Self Image

I’m not sure why but this has come up a couple of times in the last few days. I picture myself one way but I’m sure that the reality is another; I’m just not sure which way the other goes. I know physically I’m a 6’3” former Marine… a few more pounds of fat than I should have. But I can’t comprehend it… how do I stack up to other people? How do others see me? Not just physically but also socially. I’m trying to figure out where I stand and where that fits in with the rest of society. I just picture myself as being small and unable to step up.
I guess what anyone else would say is to ‘grow some balls’ and step up… but for some reason that just doesn’t seem right. I seem to prefer to hang in the back and help out where I can… however the people I seem to hang with don’t need help. It is like I’m drawn to independent and confident people. Perhaps that is how I see myself and so I seem to want to be drawn to it… I have no idea. So I’m busy trying to figure out who I am and who I want to be and what changes need to be made to become who I want to be.
I know this is a messed up post however I’m trying to identify myself… part of me think I need to get into a fight to learn who I am… the other part of me realizes that I don’t need and arrest record… especially since I’m damn close to applying to the FBI. Perhaps I just need to get my ass kicked. There are times I want to get hit… nailed square in the chest or across the jaw… just to see what happens… how do I stand up to it… do I go down or can I take it and retaliate… if presented an emergency how will I handle it… will I freak or will I get down to business and handle it… properly? Perhaps this is why I wish the Marine Corps called me back… so I could go off and perhaps have the chance to prove myself… to myself… once I know how I see myself I won’t care what others see… I just need to know me… to have confidence in my ability… In the end I don’t care what others think… I just need to know Me… what I can do and what I can handle… and right now I have no idea… I need a physical challenge in front of me... I’ve been told ‘be careful what you wish for.’ So I’m hesitant to say this… but I think I need a fight… I need to discover me… this sadly sounds like the movie ‘Fight Club’… but need to know me… how much of a beating can I take… how much of a beating can I deliver…
Physically, Mentally and Socially… what am I capable of?

Tolerance too far

I got this article from Little Green Footballs which is a site I’d recommend everyone spend some time in. It is amazing the number of appeasements the west has made for Muslims. I think this article may highlight one of the worse.

Civil Disobedience

Luggage

Finally at the age of 25 I’m getting luggage. For the number of times I’ve traveled and moved I’ve always used bags… hiking backpacks, gym bags, duffel bags… never have I had luggage. My folks promised me luggage back on my birthday six or seven months ago so finally this Thanksgiving while I’m in Texas I’ll be getting some luggage. This may not sound like much but I’ll be stoked to have real luggage that I can pack things in Plus, with as light as I pack I’m sure with real luggage I’ll be able to stash some nice bottles of liquors!

It's a beautiful life

I'’m sitting here with drink in hand, moose steaks on the BBQ and Penn State football on the TV. Nothing else I can say to that. Maybe just that we are winning 23-7 against Purdue.

Juggling Credits

I just got a letter in the mail from the university. I was expecting something along the lines of 'Mr. Telebush, you suck. Please leave this school.”' Much to my surprise it was the latest list of credits that I transferred into the university. Awhile ago I suspected I wasn't getting all the credits that I earned while I was in the Marine Corps so I requested a new transcript get sent to the university. Happy me to learn that they just added 13 more credits to my transcript. Granted they all went under electives but that is just one step in my plan to move some of those electives to cover some other trash… I know I'’m not describing this well but just focus on this: My plan to graduate a little sooner is one step closer. Its good news people… real good news.

Dreams

I am more convinced than before that dreams are just a means to deal with the stress of the day and unload the thoughts. Here is why:

Yesterday, before going to bed I was thinking about the busses that go around the campus. Additionally I was thinking about the ex-girlfriend that recently got back in touch with me. Then I was thinking about a buddy from infantry school that I keep meaning to call. On top of that I was thinking about what I’ll do in Alaska while I’m there over Christmas.

So last night I had a dream about being in Alaska taking the loop bus (that normally goes around campus, but in my dream it went around the town) trying to get back to my truck with my Marine buddy but ended up making out with the ex on the bus.

Slave Chocolate

In the Hate Whity class we’ve been studying about modern day slavery. Like most people when I first heard ‘modern day slavery’ I though ‘yeah, whatever… it’s just that they are paid pennies for their work’. After reading Disposable People I realized that it is true slavery in the modern era and not just in third world countries; the shit exist even here in the U.S. It is a good book and while it’s not a happy subject if you want to read something non-fiction it’s a good read.
Last week I walked into class and notice the atmosphere wasn’t quite normal. I knew it was going to be a manipulative class that day so I was on guard – I understand an instructor making point, but I f*&king hate manipulation. Midway through class he passes around a couple buckets with wads of aluminum foil in them; instructed to grab one and pass it on I take my little foil wad. After everyone has one foil wad we are told to open it. We find two pieces of chocolate in there… the chocolate chips for making cookies. We are instructed to eat one. Not wanting to play along with his game I didn’t eat any. Then we watched a movie about the slavery in Sierra Leon where people are forced to pick the coco plants for the nuts or melons that make the coco that is turned into chocolate. This movie showed some very brutal stuff to include showing the scares on a dude that tried to escape. Once the movie was finished the instructor informed us that though exact figures are not known at least 1-2% of the chocolate we have was produced by these slaves. Then he challenged us to eat the second piece. He did. I’ve never been one to eat hand outs which is one of the reasons I didn’t eat the first piece but I thought long and hard about being an asshole and eating both pieces then. In the end I didn’t eat any of it and tossed it in the trash on my way out of class.
The basic lesson of this is that except for the few places that sell free trade chocolate all other chocolate has some percentage of slave produced chocolate. Nestle, Hershey, M&M/Mars, all of them.

Miers

Miers withdrew from the nomination. Who didn't see that coming?

White Sox

The Chicago White Sox won the World Series. yippy. Now some little gangstas will be happy and some dudes will have a reason to get paid even more money to stand around in a grassy field next season. go baseball.

Out of the blue

Yesterday at work I was BSin’ with the supervisor… up comes a short story about a girl I dated for a short while during the summer before my sophomore year in high school… Holy shit that was 10 years ago… Anyways, we exchanged a few emails about two years ago then lost contact again. Low and behold this morning I get up and find an email from her in my inbox. Kind of weird how that worked out… she must have some damn good hearing… Anyways I just sent a response and I’m kind of anxious to hear back from her and find out how she’s doing.

Crash

I just finished watching the movie Crash (2004 version) for my race relations class... damn. If you haven't seen it yet then go rent it now and watch it. I'll warn you that it isn't a happy-go-lucky movie... but it is still damn good. There were parts that almost had an asshole such as myself moved.

Snow

I was just sitting downstairs eating breakfast looking out the window as the snow was coming down. The big, heavy, sloppy flakes mixed in with rain that would melt as soon as they touched the ground.

There goes another summer.

The house I grew up in had this big bay window that looked out across the street and beyond to a mountain a mile or two away. In the springs I use to sit in a chair in the big bay window with my knees in the seat and my chin resting on top of the back-rest. I would say to my self 'Another winter down.' Then come fall I would sitting there again looking at all the leaves change and think to myself 'There goes another summer.' I'm not sure what I was counting down to. But there I was this morning looking out and thinking 'there goes another summer.'


UPDATE:
Now it's starting to accumulate.

Not Exactly....

...but I'll take the compliment.


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Burning Bodies

I few days ago I shared my thoughts on the burning of Taliban bodies. Unlike the media some bloggers looked into the story a bit more and found out that the soldiers may be covered by the Geneva Convention. I'm not sure this is all of the story but Blackfive has some good information on the event

Winter Weather Alert

YES!!! We have our first winter weather alert for the area. To bad only elevations above 1500 ft will get the snow... I just asked my piloting roommate and he said we are at about 1300ft here.

Working Blog

I finally got this computer at work to allow me to blog. No matter what I did it wouldn’t accept cookies. So I finally just dropped all the security to allow anything… oh well, not my computer.
Also, I got in this morning and we had new monitors on our desk… nice Dell Flatscreens… to work with our 863Mhz PIII old Dells. The monitors weren’t the problem… it’s the old ass computers here… oh well, one of these days we’ll get something new.

I think these new meals are kicking my ass. I’ve been eating a lot healthier lately (aside from trips to Taco Bell). I gave up caffeine, and I’ve had this 12-pack of 7-up for nearly a month now. But now my body just doesn’t know what to do… I was feeling kinda sick all weekend and only a little better today. Oh well, a few more changes in store and I should have some good eating habits (I hope).

Coins

I have a new coin to show... I know it doesn't come out too well in this photo but to the top left is the new Marine Corps commemorative coin. It was a gift from my dad. Actually, three of those are gifts from dad... The large one up top on the right is the bicentennial coin of the Marine Corps. On the front it shows Marines in Vietnam era uniform and on the back is the birth date of the Corps and it shows the first Marine landing; the raid on a British fort in the Bahamas (we needed the cannons to fight the British up north).
Towards the bottom is a coin, not a US mint coin but one that is stamp on the back with the Eagle, Globe and Anchor and the flag raising at Iwo Jima all done on one once of silver.
I use to have a coin given to be by the General of the Depot but some jackass stole it off my desk a couple months before I got out.

Anyways, there's my bitchin' little coin collection.

Sarge's Antics

My beta named Sarge is still hanging out in his tank behaving himself. But for some reason he is fond of going done an air tube... there is suppose to be a hose in it that puts air into the water. I took it out since betas don't really need it and the pump is noisy. Sarge will swim down it, get to the bottom and manages to turn himself around and comes back out. Sometimes he'll stop along the way and just hangs out in the tube. If only I could find some gerbil like tube structure that would fit in the tank, I'm sure he'd enjoy it.

For Sale

I was checking the local classifieds and found these for sale...


One of these day, when I grow up, I'll have one.

My Love: Claudia Black

I don’t know what it is about her… but for some reason I love Claudia Black. Yes, I’m a Sci-Fi geek. An ex-girlfriend got me addicted to Farscape when I was in San Diego. It was after the show was canceled but nonetheless I rented every episode from Netflix and enjoyed every moment of her. Last year when the Sci-Fi channel did the Farscape miniseries I was all over it. Perhaps it is her beautiful smile or ass-kicking personality but I love her.
Over the summer I started to get into SG-1… especially since I saw the ads for Claudia Black to be in the new season. Anyways, I just finished watching an episode of SG-1 where she was stirring up more trouble and I felt the need to profess my love for her.
God help me if I ever meet a woman like her.

One of those days...

As soon as I woke up (for the fifth time) I knew it wasn't going to be a good day... DPT confirmed it. So this morning I watched a little Full Metal Jacket to get some motivation and get on my way. One of the main paths through campus had a sign that said 'High Five Zone'. Two dudes were there giving high-fives to everyone that walked by... that did help to brighten it a bit...

If a fire alarm is hard-wired into the house why does it still need a battery? If you unplug the alarm and leave the battery in does it still work? Yeah, this is what woke me up the 4th and 5th time...

Sucks to be them

Some people are getting upset over this, I say so what… why aren’t we shooting them with bullets dipped in pig’s blood?

Cravings

This evening I had a craving for Taco Bell… so I took the trip to the south side in search of relief. I could make it a seven mile trip through downtown… but it was 6pm and I wanted to avoid the traffic (traffic in this town is more than five people waiting at a light)… So in another route I got geographically displaced… I did learn a bit though… Raytheon has a building here… not sure what exactly they have in it, but I’m sure there is an abundance of stuff. Also, Accuweather’s headquarters is here… you know that dorky guy on Foxnews that was talking about the hurricanes… he always wears some old brown suits… yeah, he’s here in State College.
Anyways, after a little drive I got my food… but it was cool to get out to a new area and check it out… even if it was by accident.

Honorary 2000th visitor

Honorary 2000th visitor came in tonight as Dr. Phat Tony. Go check out his question and answer section that guided people (down the wrong path) with their questions about women...

Additions

To the right you'll notice a new link to Sgt Hook. Though his blog says Sergeant I believe he is either a 1st Sgt or SgtMaj in the Army... he use to post regularly from Afghanistan but then retired his blog. Recently he has brought his blog out of retirement is back. Go check him out.

Linkage

How pitiful is this… the 2000th referrer to my site was none other than… me. Since I moved I forgot to block this IP address from registering… so as I was doing some updates I was logged as the visitor… the 2001st referrer was some unknown and the 2002nd referrer was some dude that doesn’t post but once every 5 months and writes too much poetry so I don’t think he deserves the linkage… yeah I’m an asshole.. just ask my last five or so girlfriends. So if someone with a blog logs in this evening I’ll post them as the honorary 2000th visitor. As the 2000th visitor/referrer you’ll get lots of nothing and maybe one or two links…

Explanations

Manateechik (don’t expect much traffic from this linkage, I still don’t get shit for traffic) posted a comment asking what I meant by ‘hits from Google’. This is a good question because it also aligns with a question I got from my father.
To the right underneath all the links you’ll notice I have this bitchin’ little square icon with ‘Site Meter’ below it. This tracks how many visitors I have to the site. This also provides information on where these visitors are coming from… no it doesn’t give me a precise address; it simply gives me the name of the town, state, country and Internet Service Provider… this is how I could tell it was my father that left a comment last week.
In addition to that info the Site Meter will also tell me the referring address… i.e. I can tell someone looking at Thunder6 clicks on my link and checks out my page. So when someone Googles ‘fucking group’ and the click on the link to my site… I get their info… it’s no invasion of privacy… all the info I got was that it was some perv in Poland clicking on a link to this perv in State College. Granted there are a lot of Sorostitutes here so I’m sure he could find his group action here.

Almost there

I’m finally about to cross that 2,000th visitor mark… it’s slowly starting to pick up, slowly. I was just looking at some of my referrals and I’ve been getting some weird hits from Google. I’ve had quite a few hits with Hurricane Rita, a few looking for things on ghosts, but I think my favorite came from when I was bitching about the group project I have to work on – I got a hit from Poland looking for ‘fucking group’. Dirty bastards…

***Update***
Manateechik asked what I mean by 'hits from Google'. This turned into a slightly longer responce than I wanted for an update... I'll post the whole thing shortly.

DNA things

Oh, about the DNA test thing… the Professor said that quite a few white people get the results back and find out they have a small amount of African-American blood in them… He explains this as back in the slavery days in the U.S. it wasn’t uncommon for a slave master to have sex with some of the female slaves… in the end mixed children were born… some assimilated into white society, some continued in the slave society… so many blacks have some European blood and many whites have some African-American blood.

If I have any percentage of African American blood in me I’m going to use that to its full advantage in applications for jobs and scholarships and stuff. If it turns out I have some alien blood in me as Dr. Phat Tony suggested then I’m not sure what I’d do… but it would explain my odd shaped head, of course I think it is from my parents dropping me on my head… hard…repeatedly…

So damn tired

I’m so damn tired right now but for some reason I can not sleep. Part of me is angry, part of me is happy, part of me is sad, and part of me is disappointed.

I’m not even sure where to begin… I guess it started this weekend when I was trying to finish I Am My Brother’s Keeper. Awesome book… it is a journal of a Gunny in Iraq during the initial invasion in 2003, uncensored and true to heart.
My sadness for his situation after the war gets me, and then it manifest into my guilt and anger with not having gone. I had someone ask me how I could feel this way, how I could not consider myself lucky for not having to go… the best way I could sum it up was like this: Imagine you go to school to be a lawyer… you get through law school, all the midnight oil you’ve burned cramming for tests… you get through the bar exam and you are set to become a lawyer. Then you end up working retail in some mall.

Additionally this weekend I broke up with my girlfriend… even though I was the one to call an end to it I still feel kind of sad about that… I’m not going to go into the details of the cause here, but in the end I’m sure it was the right thing to do. It sure has stirred a lot of ghosts in the closet.

Antagonizing

I’m going to get in trouble at school.
Currently I am taking a class I refer to as the ‘Hate Whitie’ class. As the class has progressed I’ve realized its not ‘Hate Whitie’ but more of a ‘Hate yourself because you were born white and with money’ class (disregard the fact that my parents worked their ass off to go from trailer park to where they live now). It is actually called Soc 119: Race Relations.
Now for a quick lesson about me: I’m white, I don’t care much about what race you are. I give everyone a chance till they prove they are stupid, regardless of race.
Back to the class: One of the projects we are doing is getting a DNA test done on each of us to find out what our ethnicity is; the test has been done, we are waiting on the results. Additionally, each week we have to do a journal entry. The instructor will post a question and we have to write a 450 word response. For the third time he has posted this question: “Describe how you identify yourself in racial and ethnic terms? What in your life would change if you discovered that your racial ancestry is not what you think it is? How would your friends and family react?”
I’m tired of answering the same question over and over. My first two times I answered something along the lines of ‘so what, it doesn’t matter to me if it turns out I’m not completely white.’ This time though I decided to change my answer… (oh yeah, I’m the only white guy in my small section)

Holy shit! How many times are we going to answer this set of questions? I feel that I’m not giving the right answer… I think I’ll change my answer and hopefully it’ll be the answer they are looking for and they’ll quit asking the same questions over and over.

I’m white (Anglo-Saxon, European decent, what ever you want to call it), I know I’m white, I’ve always been white, I’ll always be white. I come from a family that prides ourselves on being white. God help us if we find I have mixed blood. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out I have family members that were trying to participate in the Neo-Nazi march Saturday in Toledo Ohio. I know if I find out I have any colored, I mean African-American blood in me it would not only devastate myself but also my whole family. I’m sure both of my grandfathers would turn over in their grave and it would damn near kill one of my grandmothers and probably send the other to the hospital. My uncle gets a bit loud when he drinks (which is often) so I’m sure if he ever found out then the neighbors a half-mile away (they live on a farm) would still be able to hear him yelling “There ain’t no n*%#^$ blood on our side of the family. It must have come from that no good son-of-a-bitch pa of yours; I always knew he was tainted and not good enough for our family.” Then my aunt (from my dad’s side of the family) would start cursing my mom’s side of the family and next thing you know our family would turn into the Montagues vs the Capulets. Now that I think about it this DNA test could be the destruction of my family. Is it too late to op out? If not then I guess I could keep it a secret but that will be hard since the family likes to quiz me about what I’m learning at this school (they would have much preferred me to go to Ordensburgen.)


Now, incase you missed my intro paragraph you may be thinking to yourself “What the fuck?” Relax, I was just making all the above stuff up. As I’ve answered the last two or three times this was asked I really don’t care if I am of mixed blood. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out I have some non-European blood in me since I am such a varied mix; but in the end it wouldn’t affect me. If I do have some mixed blood then my family may laugh and wonder if it came from my mother or father’s side, but in the end it really wouldn’t matter.

*Note: I’m not affiliated with the Nazis in any way; I am not aware of any family members what so ever that have been affiliated with the Nazis. In fact, I think the Nazi protesters in Toledo Ohio were pretty stupid, but the protest protesters that turned on their own neighborhood and burned and looted parts of it were more stupid, regardless of race/ethnicity/religion.

I know the TA's read these (it's their job) and one is black, so I'm curious if this will stir up some controversy at our next section meeting.

Hope

Lt Col Shea,


They are voting today, I hope it was worth it.

Painting

I’m going to try painting… Not painting the walls, but actually trying to make a pictures. I know I have no artistic capability but since I have a long weekend and most everyone is leaving town I thought I’d try my hand at something new… I only bought ten dollars worth of supplies from Walmart so I’m sure I can’t do too much damage with it.

Ghosts

I’m not sure why, but I’ve never believed in ghosts. I always thought the idea of ghosts was cool and I’d like to see a ghost but for me they were always right up there with leprechauns, unicorns and such. Just recently I got to thinking about ghosts and I figure most of the ‘sightings’ and ‘experiences’ could be explained away with reasoning. For instance I had this girlfriend that believed she heard ghosts in her dining room; I never heard anything and I’m sure she just heard her neighbors in the apartment next door. I figure the reason why most people believe in ghosts is that they don’t like the idea of their own fate – the fact that when you die you are done here on earth.

So while I don’t think ghosts exist, I still want to visit some of these places.

Hmmm

King Edward I You scored 79 Wisdom, 62 Tactics, 59 Guts, and 43 Ruthlessness!

Or rather, King Edward the Longshanks if you've seen Braveheart. You, like Edward, are incredibly smart and shrewd, but you win at any costs.... William Wallace died at his hands after a fierce Scottish rebellion against his reign. Despite his reputation though, Longshanks had the best interests of his people at heart. But God help you if you got on his bad side.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 97% on Unorthodox You scored higher than 36% on Tactics You scored higher than 65% on Guts You scored higher than 33% on Ruthlessness

Link: The Which Historic General Are You Test written by dasnyds

Aid

Oh, one other thing I've been thinking lately... Notice how during the Tsunami the world called America cheap because of the amount of money (about 1 Billion dollars)we sent? Yet right after the earthquake in central Asia we pledged $50 million right off the bat... no hesitation, boom, here you go, 50 million. What did the European Union donate? What did the 25 countries of the EU put together? $4 million? That comes to about $160,000 per country. We've liberated millions in Iraq and Afghanistan without most of the big players in the EU, we are recovering from two hurricanes, and increased security costs here at home, but we still hand out more aid than the holier-than-thou EU.

I'm sure the figures have increased all around but in a quick search I couldn't find any new figures so I'm going with what I have. GRRRRRR!

Moved

I've moved a lot. It happens in the military. I've even moved a lot since I got here to State College. In the year that I've been here I've lived in four places. As it stands now I really like this place I'm in now. But looking around I noticed I'm missing something. I use to have one but I left it with a friend in San Diego when I moved away. I have pictures on the wall of family, friends, and places I've been. I have the plaques I got in the Marine Corps. I even have maps marking the places that I have been to. But I'm missing my flags. Two particular flags. I'm missing my American flag, and I'm missing my Marine Corps flag. I know I can get one at Walmart, and I probably will this weekend, but I'm going to have to search the internet for a Marine Flag. Perhaps the local Army/Navy store has one though I'm sure its a rip off and the one time I entered the store I got a funny feeling from the dude behind the counter. Yup, in a few more days my paycheck from the work study will hit and I'll have a few extra dollars to order a Marine Corps flag.

Damn I'm feeling motivated this evening. I need to go find a commie and straighten him out.

God Bless

God bless the History Channel. Between Wild West Tech and Shootout my evening is set.

Projector Professor

A couple of days ago I wrote about the Math professor who can not operate the overhead projector. Today in class he finally figured it out - I'’m not sure if someone told him or if he got it on his own, but he got the display to fit the screen. Just as he was about to earn props for getting the display correct he quickly lost face when all his markers didn't work. "“Oh, I guess these things dry out if you don’t put the cap back on."” Luckily another student had a marker in her bag and let him use it…

Things that make you go hmmm…

12 Credits

12 credits are what I’m registered for next semester… I know it’s not a lot, and maybe I’ll add one more, but they are all upper level classes. Once I finish those I think I’ll only have 9 credits to go till graduation. Unfortunately all those credits are upper level too and they may not be offered over the summer. Perhaps I can knock out 6 of them with a study abroad during the summer… Yet one more thing to talk to the advisor about. Perhaps this. I’m also looking at a trip to the Netherlands that will also take care of Degree requirements but their website seems to be down now.

Math for Dummies

I’m taking the equivalent of ‘Math for Dummies’ this semester because after five years of not using any math I’ve forgotten most of the stuff I learned in my first year of college. I enjoy this class because it isn’t just math; it is about the history of math too. Anyways, the class is taught by a 70 year old professor who is ticked off because there is no chalkboard in our class. He has to use the overhead projector with the clear plastic that you write on. It is amazing to watch this math wizard get his butt kicked by the simple operation of the overhead projector. Seven weeks into the course and he still can’t the display to fit on the screen and most amazing is when he placed a piece of paper blocking the projection he couldn’t figure out how the screen went blank… not hearing the students tell him to move the piece of paper he tried to write harder on the plastic thinking that would fix it.

Bastion of Liberal Ideas

Dr Phat Tony calls it a bastion of liberal ideas… luckily Penn State is one of the more conservative schools. To bad the president isn’t; he’s spending money like its cool. Some day I’ll have to do a wrap up of all the money he has wasted. I guess for now I’ll just leave it at this: $123 Million dollars for an IST building/cross walk. $123 Million, no periods in between those numbers, One Hundred Twenty-three MILLION dollars! $123,000,000 – WTF?

Oh, and I have a craving for a root beer float now.

Serenity

I finished two big tests yesterday and wanted to go do something fun. So last night the girlfriend and I went to see Serenity. Holy Crap it was a good movie. Now I’ve watched the series, but I think it starts from the beginning well and even if you haven’t seen the original shows you can enjoy the movie.
In case you’ve missed the 10,000+ reviews that people have done on the movie here is a quick synopsis: Earth went to hell so everyone moved packed up and moved to a new solar system. So 500 years in the future the crew of the ship Serenity is fighting the Man. The last half gets a might bit bloody so it probably wouldn’t be that good for little kids but it isn’t overdone (Nothing like Kill Bill).
Awesome graphics, awesome fight scenes, awesome performance. I’d be willing to see it again with friends and I’m sure I’ll end up buying it on DVD.

Social Justice

Perhaps I have just witnessed a case of social justice: Since 7am there has been a hammering noise from across the street... not wood hammering but it sounded like someone was driving rebar into the ground. Just a minute ago the power flickered out and was back on in less than a second, but the hammering immediately quit. I should look out there and make sure this guy wasn't blown back 20ft by the jolt.

Chow

In the little town that I grew up in there were the usual fast food joints, Mc D’s and Wendy’s. Wendy’s has since closed after Burger King moved into the old police station… yeah, I’m not sure how that worked out but it did. When Taco Bell moved into town everyone was ecstatic, the lines were very long for days. I’m pretty sure that after Taco Bell moved in, the A&W Burger joint came to town. The A&W moved in with the Texaco station back at the very beginning of the Gas Station/Fast Food joint ventures. Growing up I was always a little leery of food from a gas station – just look at some of the hot dogs in the 7-11. I remember on occasion I would go to the A&W and it was always good food, but for some reason I just didn’t go there often… I like Taco Bell.
This evening I ran out of quick things to cook and I have a lot of studying to do (I’m on a short break now) so while I was out running some errands I stopped by the A&W joint here in town and I must say that it is some damn good food. The last second decision to make my drink a root beer float turned out to be a great choice! I never liked root beer growing up… hence I rarely had a root beer float. But having that float this evening was great… now that I know it’s only a few blocks down the road I’m afraid I’ll make too many trips back to the place. I better hurry up and restock my supply of quick, healthy food before I make another trip back to A&W.

On another note… My idea of healthy food I’m sure is a bit skewed, err… screwed. Anyways, what I’ve been doing for dinner lately is cooking about a cup of rice (I’ve been using white but on the next trip to the store I’ll look for some long-grain and/or wild rice) with about two or three cups of frozen veggies (yes, I’m eating green things). The veggies are pre-mixed and normally consist of chopped green and red peppers, two kinds of beans (chopped, long green ones, and some that are kinda purple?) onion, and sometimes water chestnuts (remind me of the oriental mix MRE!) and corn. Then for meat I’ll throw in a can of chicken or turkey. My question to you all is: Is this shit healthy? I figure for the most part it is… probably less white rice and less salt would help me… but am I missing something?

Fixing things Redux

I’ve updated a few of the links to the side. Some were dropped because the site moved or was no more; others were dropped because I just don’t read them anymore. It’s not a judgment on the linked site, its just me. Also, I’ve added a few.

Armor Geddon will be deleted soon. It’s a damn good blog and it’s a shame to see it shut down, but for security reasons he is shutting himself down.

Citizen Smash was added (I should have added him a while ago). He is a navy veteran who reports a lot on the Protest Warriors in San Diego and their progress.

Dr. Phat Tony is an amusing blog with some good stories. Be sure to check out his Range Posts. I would love to have seen that rail flying through the air.

Michael Yon is an excellent citizen-journalist who has made self-sponsored trips to Iraq to cover what our troops are doing. Many great stories from him and well worth your time.

Little Green Footballs covers the encroachment of Islamic Extremist with his trademarked Religion of Peace reports. (I want the ‘Infidel’ T-shirt – in men’s - that is advertising on the side of his blog.

Fixing things

I'm making a few updates on the links to the right. I dropped some and I added some... Those that I dropped is not a comment about the quality of their site, I just don't read them anymore... It is probably more of a statement on my ADD. Later today when I have some more time I'll write about why I added each new one, or you can go take a look yourself and I'm sure you'll quickly figure out why.