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07:00 pm
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I'm Back!
Ladies and Germs- This is my first entry in a while. I apologize...not really. I just have not been online a whole lot. Lots of stuff to do when you get married and have her here. I took her to a lot of cool places and seen a lot of neat stuff. I felt bad for her though. It wqas nasty out and rained, then snowed EVERY day she was here. It actually accumulated in some places knee deep in fact (Hip deep on her...J/K). Well, we saw Black Sand Beach, Gullfoss, Geysir, the Bridge Between Two Continents, and a few other places. Anyway, I am back and will be writing in here more often hopefully. On to the next subject...wrestling. I am a coach at the local DODDS high school here. Well, we had our first match this last Saturday. Wow...I can't expect a whole lot from FIVE guys and only ONE of them have wrestled before, ONE there cuz he lost a bet with his baseball coach for not hitting a homer, ONE because he wants to go be in the former WWF (I refuse to call it the WWE. I'm not really a fan, but just out of the blue having to change the name kinda sucks), and ONE being fat. So with that we head into a match against a team with all vets. Not too good of odds right. Well, the only win we got was the kid who wrestled before. Funny thing is. When I was in Japan, so was he. However, I was in Okinawa and he was in mainland. The guy I coached in Oki beat him in the Far East tournament there. So it was kinda weird seeing him show up to wrestle. Anyhow, I had to wrestle two of our guys to give them some experience, so that was kinda fun. I got to toy with these guys. I wrestled the fat kid and the one from Japan. I made them go all three periods to see how much condtioning they had. Well, it seems ol' coach had a little more steam than the kids. Ha ha ha The only thing that sucked was that the kid from Japan was strong as an ox and weighed the same as me. So it wasn't as easy to sling him around as I had anticipated. So I wore him down and them put the hurt to him. I was kind enough not to pin either one of them in front of their moms and girlfriends in the first period. I had one pinned and then realized what I was doing and let him up before the ref got around to the side he landed on. That was the very beginning of the second period, so I stalled and worked him till the end of the third to wear him down. I now see what we need to work on. CONDITIONING! Kinda tough coaching, but a very rewarding experience. I love it. Coaching has pretty much taken up all my time after work, aside from the pool work I do to get ready for Combat Control. Speaking of, I have yet to hear a decision on my package. I hope all goes well. Well, I'm done for now. I'll write more later, but my stomach beckons for more grub. Later! P.S.- Don't forcefully stretch more that your body allows it, especially a shoulder you recently had surgery on. Damnit I hurt!
Current Mood:  sore
Current Music: Tough All Over
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10:24 am
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The Big Apple
First off, this computer has a Japanese language pack installed. I haven't used this site much so I am not too familiar with the layout. Wish me luck! Well folks...or should I say Michael and Mysti. Anyway, the Big Apple, New York City, this place is WAAAAAAY bigger than I think I ever imagined it to be. When I look at and overhead pic and see the different burroughs and think that it is maybe a few dozen blocks and you get to the next sections. Well I could not be more wrong. Try each sections is as big if not bigger than Crossvegas. Just to clear this up, in no way, shape, or form did I expect to compare the size of NYC to Crossville. Just to make a comparison though to fill you guys in. We've (Taeko and I) went to Manhattan and Queens and uh...I dunno, other places I'll vaguely seen before in a movie while traveling in the backseat of her brother's Nissan Murano. My first time eating at The Cheescake Factory I thought I was going to explode and cover everyone in a 10' radius while body particles and partially digested Shepard's Pie, artichoke, and Ahi tempura. I was kinda pissed I didn't save room for the cheesecake. I know what you're thinking, because I said it to myself. WHAT!, no cheesecake from The Cheescake Factory!? I kick myself in the ass on behalf of everyone. However, as we were exiting the establishment I glanced over to a waitress carrying a dessert and it was as big as a main course, I shit you not. For those of you who have never been there, this place has enormous portions to begin with, rivaling that of a viking meal. So I do believe that if I managed to save room for a desert that it would have put me over the edge anyhow. Blah, next topic...Empire State Building. Holy F#@KING $HIT this thing is tall. It's almost like not even being on a building. Kinda like being in a Helo. You are so much higher than anything it doesn't even feel like you're in a building. Very cool, except for the maze and bovine like herding process. Good thing for us that no one was there hardly. Only a 15 min wait. After that we made our way to Wall Street and I got to hang off the side of "the bull". I think we know which one I am speaking of. Pretty big and cold as hell. I think the temp that day was somewhere near 13 degrees. After that we made our way to the anti-climatic Ground Zero. What a waste of a trip. It is a big chain link fence around....NOTHING! I thought they were going to build a memorial and have some cool picturesque structure there. But instead, it looked like a contruction zone. What a bummer. Oh well, better luck next stop. Walked back down to wherever the hell the Broadway shows are. It's somewhere near Macy's and the biggest Victoria's Secret I ever saw was, which happens to have nothing small enough to fit Taeko. I'm going to do a Google search for Keebler Elf lingerie. Hopefully that will turn up something more appealing that oversized and overpriced garments that she can't fill up. I'd say it is frustrating to be an extra small. Today we're heading into "The City" again. I'm reverting back to a childhood state. I hope they don't kick me out of FAO Schwarz. Ha ha ha. I'm gonna play with EVERYTHING! Then we'll head to the famous Statue of Liberty to snag some pics. She said she's lived here for years and never been there. It's a tourist thing. Well damnit, I'm gonna don my knee high socks, short shorts, fanny pack and fake japanese teeth and glasses and take some photos. LOL I'm gonna do the tourist thing. That's about all for now. Oh yeah...one last thing before I go. The subway is much less disturbing than I had expected. I did not feel threatened by anyone at all. I think in fact I scared some people...but I dunno. Till then...(thinking of a catchy ending but I can't seem to manage one) See ya!
Current Mood:  contemplative
Current Music: No music...
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05:20 pm
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Trick Pony Has Left The Building
The chaos surrounding my previous posts were all the pre-concert sphincter contractions that the ADVON team created themselves. Once the band landed and we got introduced, it was an easy ride. The only problem was lack of sleep. I managed to pass out for a grand total of 13 hours from Tuesday morning at 0530 till Friday night. Well, I am not going to go into great detail here, but let's just say it was a constant shuffle to go here and do this and see that. We took a tour and visited a lot of other squadrons on base (Air Control Squadron looked like a mini NASA) FATS(Fire Arm Training Simulator) was pretty cool. The others were where I worked and the IDF(Iceland Defense Force) building that houses the NATO liaisons and other foreign officials. Well, I hung out with Trick Pony and John Popper from Blues Traveler for the entire week. Not too bad of a deal if you ask me. They were all way cool and treated me like a friend and not like some peon. Down to earth people. Needless to say I partied with em and got all kinds of funny pics and autographs. I didn't even see the Chief wannabe all week...almost. Time to retire for now. My stomach is attempting to devour my spine.
Current Mood:  awake
Current Music: Caballo Diablo - Chris LeDoux
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08:55 pm
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Micro-Management and "Yes-Men"
Hello boys and girls. Let's talk about Micro-Management. This is when an uptight anal retentive cocksucker who was picked on as a kid gets a little bit of power and decides he wants to dictate what people do and how to do it. Instead of giving a little guidance and letting them run with the direction given they seem to manage to hover over the shoulders of the subordinate and tell them how to do everything step-by-step. Well, it turns out that this type of behavior seems to brainwash the weak minded individuals and they fall prey to the Micro-Managers' verbal pummeling. We'll call them "Yes-Men". I however, seem to have stumbled into an odd position. I am an escort for OSG. I am escorting the band Trick Pony around the base here from now until December 2nd. The driver given to us by the wonderful United States Navy seems to have been overexposed to the Micro-Managers and has become a Yes-Man. Tomorrow morning we are supposed to get together and clean a building we will be using for the concert. After which we would normally go home. BUT NOOOOoooo, EO2 McGaha (driver)decides that since they told him to do a dry run of driving from place to place, that we really need to do it...because they said. I asked him if he knew where each place we were stopping was. I mean hell, he should, he's been here 3 times as long as I have. Regardless of that, his answer was yes. Relieved, I decided we could put that time to use elsewhere and told him we didn't need to do it. He then told me that we WOULD be doing they dry run. I thought to myself, "Oh really?". This is when I decided to attempt to reason with him about the time wasted from a trip where each of us both knew the arrival locations.
Far be it for me to realize until it was too late that he had already succumbed to the evil forces. He's zombified! He's...a YES-MAN! So this is going to be a long hard week in which I will verbally pimp smack him repeatedly. More so when he opens his mouth with thoughtless reverence to this post active duty puke know as Chief French. More to come...
Current Mood:  apathetic
Current Music: Demon Speeding - Rob Zombie
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09:30 pm
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My First Post of Hopefully Many
Where to begin... Well, I'm on here because one of my two best lifelong friends uses this, Michael. We are awful about e-mailing each other. I constantly wonder what he's up to, and I am just about sure he does the same for me. I know he's busy just like me, perhaps more. I decided to start this thing up so we can know what is going on with each other. I'm gonna do my best to read his often and to actually write something on mine as well. So this is to us man... (In case you wonder about my mood, I recently returned to my room from a victorious Jiu-jitsu session with two guys. One of which outweighs me by 50 or so odd pounds. Upon returning to my room I received a phone call from a prick I can't seem to stomach being in the same time zone as. I've worked with him since his arrival here last week. The recently(40 days ago) retired Chief Master Sergeant(E-9, highest enlisted rank) called to tell me to do something for him tomorrow morning in front of him that could have been done in the comfort of my office. He wanted me to find the Point of Contact(POC) telephone numbers for each of the four locations I will be escorting the Distinguished Visitors(DV) to and then call them to confirm their presence for the arrival of the DV party later this week. If I were to leave my office to do this, I would have no tools at my disposal to uncover the numbers nor the means to call them easily. I quickly questioned my need to do this in front of him and he pretty much shut up. Especially when I said I don't have what I need at his requested location for me to complete this task. It really pisses me off when control freaks, especially not in my Chain of Command, try to make me do things that are senseless just for the sake of having a sense of control. The more I brew on this the more my Alpha Male primal instinct to disembowel him on the spot grows. Not really what I had in mind for a first post, but this will surely give an insight on the soon to come posts/rants on "Operation Seasons Greetings". What a fucking mess this is. Sometimes being the guy on the inside just ain't worth it. See ya soon.
Current Mood:  predatory
Current Music: Holiday Music (Radio)
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