wooo hooo:) Man, I didn't think I would fair so well on it, but I passed it, first time go:) It was a good thing I had to only answer 18 questions. I was able to use my old CA drivers license...so I just had to renew it.....friggn awesome dude:) ut as well as I guessed on these answers, I should have been able to ace the whole test if I needed:) I was really suprised to get them all right:) Maybe they just hooked me up and pretended that I got all of them right:) Ahh well, I have new license plates, I will be getting my drivers license sometime, beats the heck out of me when. And I changed my insurance to CA as well, 438 bucks for 6 months, so that's not to bad...and they are going to be finaly taking off the 2 cars I had in germany...and they will be refunding some money hopefuly here soon since I've been paying for a foreign policy, and 3 cars....man:) So that will be nice:) Anyway, we get out of the DMV, and I'm following Dave back to his house. Soooo, I go through the intersection, and the light was mostly yellow when I went through:) But the traffic light Gremlin, hurried up and changed it to red before I could make it through....it just sooo happend that cop was convienently sitting at the cross traffic light. Beeeoooooorrrnnn....Ohhh man. This can't be happening to me, not even 3 minutes from getting out of the DMV. But he passed me up thank god:) So that was pretty damn funny, Dave thought I was toast..so did I:) But I made it:)

So that was pretty much my day. We did go to In and Out Burgers though....Ohhhh man, still the best damn burgers ever!!!!! :) Tomorrow I will head down to Santa Barbara, go find a storage unit drop off all my crap, then look around for apts. I will go camp on the beach somewhere so that should be fun:)

Woooo HOOOOOO

2005-02-09T00:23:00.000-08:00

Well I just signed out on leave, so I'm kinda a civlian now:) Wooo Hooo:) Tomorrow, I can wake up and not have to worry about having to shave.....don't have to go to formation, don't have to listen to people yelling/playing loud music all night long. Ohhh man, this is just wonderful!!!! I can not explain the shear amount of emotion flowing through me right now. I was never this happy the first time I got out.

On a more serious note, I found out tonight that a few more of my friends from 1/4 cav have died. I am soo fortunate to not have gone with those guys.

Sorry:)

2005-02-09T00:00:00.000-08:00

Sorry about taking so long to put this out, but I am out of the army:) Wooo hooo:) I should be signing out on leave here in a little bit. I just got done packing my car up....holy crap dude. I hope she makes it:) I will have to get a pick of it before I unload her....man, out friggn standing. I have to be officialy the worlds most awesome, excellent packer of all time:) Well this one is going to be short, should have left 2 hrs ago:) I will post a better/longer letter when I can:)

Lazy Idiots:)

2005-02-07T10:06:00.000-08:00

Friday, I go to pick up my NCOER, Non Comissioned Officer Evaluation Report. Basicly, it tells you how you are doing as a leader. So the more ass you kiss, the better it is, and depending on how lazy the bastard that writes it for you also affects the quality of it. So pretty much I have been expecting them to not have this done. Since I don't kiss their ass's and they are a bunch of pathetic, lazy punks. It is mandatory that I have one before I leave. For the past 3 months they have known that i am leaving, so they had plenty of time to get it done. So of course on Friday when I go to pick it up, I am told that it has been turned in, like the week before. So I go talk to the people that it has been "turned in to" and of course it isn't there, nor is it in any of their tracking logs. So I go back and talk to my guys. SSG G is like, I turned it in, so they have it. My platoon sgt is like, "well we'll just print him out another one...hey did you print out this third one yet? " SSG G "what third one" Well gee, imagine that. So they promised to have it printed out and signed for me this morning. Well, I guess you can tell that of course it wasn't done this morning. I ask for a copy of my Iraq award and my "getting out of the army award" And of course, those aren't ready yet either. It is too much effort for them to walk to the next office over and ask the comander to sign them. They've only known about my mandatory Iraq award since we left Iraq when myself and 2 other people.....only in my platoon(another "go figure") didn't recieve them with everybody else. Tis why the army's life is not for me:)

On a lighter note, I did get to see boobies at the club this weekend in celebration of Mardi Gras, so that was nice:) I spent the rest of the time putting my stuff in boxes and duffel bags.

So tomorrow morning will be the last morning I have to wake up to an alarm for the army.....man that is sooooo awesome:) So tomorrow will be my last day, hopefully:) I guess I'll find out today if the sorry bastards get the stupid paperwork done:)

Oh the pain:)

2005-02-02T22:56:00.000-08:00

Today I tried to turn in all my gear, and it was horrible!!! I forgot to pack up all my stuff, so I had to to come back anyway. All the stuff I had, I got to turn in...so maybe if I had it all I would have only needed one trip:) I got there about 730 and there were a ton of people there already, so I started off at the end of the line:) There are 5 stations, and the first four is all the normal issue stuff, and the 5th one is the extra stuff you're supposed to get before you go to Iraq. So there were a bunch of us waiting there. There was only one lady working there to start off with, so naturaly it was going slow. The thing was, that she would take care of someone, then dissapear for 5 to 10 minutes. We couldn't figure out what the hell she was doing!!! Then to top it off, the people from the other sections, they put they're supposed to put the paperwork at the top of the pile then she is supposed to take it from the bottom of the pile. Well in theory that is a great idea, as long as they know that that's what's supposed to happen. There were some lady's putting the new stuff at the bottom of the pile, some on the top, and the station lady was just taking them from wherever the hell she felt like. We started complaing about how long it was taking us to get through the line, and that why the heck were people that just showed up going before us. Well one of the workers starts to yell at everyone for complaing, then explained to us the perfect process stated above. She of course refused to listen to us explaining what was happening, and stormed off. One of the other ladys heard us, and then noticed what was happening as well, so at least she came over and started to try to sort out the situation. So at 1130, they told us that those of us that had to come back anyway could get our paperwork and go through this station when we returned. Soooo, I did that, and got stuck waiting in the line to get out then:) So I probably should have just stayed in the first one and tried to get it done:) So that was my lovely morning:) I spent the rest of the day trying to find the stupid stuff that I was missing. Ahh well:) At least there's a bunch of surplus stores around here, though they aren't really cheap either.

Sweet:)

2005-02-01T01:13:00.000-08:00

Do you guys know what today means?????!!!!! You don't???? what the heck is wrong with you people then?? Man, today means that I have only 1 week left in the army, that this is, well was, my last full week in the army. And what is significant about Wednesday??? Ohhh man, do I have to tell you guys everything(well I guess I kinda have to, which is probably why I got the website huh:) ) anyway, Wednesday is significant because that means that each day, inclucing wednesday, will be the last one I have in the army. Oooooohhhh man, that is just soooooooo nice:) Mac pretty much hates me now as do the other guys:) It's great:) Because I'm getting out and they aren't:) And, I haven't gotten in trouble again:)

Well I guess you might have heard, that Ft Lewis has been locked down this weekend. Units have lost some equipment, so the closed the gates and everything:) I think it was night vision goggels or something of the sort....nothing like no nuclear bombs or anything:) Man it will be so nice to be out of this stupidity. we had to wait about an hour in line today at the mess hall, because of the units that are still locked down, I think it's 2 of them, maybe just one though. They aren't allowed to go anywhere, they have to sleep in there bays where they fix their vehicles. They are maintenence unit. Man it must really suck to be those guys right now. They were all in the mess hall getting something to eat, I think that's the only place they're allowed to go.

I turned in my federal taxes today, woo hooo:) So that will be a nice return check when I finaly get it. Just have to get the state ones done now:( Stupid people over here don't do state taxes, now how the heck can the army do state taxes in germany, but not over here....they're the same people, what the heck man??? Ahh well, it shouldn't be too hard to get it done, as long as they dont ask for last years return:) I have no idea where that paperwork is:)

Well it's time for my triweekly shower:) Wow, should be the last one I'll ever have in the army then huh:)

Again????

2005-01-26T19:34:00.000-08:00

So I'm cleaning my gear in the bathroom. Thinking that I'm doing nothing wrong....well I soon learned that obviously I wasn't:) The sergeant major came through the barracks about that time, and decided that I was doing something wrong. So apparently I"m not supposed to be cleaning my gear in the bathroom. I at least was smart enough to not ask him where I should clean it though:) So I'm not supposed to clean in the the shower room, cause that's where you take showers, I'm not supposed to clean it in my room, cause that's where we sleep and live. So...I guess I'm supposed to just use the Force and it will magicly clean all my army stuff. Man that's pretty cool:) Yes, the US Army can do pretty amazing things. So this morning, I went and put it all in the washing machine:) Ohhh man, that would have been great if he came through then:) But all my stuff is clean now so it's all good:) This morning was the last time I had to go watch the parking lot. It wasn't so bad, get up, go get the notebook to write the tickets, go sit in car till a little after 6, then go place a bunch of tickets:) So it wasn't too bad:)

Man

2005-01-25T02:25:00.000-08:00

So, I have like 14 days left in the army pretty much...that's outstanding:) I'm sooo friggn excited/ happy to get the hell on out. Last week, I got in trouble. I park my car in those areas that are lined out...my car fits in them really nice:) Well, our sergeant major I guess doesn't like it. We have a really bad parking problem over here right now. People parking wherever they can. So he's started cracking down. The police dont care, they haven't given anybody tickets. But he does, and he also hasn't said anything about it either. So I get a nice letter on my windshield stating that I have to see him that morning. I go in and tell them" I guess I'm here for a butt chewing" I told about the sticker on my windshield(someone else had put it up there, they had gotten caught earlier) He asked if I had parked in an unauthorised spot, I told him yes. He stated that I need to park in the overflow lot(they lock this up at 7 pm and open it at 05) I asked if they were going t open it now? "what, you live in the barracks?" Umm yeah I told him. Well I'm going to have them keep it open now, but you have parking lot guard duty starting at 05. Oh my god, I almost died laughing, but I managed to maintain my composure:) So this week I have to get up at O'dark thirty to watch people park and give them tickets if they park in unauthorised spots:) OHH Man, I can't believe this. The only thing saving me right now is the fact I have just 2 weeks left:) No one starts to show up until 6 anyway, so we just stand out there and freese our butts off:) I gave 4 people notices today:) So we will see how many of them show up tomorrow:) I think they are all higher ranking people, so I doubt any of them will be showing up:) Ahh well:) I started cleaning all my gear. Hopefully I'll be able to turn it in this Friday, that would be awesome, if not I will have all next week to do so:)

I went Scuba diving on sat, that was pretty fun. The water was exceptionaly crappy:) We got in, and we couldn't even see our hands out in front of us, it was pretty horrible. All the dirt from the ton of rain we've been getting. So we decide to see if the visibility would get better once we got a bit deeper. John started to go down before I was ready, as soon as his head went bellow the surface, I lost him. He knew where I was though, and grabbed my leg at least:) We headed down, and about between 30 and 40 feet the vis got better at least, so we continued the dive. It ended up being a lot of fun...though we didn't do much:) We saw a bit more fish I think and it was pretty dark as well. So besides the crappy surface conditions, it was pretty good at least:)

I got a ticket to go to Germany. I will be going from the 16th of feb till the 28th. I have a meeting at the school on the 12th of Feb so I will be in Santan Barbara for a couple days looking for house's, apartments or roomates, or maybe good dumpsters behind fancey restraunts:) So that means I'll be making it into Portales the first week of march. I still don't know what date I will be starting school, so I don't know when I'll be moving down there:)

Ok:)

2005-01-15T20:38:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up, I am doing good lately. Every morning I wake up with a huge smile, knowing that I'm getting out of this god foresaken army!!! :) The weathe has gotten a bit cold here lately. The roads get iced up so its a bit fun to drive on now:) haven't been doing much else lately though. Just trying to find appartments and jobs for when I get out:)

WooHoooo

2004-12-29T13:29:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas to you all:) I hope it was good for everyone? I had a pretty good christmas. I went to Portland and spent it with Doug and his family....and Verena too:) So it was an enjoyable weekend:) Last night we went to a Seattle Supersonics Basketball game. I actually had a good time there. I don't know crap about basketball, nor do I pay much attention to it...but I had a lot of fun there, though Verena kept hitting me when I would yell at the refs or other team:) The refs did a pretty crappy job. Even the fans from the other team(Philledelphia 76ers) said that it wasn't much of a game cause the refs kept on makings bad calls against the Sonics. The Sonics lost by the way:) Ahh well, it was still a bunch fun, Verenas really liked it a lot, but she didn't have as much fun as I did yelling and screaming:) We even got to buy our tickets from a Scalper...that rocks:) We only payed 50 bucks for 46 dollar tickets, so it wasn't too bad...they had been out for over a week. We had gone to Seattle to check out the city, we went up the Space needle, which was pretty cool too:) We were looking for the Sonics team store and the scalper dude was outside.....so after checking to make sure they were out of tickets, we decided to get some. I can't actually believe I went to a stinking Basketball game:) Well, tonight I will be renting a suit so I can go on another night dive. If the store dudes are there, they are closed on Tues and wed, but most of the time someone is around anyway. So hopefully I can go out:)

Everyday I keep waking up, happier then heck. I have sooo little time left, it's just awesome:)

Good and Bad

2004-12-20T01:27:00.000-08:00

Well I did a sweet dive this week, on wednesday. We went to a pretty cool wall, it goes like 220feet down, we only went to 67:) So that was pretty nice:) Then Thursday night, someone stole my wetsuit as it was drying in the bathroom. So that friggn sucks!!! I could have gotten about 4 dives this weekend as well for my next level, but couldn't go on it since I didn't have a wetsuit. It's just weird...though extremely fortunate, that they only took my wetsuit. That was about the least expensive piece of equipment I had there....so though it sucks that they took it, I'm extremely greatful that that was all they took. The weird thing is.....why just the wetsuit? Don't they understand it's worse then stealing someone's underwear.....you don't pee in your underwear to stay wram do ya??? :) So needless to say Friday pretty much sucked. I was on duty that night as well, and I had gone in at 05 to go get it, but alas it was not there. My buddies saw it up there around midnight so someone came in a took waaayyy late. Ahhh well. I guess next time I will just have to sit there and watch my stuff as it's soaking, that's going to be a fun few hours:)

Not much else has been going on. Just getting really realy excited that my time is coming up soooooo soon!!!!!!! Man that's great!!!!!! There is also only a couple of us back now, everyone else has pretty much gone on leave. One of the guys staying back was really fortunate. He wasn't able to get a plane ticket home. His hometown Radio station was having some make a wish thing going on and his mom had put in his story(while he was in Iraq, they didn't give him all the extra pay you're supposed to get). Well, they ended up chooseing him for it. It's pretty cool. He is not allowed to tell his mom that he got the ticket. The radio station is going to pick him up from the airport with a tv crew and they are going to take him home. So that's pretty awesome:) He only gets to stay a week, but at least he's going home.

Finaly:)

2004-12-13T15:36:00.000-08:00

Ok, I finaly posted last last couple pics from us leaving Iraq. There's only like 5 of them, but hey, I finaly put them up:)

I did a couple dives this weekend. It was pretty fun, a bit cold:) We found one of the octopi. The person that took us to it, kinda screwed up, it was funny:) The octopus lives under the second joint on the pipeline. So we went down and found the dude, he stayed under so we went to look for some crabs for it. So we just followed the pipe, found one and came back. The thing is, wherever you dive, you disturd the silt, and make it all murky....bit of some poor planning:) But we continue on, get to the joint, and wave the crab around after a couple minutes, nothing happens so we let it go.....only to find out that we were at the wrong joint:) Ahh well, better luck next time:)

Alrighty:)

2004-12-09T22:36:00.000-08:00

So one of these days I will put up the last picks of Iraq on here:) I keep forgetting to:( Sorry bout that, it's only a couple of them though.

I got to do a night dive last night, it was ok, didn't see much. Some weird fish with beards and such. But not much else, did see a couple huge Dungeness crabs though, they didn't attack me this time when I played with them though, so that wasn't as much fun:) One of them did get me kinda good, but he wussed out:) John did kick my regulator out of my mouth though, he pulled in front and cut me off, so that was cool:) But not much else out last night. We heard the seal barking, but never saw him:( We get to do part of our equipment class this sat during the day, then we're going to go diving somewhere else to find an octopus, that should be cool:)

Well the weather is wet and rainy again:) go figure:) I will be getting my clearing papers on the 27th of Jan, that will be a glorious day:) That just means I can start the turning my crap in process:) Then I should be going on leave the 9th. One of my buddy's that's also getting out, put in the wrong date. They had screwed his get out of the army date as well....so that means his leave days are messed up too(you get 2.5 every month) So when he put in his leave, he forgot to subtract those from the ones he will actually have....it was 10 extra days:) So he was pretty sad:) We had to go back and count the lamps in the rooms again today, it is like the 3rd time this week we've done it...the number's aren't going to change....no one is here:) Ahh well:)

Alrighty:)

2004-12-07T18:55:00.000-08:00

Ok, you get 3 guess's as to what the weather is like today, and probably for the rest of the week.....or most likely the remainder probably of the rest of this century(unless we can speed up the global warming process:) ) and the first 2 don't count:) yep, it's friggn cold and rainy...wooo hooo:) And you only get one guess as to what I"m wearing:) Damn skippy it's shorts, what do you think I am, some sort of sane adult???? Man, what the heck is wrong with you people:)

So I"m having difficulties with the friggn phone company. They keep saying I'm over minutes, though the just reset, on their website I look up my account and it says that I'm not over either....so what the hell is going on here???? it's friggn driving me insane. So my phone doesn't work:( So once I get this problem sorted, I'll let ya know:)

wooo hooo:)

2004-12-06T19:20:00.000-08:00

Well, this past week I was taking my Rescue Diver class, man that one whooped my ass a bit:) It was fun though. So yes, I am now a certified rescue diver:) My muscles are still sore and my bruises are still healing:) We did a lot of pulling people out of the pool, then on the last day we went to the lake on base to do the exams. Man first off, we stayed waaaayyy later then we were supposed to everynight. The instructor loved to talk about himslef alot, and then one of the students does as well, so they just played off each other, it was pretty horrible:) So there was a lot of chatting and not much going on....kinda frustrating actually. The pool is heated so it wasn't sooo bad the first hour, but when the second and a half hours came along...dude, it kinda sucked a bit:) Then the day of the lake, holy crap. That was where we got to do all the rescues we had gone over in the pool. So the first rescue we had a passed out diver and a active panic diver. We only had 3 of us in our class, so the other two pawned the active dude on me(the dude is a great role player, and he's a ton of dead weight). Since we were in the lake, we couldn't take off the weight belt so that made draggin his ass that much more difficult....which was horrible:) It was funny, they told me before I got in to use less weight then I normaly would(it's a fresh water lake, and less dense then the ocean...so you sink better:) but I was wearing an extra piece of wetsuit that I normaly didn't wear so this added more bouyancy. So when I first went in to get him, I had great difficulties in getting submerged:) Very bad, because he likes to chase you down if he can:) But I made it:) ). When John, the other dude in the class did his, he got exhausted and had to quit, then do it over again. I ended up taking off that extra wetsuit(a shorty, kinda like those old fashioned one piece male bathers, the shorts and shirts sewn together) That might have been a bad misteak, the lake was a lot colder then the ocean:) Ohhhh man, I thought I lost my two best friends, figured the frose off and floated away....it was horrible:) I found them a couple hours later after I had warmed up a bit:) We got to do a search for a diver on the bottom as well. The lake was sooo nasty and muddy...and it stunk soooooo bad(cause of the mud we were turning up) I found him and started to bring him up, as soon as I tried to of course th visibility went to less then 0:) Couldn't even see my hand in front of my face. But I got his ass up out of the water no worries though:) So it was a fun class and I had a good time:)

We had our first day of leave, so almost everyone is gone.....except for the new guys that got here while we were in Iraq, they weren't allowed to go on leave, there is 97 new guys coming in, that's almost a full Troop of people. So it will be good once they put them into the regular Troops. We had to pick up trash all morning, and a group of us had to go to the barracks, the people that live on the third floor. They are painting the barracks and they have contractors doing it(geesh, back in the day, I had to paint the barracks in germany...that was fun though, since the enclosed area and paint pretty much made us high the whole time....killer headaches though:)) so they have to have people up there to guard the rooms so they don't steal anything. They should be on my floor next week, so that will be a lot of fun, sitting around just watching painters...yippee:)

Man:)

2004-12-02T16:47:00.000-08:00

Sorry, been busy lately and haven't been able to write. I am doing well, still alive and kicking:) I have started my Rescue Diver class, and that goes on most of the night. So I can't write after I get out of it. But we got off a bit early today, so I came down:) We have a troop party at Chucky Cheese's this afternoon, so that's coo:) But I have to leave early so I can go to my Scuba class.

Ok, so here's my plan for getting out sooo far:) I should get out Feb 9th. I will go to Australia for a break and then start school in March, in California. I will go back to Dive school...yes, again:) This time finish it though:) So I will take a much need breather in Aus, probably get lost out in the bush somewhere and enjoy every minute of it!!! See how many animals I can get bitten by too, that will be great:) I'll just not try that with the Crocs or tooooo venumous snakes and spiders:) That doesn't leave very many animals to get bit by...I'll just have to stick with Hot chicks then I think:) Hubba hubba:)

Score:)

2004-11-24T22:13:00.000-08:00

I love shopping in the winter, cause all my clothes are like half and double half off:) I just got a pair of shorts regular, 39 bucks, for under 5 bucks...that kicks ass. The problem is they only had one pair in my size(31 thank you....punks:) ) but, if I gained a bunch of weight, I would have a huge selection, they have all sorts of sizes in the 40 inchers:) Ahh well, I think I will try to stay almost thin:)
They are giving the Rescue diver class next weekend, so I might go diving agian. That would be cool:) The weather should be even colder then:) Awesome!!!!!
I should be picking up my orders for getting out of the army on Wednesday....woooo hoooooo!!!! That is a giant step to freedom:) I found out that the person doing my paperwork to get my pay straight, hadn't sent it off yet. I hope she sent it off yesterday though, she went on leave today till monday so I can't find out till then. Ahh well. Can't get no stinkn breaks even doing the right thing:)

Holy Cow

2004-11-23T22:45:00.000-08:00

So on Monday, our Squadron is going to go pick up our vehicles from North Ft Lewis. The funny thing is that there are no communications in the vehicles. So they are blantantly breaking the rules, and don't give a damn about it(it was put out to us that yes our command are fully aware that it is not safe, but are willing the risk) The have to drive from one end of the base all the way across the other end of it. This is quiet a distance without any communications. And the vehicles have the Slot armour(shopping cart cage around it) At no times are we allowed to drive the vehicles without comms....but it's ok for our top command to break the rules...so when a bunch of accidents happen because of their ignorance, someone's car's get hit, someone is ran over, ohh well....the risk is ok. The great thing is that we were not supposed to pick up the truck until the middle of Jan....for that reason, all the equipment for them is still locked up somewhere, and we still don't have a reason for to get them...so this is pure ignorance. Ahh well, I will be getting the second part of my ETS physical done(End time of service, some crap like that:) the getting out of the army thing:) ) that morning so I don't really have to worry about it. I'll just be able to hear all the stories of all the cars that were hit:) It's just great how, if at anytime we loose comms, we can't move, can't go anywhere, can't do a damn thing....but they can change the rules to their likings to tickle their fancy:) Tis life in the Almighty Cav:) The funny thing is tomorrow we are having a saftey type day, we have to spend all morning taking classes on being safe. The double stanards are amazing:) Be sure you listen to what we say, or we will punish you, take your pay and rank...just don't pay attention to when we break the rules, it's ok for us to do so! We got to take a pt test today, I passed all my events:) Awesome:) It was also the first one I didn't really worry about though too....I'm getting out, I don't need that stress:) Jones even passed too:) He beat the standard by at least 2 points in each event:) The platoon sgt wasn't too happy, but he passed it, and a couple others didn't...yet he still gets shit for it. That sucks.

Thank you, thank you very much....

2004-11-21T16:05:00.000-08:00

Why yes, I am now a certified Advanced Dork...I mean Diver:) ( I think I attained the advanced dork level ages ago, I should be about Guru level by now I think, man such I high level and I'm only 28...dude, I kick ass:) ) I just finished my advanced dives this weekend, and had a blast doing it. Fri we did our night dive, which kicked ass. Saw all sorts of cool stuff and the fish aren't as afraid at night, so you can get pretty close and play with them and such. We found a batch of Squid eggs, but could only find one little baby squid nearby. So that was pretty cool, we founda nudeybranch as well, so weird slug looking thing:) We did two dives on Sat morning. It was sooo friggn cold, it was below freesing so that kinda sucked, it was ok once we got in the water though. We didour deep dive and our Bouyancy control dive. We got down to 95 feet, that was pretty cool. We went to an area where they sunk a pier so there was some cool structures to check out...didn't see anything to cool those times. Then this morning we did our multilevel dive and our Navigation dive. Well let me tell you about our multilevel dive:) I got down to 110ft. There is a cool wall that we went to(it reaches somewhere around 220ft) I spent a lot of time tying to stay up, so I spent a lot of air in doing so before I finaly stabiliased myself. But in doing so, sucked down a lot of air:) So anyway, the other guys were low on air as well, so we turned around to head back. We were supposed to go to an Octopus hole to check him out, he's supposed to be a big dude. But, we had to head back. Soooo, we head back. I'm below 1000psi(that's pretty low:) ) and we stop, one the other guys(in total, there is me, the instructor, and two other students) had to share air with the other dude. I took some air from the instructor, I was getting close to 500psi. we go a bit further, and the other dude only has 200 psi so he had to stop sharing his air so the other dude had to go to the instructor and take his spare air(the Instructor had a pony bottle(a seperate small tank of air for emergency's). I show him my gauge and he tells me to head back, I was below 500 now. So I take off. this is about 20-30 feet I get about 10 feet, and run out of air. Now I don't mean like 100psi, like 0, like no air coming out of my regulator or nothing. Man, that was pretty cool:) So, I had to surface:) Not once did I panic, or was afraid. Well, around 20ft I was worried, I wanted to be at least 15ft before I ran out of air and had to surface:) So there was a little while when I was a bit worried:) But once I got above 15 feet, I didnt worry any more(you can surface safely at that depth, as long as you rise slowly, we had made a safety stop at 30ft and I waited a little bit at 15ft again. So I was good to surface:) So um, yeah, that was interesting:) It was getting to be high tide, so we had to swim further to reach the drop off so that also helped us suck our air down too:) But we made it ok and it was a lot of fun. When I released the air out of my hoses, most of the time it comes out pretty forciblly and for a good couple seconds, when I did it this time, there was a small puff:) So yep, didn't have much left:) After that we did our navigation dive. We just putted around in squares and triangles and got our pace count. So that was fun. We got to play with some pretty big dungeness crabs. There were at least 10 inches across(well past the legal limit I think:) ) I was playing with one, and the dude was a fighter, grabbed on to my stinking glove and didn't want to let go:) his was well larger then my hand....so he had a good set of pinchers on him:) I little bit of underwater Ninjistu(ha, you didn't know I was an underwater Ninja huh:) )took care of him though. No, I didn't kick his ass or rip his arms off(I"m one with the animals remember:) ) I tried to shake him off first...but of course that never works...it's just fun to do:) Then I layed my hand on the floor and he walked(more like hauled ass) off:) So he was good to go:) But yes, I am now a certified Advanced diver:)

So all in all, I had a most excellent weekend:) It was a ton of fun, though I frose my ass off:) So now I have to loose enough weight to fit into my wetsuit again:) Ohhh man, that should be interesting:) I did manage to get my pants on, but the top wouldn't make it:) I have a hood attached to a vest top, I got that sucker on but almost had to call the firedepartment to come rescue my ass out of it. I managed to make it out though, close to 30 minutes later:) That sucked sooooooo bad. I just wanted to cry cause I couldn't get out:) And it was late at night so no one was up or they were out partying...yeah ok, like I'd go find someone to help me out, you're right:)

We had a platoon BBQ last night as well. We got to talk to Scott, the one that was shot in the head in Iraq. That was pretty interesting. He has memories, but it's weird. LIke, he remember the Lt, and our PSG. He didn't know their names or who they really were though. He knew the LT as the "One we like" and that he wasn't the dude "that we hated"(refering to our PSG:) he wasn't there last night) So he knows, that we were his friends and can kinda remember us.....but he doesn't at the same time. It is really interesting. Like a small child, knowing certian people they like.

These guys

2004-11-16T22:16:00.000-08:00

Man, I tell ya what. Today was interesting:) I had to write up Jone's counceling statements today...since he's missed 3 formations in about 2 weeks. So I had to spend the whole day writing these things up. That kinda sucked. But I got to find out some really retarded stuff at the end of the day. I found out that I get to go to an ammunition holders class this thursday, and then in december, I get to go to what is affectionatly know as "Meet Gazers" class. A class on how to observe people peeing in cups for drug tests...out friggn standing!!!!!! The best part is they are going to have to send someone else in a little while to these classes, since I'm getting out of the army in a couple months. These people are just friggn Morons. Ahh well only a couple more months:) So tomorrow, my paper work to get my pay corrected will be turned in, finally:) Well, it was supposed to be turned in a couple days ago, but that's ok. They keep changing what they need, but I should be ok:)
The weather man said something pretty funny yesterday..."The weather forecast is pretty easy today, Rain for the rest of the week" Man, how much does he get paid for that job, it must be pretty hard to forecast the weather up here...rain, rain and more rain:)

What the heck???

2004-11-15T23:51:00.000-08:00

Man the stupid wash is shrinking my pants again, what the heck is up with that???? :) I need to go wash them in cold water huh:) I still haven't tried the wetsuit on yet, man, I will have to become one with the force to accomplish that mission I think:)

Well we got to sit around and do nothing again most of the day. This time they let us go up to our rooms at least, so it wasn't so bad. After only an hour of sitting around with nothing to do. These guys are killing me. The Re-enlisment Sergeant always makes fun of me because our unit is still the only one's with full day schedule. We finaly got my paperwork done so that they will pay me correcty:) If everything goes right:)

ok

2004-11-13T21:46:00.000-08:00

Ok so I'm chillin at Barnes and nobles starbucks...on the net...since it's the only place I can get online right now(besides the library:) ) and I order a double choclate chip frappacino..those are awesome:) But they forget about me, so I go back up there.....and finaly get it. But, it's not double chocolate chip, it's Java chip....bad move. See, the double chocolate chip is made with cream, milk...the jave chip is Coffee. Ohhhhh man, do they not realise that it's friggn like 6:30 pm if I am lucky I might get to sleep around 4am. Ohhh man, but the Java is just soooo good to. I just don't get it at night, so I can actually get to sleep sometime:) So now I'll be bouncing off the walls all night long, Yippee:) Speaking about bouncing off the walls, some dude got really really lucky last night:) To tell you how thin our walls are, he lives 2 rooms down from me and it sounded like I had front row seats...ahhh man. I didnt get to see him today, to let him know he needs to turn the volume down on his girlfriend....it sounded like he did a good job though:) Ahh well, tis the life in the barracks:) I got to play Halo 2 tonight, that was pretty cool, the first one kicked ass, and this one seems to be just as good at least:) It's funny, I have an X-box, the game...but still no TV for it:) Well, I think I'm going to have to go run around or something to burn off this caffine:)

There is a God:)

2004-11-13T21:24:00.000-08:00

WOOOO HOOOOO, I found that Aussie shop today, hell yeah baby...Tim tams and Burger rings to my delight:) ohhh man that's soooo awesome:) It's a pretty small store, but they mainly do mail order stuff from their website. So I am happy today:)

Last night I watched "the Incredibles" Man that movie kicked ass!!!!! Now how come real movies don't have plots, and good acting????? I laughed my ass off, and really really enjoyed the movie. So I recomend to go watch it:) If you want to see a good, funny, well made movie:)

I started my get out of the army physical on wed....well let me rephrase that....I ALMOST started my ets physical...they lost my medical records:) So I can't really do much until they find them:) Ohhh man. But I got to turn in the paperwork for them to correct my pay scale on wed as well though...so maybe they army will pay me correctly for the correct amount of time I've been in....it should be a nice back pay check too:) That's if they do it right this time...this will only have been the 7th time I've put this paperwork in. They always seem to convienently loose the paperwork that benifits you....never when they have to take money from you though:)

I just spent 200 bucks for my scuba licsense....so I can advance my level. So that's pretty cool. I will get to do a few dives around this area next weekend, so that should be pretty cool, hopefully the water not much colder then the stuff in So Cal:) Tonight I get to see if my wet suit still fits....yippee:) That shall be a fun expierence in itself:) Though the extra insulation around my midsection should benifit me in the cold water:)

I just found out that the past few stories I've posted, haven't posted. What the heck??? I think it takes me to long to write the story so I get timed out or something silly like that. So now I need to make sure they are getting posted...sorry bout that

Hubba hubba:)

2004-11-08T23:49:00.000-08:00

Had a pretty good weekend, even though it was just 2 days long:) I got to go to Portland and hang out with Doug, and then his dad also for a little bit too. I got to pick up my stuff:) So now I have my X-box and my PS2...but no TV to play them on:) Ahhh well. Actually, our room really doesn't have any room for a tv.... I wish I was joking but it really is that small.

On the way back from Portland, one of my buddies from Iraq was with his chick down there so he rode back with me. When we were crossing the bridge into washington, something exploded, have no idea what it was or where it came from, but yeah, we both jumped. Scared the shit out of us real bad.....still funny none the less:) Oh, and today...man. Jones, Mac and I were in line at the mess hall, it was long, so we were lined up outside. We were standing there chatting when a few really loud pop's went off. Jone's basicly was on the ground, I was squatted down reaching for my weapon, and Mac was doing the same thing. No, we didn't have our weapons with us, just so used to them being slung over our backs, just second nature still:) It was really funny, since we were the only one's in desert uniforms in line and the only one's that acted that way:) OHhh man:) Tis life:)

Wooo Hooo:)

2004-11-05T21:58:00.000-08:00

Today was a great day:) I got to start my clearing process out of the army:) AWESOME!!!!!!!:)

Well Halloween was ok. The night before, when we went to the haunted forest/cornfield, that was pretty cool. We had a lot of fun screwing around out there.....and this beast of a woman had the hots for me....so that was pretty scary in its self:) Plus with Tony shouting out my phone number to her and other coments, I guess that didn't help much either:) The next night, well, that kinda fell through. The people that were supposed to set everything up....kinda didn't. So we waited 3hrs before finaly giving up on it. That kinda sucked, but ghosts don't just haunt on halloween, so we can find some spookey places later:)

My dad just sent me a website to an Australian store that is from the looks of it, out the back gate of the post. So I will have to look for it next week sometime. So that is awesome as well, they have all the chips I've been missingg there tooo...wooo hooooo:)

Well, we get to start full day schedules next week. It's pretty funny. The CAV wanted to keep all the infantry dudes that were attached to us, with us until the end of the holidays, to make sure that their units didn't screw them out of taking leave and such....but the funny thing is, they are getting 3 and 4 day weekends, dont start full day schedules until After block leave. They live in Much nicer barracks....with their own rooms.....and we don't want to let them go back because we're afraid they might get treated bad????? That is pretty damn funny:) I guess it would be pretty dang horrible to have extra time off, have you're own room and such:) Ahh well, only a few more months and I won't have to worry bout it anymore:) HA haa:)

ALrighty:)

2004-10-26T18:22:00.000-07:00

Ok, I made it back to the states alive and in one piece:) Today was just pure Hell for us though. I was able to just get only 2 shots that I didnt need, they had just given them to us right before we left Iraq. But, since our unit doesn't have our MEDICAL records, they have to give them to us again. You know since even though everyone got these shots, they still can't believe us when we tell them we just got the shots. But that's the army for ya, they don't care if you get the same shot 3 times in 5 months...even though they should be 2 years apart:) And they wonder why we have weird things wrong with us:) Anyway, the lady was nice enough to jab the needles into my arm though, and since they were both nasty shots, I got them one in each arm....so I had nice little trails of blood down to both my elbows:) Yippee:) man that sucked:) Ahh well, the was the best part of the day though:) Well I'm off to go find some wireless internet place so I can actualy upload the last pics of Iraq:)

Ok

2004-10-24T00:13:00.000-07:00

Well we were almost stuck in Kuwait for up to 72hrs. Some stupid part on the plane broke right before they landed. So we had to wait a few extra hours while they drove around looking for it. We sat on the buses for about 5 hrs before they went somewhere else so we could actualy get out and walk around. All in all we were about 3hrs late or something like that. So right now we are in germany, wooo hooo:) We wont be here very long either:)

Ohh yeah:)

2004-10-23T04:16:00.000-07:00

I just had Baskin Robins it wasn't no stinking 31 flavours though, more like 6 I think:) But it still was ice cream none the less:) Well we're still in Kuwait, but hopefully not for much longer though, we hope:) Man it still only feels like I got here in June...oh wait, that's because I did just get here in june:) I love saying that to the guys:) I better watch out, they might dunk me in that blue water in the porta poty:) One of the guys from the unit that replaced us brought up a good point though. He said that if he sleeps at least 12 hrs a day, then you are only here for 6 months:) Good philosophy:)

Who the hell????

2004-10-22T04:27:00.000-07:00

Who the hell would want to live in this God forsaken country. There is nothing here, just tons of sand and the friggn sun, oh yeah...and lots of wind too. These people must be crasy to live here, at least Iraq has the Euphratis and Tigres rivers....and the land isn't so bad either. But Kuwait, that's a different story. What a horrible place to live, it's a good thing we're here for only a few days:)

Well, I had subway last night, and some pizza for lunch today:) Wooo hooo:) It's pretty pathetic, the people that are stationed in Kuwait get the same pay and benifits as those that actualy go to Iraq. So they get thier combat pay and the exact same stuff that we got....except they don't get shot at, blown up, have to carry their weapons or wear all their gear....have fast food places to eat at:) The funny thing is, a couple weeks ago, ESPN Sports Center filmed their show from location in Kuwait. You know, to show support for all the combat troops.....man, that's disgusting. Ahh well, more power to them:) bastards:) Dude, the funniest thing happend last night when I was on guard duty(since we don't carry our weapons with us, we put them all together and pull guard on them) one of the guys was getting something out of his bag. Well his Helmet was on top of it, and it fell off, and smacked on the wooden floor, with a pretty good bang:) Dude, almost everyone's head popped up from their cots:) So that was pretty funny:) Well we'll be home soon enough though-that will be nice:)

Man......

2004-10-21T15:16:00.000-07:00

Man, I have never been more fearful for my life then this afternoon. So like this morning, of course we were woken up to the lovely sounds of mortars, well, we also had a couple more barrages during the day as well.....while we were waiting to get on the plane to go to Kuwait:) Then, we were delayed, because the stupid Iraqi President was at our runway, so we had to wait for him to take off, he only delayed us 2 hrs though. Friggn bastard. But we finaly took off. Now that's where the whole fearful for my life part comes in to play. Man, I was sooo friggn worried that we were going to get shot out of the sky...man it sucked. But we didn't so it's all good now:) It was the radest Take off I've ever been on though:) They warned us that they will do an aggressive take off, so to make sure we were holding on to something. Man, you all know of Mr. Toads Wild Ride at Disneyland, well this was his brother's horrible nightmare:) Ohhh man. We hung out at just above tree level for a long ass time, and we were swerving this way and that way, up and down, and the turns, looked like the wing could nail the trees. Man, it was awesome:) Then sometime later during the flight, the pilot came through to the back(that's were the fold down toilet is at:) ) and either one of two things happend since up until that time it was a smooth flight...1- he just said screw it I gotta pee, and just walked away from the stick, or 2 the co-pilot took over and was screwing around trying to make him pee all over the place...needless to say, we were happy once the pilot got back to the cockpit:) So it was a very interesting flight:) But we are in Kuwait now, safe and sound:) It's funny though, there seems to be a ton of things making large booming sounds out here, so it's funny to see everyone jumpy:)

I have had a head cold the past couple days, so it was awesome flying on an unpressurised aircraft...doing combat maneuvers...ohhh man it friggn sucked:) I had some pic to post, but these comps don't have a port for me to up load them, so I guess you'll just have to wait till I get back to the states:) Ha ha:)

He hee:)

2004-10-21T03:14:00.000-07:00

So this Morning SSg G goes out for his morning smoke, he opens the door, and just as he steps out......Boooom. He pauses, I look over to him.....boom boom boom....boom. He hauls ass back under the bed, I wait a little bit(I"m still in bed at this point) but after the 4th one, I roll out of bed to get under it:) Man, what the hell are they doing shooting mortars this friggn early in the morning?????? A beautiful way to wake up:) Everyone else hauled ass out of their room, most of them barefoot...which really sucks since cause the ground is covered in rocks(to keep the dust down, but makes it a pain in the ass to walk anywhere, and insane to walk barefoot in:) ) So it was pretty funny watching them walking back, still in what they slept in, most of them just shorts or boxers. So we had an interesting morning I guess you could say:) SO hopefully we'll be out of here soon:)

Yep

2004-10-20T02:37:00.000-07:00

Yeah, we're still here in Iraq, should be leaving soon.....well if we left when they first said we were leaveing, we would have already been gone by now:) Ahh well, at least the mortaring has died down a bunch so it's not so bad anymore:) Just waiting until we can get on the plane:) So if I don't write in a few days, then that should be good news....cause hopefully it's because I'm flying the heck on out of here:)

Ohhh man:)

2004-10-19T15:15:00.000-07:00

So last night we go to dinner chow, but just before we left, there were some explosions far away somewhere else. So when we got to the mess hall, all the workers were still in the bunkers. So that means we got to serve ourselves:) Ohhh man, never let a hungry dude serve himself:) It was awesome:) It was also a good thing we ate before Jones did:) So last night dinner was pretty good:) Plus tonight, I had stir fry...and they actually had chicken...and garlic. Ohhh man, it was great:)

Wow

2004-10-17T05:44:00.000-07:00

So i get back in last night, and just after I lay down, a friggn huge explosion goes off....really really big. But it was far away and definately not a mortar....but still a ton of people came running out and went to the bunkers:) I just stayed in bed and listend to all the footsteps outside:) Then today, there was another massive explosion far away again, but it was while we were having a formation and checking to make sure we had all our sensitive items(another bright idea, we've been getting mortared a lot lately, so lets have a giant formation with everyone in the same place???) but everyone was gone like the wind. Man it was great:) Ahh well...there just went another bang, hopefully just a controlled blast though(bomb squad blowing up stuff?) It's going to be interesting going back to the states and watching us still jump when something goes bang:) Well we should be heading home anyday now. So not much longer now:)

You know what's funny??? :)

2004-10-16T15:17:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I was just getting online, when they closed everything down, something about the water tower being attacked??? Hmm, ok didn't hear anything but hey they still kicked us out. So back to our hootches I go. I decide to wash my gear. I take out the armour plates and kevlar from my jacket, dump out all the stuff in my pouches and get to washing:) I get done and have everything layed out, everyone is outside, it's pretty nice out and they're playing chess. So I sit with them and watch. It was just about dinner time when a familiar sound hits us. I remember this sound very well since that day, the sound of a mortar launching....and everyone was gone. Now that's pretty damn funny, everyone chillin, relaxing one instant, the next poof-they're gone. Man, what the hell was I to do??? SSG G hauls ass into our hootch, the other guys outside have taken off to the bunkers around the corner. So I jump into my hootch. All my gear is still outside drying, bloody hell, SSG G is already completely under his bed, all I can see is his boots dissapearing. I stuff myself under my bed, next to my laundry bag(I just got it in, so the clothes in it are clean:) ) I feel completely naked without anything to put on, and all I can think about is a friggn round hitting our hootch, I grab my laundry and cover my head and neck with it(earthquake drill from going to school as a kid in L.A. taught me that one...except we used books and those would have protected me better:) ) I know it won't protect me much better, but I felt securer with it at least:) They launched a ton of rounds(ok, like 7, still waaayy to many though:) ) and they were landing all around our living area. Bloody hell man, that friggn sucked. So they stop and everyone comes back out from under their rocks:) A while later a single round came in as well.....poof everyone was gone again...but it was just one round, so it was funny watching everyone dissapear again:) We were really greatful that it was only one round though:) Today, we were out playing chess again, about dinner time again, and the same sound hits us....bloody hell. This time I follow Bongiorno to the bunker. He's laying down in it, and a few seconds later a bunch of other people join us....these bunker suck, they are just a concrete shell. Not very big, and the sides are open...so you hope a bunch of people come in and you're in the middle:) Man, they just didn't stop coming this time though. They said it was 10...and it lasted maybe almost 2 minutes...that felt like forever. They just kept hitting, a couple at a time. Man, that really really sucked....but still funnier then hell watching everyone run like hell:) Bongiorno is pretty damn fast though:) So that's what's been happening these past 2 days:) Ramadan started today, and they believe they will go to a better place in heaven if they get killed during the holiday(it was when God came down and talked to Muhamad) So they like to attack us more during the next couple weeks:) Yippee:) But we will only be here a little while longer:) I think only one dude was injured, got a little bit of shrapnel in his leg. So we'll see how many they shoot at us tomorrow:)

Wooo hoooo.....I think???:)

2004-10-15T02:20:00.000-07:00

Ok, well I think last night was my last mission...again:) It was pretty boring and all they let us do was sit inside the truck the whole time, though nothing happend for us to get out anyway:) So hopefully that was our last mission. We don't know yet though, and they keep changing it around on us. Who knows????????

We have the memorial service for the soldier we lost the other day today. That sucks.

I don't think much else is going on though, we get to repack the last connex tomorrow though....that will be fun:) It is pretty soon until we get out of here, that's pretty cool:)