I'll be with you in spirit, Strife. Taunting you and making snide remarks about your height.
I'll be with you in spirit, Strife. Taunting you and making snide remarks about your height.
They made fun of Audie Murphy too.
Okay then, let's do this. Any one who wishes to join this workout club may do so. My goals are:
A) Be able pass USMA physical test (preferably with a 75, although that may not be possible)
B) Letter in wieght lifting.
My dad got a bronze star in Desert Shield and Storm. He was a tanker for his early years, then moved to intel. He was just remobilized (48 now). He has said that he'll be VERY angry if he is rejected for duty at this point.
Funny, but African animals are meaner. Mind you, some south american cichlids are Badasses.Australian animals are hardcore.
If you your algae eater is grey and looks armored (or if you've seen it slightly change colors), it's probably a plecosomaus (I spelled it wrong, I always just use pleco). The goldfish might be some sort of goldfish, or a type of Koi.
Australian animals are hardcore.
I've been working on my pull-ups a lot.
I can do six straight right now. A third of the way to the goal.
Ok, I'm back to work, so just the minimum floor-exercises, but I've been doing 2 sets of 200 reps, in a day, with the 5 lb weights, and so far my wrist hasn't been acting up too badly, as long as I space the sets a few hours apart. So that's a lot better than I expected.
I also learned that (atleast for me) it's a really, really bad idea to try to work out one arm, without working out the other, at the same time. With my right arm, I can do as much as 30 reps with a 25lb weight, 4 sets a day, but it really seriously screws up my back, for days. So that's entirely a no-go.
Are you guys doing anything special, diet-wise? My diet tends to be harder for me than the actual exercise. I feel completely shitty (and in a lot of pain) if I don't exercise enough, and only semi-shitty (and full) if I don't eat right.
Hey, I'll band onto this jumpwagon and start posting my exercises for some days. (I'll probably forget to half the time)
Exercise: 7 mile loop, 8x100m hillsprints, lots of core work, and some stretching.
I'm gonna start posting stuff on diet. Hopefully it'll help the rest of you guys, and also help inspire me to eat better.
Felt good, after I was done, but I didn't sleep all that well. That's a little scary because my insomnia can be ferocious. I'm getting pretty tired lately, as it is.
Flooding in Fargo
Man, why don't I get any awesome disasters? It'd give me something significant and interesting to do, but NOOOOO, I got to live in the safest place in the world.
I really feel for Strife26. I've seen what flooding can do, and it aint pretty.
I really feel for Strife26. I've seen what flooding can do, and it aint pretty.
I've been in a flood once, and it was awesome. It was in the middle of WINTER! The water was ankle deep and ICE COLD! The streets were transformed into a knee-deep river of ice and pain!
I will never forget it, like my first love, I'll never forget it.
Sometimes, a lot of exercise can actually lower your immune system.
Lots of times long-distance runners will come down with a cold right after they've run marathons.
By the way, I've always wondered...do you *have* a red beard?
The great issues of the day will not be solved by speeches and resolutions, but by blood and by iron!
A hell of a lot of problems could be solved by a .45 to the head.
Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country
These soldiers knew that the use of nuclear armament meant only ghastly uncertainties.
In other words, more crappy Russian firearms.
Yeah, well, can you even legally acquire any of those?
By the way, I've always wondered...do you *have* a red beard?
uh... no. why?...You do know that "Barbarossa" means "Red Beard" in Italian, right?
Of course he drowns. Almost no one learned how to swim back then. HELL. Even most SAILORS couldn't swim. Silly Medieval people.
I'm still growing. lI wouldn't be suprised if I got to Audie's prestigious height.
Shin-splints sound painful.
http://www.helpwithdiy.com/metric_conversion_calculator.html (http://www.helpwithdiy.com/metric_conversion_calculator.html)
this one works.
just found out I'm 1.57 meters.
thanks for that calculator dwarf, much easier to use and get a good height measurement.
@Awayfarer- that means you make around 2.5 of me.
I know a freshman at my high school who is 6'5 and weighs 245 pounds.
If he's like me, he lives more than 2000 miles away from his home town, has no memories of it, and only lived there briefly.
Sounds like I need to find your hometown, grab a pretty woman and climb the tallest building.
healthy support structure?
Let me think...healthy support structure?
like this?
"Hello, my name is Barbarossa and I am exercising. I've been sober for 14.33 years."
This now seems have surpassed 'project' in replies. In honor of the occasion, here's a hypothetical question:
Is it unethical to start flamewars (with the intent to lock) in topics that might get enough replies to knock ones thread off of the top spot?
By the way, are we doing any kind of a healthy support structure here? Or are we just listing exercise?
I'm not sure what, exactly, but it seems kind of silly to me, to just confine this to "hey I did X amount of push-ups". I don't see the point or usefulness in this being a simple shared exercise log.
Is it unethical to start flamewars (with the intent to lock) in topics that might get enough replies to knock ones thread off of the top spot?
(to the detriment of my forum gaming duties, I'm sure).
Quote from: SirHoneyBadgerBy the way, are we doing any kind of a healthy support structure here? Or are we just listing exercise?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that, but I'm personally fine with any kind of health or physical fitness advice.Quote from: SirHoneyBadgerI'm not sure what, exactly, but it seems kind of silly to me, to just confine this to "hey I did X amount of push-ups". I don't see the point or usefulness in this being a simple shared exercise log.
Well, I'm fine with a simple exercise log for two reasons. First, it's a great motivational factor to look at your exercise log and say, "two months ago, I could barely lift X weight once. Today I did three sets of five reps at weight X." Second, for me at least, it keeps me from saying, "not today, I don't really feel like it, maybe I'll work out tomorrow". Because if I do that on my own, I'm the only one who will know, but if I have an online exercise log, then the whole internet will know I'm a bitch.
this year I'm going to be taking down my huge overgrown cherry tree, planting a couple peach trees, and building a strawberry bed.
I never enjoy cutting down a living tree
Have you seen any kidnapped wives or hitmen lately? One big and one small? The small one looks kinda funny.
I can expect anywhere from a week to another month of symptoms, but I'm supposedly through the worst.
I was on an elliptical machine for another 45 minutes!A what?
I hear that they are lower-impact and thus better for your knees than running or jogging. That true?
Where are those Barby?
Turkey Trot (8 miles)
on May 2 I'm doing Bloomsday. (FULL MARATHON! YEEEEEAAAAH!!!)
Pancreatitis stuff
Salmon's very healthy, by the way--contains omega acids
Do they have a pharmacy? Doesn't sound like it
Once again, the lawsuit is not my way. I just won't go into that Family Dollar anymore, fantastic prices on allergy medication or not.
Any tips on starting to build upper body strength for someone who can just about bench-press your average benchpress bar?
keep in mind that I don't have much free time and I weigh ~95 pounds.
Since you walk a lot, maybe you could get yourself one of those great big waterbottles and carry it along with you on your shoulders, switching shoulders every mile. You could start out with it empty, but then add just a little water (add like half a cup at most--not enough that you really even notice a chance in the weight) to it, every day. By the time it's completely full, you shouldn't really notice the weight anymore (not as much, anyway), because your body will have adapted to it.
One thing I'd like to do is get a hard job, so I can finally have a reason to start moving around and get in shape. Something like a boat job that was described earlier, or something, that would be nice. I can sleep better when I put my muscles to use, and I feel a tad better also.
Quote from: chaoticjoshOne thing I'd like to do is get a hard job, so I can finally have a reason to start moving around and get in shape. Something like a boat job that was described earlier, or something, that would be nice. I can sleep better when I put my muscles to use, and I feel a tad better also.
If you're agoraphobic (or whatever your disorder is, I'm no psychiatrist), construction probably wouldn't be appropriate for you, so I won't recommend that.
At today's track meet, I finally broke six minutes in the mile!!! I got a 16 second PR and got a 5:49 directly from a 6:05!
Walmart is the worst. I wouldn't work for them again, unless I was starving.
Really?
Do tell about the evils of wal-mart. I don't like them, and Fargo lacks a cost-co. This is a non-derailable thread, no?
Barbarossa, I guess you're the local track expert, have you ever tried HIIT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_training)? Would you recommend it?
Hey everybody,Not doing exercise shouldn't be a problem if you're anything like me.
I'm out of the hospital and the surgery went well.
I'm hurting, but my back feels so much better, and they gave me percosets for the belly pain. It turns out that my gall-bladded was chock full of stones, and probably had been affecting me for years.
I'm able to walk short distances, but won't be able to pick up weights heavier than 15lbs for 2 weeks.
Anyway, I hope you guys are all ok.
Our house came with tragically ugly grey carpeting
The prospective chair has a cooler in the arm.
Have you tried my suggested workouts?
The swineflu has covered a very large territory, both with and without good medical coverage, and so far, I don't think there have been as many as a hundred deaths (last I heard was 68).
I'm not personally worried, although I wouldn't want my older relatives to be exposed to it.
A hundred years ago, or so, influenza was wiping people out in the tens of thousands, so to me-although I don't want people getting sick, and I don't want to sound unsympathetic-it's really small change, comparably.
Just another opportunity for the media to hype something, in hopes of causing a panic. Nevermind that the panic is potentially more dangerous than the disease.
I love my beef and pork, so this is great news! I should stock up before the scare dies down!
Our house came with tragically ugly grey carpeting
mine came with salmon-colored shag carpet on the stairs.
Of course, the entire house is 105+ years old, so it must've been 'in style' at least once!
I'm sorry to hear about your tendonitis. I assume you're taking something for anti-inflammation? Have you tried soaking your foot in warm water laced with Epsom salts? Sometimes that helped my back pain, so it might help with other things, too, and Epsom salt is usually cheap. Also, you might try alternating hot and cold water. That was the best thing I ever did for my back, and doesn't require anything special.
the Smiths
Yeah, while I currently enjoy exercise (and wish I had the time and energy to do it more extensively), I didn't always, I must admit. It's something I've grown into, and learned the benefits and pleasures of, rather than taking to it naturally, and I still have to make a conscious, determined decision to continue doing it, and to push myself, every time I work out.I tried doing any meaningful exercise and hated it. Doing something uncomfortable for ages for fairly small benefits isn't my idea of fun. The exercise I get is from being cheap and walking or biking everywhere and gardening.
Barbarossa: You probably thought I was kidding about the crayon, huh? 8)
Damn right cheap is best.
Good job Footkerchief!
I wish I could swim...
I just got my scuba diving certification in Key Largo. So that's what I'm doing with my summer so far.
I am become Fish-Dwarf. (http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/ASCII_Art_Reward#Midelne)
Good job Footkerchief!
I wish I could swim...
Good job Footkerchief!
I wish I could swim...
Thanks! But you... can't swim at all? Where are you from?
You cannot swim? What the.... :o
You cannot swim? What the.... :oI have an intense fear of drowning and don't want to put myself in a position where I could drown.
I learned to swim the hard way, with my mom throwing me into the water until I finally got the hang of it.
Strife is my antithesis.Even in height; he's 5'4", you're 6'1".
You cannot swim? What the.... :oI have an intense fear of drowning and don't want to put myself in a position where I could drown.
Ouch....now that feeling must be horrible. :-\ I feel sorry for you, since swimming is an excellent "aerobic exercise", so it's a fantastic way to keep yourself fit. Also it's pretty fun. :)
Perhaps you should visit a psychologist or something, if you care of course.
Workerdrone doesn't need an arch-nemesis, I'm already attempting to find where he is to torment him.
I'm safe. If anyone tries to attack me, they'll have like 400 rednecks with sawed-offs coming at them.But what if my weapons are the rednecks themselves?
Just went from Quite cool out to OH GODS ITS SO HOT I'M DIEING HELP ME in a day.
Now sweating my ass off. even at night.
Man I hate the heat, my body just shuts down in it, Constantly having to spray myself with water just be be slightly comfortable.
Just went from Quite cool out to OH GODS ITS SO HOT I'M DIEING HELP ME in a day.
Now sweating my ass off. even at night.
Man I hate the heat, my body just shuts down in it, Constantly having to spray myself with water just be be slightly comfortable.
Likewise. I like cool temperatures and muted light because I burn so easily.
The rest of my family like the heat and tan easily, and go on holiday to places with blazing sun and humid superheat.
I end up lurking beneath a big hat in factor 50.
It was only after highschool that I discovered I was, in fact, quite attractive and marketable in the dating scene.
The next decade was a blur of sex.
Duh fuck. My sister goes to the metal days in Pratteln, Zurich and decides that an alcohol poisonment is a good idea. There she goes, saying "You know me mom, I know when it's over and I know how to handle alcohol" and bla bla. She's in the hospital now. >:(
she has vomit all over 'erTell her that you posted pictures all over the internet.
How was high school for everyone? Almost over my freshman year.
What classes did you guys take freshman year?
Turns out, it's not that bad. 'Only' 2.2 promille, though she has vomit all over 'er. Sure as hell she learned from it.
You missed running from BEES, mourning VN, and slaying penguins.
Let it be known that this is just a trunkcated list.
What classes did you guys take freshman year?
That would be one big GIF file.....I estimate it would take me atleast a year. With breaks ofcourse.
The scene was only 15 seconds long, yet it took 1 hour. HOW LONG DO YOU THINK 7 HOURS WILL TAKE?!
I have a 2 minute speech to present tomorrow. It will be fun.
You should just use a new 30 second clip every day, and work your way through. If you stick to the good parts, you'll probably be done before the next version comes out. (arguably long before)The scene was only 15 seconds long, yet it took 1 hour. HOW LONG DO YOU THINK 7 HOURS WILL TAKE?!
Are you... manually capturing frames?
I ate a cookie today, it was delicious.
I ate a cookie today, it was delicious.
May I ask what flavor honorable sir Creamcorn?
I ate a cookie today, it was delicious.
May I ask what flavor honorable sir Creamcorn?
Oatmeal chocolate chip, the only form of oatmeal anyone eats now a days.
I ate a cookie today, it was delicious.
May I ask what flavor honorable Creamcorn?
Oatmeal chocolate chip, the only form of oatmeal anyone eats now a days.
I happen to have a great bowl of oatmeal this weekend. Are you mocking my culture?!
I ate a cookie today, it was delicious.
May I ask what flavor honorable Creamcorn?
Oatmeal chocolate chip, the only form of oatmeal anyone eats now a days.
I happen to have a great bowl of oatmeal this weekend. Are you mocking my culture?!
No, it's just rare that I know someone, (IRL) that eats oatmeal in its oatmeal form. I like putting syrup or maple syrup (if I even have any) in mine, along with eatting it with some type of bread roll, preferably one that is sweet.
I approve so much of Toonyman's new avatar and personal text.
I ate a cookie today, it was delicious.
May I ask what flavor honorable Creamcorn?
Oatmeal chocolate chip, the only form of oatmeal anyone eats now a days.
I happen to have a great bowl of oatmeal this weekend. Are you mocking my culture?!
No, it's just rare that I know someone, (IRL) that eats oatmeal in its oatmeal form. I like putting syrup or maple syrup (if I even have any) in mine, along with eatting it with some type of bread roll, preferably one that is sweet.
Well, actually I do have milk in mine and I do use a spoon. Nobody could eat oatmeal raw. IT'S IMPROABOLE.
I ate a cookie today, it was delicious.
May I ask what flavor honorable Creamcorn?
Oatmeal chocolate chip, the only form of oatmeal anyone eats now a days.
I happen to have a great bowl of oatmeal this weekend. Are you mocking my culture?!
No, it's just rare that I know someone, (IRL) that eats oatmeal in its oatmeal form. I like putting syrup or maple syrup (if I even have any) in mine, along with eatting it with some type of bread roll, preferably one that is sweet.
Well, actually I do have milk in mine and I do use a spoon. Nobody could eat oatmeal raw. IT'S IMPROABOLE.
*Clap* *Clap* *Clap* Obvious joke is obvious but that's besides the point. So you really don't put anything at all in your oatmeal than?
I ate a cookie today, it was delicious.
May I ask what flavor honorable Creamcorn?
Oatmeal chocolate chip, the only form of oatmeal anyone eats now a days.
I happen to have a great bowl of oatmeal this weekend. Are you mocking my culture?!
No, it's just rare that I know someone, (IRL) that eats oatmeal in its oatmeal form. I like putting syrup or maple syrup (if I even have any) in mine, along with eatting it with some type of bread roll, preferably one that is sweet.
Well, actually I do have milk in mine and I do use a spoon. Nobody could eat oatmeal raw. IT'S IMPROABOLE.
*Clap* *Clap* *Clap* Obvious joke is obvious but that's besides the point. So you really don't put anything at all in your oatmeal than?
I guess not. Sometimes it makes me gag, but that's only occasionally.
That's what she said!
Quote from: Barbarossa the Seal GodI ate a cookie today, it was delicious.
May I ask what flavor honorable Creamcorn?
Oatmeal chocolate chip, the only form of oatmeal anyone eats now a days.
I happen to have a great bowl of oatmeal this weekend. Are you mocking my culture?!
No, it's just rare that I know someone, (IRL) that eats oatmeal in its oatmeal form. I like putting syrup or maple syrup (if I even have any) in mine, along with eatting it with some type of bread roll, preferably one that is sweet.
Well, actually I do have milk in mine and I do use a spoon. Nobody could eat oatmeal raw. IT'S IMPROABOLE.
*Clap* *Clap* *Clap* Obvious joke is obvious but that's besides the point. So you really don't put anything at all in your oatmeal than?
I guess not. Sometimes it makes me gag, but that's only occasionally.
That's what she said!
QUOTE PYRAMID!
I put sliced apples, raisins and brown sugar in my oatmeal. There's no other way.
Yeah, oatmeal sucks. It's for people with no sense of taste! >:(
Or unspoiled non-americans who can eat something not made out of white flour and/or sugar.
My speech went sorta badly. I kind of got nervous and my hands were shaking to where I could almost not read.
Wolf: Butter would not melt in my mouth. Well, it would melt. Of course it would melt, but very slowly.
What about Jimi?
Although I do know it's quite hard to stop breathing. I've tried.Oh-yeah-I-hate-it-when-that-happens-don't-you-yeah-really-annoying. K-Thx-Bye!
I've been doing Summer work as an intern at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center for songbirds.
That, and I'm finally gearing up to tackle my Depression head-on... which probably means shelling out my hard-earned ducats for Therapy.
*Grumbles mildly at the inclement financial climate*
That, and I'm finally gearing up to tackle my Depression head-on... which probably means shelling out my hard-earned ducats for Therapy.
Got back from my vacation-type-thing today. I have joined a club to prepare for the coming cross country season. I will run 500 miles or die trying!
Got back from my vacation-type-thing today. I have joined a club to prepare for the coming cross country season. I will run 500 miles or die trying!
500 miles? Under what time frame?
3 hours into the hunt. He came onto the deck once, then bolted when I cocked the shotgun. I would've gotten him anyway, but someone geniously turned off the deck lights at that instant. He'll be back . . .
Why don't you LIGHT YOUR HANDS ON FIRE AND PUNCH THE 'COON TO DEATH.
Why don't you LIGHT YOUR HANDS ON FIRE AND PUNCH THE 'COON TO DEATH.
This sounds so wrong devoid of context...
Yep. There's a big gouge from the last racoon that had to be 'removed.' I've laid some more boards sense I had to cut my deck in half, so there's plenty of stuff to poke holes in.
I ended up going to bed last night, I couldn't get into a safe firing posistion (not going to pepper next house over) before he bolted. I'm probably going to try again tonight.
1890's "I'll kick your ass" lick, or tongue lick?
Do you really need to ask? With my tongue.
It's really a beautiful sight right now. It was raining pretty heavily south for a while now, so the river has gone far over its banks. It's gotten about halfway up my yard (no threat to the house, not that it matters now). It's like a lake. All of the birds were getting up. It's nice to listen to birds. I picked out at least three groups of turkeys gobbling to each other while waking up. Meanwhile, the river's running is constantly changing. The clouds were nice as well. They're sort of horizontal bands. The ones closest to the horizon turned a creamy peach. The color rose through the layers as I watched. Then it got nearer the top where the clouds were thing enough for there to be blue showing. Now the blue is making its way down the sky. There's forest on the other side of the river, it's flooded as well. But with the reflection from the sky, it's just specks of pink and tree trunks. I can't tell where the horizon is (mostly behind the canopy of the trees).
Don't hold explosive fireworks when you light them.
well, mostly it's because it was renamed and all of a sudden thirty more people came to it.Morul!
Strife, name a dwarf. I'm doodling.
The Gotrek and Felix books were pretty awesome.:I
I got to see the Oregon Coast Aquarium, and was attacked by a three foot long snapping turtle. I lost the end of my left pinky.
Ask your mother....
*head bang*face+palm
*head bang*
How filling are pinkies?
Eh. School was meh.
That you plagiarized it or that you didn't know what plagiarism is?About plagiarizing and not knowing what it was.
Strife policy 12: All sarcasm should be regarded as serious.
I'm off on vacation til the 15th. Don't troll y'all.
So wait... you have to try to prove one religion is BETTER than another?
I need serious help. I was assigned an essay in history. THe problem is we have to pick a religion or whatever and compare it to another and prove it better. This is somewhat hard. I really need help.
I need serious help. I was assigned an essay in history. THe problem is we have to pick a religion or whatever and compare it to another and prove it better. This is somewhat hard. I really need help.Take a bland and inoffensive religion, like the most tolerant form of Christianity you can find, and compare it to an ancient religion that believed in human sacrifice. You should be able to prove that the inoffensive religion is better than the human sacrificing one.
I need serious help. I was assigned an essay in history. THe problem is we have to pick a religion or whatever and compare it to another and prove it better. This is somewhat hard. I really need help.Something like that. I am doing Christianity and Evolution.(Yes, though not a religion we can compare) or was that something else
That can't possibly be right.
Better like, more ethical, or better like more awesome?
I need serious help. I was assigned an essay in history. THe problem is we have to pick a religion or whatever and compare it to another and prove it better. This is somewhat hard. I really need help.
Compare atheism to everything else. Conservatives call Atheism a religion, so can you!
Compare atheism to everything else. Conservatives call Atheism a religion, so can you!
Atheism is a religion. Atheists worship the mad god Athe, who demands weekly blood sacrifice.
Honestly, though, that's a good idea. You could point out that atheists are no less ethical than most religious people (normally).
I dunno, I wouldn't call it a religion. It has no central doctrine, church, worshipping patterns, divine orders or bank account (this is why atheists get bad press - they don't have millions lying around in a central bank account) and is basically just a loose grouping of people who think that a God doesn't exist.
Ah. What makes it advanced?
School year's started and I've got a pretty killer class-load.Me too.
0) Electronics - Almost on Semiconductors. I excited.Yeah. Busy schedule for a sophomore. :-\
1) Geometry - Retardo easy. Challenging the course in a week's time.
2) Symphonic Band - Not my favorite, but I like music.
3) Pre-Calculus - A class where I actually learn. Fun stuff.
4) Honors U.S. History - Interesting, but I've done it before.
LUNCH INTERMISSION--- Depending on the day, this will be either Rocket Club, Broadcast Committee, or Math Team. (Later, Science Olympiad.)
5) Hon. Biology - Only taking it to be able to go into honors chemistry next year.
6) CP 10 English - Unfortunately, I had to drop Hon. English for Pre-Calc.
7-8) Cross Country - The best ever.
OTHER - Pep Band, Track (Later), Alternative Energies. (Electronics with a TWEEST.)
Oh ho ho ho, you never will believe what happened in History, pal.
All of us are sitting at our desks, the teacher is absent, we wonder where he is---"TOUCH DOWN!"
The teacher ran into the room screaming "Touch Down!" while punting a imaginary football.
Oh ho ho ho, you never will believe what happened in History, pal.
All of us are sitting at our desks, the teacher is absent, we wonder where he is---"TOUCH DOWN!"
The teacher ran into the room screaming "Touch Down!" while punting a imaginary football.
WHY?!
Mine showed up to class in a red silk dress.....
He
Mildly offensive term for a lower class white person from the southeastern states of the USA. Derives from someone who spent a lot of time on manual labour outside and so received a "red neck" from the sun.
replace "southeastern states of the USA" with "Northern Montana" and you have my town. Racism is rampant and there are almost no blacks or latinos.Mildly offensive term for a lower class white person from the southeastern states of the USA. Derives from someone who spent a lot of time on manual labour outside and so received a "red neck" from the sun.
replace "southeastern states of the USA" with "Northwest Washington" and you have my town.
So, I'm pretty tired and trying to type stuff up for a student congress meet for tomorrow. I've got no research done at all, so I'm pretty much banking on getting elected PO (which means that I get to bang the gavel instead of giving speeches).Indeed.
Somehow, I typed up this monstrosity for the religion thread. I've been feeling kind of depressed lately. For reasons that I'll consider discussing later.
You'll note that I didn't talk about where myself fits in Heaven and Hell much (which is uncharacteristic of me, I normally bring myself much more strongly into stuff like that, the better to make sure that people can find and raise differences in basic assumptions). I've resigned myself to the possibility of eternal damnation a long time ago (and I've said that before as well, I think to Jude).
I'm a crappy person. I'm lazy, sinful, unthinking to my friends. I swear with a passion. When I do pray, it's usually something rote (Oh that you would bless me indeed Lord, and enlarge your territory, that you're hand would be with me and that you would keep me from evil, that I might not cuase pain). And that prayer is litterally just asking God for stuff. I've said the following prayer word for word before, "God bless that God-damned athiest." What the fucking hell? I worry my parents, I don't follow through on things. For Christ's sake, I've actively hoped that the fucking Salvation War would come to pass.
This, I believe is my major problem. I've put Country before God. Fuck, I've put war largely before country. It's horrible for me to say this, but honestly, all I really want is a decent death. Something, fuck, honorable. Isn't that horrible? I've been damned close to cutting my throat before, just becuase I'm a fuck-up. I made myself the promise that if I'd kill myself unnecessarily, I'd cut my jugulars out with my first knife over the spot where I buried my cats. The worst part? I'm gutless enough that I won't do it. Because it didn't seem to be a fitting death. How can that be what God wants for me? Knowing myself, I'd try to throw my life away at the first available chance that seemed to be "okay." So, deep down (like I was saying before), I want something to happen. A war where I could go die, zombies so I could go down fighting, whatever. I wonder if I hoped for a school shooting where I could do something brave. Isn't it horrible? The amount of collateral damage I'd be glad to see so I could have a good death. Because trying to work against those sorts of evil events would make my action good, even if I hoped for them? Like I said, I damned well deserve to go to hell for my mindset. I've got no bloody clue where I'm going with this, it really belongs in my convenient blogging thread, doesn't it? I guess that I'll spoiler it here and put it there, then get to work on my speech stuff.
Strife, I can only say this. You'll likely go to whatever afterlife you believe in. I believe this, and therefore I will (hopefully) go to either Valhalla or Niflheim....
I always wanted to call it Sniflheim. Cause it's cold there and your nose runs.
How funny do you guys think this is?
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How funny do you guys think this is?I think it's funny that the US thinks they need so many massive planes and ships when they don't even need half of them.
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Weren't they deployed in the gulf wars to act as air bases?
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so the cord ended up going underneath my calender. The liberal amounts of tape should hold it in place though.The liberal amounts of tape should hold it in place though.;D
After seeing the price of class rings, I decided to use the money on something useful. I've been looking at custom knives lately (Jayfisher.com if you're interested). Pretty spendy, but when I get deployed, it could save my life.Nice! Getting a(nother) knife instead of a class ring! Before you go get that knife, I'd recommend checking to see if those rings have spikes. Those too could save your life.
Fun fact: I've got a 10% in Gov right now.
I need to get 53 situps, 42 pull ups, and 15:54 to pass
I really appreciate the support.
Yep, it's the test for the military.
2 minutes situps, 2 minutes push ups, 2 miles.
I need to get 53 situps, 42pullpush-ups, and 15:54 to pass, but I'm aiming for something closer to 63,53,14:48 for a 75%.
I found a hundred dollar paycheck to cash, happily enough, but I'm going to worry about the rest tomorrow morning. I can deal with my files at 700, when I plan to be out of the house, but before anything is open.
Six weeks of drunken family abuse feels like a drop in the bucket once it's overWait, what? Are you being abused?
Well, interesting news. My ship date was moved at some point in time to the 14th, which means that starting 1430 on Tuesday the 12th, I'll be done with civilian life. So I've got very few days left in Fargo.
And also if Strife has his own personal drill sergeant nasty.
I've got OSUT instead of Basic, which may change stuff somewhat.
Come on guys, I've still got sixteen hours left or so. Just because I still have to pack and organize almost all of my stuff before I leave doesn't mean I've left already.
Letter came a couple days ago, timestamped before Barbarossa's last letter. Just because, hey, we do this now. I forgot to type it up, whatever, six day mail lag makes it kinda pointless.Six days from Kentucky to Texas? That's weird. It only took two days for my last letter to get to Washington. They must have an air service for coast-to-coast mail.
Good to see internet stalking hasn't gotten less effective.>_>
I'll be sending my first return mail tomorrow, as soon as I find a place that sells cheap stamps.
How is he getting promoted so quickly?
How many different positions could a "Armor" recruit wind up in anyway? What all counts as Armor in the end? I have to think it's a lot more than just Abramses, otherwise they'd have loads of them sitting around with nothing to do, because why would you sign up for anything else.Armor are heavy vehicles. For example, a Stryker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stryker), but not a Humvee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Mobility_Multipurpose_Wheeled_Vehicle). For more specifics, I bet you have the address of someone who knows more.
That's ironic. I haven't gotten a letter in more than a week. Not that I expect Strife to have a whole lot to say, but he was sending letters about every three days for a while there.Weird, same here. I hope that pneumonia didn't get him. (Or did he get over that? I got three letters at a time once and wasn't sure what order they were in.)
Really? I thought that, for example, the M1 Abrams had a crapload of features to prevent them from being damaged in close quarters.
Actually, I just got another letter from him, longer than the last and came in record time. Only two days. He's including drawings now. I'll type up both when I get the chance.
They did, actually. Christopher Lee was the only member of the cast of The Lord of the Rings movie to ever meet him.
His X's look like W's, it's fort Knox.
The bloody surgical mask I'm supposed to wear is getting itchy; I don't think that they're meant to be worn for 36 hours straight.HEH.
He's apparently a tank commander now. Promoted right out of the box.I think he's just one of those dudes who tells the other recruit dudes what's going on during training. Unless he's out of training.
And that's also apparently temporary? This milt'ry stuff's hard on t' brain.
Hey Inaluct.He's apparently a tank commander now. Promoted right out of the box.I think he's just one of those dudes who tells the other recruit dudes what's going on during training. Unless he's out of training.
And that's also apparently temporary? This milt'ry stuff's hard on t' brain.
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I'm kind of glad to hear that it's pretty likely that I'd eventually do some real combat medicine, if I managed to get in. I'd be cool with working in a hospital and all, but I wouldn't want to do that exclusively, heh.INALUCT
I'll look into America's Army, too. Thanks for the advice. 8)
I'm kind of glad to hear that it's pretty likely that I'd eventually do some real combat medicine, if I managed to get in. I'd be cool with working in a hospital and all, but I wouldn't want to do that exclusively, heh.INALUCT
I'll look into America's Army, too. Thanks for the advice. 8)
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Did crazy things happen while I was gone?
I thought it was the Korean War they refused to acknowledge as a war.
Strife, will you ever get to do paradrop training for any reason at all?
Strife, will you ever get to do paradrop training for any reason at all?
Considering he's training to be a tank crewman, that's either impossible or awesome.
Tankers are stuck doing everything tough except what we're supposed to be doing in the modern Army. However, we've been getting surprising amounts of training in this kind of stuff, it helps that our company has a varied variety of combat veterans.
I'd appreciate a hard copy of the song lyrics, I'm printerless at the moment, unfortunately. I really like to have songs to help give me story ideas. I've pierced together the beginning of a couple of story arcs, but stuff suitable for a short story seem to elude me. All my ideas seem to be to well suited to be put together.
I'm one of the few who've gotten our duty station. It's a very long way from final, but it's Ft. Hood, TX for right now.
Janet is still around, yes, but I don't think she lives anywhere near Aqizzar.That and I don't think she is anywhere near as unstable/creepy anymore.
*Applause for using meal voucher on Cheesecake*
If you go to West Point, upon graduation you'll become a Leutenant, instead of starting as a Private. So, higher rank, higher pay grade, and generally speaking, a little less personal danger.
Used part of my free time today to look at 1st Cav's outdoor museum. Lots of cool vehicles (especially 'liberated' Soviet stuff that the Iraqi's were using in Desert Storm).
*Applause for using meal voucher on Cheesecake*
Even more awesome, old guy at the next table wanted to pay for it, so I had to convince him that Delta was already covering the bill.
Yeah, not a lot to do here, just got free pop and popcorn to watch football. I don't really watch much football on my own, but I do enjoy it somewhat (maybe if the closest team didn't suck. *cough* Vikings *cough*).
Man, I was looking over it and thinking that if my life ever went straight to hell and I had nowhere to go, I'd join the Foreign Legion.I thought you were already a member of the Solo Regiment. Unless you're a temp there.
Which is kinda a weird thought to have. You must be rubbing off on me, Strife. Not the patriotism bit though, obviously.
One can always stand to be more invincible.Man, I was looking over it and thinking that if my life ever went straight to hell and I had nowhere to go, I'd join the Foreign Legion.I thought you were already a member of the Solo Regiment. Unless you're a temp there.
Which is kinda a weird thought to have. You must be rubbing off on me, Strife. Not the patriotism bit though, obviously.
The President has officially announced a new addendum to the Afghanistan war strategy - the big guns hit the big time (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/46220/). And just in time for our little Strife's coming out party. Looks like you may get your wish, friend.
...I could be doing anything from kicking in doors to fob security to quick reaction force (which *might* get me on a tank) to driving anything from a humvee to a MRAP.
I'd certainly want to be plated as much as I can, of course within reason. I don't care if arms aren't 'vital areas', I would want them covered....I could be doing anything from kicking in doors to fob security to quick reaction force (which *might* get me on a tank) to driving anything from a humvee to a MRAP.
We might need to start a "Help Strife Buy Extra Body Armor" donation. Failing that, at the first sign of trouble, remember to get the Hell out of there.
Lazy Sunday here, I finished the first book from the library (Bolo). Hopefully, I'll be out of reception by this time monday. Yay!
Went out with some battle buddies last night. When the alarm on one's watch rings for your normal wake-up, and one is currently at Ihop, seated next to a stripper, you can conclude that it was a very interesting night overall.
Strife logic:
I have no car -> I walk everywhere -> I cover a lot of distance -> I get a lot of steps
THEREFORE: I should go buy a DSI(xl), a copy of Pokemon Heartgold, and a Pokewalker.
Strife has been really busy and without computer access lately!
Strife logic:
I have no car -> I walk everywhere -> I cover a lot of distance -> I get a lot of steps
THEREFORE: I should go buy a DSI(xl), a copy of Pokemon Heartgold, and a Pokewalker.
The Pokewalker is pretty neat, but a Pokemon can only level up once per excursion. Still pretty helpful at them higher levels, though.
And does anyone know why the bloody hell IE 8 gets all fucked up if I type enough to require a bloody scroll bar?There are two ways to prevent this:
Awesome! I hadn't heard about that little gem. I felt bad about you missing out on the Secret Santa this year, so I'm going to mail you a gift anyway. What kind of stuff isn't allowed? I don't want your present to be confiscated or anything.
Ouch, how did you get both at once? Isn't Smallpox nearly extinct?
PS: So are there any restrictions on what I can send?
The four cans of coke and a five hour energy don't help much . . .
But I do *really* good work when I'm in that waking dreamscape. Hell if I've got any idea how what I'm doing, but my subconcious works with a startlingly good acuracy when my higher brain functions aren't active.
Letting soldiers carry guns in a military base? That'd just be silly.
You know the way that when faced with a multiple choice test, your mind's first impression on the answer is usually right, even if upon further reflection, you're not sure about it? I'm like that with everything.
Back home with my laptop working again! All my tabs from my last Firefox session have been saved, twenty-five total. Awful lot of TV tropes pages . . .
Good to see my cats again and to be able to walk through a couple of feet of snow!
Finished with my COIST class today. Yay. Finished with an online SERE course last night. I still have a heckuva big chunk of Iraqi learning to do (~25 hours according to the computer) plus a "Driving safety course" that got dropped on me today.
What do you want to learn about military life, Urist? I'll try to help as much as I can.
Packing all of my stuff up now, I'm going to be living out of a bag until we leave. Just going to have sheets on the bed and my shoes out.
I know what I'll do for your birthday. I finally finished your Secret Santa gift, so I'll mail it to you. It takes forever to carve wood the way I did it, apparently.
Still here everyone. Still not doing all that much. We had some medical training today. It culminated in running about 150m in full battle rattle then bursting into a room filled with strobe lights and speakers. Then we had to try to provide aid to some dummies. There were enough causalities that it was one person each. I did better than most people, but not as well as I would of liked. I left the needle for a chest decompression in place, which kinda makes the operation pointless.
I just took a shit while using night vision goggles.
Man, the military sounds like gadget geek heaven.
$10 say as soon as a military gets portal guns, they'll be used like this.
...started slowly learning Tower Defense games (I'm not all that good)...
Pretty much.
Not much happening right now. I've suddenly had the urge to write a sequel story for Avatar (I wanted to work more on something related to 28 weeks later, but the dvd is packed in a non-accesible spot right now, and I don't complain about shows I haven't watched repeatedly).
I've suddenly had the urge to write a sequel story for Avatar
Tailored viruses, massive electrical strikes to the "neural network", and forcible terraforming, particularly involving the planet's atmosphere. If all else fails, nukes from orbit.
...I was not allowed to secure the morphine in my bloodstream, sadly.
Morphine is strong right? I had something that came in a green whistle a week ago for my knee dislocation and I don't remember them popping it back in. And apparently it isn't nearly as powerful as morphine.
The M240B is a larger caliber than the SAW, or M249. They both usually serve the same role, but the reach and stopping power of the 240 makes it dear to everyone but the poor squad gunner who has to carry it.
I always come up with all kinds of pithy/witty/insightfullish/interesting short things to put on here, but I always forget them before I actually do it. It's kinda annoying.
Finally off guard duty, so my Platoon gets to do other missions now. I got to sleep six hours today before I was woken up. It was bloody awesome. Had a really good dinner too. Spaghetti, garlic toast, salad, Lemon-raspberry cake, Grapefruit juice, and a few bites of apple (it wasn't a very good apple).
We'd kick in their door, point a weapon at them, ransack their house and then they'd offer us tea. They even treat the people they despise with courtesy and respect for the most part.
We'd kick in their door, point a weapon at them, ransack their house and then they'd offer us tea. They even treat the people they despise with courtesy and respect for the most part.
I wish I could only have such awesome powers of cordiality.
...Especially because I decided to go to Qatar instead of going home for my R&R leave.
Yep. 19Kilo, tanker without a tank.
And the forecast for the flood looks really bad right now. 20% of it getting to 43 feet, which is just unreal.
Residents take action
<Strife26> is spending his two-week R&R leave from the U.S. Army helping his family protect their four-level split home on Forest River Road, just south of Fargo’s 76th Avenue South.
The bottom two levels of the home flooded in 2009, and Strife was airlifted out of the house.
The family increased its flood preparations this year to include an additional retaining wall, plastic around the garage and six pumps to handle any leaks.
On Tuesday, Strifey and two friends worked on constructing the retaining wall that will be added to a 38-foot concrete wall already in the backyard.
Strife, 19, who returns to his deployment in Iraq on April 18, said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that the preparations they’re making will keep the house safe.
“Right now we’ve got a good plan, I think we’re going to finish it on time, and we’ve got enough pumps to deal with leaks,” Kaseman said.
Kaseman, 19, who returns to his deployment in Iraq on April 18, said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that the preparations they’re making will keep the house safe.
I'm famous?
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/314969/ (http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/314969/)QuoteResidents take action
<Strife26> is spending his two-week R&R leave from the U.S. Army helping his family protect their four-level split home on Forest River Road, just south of Fargo’s 76th Avenue South.
The bottom two levels of the home flooded in 2009, and Strife was airlifted out of the house.
The family increased its flood preparations this year to include an additional retaining wall, plastic around the garage and six pumps to handle any leaks.
On Tuesday, Strifey and two friends worked on constructing the retaining wall that will be added to a 38-foot concrete wall already in the backyard.
Strife, 19, who returns to his deployment in Iraq on April 18, said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that the preparations they’re making will keep the house safe.
“Right now we’ve got a good plan, I think we’re going to finish it on time, and we’ve got enough pumps to deal with leaks,” Kaseman said.
I'll have a full update in a few hours, plus pictures (taken with my DS).
Not famous, just in the military, they can wave the flag if they mention you being on leave... Also, was there any point redacting your name if you posted a link containing it? Just sayin'.
Cautious optimism has flown out the window and been replaced with extreme concern.
I suppose that I'll accept it and add another city to the "places where I know people" list.
Don't worry about starting a Strife Relief Fund, even if the house floods, I still get a nice, tax-free paycheck on the 15th . . .
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=77899.195 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=77899.195)
Fuck. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrecisionFStrike)
Hello from Shannon Intl, Ireland! Nice place, free internets, adapter required for the outlets. Mine's on the plane, so I'm debating buying another to charge my psp. Typing's easier on a psp than a dsi. More when l've got power.
That was quite the R&R break, hopefully it calms down when you get back...
Wow, the irony.
I also apologize for the off topicness, but what exactly was that? It made no sense, of course I read most of it from last to first, but...
I've got to go start loading for the next leg, but I'll be doing some trawling in the near future. Why does shit go down when I've got RL stuff happening?
Last night I had a dream we had the same father, we weren't brothers and it seemed to be only a mild coincidence....What.
Last night I had a dream we had the same father, we weren't brothers and it seemed to be only a mild coincidence....What.
Nothing really to report here...
However, it seems to have picked up somewhat again. Nothing too exciting, although I'm not the only one humming "Ding dong the witch is dead"
Dude, there is an energy drink there called Wild Tiger(i think). It is crack. No wait, better than crack. It has nicotine in it and every deployment I would get seriously strung out on it and take months to get right again. Seriously, four of us split a pallet of it once, which was hard to convince the hajji to bring on for us. I even tried to contact the manufacturer about importing it to the US, but the FDA made it very clear that it was about as illegal as anything has ever been.ROFL
Needless to say, it involved me quoting Captain Macmillan from Modern Warfare and missing my RP session. Again.
Still doing fine here. I've thought up lots of things to post, but forgot most of them. I'm pretty sure that a few would be too much like the other militaristic type blog here. But I'll share one anyway.
This base is semi-famous for having a crap ton of gym tents. Yesterday we got to move the contents of one gym tent (a weightlifting tent, as well as a bunch of cardio equipment) to another tent. We then moved the contents of that tent (ALL weightlifting equipment) to a third tent, which we then emptied of it's assorted overflow stuff back to the original tent. Lots of fun, especially when it came right after a hard ab and leg workout.
Honestly, I was very very very close to stealing the thing and trying to ship it home. I've been officially ordered to stop playing with it now (I was hiding behind tents and rolling it into privates when they passed).Good idea or BEST IDEA
It seems that my NCO's are conspiring to get me to learn NCO type stuff.
Just to make sure that the life advice part of this forum stays active, and to let my opinions have their own non-derailing section, I decided to make my own thread!
Expect to see little stories from my own life in here as well, as I continue to try to get into West Point.
Other than that, here I am:
Strife26
17 year old male
Fargo, ND
5’4”
112 pounds (a little too much, really, need to get down to 103)
School:
Junior
Advanced classes (somewhat mediocre grades)
JROTC
Activities:
Speech, Debate, Student Congress (like debate, but better).
JROTC stuff (commander of knowledge bowl, sometimes shows up for PT, yearly armed x dropout)
Work:
Busser at a relatively nice local steakhouse
Religion:
Tolerant semi-Lutheran (does not liked organized religion on a larger scale than parish).
Political Stance:
Right leaning independent (with hope for Obama)
Dreams:
Become a tanker.
I’m an ultra patriot as well.
I’ll add more stuff as it comes up.
Yea. What he said. What's fiddlers green?Oh, the wonders of Google! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler's_Green)
Errr, also, this is NOT the place to talk about your profession, bro. What you say and how you act reflects upon the military service and your occupational branch. Right now, you got this sort of livejournal emo thing going on, which is not good. It looks bad. It feels bad. I am sad.
OK....
Am I the only other soldier that has ever responded here?
Errr, also, this is NOT the place to talk about your profession, bro. What you say and how you act reflects upon the military service and your occupational branch. Right now, you got this sort of livejournal emo thing going on, which is not good. It looks bad. It feels bad. I am sad.
OK....
Am I the only other soldier that has ever responded here?
lolwut. You have not been on these forums a while. You have been on these forums for about a month.What does that have to do with anything?
especially on a forum I've been on for a while.
this being what he was referring tololwut. You have not been on these forums a while. You have been on these forums for about a month.What does that have to do with anything?
We're not all "random internet strangers"
We're an actual community, some of us are asshats, some are people-people, some have been well educated, others have lived by the seat of their pants, some of us don't need to shave, others have hit the far side of forty like a truck into a bridge embankment, the point being: We're just about all friends here, and if someone is for some reason selling out the little "useful" information Strife gives to those that would harm him, there is a lever in the next room, mind the floodgate.
I'm sorely tempted to create a 'Capulet' account and harass you...
Anyway, I don't see anything wrong with this, it's nice to be able to put a (sort-of, due to the internet) human face on the military.
Yeah, I haven't really followed the thread and he's apparently posted here before he ever joined the Army. I was just sort of surprised to see a thread like this especially from a combat arms type, especially on a forum I've been on for a while. My point is this type of thing is generally frowned upon in the military and it can get you in trouble, as almost any trivial thing you say can be considered an OPSEC violation. Pictures are an especially bad idea and especially so if your phone or camera includes GPS coordinates on the photo's .exif data and you are taking pictures of say, anything on the FOB you reside on downrange.
I don't know what the other soldiers in his unit think about this, but personally, I just think its kinda silly and unprofessional to go on about yourself, your military duties and telling war stories to random internet strangers. I'm probably being just as silly by being an asshole about it though, so, I'm not going to argue about it anymore.
Also, if you were actually reading it you'd see Strife's incredibly careful with regards to Opsec and such. As far as I know the only pictures he's posted have been of him at home.
lolwut. You have not been on these forums a while. You have been on these forums for about a month.
Besides all that, Montague's perspective is out of date.
The military accepts that community and communication are very important for a deployed soldiers morale even if they are (most likely) monitoring it for potential security issues. Our war in Iraq and Afghanistan have had more troops deployed away from home for longer than in just about any other war in US history.
A soldier isn't a faceless guy in a helmet. A name on that soldier is good, but I'd argue that Strife26 of Bay 12 Games, that crazy sonofabitch who is only needs sleep to be cheerful is about as good as it gets. I don't consider myself all that emplaced in reality, but I'm a very real fixture around here, and truth that soldiers aren't really all that different. That, I'd content, is very much in the Army's interest.
Now, the second question is one of if what I'm doing helps the Army, and I'd argue that it does. The modern portrayal of the soldier comes in three primary flavors, Soldier as Paragon of Goodness, Soldier as EVEEEL Scum, and Soldier as victim of horribly run war. I do my best to present myself as Soldier as Soldier.
Warning, livejournal emo shit ahead!
Looks like I'm for a rough period of das funk. I'm not currently reading any book or playing any video game, which is always a telling sign. I've lost interest in FG&RP which is a really worrying sign. Whenever I listen to my music, I either think of a story that I've never written or the fact that I'll probably never do anything like what's in the song.
I'm feeling like even more of a wayward son than normal. Don't get me wrong, I'm feeling as optimisticly insane as I always am, but I'm thinking that my prided outlook might be the crux of my problem. Whenever someone asks me how I'm doing, my truthful answer is always either "fine," "well enough," or "perfectly acceptable."
I can't think of a situation where I'm not perfectly fine (short of one where I don't get enough sleep). However, as I've been pondering on it, I don't know if I can think of a situation where I'm actually "happy" either. About the only thing that's ever really appealed to me was being in the next great war and that's a horrible thing to wish for. Of course, in any case, the great doctrinal war isn't on the horizon and I don't know (but I seriously doubt) if I'll stay in long enough for it. Try to become an officer? Either go to ROTC for 4 years or deal with USMA BS for 4, then continue to work and strive to always be better than my troops. I don't want to do that with my life, nine years or so committed?
Yeah, heck if I know what I want to do. About all that appeals to me right now is thinking about what to do or how to craft a story. Meh.
Yeah, heck if I know what I want to do. About all that appeals to me right now is thinking about what to do or how to craft a story. Meh.
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"Property!"
Quote"Property!"
Best. Toast. Evar.
In the dimness of the shadows
Where we hairy heathens warred,
I can taste in thought the lifeblood;
We used teeth before the sword.
I haven't, but I'll give it a read as soon as I can find a copy. Not much for book stores around here, although now and then old books get sent in care packages, where they accumulate in the mail room, then accumulate in my room. Vicious cycle.
Yes yes it is. And yes, it is kinda bizarre. Different is fun.
All I've eaten today is a turkey wrap that's about 175 calories and sunflower seeds. I should probably be more concerned than I am. Drinks a 250 ml bottle of Iraqi Miranda orange soda and feels better,You need calories. When you run around carrying a 45 lbs pack, you burn through calories. I don't want you wasting away, you're one of my favorite B12 members.
I've also spent some thinking time on why exactly I still think religion is a net positive to the world, even if my possible death would be the result of a religious war. I'm sure that there must be someway to make my idea eloquent enough to convince all the anti-religionists and nay-theists on GD.
I've also spent some thinking time on why exactly I still think religion is a net positive to the world, even if my possible death would be the result of a religious war. I'm sure that there must be someway to make my idea eloquent enough to convince all the anti-religionists and nay-theists on GD.
If you really want to put your beliefs in a positive light, it is probably a bad idea to start off by insulting and ridiculing the people you are trying to convince.
For example, if I were to address the commie nazi liberal hippies and Nobama in order to try to convince them of the validity and importance of the right to bear arms, they may not be particularly receptive to my arguments.
If it make you feel better, I am glad that you have not been blown up. And as a patriot I appreciate what you are doing for this country.
I'm going to try to make another push at getting some words on paper. Right now, I'm stymied by the fact that the plot of my setting is certainly larger than one novel, and it has a lot of stories that are mostly separate from the larger narrative. I've been thinking and planning in arcs, which I'm not sure how to transition to novel form.
Yeah, probably just that sort of whining in the near future, I don't think much else is going to happen.
I've also spent some thinking time on why exactly I still think religion is a net positive to the world, even if my possible death would be the result of a religious war. I'm sure that there must be someway to make my idea eloquent enough to convince all the anti-religionists and nay-theists on GD.
Not sure what that says about my sanity . . .
The core of my argument would probably be that the morals of the average religious and the average atheist aren't very far away from each other, but that churches almost always act as a charitable organization, and that this results in a weekly period where the religious focus on self and community improvement, as well as the fact that the negative affects of religion have been increasingly negated, as crusader armies and the like don't work in a world of liberal nation-states. Also that the continual fracture of religions and dissemination of information guides religions to be moderate.
Something like that.
I'd contend that peoples like Rick Perry are becoming increasingly marginalized, and the fact that his little rise to fame will (please God) be short. Guys a whack job, sure but he isn't a good example of the modern moral religious.
Still here. Still not much happening. Yay?
Well, Jon Huntsman seems to be most sane of the current contenders.
Other than that, I've been pretty negligent in my posting stuffs here. Without a focus, I should be able to post things pretty easily. I certainly come up with enough ideas for rambling five paragraph posts here. Honestly, I've been sucking a bit lately. My schedule changed awhile I ago, and I still haven't really adapted to it. I haven't been doing much useful writing, although I did a little bit of world building that I'm happy with, as well as some practice with straight role-playing characterization. Also, some really ill-conceived playing with author-avatars raging against the author post modernist 4th wall leaning thingie. I'm going to do some proper writing in the future.
I *have* been hitting the gym hard though, which is good.
God Damnit. I notice that this thread is all the way on the fourth page and come here to post something. And I don't have much other than that quote. God bless deployments.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.-Wilhelm Stekel
Start preparing for a life in politics
1. Pick the major party you can align yourself the most with
2. Rise to prominence with your military past and zero political bullshit tolerance.
3. ???
4. HelpchangeMAINTAIN thebrokenGLORIOUS NEPOTISTIC system.
Start preparing for a life in politics
1. Pick the major party you can align yourself the most with
2. Rise to prominence with your military past and zero political bullshit tolerance.
3. ???
4. Help change the broken system.
I had a really shitty last couple of days but I'm glad I stumbled on your long discourse, i got a great laugh out of parts of it! Don't take that wrong, it's not a slam, it's a sincere Thank You.
besides the fact that I do have a system for my death to get at least one post in this thread[/glow]
QuoteThe mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.-Wilhelm Stekel
Old quote that’s been told to me many times, both word for word and in spirit. It damn well has the ring of truth in it. But, I can’t see my soul getting much more mature (I can see it fixating on defending some specific or focusing on some other goal but both ring very heavily of [Strife]). With this one exception, I always try to give all I can, as per the second paragraph any sort of self-entitlement doesn't sit well with me. However, don’t *I* have the right to try to seek happiness for myself if I’m trying to help humanity in the attempt? That only seems morally presumptuous to me half the time and has just as much of a ring of truth to it as Mr. Stekel does.
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There isn’t a proper Avalanche to join. Me getting a M4, optic, ammo, and a ticket to Burma sounds like a bad idea even to me, the local king of supporting really bad ideas. I did the next best thing I can think of. I’m a private in the Army of Freedom, Liberty, and the Good Fight, or at least the closest thing that I think exists today. At one point, immersing my will and freedom in this great organism of democracy was enough for me. America tries to do good, and I’m supporting America. That line of reasoning doesn’t seem to resonate anymore (maybe it was only good for a year of service?) I’m still just here, in a war-zone, in a combat arms line unit, stamped [Strife].
The Army is supposed to be going on 24 months of dwell time before deployments
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I haven't actually read the whole thread, as it is incredibly long. But didn't you serve in the Swedish/Norwegian army and not the American one?
I'll Be Home For Christmas and all that, really? Great to hear.
It's an 04 CTS, and I'd certainly say that I like it a lot. I figured that a luxury type sedan was probably right for me. I don't have the inclination to spend enough to get a super high performance car like some of my buddies are getting (and I'm not going to try to commute in my beloved dream car of a Grand National. Perhaps some day). At the same time, I didn't really want to get a less flashy car, because who knows when I'm going to be able to afford a cool song next. I won't stand to a fancy type mustang in speed, but heck if I won't be just as comfortable, and my car has more than enough power for me. It's only got 47 thousand miles on it, and it was pretty well taken care of, so I'm hopeful that it will last me a good number of years.
Unless you happen to live beachside. We get plenty of salt ... And surf so I guess that makes it worth it.
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Unless you happen to live beachside. We get plenty of salt ... And surf so I guess that makes it worth it.
=}
Yea. but unless you get flooded by a hurricane, go off roading on the beach, or use a boat ramp, the salt stays mostly off the car.
Welp, that was rather interesting. I was considering listing three highlights before "oh my" but I think that doing that might lose some of the shock value of my somewhat strange night. My sense of ironic timing truly is a sight to behold. On the brighter note, I hopefully won't be seriously investigated for this. Gonna go sleeps now.
Well, I'm going to get back to posting, I think. I just returned from eight days of leave, where I spent some much needed time with my family. Upon returning to Ft. Hood (nearly getting stuck in Dallas, *again*), I found the parking lot of my barracks just short of swarming with crickets of varying shape, size, and color. One constant amongst them, however, was a seeming willingness to make amazing amounts of noise while being very difficult to pin down.
For the short term, I'm going to look into some of my educational benefits. At least for the moment, the ones I can get while serving as compared to the ones after I'm discharged are completely different and non-overlapping. For now, I've gone through the effort of trying to get back into the tuition assistance program. Trying to get some classes out of the way right now certainly won't hurt, although I still don't know what I'd really like to study (my old TA request that I did as a dumb private was through Central Texas College, so I'm planning to pursue it through them. From my understanding, they're pretty transferable).
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Shush you, forum.
Well, it's been a hot minute and I'm now separated from the army. Exactly what I'm doing next is pretty iffy, because I don't have much of a clue.
The rough plan for the moment would be to end up at a traditional four year college. I think that I'd be competitive for some of the fancier places, with five years of soldiering, over a hundred semester hours of CLEP accreditation, and pretty good test scores. However, I don't have much of a clue what or where I'd want to study. Fortunately, most of that sort of school have a deadline for applications around winter, so I've got nearly a year to decide and apply.
Unfortunately, that would put around a year and a half before I'd be at school and a year and a half until I'd start collecting my GI Bill benefits. As long as my savings and car hold up (and the caddy has been a terrible, terrible money sink on the savings in the last year and a half), I can live pretty damn cheaply right now, but I'm still considering getting a job to help tide me over.
I don't know if I really want to pick a city and settle down right away, though. I mean, my skills and talents aren't great, but I consider myself a competitive enough employee. I like having the flexibility to pick up and drive wherever I want, so it'd need to be interesting, resume-building, flexible, or well-paying work to be really attractive to me at the moment. I've got a rough draft of a master resume built up that I'll keep working on as well as looking to see if I can find something to catch my interest.
I suppose that the ideal thing would be for me to try to pick up something internet-based that's enough to pay most of my meager expenses, but I don't have the skills or background to pursue something like that without additional experience and practice. I'm nowhere close to the 100,000 words of crap before anything I'll write would be presentable. For now, writing more on here is fun enough practice for things.
Hehe. Nice forum here guys, and girls :) Nice to be here.
I'm perfectly happy to welcome any and all types to the thread, unless they turn out to be poor posters. In that event, I'm sure that we can trace their origin to the pit of horribleness in Life Advice, the general computer questions spot.
I'm perfectly happy to welcome any and all types to the thread, unless they turn out to be poor posters. In that event, I'm sure that we can trace their origin to the pit of horribleness in Life Advice, the general computer questions spot.
What? That's like the only worthwhile thread on here.
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driving nonstop 1600 miles to FargoAvoid woodchippers.
He, I though I had PTW this. Have you chosen a major yet?
They're still assigning that? Jesus christ, I thought that was like a one year thing.
Hope it's not a Red Roof Inn.
I'm in Baltimore for tonight and tomorrow! I ended up getting a hotel room last night, mostly because car camping was really wearing me down. While the hit to my budget is a bit annoying, definitely worthwhile, all things equal.Baltimore woo!
Working on doing laundry right now. At three bucks for the smallest machine available, I better see all of my missing and mismatched buttons replaced.
I'm in Baltimore for tonight and tomorrow! I ended up getting a hotel room last night, mostly because car camping was really wearing me down. While the hit to my budget is a bit annoying, definitely worthwhile, all things equal.Baltimore woo!
Working on doing laundry right now. At three bucks for the smallest machine available, I better see all of my missing and mismatched buttons replaced.
While you're in the area, Thrashers fries, get some.
To the land of Ohreeo, where the shadows lie.
Oheeo, Arkansiss, Kansaw...
MedoraSounds like a cross between a fedora and a menstruation cup :P
You may have to commit a murder to get parking within this timeframe. I went to college in an isolated mountain town and I didn't get parking for three years.
Get a motorcycle and that solves your parking problems. Unless your school has some specific policy against it most people don't care or notice if you park a bike on the sidewalk up against a building or up against light poles in the parking lot.
You could do a tour of Mexico, if the crime rate doesn't scare you off. Go somewhere properly foreign, y'know?
Ah yes, pass current border enforcement and drive around Mexico with your every material possession, great idea. I guess you could do a round-trip of Baja California's coastline.
Well, if there's any time you'd want to visit Northwest, it's probably summer. It's not utterly miserable there right now, I think?
Tell me: Where does one shower when living out of a car? Everything else I can imagine, but public showers are hard to come by, no? And I for one would rather not rely purely on sponge baths for extended amounts of time...
Ah yes, pass current border enforcement and drive around Mexico with your every material possession, great idea
See, if you'd just had gone to Baja instead you'd be in an exciting thriller movie about Mexican cartels right now. Instead you've got organic latte bread and can't pump your own gas.
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Something like that! And I probably stopped posting frequently five years ago or something.
It's pretty incredible how much went into this thread once upon a time. It's nice to look back on, so I think it's served its purpose.