Because Someone Has to do it

ETS

2009-11-03T17:38:37Z

Oh Mah Gawd. Leaving the Army in about a week, moving back to Boone!

Probably post a laaaaaaaarge update about all that at a later point! Because you know, I always keep this super up to date.

Arrgh

2009-03-03T01:55:04Z

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaar

2009-02-26T19:15:34Z

I have a car again. It's not amazing, but I like it and it's in pretty good shape.
Very excited, off to go get it registered!

Gaaaaaah

2009-02-21T18:22:43Z

Who wants to drive up to Richmond and help me find a car.
This plaaaaaaaace.

AWESOME

2009-02-16T07:35:53Z

Apparently most of the people I know from High School now consider me a selfish, opportunistic ass hole but seem to be pretty sparse on any particular reason why. So I give up.
I'm about 20 minutes south of Petersburg, any of you people who all decided to move to Raleigh want to do something sometime? Should have a vehicle pretty soon, let me know if you're interested!

Just Incase You're Not On Facebook

2008-11-21T14:07:53Z

I'm gonna be coming back from Korea this January! In order to celebrate a year of sitting overseas waiting to get blown up, I thought I would throw a party when I return to North Carolina!

If you live in the NC area and you're reading this then you're invited!
The plan is to do it the weekend of the 25th as that'll be the first weekend I'll be in the Concord area. If you don't live around Concord now or ever, you should still try to come out and see me maybe? I don't know it's not like you guys ever call or anything. Christ I keep in better touch with my Grandparents then some of you people but I'm not judging anyone now am I!

The plan is to get a hotel room around the Charlotte/Concord are. So get off your asses and come hang out, we'll bring alcohol and games and generally have a good time, possibly while making asses of ourselves.
Which as far as I've seen is usually the best way to do it, right?

The 'countdown to things' theme my friends list has

2008-11-04T22:20:09Z

I'll jump on this bandwagon!
In like 70 days or so I'll be heading back to the states! January 12th to be exact.

I'm gonna spend some time up in the north visiting people I haven't seen in awhile, but since my next duty station is in Virginia I'll be back in the NC area around Jan 19th.

So who wants to do something?

misandu @ 2008-10-06T08:21:00

2008-10-05T23:22:13Z

My roommate has started listening to Korean Music on the computer.

It's like living with a pump machine.

Random Thought

2008-09-22T12:35:14Z

I think I own like, 5 shirts.

About 3 of them are long sleeve.

Chrome

2008-09-05T08:53:42Z

Anyone else trying out Google Chrome?

This shit is actually pretty cool, hopefully they'll fix this 'scroll wheels only go down' issue and get some extensions going pretty soon. I can't find the RSS reader either, but maybe I'm just slow.

Jeez

2008-08-07T23:24:00Z

It's a good thing I never started drinking.
Also, really starting to understand why everyone else here does.

4th Edition

2008-08-02T08:57:04Z

4th Edition D&D is pretty silly, why haven't you all started playing it yet hmmm?

Honestly.

2008-08-01T09:58:59Z

I have like, half a dozen people I try to interact with on a daily basis.
Why can't they all act sane at once?

This is kind of cool

2008-06-11T06:50:29Z

I like the way these people think.

Now we just need to get it to run on blood...

Goddamned Old Man

2008-04-27T13:43:33Z

Turned 21.
Almost got to 70.
Shae died I think?

Horrible Hobby

2008-04-21T13:14:40Z

So I think I may have just bought a variety of PC parts for cheap by haggling with Korean vendors.
Also I believe that said PC parts may end up attached to a 32" HDTV in about 4 days.

I'm now taking suggestions on what the hell I should use this thing for.
It's pretty powerful; AMD Phenom Quad Core, GeForce 8600GT, 2gigs of RAM because RAM costs like 2$ at this point and I can always buy more.

Well? What's everyone playing lately?

Order Instability

2008-03-16T09:15:25Z

Ah! Finally! Back at the damnable Humphreys. So while my life will finally achieve a measure of stability, I've just lost almost all of my ability to leave the post at my own leisure.

Aw well, give and take. I don't have a 40 minute commute to the nearest source or reliable internet anymore, so we'll see how that makes up for the inconvenience of regularly scheduled work 10 hours a day.

Not to mention the-

Oh fuck it I don't even really want to post now. I'll get something up later.
Back at Humphreys. 66 incoming hopefully.

Fucking Christ

2008-03-04T02:42:05Z

I feel like Aaron.

Just got a nice little public belittlement over violating a rule that's been violated so many times since I've been on this exercise that I didn't know it existed. Best part was when I was subtly accused of underage drinking, threatened to take a blood test to "see what else you were doing last night." Ha! Test my blood! I'll give you my bonus if you find anything other then... um... hemoglobin and other blood things!
Apparently someone tried to call me in order to come in and take the shift of another soldier who had been sent back to Humphreys. Now that in itself doesn't sound unreasonable until you realize that the other soldier had been sent back to Humphreys before they actually made the schedule.
When I then asked the SGT who made the list what they were going to do about the soldier who wasn't here anymore but was still on the list, I was told someone would be found to take his spot.
This was probably less then 8 hours before they attempted to call me to do that very thing. It was certainly less then 10.
But really the best part is that the only reason I even got a hotel room last night was so that I could keep my sleep schedule from getting fucked up by being expected to sit around in the barracks all night with the lights off, no music or sound other than headphones, and no food or internet.

Best 65,000 won ever.

2008-03-03T11:07:59Z

Got a hotel since I'll be off for a day or two but don't have any internet access during the times I'll actually be awake.
First thing I do is turn on the TV, flip down two channels, and watch a TvZ on Zodiac. On network Korean TV.
Yes.

I guess they spend all the money on bonuses.

2008-03-02T23:02:26Z

So I'm sitting here at this wonderful mishmash of equipment that is the PC in the 'internet cafe.'
Suddenly I realize I'm using a ball mouse. Not only a ball mouse, but an old one judging by the weight and the way the mouse wheel clicks.
I'm also sitting infront of a flat screen LCD monitor, which probably cost about $200 when they bought it.
The tower itself has a 2.39ghz processor, complete with 256mb of RAM.
And a 20gig HD, with a basic XP install.
The realization I had was that I think that the monitor cost more then all of the other parts combined.

Also it lets me go on Ebay but sabotages the connection if I try to bid on something. WTF?

Stairs

2008-02-26T11:17:32Z

So I think the guy in charge of the Army's internet whitelist is a goon, because for some reason I can get to SomethingAwful.
This is on a network that blocks google if you search for something like Nintendo.

Oh jesus

2008-02-22T21:38:19Z

Sometimes the comments on Slashdot are actually worth reading, but never for the reasons they should be.

"One of the three signs of the pending Apocalypse:

The Optimus keyboard ships
The Phantom ships
Duke Nukem Forever ships

Then the Destroyer will plug the Optimus into the Phantom, boot Duke Nukem Forever, and the universe will come to an end."

Yea I know almost none of you know why this is funny to me, but enough of you do.

e.o;;

2008-02-22T13:05:24Z

So this is wonderful. Apparently one of the Sergeants here who really hasn't even been around for the past week decided that my 2400-0800 shift that I was told I wasn't working tonight not only existed but was in fact a 2000-0800 shift now.

Hey someone should drop by Korea with some food.
Any takers?

Also I've been made aware that Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, and both of the new Phoenix Wrights/Apollo Justice games have come out. All this while my DS is missing in action somewhere in the States.

zomg its tree chrity ay em

2008-02-21T18:33:01Z

So it's like 3am here in Korea and I'm sitting at a desk with nothing to do until I get relieved at 8am. What's actually kinda cool is that I'll be doing this for about 2 weeks pretty soon. This basically (Personally I feel spell check was fucking with me when it suggested that spelling but whatever.) requires me to find a way to get on the real internets here, aka WoW and such.

Also Korea is going by really fast all things considered. Now I just wish I didn't spend every other day getting ready to leave for a mission. That would be spectacular.

So I should just come visit the states on my midterm and get married to offset the cost of the travel. I'm pretty sure I know maybe 2 single women who read this, any takers ladies =D.
Yea that's what I thought, jerks D=.

Koreans

2008-02-15T02:22:31Z

Korea is crazy. We have these guys who're Korean nationals who've been trained to work in the US army. They're called KATUSAs which stands for Korean Augmentation to the United Sates Army. Well the other day while I was playing Starcraft with another guy, every single KATUSA in the barracks walked by at some point and pointed out what we were playing, laughed about it, then started talking to another KATUSA about Starcraft in korean. I could tell because apparently the Korean word for Hydralisk is Hydralisk, etc.

Also I've actually seen a match being broadcast on television. Couldn't watch it at the time but it was there! A real proleague match. Broadcast on TV.

Jesus where did they send me. Now I just need to go find some Pump tourneys and a poker game and it'll feel like I'm living in Charlotte again.