Mid Shift

Tonight is the first night that I work Mid Shift. I'll be working Mids from now on. Not only is it boring, but lonely. I've seen maybe 3 people all night. I'm working with McGarry tonight, but he went to go take a nap, LOL. You can tell we have a lot to do around here. I would watch movies, but Gill took his DVD player, so I'm stuck with just entertaining myself by any means necessary. Right now I'm just listening to music (Kenny Chesney) and updating this thing. Kenny Chesney has a new CD out... I want it. LOL. I'm not obsessed... owning every one of his CDs is not an obsession. Now if I owned every one of his CDs, had posters of him all over my room, tried to dress, talk, and act like him... then I would be obsessed.

I just realized that I haven't updated this thing for about 10 days now. That's a long time for me... I'm usually on the ball with this thing. As I've said MANY times before, there's nothing new here. I've had quite a bit of time off, and I'm getting more. I guess they're finally making up for all of the times I covered down for other people. I just had 4 days off, then I work tonight, then have another day off, then the next two days I have a couple of meetings, then I have three days off. Then back to work. It should be back to the grind after that.

You know... just when I start getting comfortable with being so far away from home, somebody has to say something, or do something, that makes me miss home so much more. Usually when I get to work, I check my email, and read everybodies blogs to get all caught up on good ol' West Sac gossip. Tonight was no exception... same routine. I was feeling fine until I read Hadley's blog. She posted an incredible blog that made me miss her and home so much more. It made me realize that I can't do all of the little things that I used to do. I can't just call her up at any time and ask her to come over. I can't just sit back and relax on the couch with her, and hold each other for hours, like we so often did. I couldn't even call her tonight when I read her blog... I didn't want to wake her up.

No Subject

Same ish, different day. I went down to turn in a paper to the education center, and I left in my room when I left. It's for tuition assistance. I signed up for an online collegle class through the University of Maryland. It's Criminology. It's 5 months long, eesh! Anyways... that paper has to be in by today, so now I have to go all the way back to my room to get it, and come all the way back. Pain in my arse!

Glorious Work!

Yet another day off spent at work! Foop this ish! I'm so frikin tired of having to work on my scheduled days off. They always tell me that they're going to make it up for me, but all they've done is take away days from me. Now we've got a new supervisor, and she thinks she's some hardass, so I'll probably never get those days back. Now it's back to working 12 hours shifts too with 2 people on duty. It's absolutely ridiculous how this place works. It's pointless enough for one person working here, but it's just absurd to put 2 people on for 12 hours.

Anyways... I've been finding out that it's going to be pretty pricey for me to come home. So far it looks like at least $1000. We'll find out in a few months. Today has been the first day that our supervisor has been working. She has no clue as to what's going on, but she's already trying to run things and make changes to things that don't need to be changed. We now have to check EVERYBODY to see if they have a badge to get onto the flight line. I must say, this is the only part of the job that I've taken satisfaction. Some of the officers or NCOs forget their badges then get PISSED because they can't get in. It's always fun when you get to be an ass to someone who is a higher rank. The best part is the ones that think the gate is unlocked, then when they try to go through, they smack their face on the bars because it won't open. Yeah... I enjoy that part. LOL.

For what it's worth

Just felt like postin something. Nothing new has happened since the last time I posted. Just trying to pass the time, I guess. I've been shown a lot in the past few months. Not all good, but I can't complain. I feel a lot closer to my family lately. My friends are still off the hook. And my girlfriend is absolutely amazing! I love you so much babe! I feel like I'm heading in the right direction in life, but I'm still uncertain about where it's going. Yeah, I did make it out of West Sac... I made it out of the country! I miss it though. Never thought I would miss West Sac. I don't miss the gossip and constant road construction on jefferson though! And not to mention all of the shady people. But aside from those things I miss it. Some people say that life is about risks and chance and all that. Well, I don't know about all of that, I haven't lived long enough to really know, but I've taken quite a few lately. I'm hoping they land me somewhere nice. Don't want to go too deep on that though... I might be touching on the "philosophical" or trying to make myself sound intellectual. Wouldn't want to bore ya, Nick, with that non sense. lol.

I'm workin' on a little something that might let me come home for a whole month. It might be a long shot though, but it's worth a try. That would be pretty sweet. That won't be for a while though.

Note to Nick: You need to allow comments on your blog. Who gives a shite about what people write, or who writes it. There are many times I want to comment, but cant.

??Super Bowl Predictions??

Well, the wild card playoffs have been interesting. Pretty much all of the teams I picked lost. I figured the Chargers would pull it out over the Jets. They had their chance, and blew it. The Packers were my main NFC team. I predicted them to go heads up with the Eagles and pull off an upset. Well, that's not going to happen now. The Colts came through for me though. They were my pick at the beginning of the year to make it to the super bowl and win it. Originally my prediction was a Colts vs. Eagles Super Bowl, but more towards the playoffs I was leaning towards the Packers to pull off a playoff upset over the Eagles. Well now that game won't even take place, so back to where I started... Super Bowl XXXIX: Colts vs. Eagles, Colts victorious!!

White Stuff

It frikin snowed the other day! I hate the snow. Unfortunately, I had to come to work today, or else I wouldn't have left my room. I stayed in the barracks for a day and a half because I didn't want to go out in the snow. It only snowed for about an hour and a half, but it snowed a lot.

Today sucks, as usual. It was supposed to be my day off, but yet again, I'm here at work. SGT. Riley said he's going to pay me back, but this is the 3rd favor I've done for him and still, nothing! It is horribly cold today. 5 degrees/-3 with windchill. I had to stand outside for about half an hour so I could salute some 2 star general that came through. I hate the Army. Especially for stupid stuff like that.

My blog is incredibly boring. I feel sorry for anyone that actually wastes their time and reads it. I apologize for my boring ass blog. Hadley told me to post, because I haven't posted for a few days. She told me to put some "philosophy" on here. Well, after waking up at 0450 and not eating anything for breakfast yet, the philosophical part of my brain just isn't working. I can offer some advice though... DON'T JOIN THE MILITARY! It's frikin gay! I've been in the active Army for just barely over a month, and I'm already sick of it. Granted, the money is not bad, especially if you don't have bills and nothing to spend it on. But there's little, to no freedom. So all of you highschoolers, or college dropouts, STAY IN SCHOOL! Get a real job. And I'm not talking about Taco Bell, or Mac Deezies. Go deliver pizza for round table... Swiss is making bank off that ish! I should have been a damn pizza delivery boy! See... Kellen is doing things the right way. He's working 2 jobs, and he bought a gas-conservative car, that was relatively inexpensive. And he's mackin' college. Maybe when I get out of this dump, I'll come deliver pizzas with Swiss. I'll be his pizza boy sidekick.

Weather update

I'm pretty bored as usual so I thought I'd throw this up here...

It's currently 1116 in the morning. The temperature is 10 degrees and feels like 2 degrees w/ windchill.

I was just saying the other day how I was getting used to the cold. Well... I lied! Holy moly it's cold! I was also saying the other day how it was actually kinda nice... it was raining and probably in the 40s. If it's raining, that means it's not cold enough to snow, so it's really not that cold. Well, that lasted about 2 days, and it's back to the frigid cold days of absolute hell. All of you back in West Sac, enjoy your rainy, 50 degree weather Winter. 50 degrees sounds nice right about now!

Let the countdown begin...

Well, I've only been here a month, and I'm already planning on taking leave. I'm planning on coming home early june, for at least 2 weeks. I should be able to, but it's too early to find out. I'm already way too excited to come home, it's not for another 6 months. I'm aleady working on planning stuff for when I get home. Hopefully it all works out.

I got promoted yesterday. A week earlier than my promotion date. If I would have been inprocessed faster, I would have gotten it even sooner. So I'm a big PV2 now (E-2). Got my mosquito wings. lol. Still pretty insignificant, but at least I don't have people asking me if I'm fresh out of basic training, or if I got into trouble. And it's another $100 a month, so you can't go wrong with that. I should make PFC in no time. They love me here and all they want to do is promote me. I think my section leader is already working on getting me a waiver so I can get it pretty shortly. That would be pretty sweet. I need to start managing my money... I buy too much crap that I don't need. Gotta start saving up for my plane ticket home and back!