sounds good to me. speaking of which, I ended up buying another light saber from online and ended up having to check it. well ladies and gents, these things are good. Even though the price is a bit high, they are worth the cash. I had to check the most obvious question of how durable they are in the biggest way possible…hit someone with it jackass style. to that end, my friend and I took turns blasting each other in the arm with them. well, they not only DIDN’T break, they hardly even got scratched. the green one had the worst of it, and that was just a little dent that you can’t see if it’s even more than a few inches away from you. the noise is a bit high IMO, but that’s the only thing I could possibly think of as a problem. they even have a timer so that if you happen to be…err, drunk and accidentally leave it running,it’ll turn itself off in a few minutes. not that I would do that or anything. If you were thinking of getting one, go ahead. I aprove of them whole-heartedly. I’ll probably be swinging it around tonight and tomorrow.
one of us has a birthday today and it’s me. since this place sucks so much, it was left to me to make the celebration on my own. Thankfully, a few friends of mine called to see how I was doing. shortly afterwards, the evil one named al cohol arived and we battled until only one was standing. all in all, not a bad day. tomorrow I go back to the grind, one year older and a little less sober. gotta love it
Happy B-day Star. I actually turned 21 back in October. I am just now getting done studying for my Calculus 3 final tomorrow. I’m feeling pretty good about the material. I want an A so bad I can taste it. All in all things are looking pretty great right now. Tomorrow are my last two finals and after that I’m done for Christmas break. I’m probably going to stick around for a couple extra days though. A couple friends of mine are graduating so about a dozen of us are making 3,000 Jello shots for their party. I gotta get up early so I’m out for now.
…I’m finally back. I don’t know what the hells up with this computer, but it was screwed up and not accessing the net…again. that seems to be over for now.
Ducky: what happened? was it some bullshit where someone called you out, got beat up, then went crying to the boss? welcome to just one more reason why I hated the military. damn. I could make a thread and be the first 100 posters on why I got out. still, I wouldn’t trade it out now that it’s over. I hope you beat the bullshit man. keep ya head up.
Yo slide! where ya been at? rocking an old av again eh?
Quicksilver: I know it’s late, but good luck on the test. calculus is over my head by several feet, but maybe one day I’ll go after it. nothing but time and opportunity. See ya all later.
ducky: why don’t u just bribe ur superiors with some good old pron it’s not liek u don’t have enough to go around.
star:It’s been a longwhile since i seen u post in GD then again i haven’t posted on this thread for even longer anyways whats up, hows life, anything new, blah blah.
BTW since spparently were on the bday page of the thread happy pre-emptive bday to me i turn…19…on may3. :rock:
BTW although alot of the OG members don’t know me i know all of u lol i been lurking on here since june2000 i dunno why it took me 4 yrs to join lol.
My schedule is backwards, and because of stupid stuff I can’t ever get enough sleep. So I’m always napping at random times. Can’t stop getting harrased on my days off etc.
I hurt my legs on a jump tuesday using old school parachutes, like my legs are strained or something. I can still walk and run so it’s no big deal, but it could end up being one.
I also get bothered or called or door knocked by ppl on the job like every 3 hours, from 5am to 8pm. Every single day. On days when I try to sleep, i get called in to do stuff(like for instance that jump from tuesday) I can’t get a consistent sleep schedule. So i get to my shift tired all the time. Then can’t rest up correctly on my days off.
Tell me about a wack schedule… I’ve worked 14 days without a day off, and still have a few more days. I work a swing shift, which is technically 1400-2200, but more like 1100-2300 most of the time. All the NCO’s are burnt out, because we’ve all worked 14 days straight, and just so that we could send the soldiers home on leave. The worst part? We still got some shitbag soldiers in the platoon who say the NCO’s have it easy because we just come into work whenever we want (that’s what they think), or they bitch about how we aren’t at work (because we are at the company/battalion getting our asses chewed for them), or they bitch because they want more time off. Two days on, two days off, 12 hour shift is a whole lot more than I’ve gotten the past 14 days.
I even set the schedule up, and the three NCO’s we have are working 60+ hours a week because of it (the last NCO is in BNCOC) - the soldiers get to go on leave, get days off, get everything, and some of them still bitch. Ungrateful assholes. It’s joes like that… I just want to throw them in the dirt and smoke them until they stop sweating. But I can’t do that either, because those same joes are malingering pieces of shit that have no PT profiles because of an ingrown hair in their eyebrow or someshit, waiting to get chaptered out so they can live on welfare.
Then you have a few soldiers… two of our soldiers came up to me after I put up the schedule… they said “Sergeant, we really appreciate how you and the other sergeants are picking up all the shifts so that we can have days off and that we can go home for the holidays. Next year, we won’t take leave so that the sergeants can go home for the holidays.” I told him to “get the fuck out of my office, specialist, you take leave when you want to, we will support it. Don’t worry about the NCO’s, it’s not your job to take care of us.” It’s joes like that, that see the bigger picture, that aren’t selfish… they make it a little better on us.
Still, I’ve spent much more time at work than I’ve spent at home for the past two weeks, only touching down to sleep and change before getting up and doing the whole thing over again. My Xmas shopping isn’t even close to being done either. I can’t wait until we get some days off…
Yeah, we’ve both got it pretty jacked up right now.
Let me tell you that, it’s looking like I might not even be able to go home for Christmas.
It’s all riding on approval right now, getting a replacement. This will make 2 years in a row, last year due to Iraq obviously.
I was already working on Thanksgiving this year. So that’s 2 thanksgivings in a row I haven’t gotten to see family.
I work 4 days, 48 hours a week normally, but then you add in the fact that I have to do other stuff during my days off so they’re not really days off at all anymore, when you spend 12-16 hours of your day off doing stupid stuff. The first month of this scheduling was great, cause the battalion left me alone. Now they’re all up in my ass about stuff I have nothing to do with. But feel the need to include me, on my days of rest.
My NCOs in this new battalion have terrible leadership skills. I suppose that’s what happens when they have their strips given to them so easily. I thought after leaving 9th that 8th would be alot better, it was, for like 5 weeks, now it’s in the shitter. Only the 1SG is on point, while everyone under him power trip. My first sergeant knows my billeting schedule more and better than my 1st line supervisor. That gives you an example of what I’m dealing with. So they obviously dont take into consideration that I was just on duty for 12 hours, and call me in for more BS that can be handled the following day. You know it’s bad when you get room inspected 2+ times a day from different “leaders” who can’t communicate with each other, or get called over and over getting told last minute objectives that need to be completed.
I guess since they’re working during the day I have to be up working too, even though while they were sleeping, I was working my night shift scheduled hours.
I’m still upset about me actually going home for Christmas still being up in the air. I’m trying to see if someone that’s on extra duty for actually doing something wrong, can replace me on my schedule so I can get out of here for the holidays.
Slide - yeah… I haven’t been home for Thanksgiving for two years and X-Mas this year I work… last year I only got hooked up because I was going to WLC right after X-Mas.
Deathscythe - I will answer your question later, I have to (surprise!) go to work.
Star: That sucks about your computer dude I hope you get that worked out.
Ducky: That really licks about your schedule. I can appreciate the stress from your work since it’s about the same as from my math and engineering classes. There really are some days where I feel like the dumbest person in the room. My teacher will put a math problem on the board that is a page long and everybody in the room except for me seems to instantly get it. I’ve spent a whole week studying for an exam in Differential Equations only to get a 75. And on top of that the genius kid next to me will study for 2 hours and get a 97. It’s maddening really, especially since my grades are all I have because I don’t have any work experience for a resume. I just know that I want to be an engineer more than anything, and that’s what drives me right now. I’ve already sacrificed so much time that I’m not willing to compromise and change my major.
Anyways, in other news, I’ve gotten my hands on a PS3. I’m gonna try and hock it on ebay to make some extra cash for Christmas presents, which I have yet to start shopping for. From the looks of other PS3 ebay auctions I may not get that much for it. All the insane prices were going on before the release date and they’ve been steadily declining since it’s been out. I’ve yet to decide what to do with it should I not get any return for it online.
I’ve just recently started talking to this hotty down at school who’s a friend of a friend. At my buddies graduation party last night we talked for a couple of hours and did some jello shots. Unfortunately mixing beer, hunch punch, jello shots, and champagne was not a good call on my part. I was out like a light after an hour of that, being a light weight to begin with. One of my buddies was clearly cock blocking me although I don’t think he realized it at the time since he was blitzed out of his mind as well. It didn’t seem to matter though cause she and I are still talking.
The mission for tommorow is finding a seasonal job and starting on Christmas shopping. Otherwise, I think you guys are now up to speed.
Just wanted to bump this for later. my subscription seems to be worthless.
Quicksilver: don’t worry. it seems that it was a problem with the ISP this time. the computer avoided a boot to the head because they called. yeah, maybe I’m a little tempermental. still, after a little cleaning and reseting, it’s working good. :tup:
Oh, and that test… hell. It showed me how much I didn’t know and what I needed to improve on. It was very rewarding in terms of knowledge, but I’ll probably not get a call back about this position. On top of that, I was mad late. My sup had one little thing to say to me before I shipped out of the job that day…and apparently, it screwed everything up.
My contract is nearly up with the company I work for, so yeah, I’ll be back on the street in two weeks. They’re looking to extend, but they’re big in the country, so that dissappoints me greatly. The pay is nothing I’d want or need and doesn’t fufill my financial expectations. My sup stated that I could apply for other positions within the company with his reccomendation, but where he wanted to get me into was the same area they bitch about… at least I got the reference.
What was funny was the fact that the company approached someone else about the position I was looking to go full time into a week before they posted the job itself. The guy’s skill is impressive and surpasses mine completely, but he’s hella nice. Then…they posted the job the same time they told me the bad news.
I find none of this to be coincidential.
Monster, my space host, workopolis and my business card collection is going to be my new best friends for the next 3 weeks until I get new employment.
Once getting out, i can pretty much go live wherever I want to, if I go back to school i could attend whatever school I feel like attending(upon getting accepted of course), experience different things, travel, whatever. Get and got to do stuff ppl dont normally do, etc.
It’s pretty much like, whatever I want to do once I get out, I have the option to do so. I’m not as limited as I was before joining.
EDIT: I was hanging upside down with a knife in my left hand and a soldering iron in my right, and I was about to beat an aligator as I signed the enlistment papers…
Sorry to disappoint, there’s no real fantastic story or reason behind it.
In other news, this will now be 2 Christmas’ in a row that I won’t be home on. =\
even though I’m ex-navy now, I guess I’ll throw my story into the pot too.
rewind WWAAAAAAYYYYY the hell back to 1991 where we find me without my Starhammer nickname and resting my ass on the floor after a hard day of ditching school. For some reason, the thought had occured to me that even though things were cool right then, I didn’t have a clue as to what I was going to do with myself as far as the future goes. sure, whooping up on some Final Fight was cool right now, but I didn’t really think that was going to cover all the bases. strangely enough, I got a call at that time. I pick it up, and lo and behold. The Navy is on the other end, offering me a chance to see the world.
well, I listened for a little while and I was thinking to myself,“well, I’m a pretty tough guy. maybe this is what I want.”
…OMG was I ever wrong about the tough guy part. I just didn’t know.
well, talks were talked, deals were made, and I joined. Unfortunagely, I cannot even claim alcohol or drugs as the reason behind my going. I simply had nothing else better to do.
I’ve got to goto work in 2 hours, and it’s going right into Christmas morning. Then i’m going to be too tired to even be up, so I’ll make my phones calls to home and everything and then go straight to sleep. Atleast this year, I’m aware of what day it actually is though.
not that I would do that or anything. 
If you were thinking of getting one, go ahead. I aprove of them whole-heartedly. I’ll probably be swinging it around tonight and tomorrow.