Here I am at last in beautiful, scenic Norfolk at Little Creek Amphibious Base. Woot! I'm tired and sore but here. And I've use the Gideon approach to blogging to solve the no computer problem. Run for state representative, and blog at the library. Life here is peaches and cream, but I got totally snafued by Dallas MEPS. My orders were all of about two lines long, and I got sent to Ft. Eustis, 40 miles away, and not even assigned to a unit. Heh. After valiant striving by the staff duty of ...

Here ya go, a whiny rant. ARRRRRRRRGHHHHH!!!!!! I've worked so hard to keep my blog sitting comfortably at number 11!!!!! (Which thanks to Spinal Tap, holds special meaning for me.........) And now as I go off to "band camp." (Did yours have drill sergeants?) I know.......I know, my points are going to slip away again. Between not having a computer of my own there, and eating, breathing, and sleeping in a practice room I'll ne'er blog again.........sigh. I can almost feel my skin getting p...

Another damned packing list. Let's see, two murderers, two commiters of fornication, two pagans condemned to limbo.......... Too much dante? I'm getting ready to go back to AIT again, and after a great deal of waffling, MEPS decided I would not be driving, but would in fact be flying. Therefore I get to pack one duffel bag, and a very small carry-on. Woot. Doing the prior service thing, so I should get to wear civies some, and get a reissue of all my army gear, but I don't trust it...

We know everything about you. Your phone number, your drivers license, your bank account, credit card number, home address. We know if you're married, how many cars you have, if you're cheating on your wife, hitting your kids, doing drugs. We know that. We know where you work. We know when you're home, and when you're away. Are we some super secret national security agency? Hell no, Homeland Security's got nothing on us. We deliver your pizza, and we know where you live. Plus they don't g...

I found my clarinet. I walked into a pawn shop yesterday and there it was. It glowed with a light from heaven and called my name. Wow. Not bad for seventy-five dollars. It's an old Carl Fischer (am I spelling that right?) wooden B-flat. Very nice. The cork's actually in great shape and the pads? Meh.........they could stand to be redone. Plus a couple of the springs need a little adjusting. It cleaned up and polished beautifully though. It also has a nice tone when not acted upon by user ...

Well, it's that time again. Time to pull out the grand ideals and lie yourself silly. As if you really believed yourself anyways. Let's see how I fared on last years resolutions. 1. Eat out no more than once a week. Ennnnh. Thank you for playing. Care to try again next year? 2. Stay able to wear the same pair of pants. Surprisingly succeeded here, although for a little while there, said pants were suffering from a great deal of stress. 3. Run two thousand miles this year. (see...

Well, you can tack the Spc back onto Spc NBS. I'm DEPed (delayed entry) back into the Army. I get to leave for beautiful Norfolk, Virginia on the 11th. Unsurprisingly, recruiter said it was stripes for skills, so naturally it's not. No easy promotion for me. Was told I would have the option of travelling by POV and my personal stuff/army gear, (yeah, right) so instead I get flown there with nothing but my overnight bag. I can however ship it myself out of pocket, or fly back and drive ...

This is NBS, reporting all the made up news that is news, here at JU. December 26, Los Angeles. Today, in the Christmas spirit of forgiveness, Californian Democrats entered a bill to have notorious Crips founder Tookie Williams brought back from the dead. Tookie Williams, a one-time weight lifter power lifter in the class of Arnold Swarzenheger, was convicted in 1981 of killing several men at a 7-11, and at a Los Angles motel, and was killed by lethal injection on December 13th of this ye...

How 'bout that? I made it 'til 2:30 a.m. this time. Okay, who's out there? I'm going to try to get back to sleep, but really, I don't see it happening. But first, I'm going to try an old home remedy, or a combination thereof. The main thing keeping me down is sore throat and a wicked cough. Every time I lay down, the mucus starts a flowin' down slow, so..........I've looked at maybe 30 or 40 home remedies or so. They largely seem to consist of gargling with a little honey, and something a...

Some of the military folks on here I worked with will remember it. Ugly. Ughly. Green '92 Voyager minivan I had. Until today. It's gone. It's gone! Hoorah for Dixie! Hoorah!!! erm. yeah. I sold it today to a nice young Mexican from Matamordos. I only got 400 for it, but who cares? I was starting to think about giving it away. Amazingly, sick or not, I got it together today and fixed everything wrong with that van in a couple of hours. (running wise. It's still as ugly as sin.) Switched...

There is absolutely no substance to this article whatsoever. I was just flipping through some of my favorite sites I haven't been to in awhile. (Insomnia is a great time saver.) I was on JibJab and found this. Link I can't link directly to it, but when you get their click on the Bush year in review, 2-0-5, right at the top of the page. I'm a conservative republican and support Bush. But ................damn that was funny. Well worth a little political heresy on my part. Enjoy.

Just wondering who's up and on JU right now. I'm an influenza insomniac for the night; every time I lay down and start to get to sleep, I cough myself awake. I have no idea who's usually up this hour, so drop in and leave a line, say hi and the time where you are. It's just now hitting 5:00 a.m. central here, but I've been up for the last hour. Good morning.

Ever dreamed of starting your own biological weapons program but just didn't have the money? Well today's your lucky day. Why waste all your money trying to mess with deadly anthrax? Let's face it, ricin just plain doesn't work, nerve agents are messy, and hard to get out of the furniture, and ebola? It works great, but it's just not aerosol transmittable, and burns itself out before it even has a chance to get down to work. Right now, I'll give you an amazing Christmas special. For not...

So you walk out to the mailbox, open it up, and voila. Shiny pink letter with overdue third notice written on it. Oh, s--t. What did I forget to pay. Read more? It ends up being a letter allowing you to "avoid penalties" by refinancing your loan with B--t F--k student loan corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. (always wilmington, always delaware) Now what are you trying to gain by that? You start off by trying to give me a heart attack, then lying to make me think this is some kind of a co...

Another brief update, still fixing cars. I fixed mine yesterday, the Mustang is back on the streets, as of yesterday. Of course, I also noticed I had an expired registration and inspection, so it's back in the driveway, as of today. In fact, while it's running like a dream, there is a horrific clangy type noise upon starting or really low idle, that makes me suspect a cracked flywheel (I hope not), a bad torque converter, or maybe if I'm lucky, a starter clutch that's not disengaging all ...