A Pirate's Life For Me

Today is... Today

2009-04-14T21:43:00.001+03:00

Today, I bought myself some new boots. They are very comfortable. They are tan leather with Nomex canvas uppers. They have a wonderfuly fabulous liner in them that helps to regulater temperature, eliminate odor through the use of antimicrobial fibers and they help to eliminate static, and to top it all off, the Nomex is flame resistant so my feet will not burn off in the event of an aircraft or vehicle fire.

My feet have been hurting at work lately and my steel toe boots, while awesome in the shop just arent cutting it any longer. So I figure if I can't be very happy today, at least my feet, knees, hips and back can be happy today and for a good while after today as well.

I'm also writing my comments on the OER I just recently recieved. Thats fun. If you are going to tell me that I am a duschebag who cant do my job, or not doing my job, fucking counsel me on it so I know where you want me to tighten up my shot group. Jackass...

I'd also like to take a minute to give a shout out to MD's finest. The Maryland State Highway Patrol. You stupid fuck nut. You were so busy being up that Lancer's ass trying to pull him over, that you nearly took my front end off while trying to stay behind that guy as he did his own lane change death dance in the middle of heavy traffic. I got two words for you pal: Target Fixation. It kills pilots all the time, and its the cause of many weapons carrying helicopters getting fucked up. Wake up shit for brains.

So yeah. Today is today.

This One Should Cause a Stir... Just Relax, Seriously

2009-02-23T22:42:00.001+03:00

I was thinking about it the other day, while I was at a personal low
point, the fact that I guess that no matter what anyone says, I am
sure that everyone out there at one point of another has actually
entertained the idea of taking themselves out of the proverbeal food
chain. The thought came to me while I was filling out an intake
questionaire at the doctors office. The form asked me if I was
contemplating or had contemplated suicide within the past 6 months or
something to that effect.. It got me thinking. Y'know what? I have
contemplated suicide. I've thought about it before, the various ways
I could do it, thought about things like what kind of reaction the
people I know and love would have, though about if they would have any
at all. Though I have never come anywhere near actually attempting.
Fuck that. No, when life starts sucking, whether it be feeling
completely useless or incompetent at work, or the occaisional times I
feel like I am a dead beatdad, or relationship problems, I've never
thought of it so far as to actually seriously consider it.

So that begs the question, do normal non mentally unstable people
think about suicide as an option, even if its promptly dismissed. Is
it a sign of deeper inner emotional troubles if suicide even pops up
on a list of alternatives and or solutions even if it would never
truly be considered?

Now don't go all crazy on me, thinking that I'm sitting here at the
keyboard with a loaded walker colt on the desk or something. I'm just
genuinely curious about that.
And whie we're at it, what about those hospital intake sheets. When
they are set up in that way where its 1: Mostly Agree 2: Somewhat
Agree etc etc or 0: Never 1: Almost Never etc etc when you put an
answer like "almost never" does the medical staff automatically
consider you a risk for suicide? Or do they maybe just look at it
like, "eh, he's normal, hell when I saw what my gas bill was last
month I though about making out with a shotgun barrel..."

That should generate some interesting food for thought...

Bonus question: If a bullet traveling through a person's skull
entering in teh mouth and exiting the back of the skull at
approximately 1500fps, at what velocity do the teeth travel behind the
bullet?

If you come up with an actual answer to that, you truly are demented
or disturbed, and you really should seek some help, seriously...

Hell Yeah

2009-02-23T11:26:00.001+03:00

Its 3:24 in the morning and I am still wide awake! I got Pauley
Shore' In The Army Now on the 40 inch and snippets of teh colbert
report on my computer and I'm working on my second bowl of dry cereal.
Life is Good....

2009-02-23T08:46:00.001+03:00

Why is it that my gears wont stop turning without you?

Why is it that I cant sleep if you're not near?

The Bitter Sweet Disappointment of Victory

2009-01-27T08:22:00.001+03:00

So yeah, I totally beat Call of Duty: World at War, Final Fronts. It was a great game, but i totally beat it in a weeks time...and that was playing it off and on. I'm looking for something more people. Seriously...

I Love You...

2009-01-12T10:06:00.001+03:00

My Snowmobile

2008-12-13T08:07:00.001+03:00

Yeeeeeah it gets interesting on the roads up here in a rear wheel drive car....

Yeeeeeah.....

2008-10-25T04:45:00.001+03:00

Its 441 AM.. I'm riding on zero sleep. Go team go....

I need to get the fuck out of Iraq.

15 days to go.

15 days.

Keep it together for 15 days damn it

15 days...

I Hate Being a Short Timer

2008-09-29T10:04:00.001+03:00

Being a short timer sucks. Every boom makes me a little more nervous, every test fire out the gate makes me perk up my ears a little more than before. Seriously. Its time to head home. Time to go back to my new apartment, time to go back to my cars, time to go back to garrison (hahah never thought I'd say that lol!) Most importantly though, its time to go back to my Samira and my kids. Its been far to long with out her Ninja-y wonderfulness and my kids' happy laughs. Its time to go home.

SIGH

2008-09-15T13:39:00.001+03:00

Damn it... This fucking sucks....

Kelly's Heros

2008-07-17T15:50:00.001+03:00

Ok, so Today, was a happy day. This morning was particularly slow in the shop so I got to enjoy some sit around with my thumb up my ass time. Which is always nice to get when you are deployed. Anyhoo... I hopped on the airforce niprnet net work and went to the movie section ( Ok so the airforce isnt ALL bad and maybe us Army guys rib them a little too much) and went parusing through titles and wouldntcha know it? I found the movie Kelly's Heros. Awesome Clint Eastwood movie its exciting AND funny! I've loved it ever since I watched it with my dad for the first time ages ago. One particular part to the movie I really enjoy is the main them "Burning Bridges" SO I transcribed the lyrics here for you! Enjoy!

"Friends all tried to warn me but I held my head up high

Oh the times they'd warn me but I only pass em by

They all tried to tell me but I guess I didn't care

I turned my back and left them standing there

All the burning bridges that are falling after me

All the lonely feelings and the burning memories

Everyone I left behind each time I close the door

Burning bridges lost for ever more

Joey tried to help my find a job a while ago

When I finally got I didn't want to go

God and Mary came for me when I just walked away

Now theres nothing left for me to say

All the burning bridges that are falling after me

All the lonely feelings and the burning memories

Everyone I've left behind each time I close the door

Burning bridges lost for ever more

Years have passed and I keep thinking what've could have been

I look back into the past and think of way back then

I know I lost everything I thought that I could win

I guess I should have listened to my friends

All the burning bridges that are falling after me

All the lonely feelings and the burning memories

Everyone I've left behind each time I close the door

Burning bridges lost for ever more

Burning bridges lost for ever more"

This is for my Ninja :-)

2008-07-09T21:05:00.001+03:00

Would You Go With Me lyrics( Josh Turner )

"Would you go with me if we rolled down streets of fire
Would you hold on to me tighter as the summer sun got higher
If we roll from town to town and never shut it down

Would you go with me if we were lost in fields of clover
Would we walk even closer until the trip was over
And would it be okay if I didn't know the way

If I gave you my hand would you take it
And make me the happiest man in the world
If I told you my heart couldn't beat one more minute without you, girl
Would you accompany me to the edge of the sea
Let me know if you're really a dream
I love you so, so would you go with me

[Instrumental]

Would you go with me if we rode the clouds together
Could you not look down forever
If you were lighter than a feather
Oh, and if I set you free, would you go with me

If I gave you my hand would you take it
And make me the happiest man in the world
If I told you my heart couldn't beat one more minute without you, girl
Would you accompany me to the edge of the sea
Help me tie up the ends of a dream
I gotta know, would you go with me
I love you so, so would you go with me"

Been a while since my last post...

2008-07-01T20:50:00.001+03:00

They've been playing this a lot on Armed Forces Radio lately.

I dunno why, but for some reason it strikes a chord within me...

I Wont Go Home Without You by Maroon 5

I asked her to stay
she wouldnt listen
she left before i had the chance to say
ohhh
the words it would mend
the things that were broken
but now its far too late
shes gone away

every night she'd cry herself to sleep
thinkin why does this happen to me
why does every moment have to be
so hard, hard to belive that

its not over tonight
just give me one more chance to make it right
i may not make it through the night
i wont go home without you

the taste of her breath, i'll never get over
the noises that she'd make kept me awake
ohh
the weight of the things, dreaming we've spoken
built up so much, it crushed us everyday

every night she'd cry herself to sleep
thinkin why does this happen to me
why does every moment have to be
so hard, hard to belive that

its not over tonight
just give me one more chance to make it right
i may not make it through the night
i wont go home without you
whoaaa X2

oh all the things i felt
but never really showed
perhaps the worst is that
i ever let you go
i should not ever let you goooooo

its not over tonight
just give me one more chance to make it right
i may not make it through the night
i wont go home without you
whoaaa
its not over tonight
just give me one more chance to make it right
i may not make it through the night
i wont go home without you
i wont go home without you
i wont go home without you
i wont go home without you

So sad to go

2008-05-16T09:54:00.003+03:00

My time at home is swiftly comming to an end. Going back to the states for 18 days during a deployment seems almost too bittersweet. I've been able to see my love, which has brought me more joy than one could possibly imagine. I've seen my kiddies which makes me happy beyond belief, and now I have to go back in just a couple of days. Its almost surreal...

34 x 7...

:-)

2008-05-06T09:12:00.001+03:00

I has my Ninja :-) Finally :-) And it feels so wonderful to be able to hold her again :-)

Life is good

and once again, all is right in the world

I'm In Kuwait Bitches!!!

2008-04-27T15:37:00.002+03:00

So here I m in Kuwait, land of the wait for teh flight back home. The camel. The sandstorm. The oppressive heat. Yeah... Just waiting for a flight back home. Anyhoo... I'll write more later. Laters!

Only about a week til I see my Ninja!!!!!!

Two days and a wake up...

2008-04-24T13:31:00.000+03:00

Not counting today, its two days and a wake up and I am out of here. Ok, give or take a day or so possibly due to possible flight changes.

Give it possibly a day in Kuwait then the day to get back to the states I should hit NY by the 30th of April, possibly the 1st of May. Then twelve days after that, maybe less depending on how things go when I get to NY... Ninja will be there in VA when I get there, which is what I have been waiting for all along...

I really need to get out of Iraq. I mean really. Like now.

More later....

Daily Rantings of a Pirate

2008-04-19T10:06:00.001+03:00

So I think I may have figured out what my problem is. I have no outlet for myfrustrations. It came to me this morning when when I was kind of stewing over some issues. I had nothing to really take my mind off the things that are bothering me. I can try to throw myself into my work, but since much of my work is done in the office of my shop, its really easy for my mind to start slipping to thoughts that it doesnt need to be thinking. No what I need is a physical outlet. PT doesnt work for me, gives me to much time to think when I am running or doing other exercises. No I need a physical outlet that is nothing but pure expulsion of energy. Thats when it hit me: A batting cage. Holy crap that would be awesome. I could just pretend I am crushing my fears, worries, and problems deep out into left field at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati OH. I should write the suggestion to the MWR. Have it set up somewhere here on the darkside behine warrior gym. That way I could go during lunch and not have to catch a bus or something. Just walk right the hell over there and start swingin.

Or take thirty minutes durinng my day some time when thinngs are really pissing me off or getting to me. *CRACK!* I just line drived my frustration at "x factor" straight to center field.

*CRACK!* there went *y factor* over the left field fance...

Yeah. That would be cool.

That would be very cool.

In other news, My ninja is in Copenhagen with her friend from back in her Army days when she was in Egypt. She got there last night. She leaves for the satates on the 21st. I leave on the 27th. NJD is on the 12h of May so that means, depending on outside factors, I have roughly 16 days till I see her again. Which will be the biggest relief in the world.

I didn't sleep so well last night. Well... I did sorta... I ended up falling asleep some time around 9 woke up for short spurts through out the night till about 3 AM. Couldn't go back to sleep. It was fantastic.... please note my sarcasm.

Well thast all for now. I'll probably post again later on today depending on work and thinsg going on.

Laters...

So Yeah....

2008-04-17T17:46:00.002+03:00

So yeah. Today I said "Fuck it." I left work at 430. Nothing was going on. My guys had nothing to do, and nothing could be completed on our current project. So fuck it. I went home. Now I'm up at CP6 where they have free internet posting a blog for those of you who actually read this blog. I'm not in a good mood today. I know I know I know, "dude chill out you'll see your Ninja soon enough" but I really don't think that is it. It might be a slightly contributing factor, but its not the main reason. I think the biggest thing is this: I am ready to go on leave already. I'm tired of waiting around, I'm tired of putting up with the dumb stuff. I am ready to go. I'm sure the fact that I havent eaten anything at all today unless you count the cup of tea and the couple of bottles of water I had at work as eating. I'm pretty sure that the ketchup flavored potato chip that one of my soldiers simply insisted that I try doesnt count either.

Gah....

I swung by the MWR called my folks to see what was up with them.
Went by the PX, grabbed a gaming magazine with some demos on it and a book on conversational arabic phrases etc.( Ninja speaks it, so I want to try to learn some stuff and try to impress her. Maybe if she calls I will have memorized a few snippetts and I can make her smile since I am trying to learn a little bit of another language.

So yeah, rest of the day looks liek shower and then video games, maybe I'll get lucky and get a phone call this evening :-)

Anyhoo... I'm outta here... laters

Army interwebs are stoopid

2008-04-17T11:56:00.002+03:00

So yeah, they have blocked blogger and gmail chat which is retarded, but there aint a whole hell of a lot I can do about that. I have some posts that I will put up here that I was typing out on my personal lappy. I'm at a net cafe down here on teh dark side and I neglected to bring them on thumbdrive with me or email them to myself form my work computer to my gmail. Anyhoo...
Mah Ninja is still in Eurpoe, England to be exact, on a trian to London at the moment more than likely. Lets see she comes home monday and then I fly outta here 6 days after that! Woohoo!! Anyhoo I gotta go my time on this is limited. I will try to put those posts up later on today if I can. Ciao....

Another Day Down

2008-04-13T13:59:00.004+03:00

Looks like one more day down in the sandbox. 14 more days till I go on leave, 30 more days till I see my Ninja, possibly less. I'll get to see my Ninja, my rugrats, my cars, and a friend or two here and there. It will be nice to be back in the US for 18 days.

I got to talk to my Ninja last night. Though short, it deffinately ment a lot to hear her voice. I also got an email from her as well. It was waiting for me in my inbox this morning when I arrived to work. She said something that warmed my heart, and made me smile. While in Paris, she visited both Notre Dame and Sachre Coeur, two very old and very important churches there in the city, this is what she said about it in her email:

"...I miss you too, babe. So much. I lit a candle and said a prayer to a God I don't really believe in for you at Sacre Coeur church last night then again today at Notre Dame. I may not believe, but you do, so if He's up there listening, He knows that I want you to stay safe. If He's not there, I've just donated seven bucks to the churches of the city of Paris for candles ;) ..."

Sweet and it ended with a dash of humor :-) and this is one of many reasons why Pirate <3 Ninja :-)

I sent her a txt message in french. I didnt expect it to go through but it did :-) I hope she can translate it lol. She is resourceful. I am sure she will be more than able to do so.

Well thats all for now. I will post more later perhaps.
This is for mah Ninja, just incase she gets to check this:

Vous, mon amour, êtes la première pensée quand je me réveille au commencement de mon chaque jour et vous êtes ma dernière pensée avant que je tombe du sommeil. Mon coeur veut votre amour, mes lèvres veulent votre baiser et mes bras veulent vous tenir et permettre jamais de nouveau d'aller.

Vous apportez une nouvelle lumière entière à mon monde, amour.
Je vous aime

What the Fuck is Up in Dreamland?

2008-04-12T13:57:00.003+03:00

So last night I spent my evening sitting on tactical couch infront of my TV. My Ninja is in Europe and apparently out of comms range i.e. international phone calls cost a fuck ton a minute and apparently the hotel that she managed to get an awesome discount on hasn't joined the 21st century and doesnt offer internet, or it does and she just hasn't felt like jumping on/has been to preocupied with the sights to do so, so I didn't get to talk to her at all. Which of course sucks, but oh well, not a lot I can I do about that, So I spent my evening glued to my TV watching two of the movies that showed up in a box that my father had sent me: the Matrix and The Memphis Belle.

Now, I made it through the Matrix with no issues. Once the film was finished I swapped out discs for the Memphis belle and started watching this favorite World War Two flick. My screen was soon a flurry of American heavy bombers and German Me109 fighters and flack and tracers and, and, and... Yeah So I fell asleep during that one.

Which brings me to the subject of this post. I very, very,VERY distinctly remember being fired upon in my dream last night. Granted it wasnt from Nazi Luftwaffe pilots hell bent on shooting down my B-17 Flying Fortress. It was angry middle easterners hell bent on iradicating the American infidel from their country. The worst part was that all I could do in my dream was duck and cover and wait till they ran out of ammunition. My weapons were inoperative and subsequently out of reach. I remember my M4 jamming and me dropping it and pulling my M9 which also jammed. I then dropped that and dove for cover as the floor and the walls around me erupted in chips and chunks and dust. I remember moving locations on several ocasions to try to get in closer proximity to my weapons or the weapons of people aroudn me who were... no longer using them... and each time I tried to reposition myself closer to a weapon on only successfully put me further from it even though I may have acualy ran over top of the weapon.
I was so infuriated that I could not return the favor to my attackers and I was so frustrated that it wouldn't just stop.

Weird. Been a while since I have ad any kind of war deam that I could remember. The last one being one I had before joining the Army...

*Sigh* and now my mechanic has refilled a truck's engine with oil... after having forgotten to replace the drain plug...

Random ramblings on a day that feels like it should be a rainy one

2008-04-11T17:01:00.000+03:00

I have a love of old sailing songs, sea chanteys, and pirate ballads. That why I was so eager to get the Rogue's Gellery double disc set once I heard of its release. When I first started playing the disc I developed a quick preference for the second disc. Now that I have had time to really listen to tthe entire collection I have started developing a deep affinity for the first disc.

Today, and really for the past day or two, there has been one track in particular that I have developed an attachemnt to. Its an instrumental peice called "Spanish Ladies"
Its slow and mellow, soft and somber yet sweet. Its soothes me, yet at the same time it saddens me. Maybe it just does that right now because I am missing someone.

Another favorite on the disc is Lowlands Away. Another excelent track that is sweet and sad at the same time, and is soft and soothing.

A Dying Sailor to His Shipmates is anothe fantastic track and features the vocal tallents of Bono of U2 fame. Very somber, chilling at times, but again like the last two soothing and mellow.

Mingulay Boat Song is another excellent track. Its not as somber ast the previous tracks mentioned. Its sound is more upbeat, and yet there is a definate finality to the song, a sense of things comming to a close, but its upbeat. Its has the feeling of a proud jorney coming to an end and returning home to never wander again.

Turkish Revelry is a song of a young sailor who offers to sink a ship belonging to what we the listener must assume is a rival group, depending upon what his captain will reward him with. When his captain offers land and his daughter as a prize the young sailor jumps into the ocean and swims to teh rival ship and bores 9 holes in the hull of the vessel whish sinks it. Upon his return he finds that his captain will not make good on his word, nor will his captain alow the other sailors on board to pull the young man aboard and he sinks into the depths. The song is slow and bright but mellow.

In the department of more upbeat songs, at least ones that are catchy and quick paced, My Son John is a great one. Its fun to sing along with and has a wonderful beat to it. It is a song about a young man who goes to sea and loses his legs to a cannon ball in the line of duty. There is a variation that is commonly sung in irish pub fashion called Mrs. Macgrath

I'll work on the second disc a little later or perhaps tomorrow.

"...and bowed on his breast, and downward sunk he,
a bidding a fair well to the Golden Willow Tree
He sunk in that lonely, lonseome water, oh he sunk in the lonely sea..."

Ninja Accross the Sea

2008-04-11T08:03:00.000+03:00

So she isnt really accross he sea anymore. Well, I mean at the moment she is more than likely flying OVER the sea right now, but she isn't really accross the sea. She is more like, accross the way, sorta like a few...blocks... west, and by a few I mean several and by blocks I mean countries. Okay so she is on her way to Paris. Anyways. She's flying right now more than likely asleep. If she is't asleep she is either reading, watching a in flight movie or writing me a letter with the big pad of paper she brought with her to do just that. The next ten to eleven days are going to suck for yours truely, mostly cause I wont get to talk to her as much. Its ok though. I'll live.

I had a weigh in this morning. I hate weigh ins. I was up at friggin 4 am. Just so I could get dressed and get on a bus and go into work early enough to change into PTs and get weighed and my Height measured.

At least I got to ohave breakfast. In honor of my Ninja I had scrambled eggs with ham and cheese instead of an omlette, she normally has more in her scrambled eggs than just ham and cheese, but since I no likey the veggies, I only had ham and cheese. I also had one of teh 4 pound muffins she liked so well... I shoudl toatly get a couple of those and put them in the "care package" that I am planning on sending out to her from here. Which is funny because she is now back in the real world and no longer needs care packages and she really doesnt need care items sent from a warzone lol heheheh I amuse myself with the hilarity of it :-)

Hmmm... I think I have run out of things to talk about for the moment. Atleast different things. If I kept on I woudl start to get repetative and no onoe wants to read repetative...

More later...

A Day in the Life of a Pirate...

2008-04-07T12:04:00.000+03:00

...without his Ninja: It sucks!!! Just thought I'd share. I mean really... thats about the biggest thing going on right now. That I miss my Ninja. See and now you are all slowly seeing the power of boysenberry syrup!

The next biggest thing going on today is that my soldiers are repainting our office... wow thats a lovely shade of tan.... We will have to add some personalising touches to our work area. For morale boosting purposes I assure you. I am thinking: A Jolly Rodger on two of the walls. A Jolly Rodger of quite substantial proportions. This is a Pirate's office, everyone who enters should know this immediately, and fear for his or her life... slightly. Ok maybe not really fear for their lives, more like, know that there is the distinct possibility of swash-buckling shenannigans may occur...

"Paint those walls you mangy currs or its the Locker for ye'!!"

A New Beginning Created From the Impossible

2008-04-06T09:53:00.001+03:00

Ok, So I' not normaly a blogger, but I figure hey it will give me something to do during those moments of down time that occasionally occur at my job.

A little bit about me:

I'm deployed

I'm stuck in Iraq

I'm crazy about VWs

I'm stuck on a Ninja who happens to have left Iraq a handfull of days ago

The above sucks

Well not all of it, just the part about the fact that the Ninja has headed back home

But its not that bad really since I will be seeing said ninja in approximately a month or less

The above Rawks and is completely Rad

And now a key factor in all of this: I'm a Pirate

Now I know what you're thinking, I know what you're wanting to ask: "Is this guy crazy or what? You don't think that he is actually running around Iraq dressed as a pirate do you?"

There are a select few of you out there right now wanting to know "What the hell is a Pirate doing associating with a Ninja" and there is yet another group of individuals out there who are
asking the exact opposite question!

Well, I am here to tell you that I don't care what all of you other swashbuckling ship plundering
and shuriken throwing sword weilding flying side hip kick whingey bints think or say.

Because none of you know or understand the power of:

Boysenberry Syrup

Yes Boysenberry Syrup, that wonderfully delicious dark red/magenta-ish/almost purplish sticky substance that graces the table tops of IHOPS everywhere. That oh so tasty sugary sweet berr-tastic liquid with just the right about of sweet to over power any kind of fruty tang the berries once had thanks to artificial flavorings and preservatives and sweetners.

Yes my dear sea dogs, scalley waggs and the like, Boysenberry Syrup is what makes it all possible.

Not to mention that there was actually a slight shift in the universe when Pirate(Me) and Ninja(Her) met. That kind of thing helps y'know

But yes, yes, yes indeed. Boysenberry Syrup is the glue that binds us together. Ok... so theres more than Boysenberry Syrup, but it happens to be the one that I will focus on.

I think thats probabloy enough silliness for now... Maybe I will write more later, for now though, I have to get back to work...

A Pirate's Life For Me

Today is... Today

This One Should Cause a Stir... Just Relax, Seriously

Hell Yeah

The Bitter Sweet Disappointment of Victory

I Love You...

My Snowmobile

Yeeeeeah.....

I Hate Being a Short Timer

*SIGH*

Kelly's Heros

This is for my Ninja :-)

Been a while since my last post...

So sad to go

:-)

I'm In Kuwait Bitches!!!

Two days and a wake up...

Daily Rantings of a Pirate

So Yeah....

Army interwebs are stoopid

Another Day Down

What the Fuck is Up in Dreamland?

Random ramblings on a day that feels like it should be a rainy one

Ninja Accross the Sea

A Day in the Life of a Pirate...

A New Beginning Created From the Impossible

SIGH