I'm not dead! I just haven't felt like updating. Honestly I've been quite busy and just haven't had the time to tend to all my hobbies, and this one has probably suffered the most(my painting and bass playing are still frequent indulgences). Work has become more.... time consuming. The transfer season has impinged upon my free time by requiring me to stand more duty, to the point that I'm standing 1 in 4. This is a major nuisance, but it should get better in a few months as we qualify more JOODs. Then it should go back to a nice fat rotation of at least 1 in 10 or so. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Today I decided to take some time away from all my games, projects, and hobbies to do some spring cleaning. I usually reserve this type of activity for when I'm preparing to move, or I get back from a patrol and am disgusted with the condition my apartment was left in. So today I woke up at 6 AM and went to town. Two hours of cleaning, two hours of shredding papers from my filing cabinet, and five large Hefty bags full of junk later, I have a little more room to move around, and my household goods are a few hundred pounds lighter.
I'm a bit of a pack rat. I get it honest though, because my folks don't throw away anything. They actually rent storage space on the opposite side of the country to store items that they haven't seen in years simply because they don't want to throw it away due to "sentimental value", despite the fact that they've been able to live without these items for so long. So I know why I have this fault. My biggest item to horde for later keeping? Anything electronic. I have several very large Rubbermaid tubs full of just wires. I have box after box of old computer hardware pieces. I have monitors, drives, video cards, cases, motherboards, a grab bag of CPUs, and I'm hemorrhaging RAM. I probably have enough components to build a handful of halfway decent computers. So today was the day to purge. It pained my heart to throw away these components, but their obsolescence is many years past, and would only be good for word processing at this point(I still held onto the good pieces ;).
In my rummaging and purging, I managed to scrounge up some old photos that I decided to scan in(these were taken by other people, because I can't even remember the last time I own a "film" camera....So antiquated!).
This is me looking slightly retarded back on the rink in Kodiak. Note the rigid stance and inappropriate gear. These are the signatures of a seasoned pro.
You might ask, "What is that gigantic scab on your forehead?" Why, that is what you call "Scope Eye". This is a phenomenon that occurs when you try to act like GI Joe and crouch in the grass with a scoped rifle, yet have no training and are too stupid to comprehend recoil effects. This of course is a photo of ol' OS3 Bill in his old uniforms for his Operator of the Month picture the day after the accident and stitches. This picture hung up in the Ops Deck entrance for over a year....
This a photo taken during a little exploring out at Chiniak Bay in Kodiak. Both the sunglasses and flannel shirt were pilfered from my dad. When these items are donned the resemblance is rather shocking.
Same Chiniak trip. Something has obviously incurred the wrath of my "Explorin' Stick", and needs to be pointed out to the camera man. It was probably either an inert mollusk or a pile of dog doodoo. I can't recall.
