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Got some news for ya... I'm coming home no later than February, 2006 now. Just had a talk with the reenlistment guy the other day, and he said that I can only reenlist for a minimum of 3 years, when just a couple of months prior, he told me I could reenlist for 2. So, I told him if he could get me a duty station of choice, K-9 school, and a reenlistment bonus, then I'm in. Well, he could get me just one, the duty station of choice. So I made a phone call yesterday, now all I need to do is sign a paper, then sit back and wait about 6-7 months, and I'll be out! My "official" ETS date is February 8, 2006. But I may come home sooner than that, depending on if I use whatever leave I have saved up.

Tomorrow I get promoted... Officially, I was promoted on July 7th, but because this unit is lame, they haven't pinned me yet. But i've been receiving the pay, so I could care less. So as of tomorrow I will be a Private First Class (PFC). uh oh!

So that's the latest. What's going on in the real world?? I don't catch too much news of what's happening, unless it's something major.

Bored off me arse! It's 0044, my time... 0844 back home. So almost everyone is sleeping or working. Doing laundry and cleaning up my room to pass the time. My room mate is at work, so I don't have anyone's ass to beat at Live or Madden. Didn't make it to the commissary this evening, so I'm hurtin' cuz I don't have anything to eat. I often resort to eating when I'm bored, and yet I still maintain my girlish figure. Alright...well, I'm going to go jump out the window and hit my head on the pavement, just for entertainment. Late!

4-5

Another loss. Our season is pretty much over now. We have one game left, but we needed to win these last two, to get into playoffs. So now we'll just be looking to keep a .500 record. The game was a lame one. Back to the selfish play. No ball movement. We were lucky to get one pass off, before someone shot the ball. Stuck with the 2-1-2 defense, which was working well all game, and we kept the score close. It all fell apart when we switched to man to man in the last few minutes.

Personal stats:
0 pts, 2 assists
0/3 FG

What a game I had!

Speaking of basketball... The Kings made yet another trade that is a bust! Don't know if I posted this previously, but I told Kel that Bobby Jackson would be gone this year. Traded off to Memphis for for Bonzi Wells. There were some other moves made, but none of which seem to matter. Ostertag is gone, thank the Lord! Back to the Jazz for now. And Utah is sending 3 schmucks to Sac. So, welcome Bonzi Wells to the Kings, adios Bobby Jackson. The once uptempo life of the Kings is now seemingly gone. Like I said before... the Kings will have about a .500 season this year.

Here's a question for ya...

Bombing in London... Tragedy, yes or no?

Terrorists in London detonate bombs, blowing up a subway and a bus, killing approximately 56 people, and wounding many others. O course this would be considered a tragedy. For about a week it made the front page of every major news paper throughout the world, headlined on all of the prime time news programs, and so on.

Another question for ya...

Suicide bombing in Iraq Kills 58, and wounds many others... Tragedy, yes or no?

The newspapers and prime time news programs wouldn't think so. I found this article in the back of the news paper, and it was nothing more than a caption. Not a major story on the news, and just a little article about it on the internet.

It's understandable that it is a bigger deal because it's the first attack like this that has occured in London. But why is it not even a big deal in Iraq?? Granted, attacks like these take place almost every day, but because they're so frequent or expected, does that make them less of a tragedy, or a tragedy at all?

4-4

Well... 3d MI Bn fell to 4-4 on Friday night. I couldn't even go to the game since I was on 24 hour quarters. Not sure how the game went, but I heard we lost by 8. Next game is on 22 July 05.

On the upside... I think I'm getting rid of this god forsaken viral infection. Throat is still a little sore, and I'm still spitting up some pretty nasty stuff, but neither are nearly as bad as they have been. My throat is abnormally swolen, but as long as most of the pain is gone, I don't care. Hopefully it will be completely cleared up within the next couple of days.

So... what's new around good ol' West Sac??

Viral Infection

Went to the good ol' ER last night. I've had an unbarabel sore throat and a fever for the past few days, and last night it peaked. Started spitting up blood, couldn't sleep, and hadn't eaten for 2 days. Get there, and I felt like some sort of science show... everyone in there wanted to take a peak at my throat because they said it was the nastiest thing they've seen. My right tonsil was swolen so bad that you could see the knot sticking out of my neck. They named off several different things that were wrong with me, but they were all that medical mumbo jumbo that nobody understands. They finally decided to do a test for strep throat, which came up negative, so I got the usual shpeal. Viral Infection. Treatment... Penacilin and Ibuprofin. Just had one of the medics come to my room and wanted to hook my up to an IV and I told him to get the hell out... so he left it here and said he would come and check up on me from time to time and if I get any worse, he's sticking me. They also tried giving me the infamous shot in the arse, last night. That didn't fly. I wasn't about to get stuck in the ass, then not be able sit on my left check for 5 days.

Going to miss the basketball game tonight. I'll post up whether or not they won. They're playing some other MI unit. Back to bed for me... peace out!

4-3

Got the "W" last night, as 3d Military Intelligence Batallion defeated the US Air Force! I contemplated whether or not I was going to play since I had a horrible sore throat and headache, and was running on just 1 hour of sleep. Decided at the lat minute that i would play. We got off to a pretty good start, grabbing an 8-0 lead. I started off a little shaky at the point, due to a harsh full court press and a pretty strong half court trap. Luckily, the team decided not to be selfish last night, and with good ball movement, we picked it apart. Decided to play a 2-1-2 defense last night since they had no outside game.

Personal Stats:
2 pts, 4 assists, 2 rebs, 2 steals
1/2 FG

Beat Down!

The big protest was today. I don't think it reached its expected 10,000 participants, but I heard the numbers reached around 7,000. There were about 12,000 Korean National Police out there to "de-escalate" the situation. It kind of reminded me of a movie like Braveheart... There was just a mass crowd of people, holding big sticks, some with yellow flags on them. And a constant stream of people coming out of the town, coming towards our premises. The KNP were lined up infront of our fence, so that the demonstrators would not get to the fence. Well, when the demonstrators reached the KNP, all hell broke loose. The demonstrators would swing their flag-bearing sticks at the KNP, and the KNP would retalliate by beating the living crap out of them with their 4 ft. long whoop ass sticks. Supposedly they broke through the fence where they had the most demonstrators, and about 5 people made it on post, but they didn't make it very far. It got out of hand at one point and it was just an all out brawl. About 100 KNP were injured, 2 of which are in critical condition and might die. I'm not sure about the demonstrators... we didn't get numbers on them, but I'm sure they had a few hospitalized as well. Crazyness!

Other than that... nothing out of the ordinary... Just another day in a country where the majority of the people don't want us here.

Not much to update you on... the protest the other day wasn't too much... supposed to have been about 2500 people out there. Didn't get out of hand, from what I hear. I guess the KNP beat the crap out of one protester. Tomorrow is the big one... 10,000 people are expected to come. I doubt there will be that many people though. They've already got a stage set up for a concert and demonstrations, and a whole bunch of crap. Ought to be interesting. Expecting violence at this one. I'll be sleeping during the start of it, and working during the end of it, so I won't be anywhere near it, unless they happen to break onto our installation and come running onto the flight line i work at... which won't happen. I guess I'll update you on it tomorrow. Gotta finish doing laundry now.

Why am I working on my God-given day off?? And on just 2 hours of sleep out of the last 2.5 days...

The LONG Downward Spiral...

...You know what I'm talking about. That state of mind where nothing feels like it's going right, and feels like it never will. I think I've found a way to battle it. I think you finally just have to settle for mediocrity. Life's not perfect... People have been saying that since you were a little kid. I personally like, "Life's a bitch, and then you die." So oftenly used by my father. Life is a bitch. It's a nasty, dirty, disgruntled bitch, that doesn't get along with you. Point is... you're never going to get EXACTLY what you want. No matter how bad you want it. The sooner you figure that out, and learn to deal with it, the better. Due to many past and recent occurances, I've figured that out. I now know that I'm going to just have to make do and learn to settle. There's no use fighting so hard for things, because you're eventually going to lose it, one way or another.

...well those are my drunken words for the night. I'm going to bed.. i have to wake up in 3.5 hours and go to the range to shoot my 9mm. God bless!

"Ahh, Shi...."

Tonight is a very boring/frustrating night. Since we're still on a holiday schedule, there's absolutely nothing to do right now. Had to get into the key box, to get some keys out, and the key used to open the key box broke! (wow, i said "key" way too much right there.) So, you know me... I got angry and "fixed" the key box... with a tire iron... and a fire hydrant. Can't wait to see the reaction SSG. Floyd has when she sees it. Should be interesting.

Happy 4th!

Happy Independence Day to everyone. Spent mine at work. No BBQs, no parties, and no fireworks. So far, I've worked EVERY major holiday, since I've been here. Oh, but don't you worry... I had 4.5 hours of waxing the floor to keep me occupied! Tomorrow I get to go to a BBQ at SSG Floyd's place... woo hoo. She's pretty much making us go. How sad is that?! She's grilling some "hot dogs and humburgers." C'mon... seriously... HUMburgers??? Was it wrong of me to laugh in her face when she said that??

Well.. that's my short update. I'm pretty high off of the fumes from the floor wax, so I'm going to go finish watching Wyatt Earp, and maybe take a nice little nap in the back room. Late.

Furious!!!

OK, so I procrastinated long enough tonight, to where I left myself only 30 minutes to make it down to the PX, before it closes. So, I hop on the bus, go to the front gate, and grab a cab... one of 7 that was at the gate. So, I get a bunch of food and some milk. So, I go back out to the back of the PX to catch a cab, and there's none there. so i call, and wait... nothing. so i call again, this time a little aggitated, and wait some more... by this time, the bus going my direction passes by, and it won't be 30 minutes until the next one. so, now i'm pretty angry and I call again, this time chewing the guy out because i have been waiting approx. 30 minutes with absolutely no sign of a cab, when just 45 minutes early, i had passed by 7 cabs, doing absolutely nothing. So, i just say F*$# it!, and decide to wait for a bus... so overall, i waited well over an hour for a cab that never came... so, now i'm back at my room, and i decide to have a chocolate milk, which i've been craving for quite some time... so i crack it open, and without a thought, take a big swig. Yeah, well now think about what happens to milk when you sit outside for over an hour in 80 degree temperature with 100% humidity. Yeah, it was rotten! I'm hoping that the larger ones stayed cold enough to where they didn't go bad, but I'm pretty sure they are. So... the cab company got another call from me... there was a lot of vulgar language tossed around, needless to say. So, tomorrow i'm going down to the cab company and making a formal complaint... Don't f*#@ with me and my chocolate milk, dammit!!

Well... that was my exciting events for the night. Wow, 2 posts in one night... you should feel special.

Forced Update

Alright SWISS... so you'll stop naggin' me... jeez... like a damn GF! ha.. j/k bro!

Lets see... don't have random words to post, although I did like that! Uhh... played my first game for my company's basketball team today. I was on leave, so I missed the first 5 games and the record was 3-2. Well, after just 2 minutes of play in the first half, I got bumped to starting Point Guard. Don't usually play the point, but I'm one of the smallest guys out there, and the pretty much the only white guy. It's kinda bootsy...we play 10 min. halves... not much time. I sat the first 8 minutes of the game because nobody's seen me play, and they had their usual starting 5. Came off the bench with 2 left in the first, down by 7. We cut their lead to 5 at half. Second half started and they told me I was the new PG, so I went with it. We controlled the the first 6 minutes of the half, grabbing a 7 point lead. After calling a time out, the other team came out on fire! A weak 2-3 defense and a selfish offense led to a dissapointing 4 point loss.

Final Stats: 0/0 shooting, 6 assists, 2 rebounds, 1 steal, 1 TO, in 12 minutes of play.

Sadly enough... I though my one turn over of the game was the clincher for the other team. we were only down by 3 with about 245 left, and I threw a pass across the key! I know better than that! Oh well... it was my first "organized" game in god knows when, so I'm not trippin'... but you all know I hate to lose. There's a tournament on the 3rd of July, I think... I'm not sure when it is... It's my day off before i work though, so don't know if I'll play.

so, on July 6, I'm on stand by for a rather large protest... approx. 2500 protesters. And on July 10, the whole post is on lock down, due to a huge, protest... 10,000 or more protesters. This one is expected to be hostile, and they're supposedly going to try and gain access to our installation. So... finally something exciting. 10,000 people is an ASS LOAD of people. I don't even think that we have 10,000 soldiers at this installation. But the Korean National Police is bringing out something like 72 platoons... I'm not sure how many KNP that is... but it's A LOT. It's the "combat" KNP too... so this could be a show to watch... and i get the perfect view right out of my barracks window!

alright, i'm out... refer to swiss' blog for your daily random fact. out!