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It’s nice to be on shore duty again, but I wish I had stayed in
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Two weeks before
Thanksgiving, my shop got their first taste of what I cooked for my crew on the
ship. One guy told me, “You just dug yourself a hole, Grob; now you have to
cook for us more often.” I got assigned to cook the au gratin potatoes for the
command pot-luck the following week. I went back to
After that weekend,
I had some nasty infection in my right eye that I’m still having the effects
from. I was on four different kinds of eye drops. The pain and redness is gone
but my vision is still blurred from trying to see through the scar left behind.
I’m due for another follow-up next month. I’m probably going to get recommended
for corneal surgery.
I cooked another
meal for the shop shortly after Christmas when everyone came back from leave. I
made steaks, lasagna, some bread, and Caesar salad. That was my gift for the
shop. On New Year’s Eve, I left to see my aunt in
I got my gift from
my Uncle in
I am home now, and I’m going to chill for the
remaining leave time I have. I’m going to go work out at the gym and catch up
on some fan mail when I get back.
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I am finally off that shitty TR now and going to
I wish I my stay with the ship had a happier
ending. We lost a shipmate in the middle of June, a few weeks before I checked
out. Our career counselor jumped off the flight deck, landed on the barge, and
died on impact. We were all in shock to hear this. Last time I seen him he
seemed all fine and dandy when I was exchanging contact info with him. I went
to his memorial service the following week.
Two more guys died later that week, both were alcohol
related. One choked to death on his own vomit and the other was driving and got
in an accident. I didn’t know either of those two but I can imagine this was a
hard week for our commanding officer.
Throughout last month, I went to a class for my
next test bench. Now I’m going to enjoy a month of leave before I go to my next
command. I was supposed to have movers get my stuff on the 2nd but I called the
office and found out I filled out the wrong fucking form. I ended up filling
out the form where I move all my shit myself and they just cover the expenses.
I was pissed. Now I have to wait a couple weeks for them to get my stuff. My
new apartment will be ready on the 22nd and I wanted to clear out my
old one ahead of time.
A while ago, while I was in bed, I had friend
here still fucking around CherryTap (now Fubar) like he usually does. But I
came back from class the next day to find 23 fucking pop-up windows for
anti-virus software and bullshit warnings going off on the right side of my
taskbar. I don’t know what the fuck he downloaded but that shit was pissing me
off for a while. I already have Bullguard to protect my computer. I managed to
find the directory they were in and run the uninstall program and get rid of
everything but that VirusProtectPro. My friend couldn’t get rid of it either so
I’m probably going to have backup my hard drive and reformat it.
Last Saturday the dude came by with his friend
from another ship in the yards. I fixed us an awesome Mexican lunch of
enchiladas, rice, and beans. We went to the gym and to the movies. People have
been pushing me to go see Transformers and telling me how good it was. I
finally got to see it and yes, it I liked it too. Then Sunday, I played SNES
emulator and watched TV.
Since I haven’t met my new crew yet, I’m having
my shop buddies from the TR get together at my house for dinner sometime this
week. I can’t get on the ship and bring lunch since it’s in the yards with
their tight-ass security bullshit, but at least I can serve beer at my house.
I’m waiting to hear back from one of them on what day they agreed on stopping
by.
Well that’s all I got going on now. I’m going to
fix my contact link, send some email out, and go to bed.
I’m going to try not to make this entry so long like I did last time even
though a lot of stuff can happen in a year. That is about how long ago my last
update was.
My ship finally came back from cruise in March.
We have been to
I met a fine woman during the middle of our
cruise. She’s a civilian who fixes copy machines. This was the first girlfriend
I had without the help of the internet. (Not that internet hookups are a bad
thing.) We were together for about five months. That’s not counting the time
she went out to sea with another ship in May. It sucks I didn’t get to kiss her
good-bye just before she went out because her ship was leaving just as mine was
coming back from one of its short trips. Her job which requires her to be out
at sea for six months and be home for only one is what made our relationship
difficult. A couple weeks ago she sent me the break up letter. We’re still
friends though. I’m still sending her a gift for her birthday and we might hang
out when she comes back home next month.
After I got my apartment last April I have been
trying to fix my desktop computer for months. First of all, weird sounds were
coming out of the PC speaker and Windows wouldn’t boot up. Something must have
gotten in to the hard drive while it was in storage so I replaced that. The
monitor was speckling, freezing up, and jumping back to 640 x 480, 16 color
mode so I replaced the video card. Those parts were in there since I bought
that computer at the end of ’98. I still have a few things to work on but at
least all the major problems are out of the way.
Last week we had a potluck lunch with our sister
shop. (I don’t know why it’s called a sister shop; they are all guys working
there.) There was a lot of good food there. My contribution was some homemade pizza
since my shop guys liked it so much from the last time I brought lunch.
Well, I’m all out of beer and the stores aren’t
selling them at this hour. Good thing I still have some absinthe left so I’ll
drink some of that before calling it a night.
Wow. I see it's been almost a year since I last updated this. The one time I
had a chance to get on here my site got shut down and I went through hell
trying to get it back up. I'm sure those of you who come here often remember
that time. My registrar MelbourneIT wouldn't take Discover and by the time I
got hold of a credit card they consider acceptable, they already sold it so
some greedy bastard out to auction it off. I ended up paying damn near $200.
I re-enlisted two months ago. I brought my mom,
brother, sister, and other guys in my division over and had a big-ass pizza
party in the shop.
We're on cruise now. We left about a month and a
half ago. I've been to
I heard a pretty funny story at our shop meeting
right after we left
We got this dorky looking guy in our division
who's from a shore station but comes here when we go out to sea. He’s still a
virgin and I was assigned the mission to get him laid when we pulled into
I finally completed my mission on the second day
in
The third day I had duty but I saw
Our liberty could be a lot better if there
wasn't such a strict policy with the buddy system. They treat us like fucking
grade school kids. I can understand pushing this shit in the Gulf ports where
someone could get abducted and become the next star of a beheading video, but
this was in
I almost fried the shit out of my bench a couple
weeks ago. My boss made me fix the drawer under the keyboard so that it would
roll out smoothly, which required taking a lot of shit out first. I did shut
the bench down and disconnected everything on the transformer but I found out
that wasn’t good enough after I undid that one wire and sparks and flames lit
the place up. That scared the fuck out of me for a minute and I was yelling
“Shit! Shit!” and jerking the drawer in an attempt to separate the metal
contact from whatever it was touching. (I sure as hell didn't want to stick my
hand in there and do it.) My boss had a good laugh about that one for the next
several days. Once it burned off I cut the circuit breaker. Good thing that end
piece was all that got destroyed because this shit costs a lot of money.
Last week, I have been busy trying to fix a box
all day for three days straight. All the work pretty much amounted to nothing.
The most expensive part of the box was already replaced twice and that alone
was more money down the hole than it would’ve been if we just shit-canned it
for a new one. We finally convinced our chain of command of that and got it out
of here.
Ever put a stapler to your arm and stapled a
clump a skin together? Some guy in my shop started this by doing it to himself
and he tried to get everyone else to do it. Well some of the crew did it,
included myself. I guess I could say that was my first piercing, lol. It didn’t
hurt nearly as much you’d think it would. It only stung a little bit as if I
was getting a shot or something. Yeah, we got really bored at that time. Then I
started to act like I was going to staple my nut-sack just to freak people out.
Well it worked, the shop crew wouldn't even let me go as far as whipping it
out.
12/15/04
Things have been a real mess for me lately. I've lost my cell phone and my car
during Thanksgiving weekend, and the week after I lost my new cat, Timmy.
Stopping to piss in the woods on the way to New
Jersey certainly is a shitty time to find out my phone clip is not reliable.
Our ship is finally out of the shipyard after about a year of renovations and
we have took it out on our first sea trial.
Damn, I see it has been quite a long time since I worked on this site. I have
been so busy with work and other stuff.
Here is a brief of what's been going on since my
last entry... I got temporarily assigned to ship's security but I didn't stay
there very long. It seems I made my mistake when I told my instructors at the
academy about my site and they spread the word out to the wrong people.
Thinking I was fucked up in the head, they didn't trust me with carrying guns
and they booted me back to my division.
Later at the end of July, I got sent to work on
the mess decks as a supervisor. I hated working there probably as much as the
workers... or maybe more. We worked long hours and half the shift on some of
the days we were supposed to be off. As if that wasn't bad enough, I had my
boss constantly harassing me while I was section leader mostly over stupid
shit. I checked back in to my division last week. I'm so glad that's over with
now.
I went out on a date last Friday... something
else I haven't had time to do in a while. I tried to cyber with her the week
before but my cat, Tigger, ruined it for me when she kept trying to climb up on
my lap. Eventually I lost my hard-on from the distraction. So I let the little
shit curl up on my lap and just faked it the rest of the way.
I saw Ladder 49 on our date. I thought it was
pretty good. I'm guessing it's a true story, about a
I'm on duty today and right now I'm trying to
stay awake through this midnight-to-eight watch in the admin office. I finally
have time now to work on this site between making log entries.
I'm all moved in to my new apartment now. It's still rather a mess because I
just piled everything up but I'll sort it out later. The cats sure seem to
enjoy their new surroundings. First thing they wanted to do once I moved them
in was to go outside. So I let them play while I unloaded my car but I called
them back in prior to leaving to pick up another load so I won't have to worry
about them getting lost. Tomorrow I'm having the cable guy come over so I won't
have to drag my ass all the way to Kinko's or the cyber center on base.
Happy New Year everyone. For Mom and me, 2004 wasn't off to a good start
because we had to deal with awful cold for a while. That certainly wasn't how I
wanted to spend my leave up in
I had a visitor tonight; it was rather brief
though. Somebody's cat decided to just walk in my room like it owned the place.
I was on the computer with Troubles on the back of the recliner. Then all of a
sudden I heard RREEEOOWWW! I looked back and there was this black cat halfway
through the door and Troubles coming after it to let that cat know he was not
welcome here! After some growling and hissing the intruder decided to do the
smart thing and walk away.
Well tomorrow I'm back to work. Then I have to
check in to my new apartment and get busy moving all my stuff.
A big fight broke out the last weekend on the ship. A guy tried to steal a
laptop and a witness ratted him out to security. When the thief found out he
got told on he beat the witness up so bad he ended up having to go to the
hospital in
Anyway, I wish a Happy Holidays to everyone
except for that scumbag mentioned above. So far Christmas sucked for me because
I had duty and I was stuck on the ship all day. Our duty section always gets
screwed. We had duty Thanksgiving, the day we had our family day cruise, the
day off we had for our department not having an alcohol-related incident, and
now Christmas. Well I’m taking leave in a couple more days so I’ll at least get
to enjoy New Year’s.
My Christmas gifts still haven't showed up yet
either. I think our mail crew needs a foot in their asses.
I'd say I had a pretty descent weekend aside from the duty day I had last
Friday. I played Tekken 3 and Rally Cross on my Playstation for the most part.
For those of you who play online casinos, I
would like for all y'all to go there via the links above. That way you can make
me some money and hopefully yourselves too.
Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. Mine was kind of lame. I had duty so I
was stuck on the ship all day. The galley had some fucked up hours that day
too; dinner was served
Hopefully Christmas will be better, or at least
New Year’s anyway since I’ll be on leave at time. I’m moving to my new
apartment shortly after that. Ever since I transferred to
Work went pretty well today. All I had to do was show up for my fitness test,
passed, then went home. Didn't really do much with my day off other than cuddle
my cats, Tigger and Troubles, on my lap, chat on Yahoo for a little bit, and
work on my site.
Shit, I forgot wasn't allowed to post info about our deployments and stuff.
Well I took some of those bits off that page now.
Some chief was inspecting the berthing last
night to make sure people didn't leave shit lying around, beds unmade, and that
kind of stuff. He wanted me to do six hours of extra duty because I was missing
a nametag on my bunk. I put a freaking tag on there when I first claimed my
space but I guess it fell off. Well damn it, if it was that fucking important,
couldn't he have just called my shop and told me to put it back on there? Jeez,
I haven't seen anyone so anal since boot camp eight years ago.
Anyway, tonight I played bingo and won $100. I would've
got $500 but there were four others who called bingo at the same time so the
prize had to be split. I spent $20 for four sets of bingo cards and because the
guy was calling the numbers so damn fast, I had to give Bartlett, who works in
my shop, $20 as his cut for helping me keep up. So, my profit actually came out
to be $60.
I see it’s been a while since I last worked on this site. My grandmother passed
away just before hurricane Isabel arrived. So, I took leave for a little bit to
go to her funeral. She had a brain disorder that’s been breaking her down
physically and mentally for decades. It’s quite a strange coincidence that she
died the same day Johnny Cash died, who Mom and
I thought it's about time I start selling some of my stuff. So far, I've got
this journal you can buy to write down your thoughts, things to do, and stuff,
with this cool cover of child killer Andrea Yates awaiting her well-deserved
fate. Now you can own a copy of
one of my great works for $9. I'll have more goods in my store soon. Right
now, I'm going to have a beer and go off to bed.
Our ship was supposed to go to
Next time our ship goes out I think I might want
to hire someone else to watch the cats while I’m gone before I have my neighbor
do it again. The cats got their daily and nightly meals but I can’t believe he
let the fucking cat box pile up with shit for a week. I was surprised they
didn’t start using the bedroom floor or something. At least he was considerate
enough to give me $50 to replace the phone he broke.
We're out at sea again. So far I did quite a bit of work on this site while I
wasn't running any F-18 gear. I didn't get to upload it until now since our
internet access has been disabled for a while. I guess that new virus going
around had something to do with it.
Some guys in our shop just hooked up a LAN line
so we can all kick eachother's asses in Unreal. Awesome game. It's a
multi-player, first person shooter, and each man for himself in a variety of
cool stages. You can fight in a medieval castle, a pirate ship, or a giant-size
kitchen. Most of the battlefields didn't come with the game; my boss downloaded
them off some site.
I got to play a few times on the shop's
computer. I don't think I'll be able to install it on my cheap-ass laptop.
While most of the guys get aggressive and run around after their targets, I
like to hide in some dark corner and wait for my victims. Soon as they show up
they're left wondering who the hell made Swiss Cheese out of them with the
machine gun. Of course it wasn't long before someone picked up on my technique
and kept getting me with the sniper rifle. After I got killed about four times
I eventually found myself a sniper rifle somewhere and got the little bastard
back.
I would like everyone to rate my drawings so I can find out what my best (and worst)
drawings are. After I sort them out, I will add that list to my Gallery. Your
participation will be appreciated. Click here to rate my pics.
08/07/03
Does anyone know of a program or plug-in that will allow me to put in text,
logo, or something while I'm on Yahoo with my web-cam? It's just like the way
TV shows have their FOX, NBC, or whatever logo on the bottom corner while
they're running. I want to have my URL show while I'm on cam as shown in this
example. If you know where I can find such a thing, email me via my contact
link.
08/01/03
I finally got my webcam working, no thanks to Best Buy of course. I bought it
about a month or two before so my chat buddies could see my cats next time one
jumps on my lap, but the damn thing wouldn't work. I had Best Buy check it out
while I had them see why I was getting no sound from my DVDs. They told me my
Windows version doesn't support USB. I brought the computer back home to find
my scanner didn't work either. So, I had to do without that for a while until I
eventually found out the people at Best Buy were fucking around with the CMOS
and somehow disabled the printer port. Sure enough, that turned out to be the
same reason why my webcam didn't work, dumb-asses!
I just finished my first week of our intro
lecture about my ship. Like the usual spill I get when I go to a new command,
it was kind of boring except for yesterday. We had some corpsman talking about
STDs, safe sex, and stuff. He was all loud and boisterous like some boot camp
drill instructor during his discussion about all the patients he treated or
told he couldn't treat. He showed us some pretty nasty slides of infected
genitals all wart covered, pus leaking, and shit. Perfect thing to show us just
before letting us go for lunch. :)
07/24/03
Well, as a friend of mine from Florida put it, Uncle Sam will put the Navy's
fish hook back into my scrotum to reel me in to the ship tomorrow. My transfer leave
went pretty good though. I went to my aunt's in North Carolina, then hung out
in Florida. Me and a buddy went to a few pubs, the beach, and a titty bar.
I finally uploaded that Red Bull some of you guys in my squadron were
asking about. More to come after I grab a quick lunch and get back from my
martial arts classes.
07/08/03
I'm so glad to be out of that shithole squadron now. I'm going back to my old
job where I can just sit around and let a test bench do all the work, after I'm
done my leave of course. I'm taking that time to drive over various places on
the east coast to meet friends and family. I just got done seeing my mom,
grandma, and my younger siblings in New Jersey, not too far where some psychotic Matrix wannabe kids planned to go off on
another mad shooting spree. Tough shit for them they couldn't even
get started! My next stop is to my aunt's house in North Carolina and then a
retired shipmate I used to work with in Florida after I get my car worked on. I
would like to show you all what I look like while on leave since I only shave
on my workdays, but I left the damn camera in the car with everything else I
packed from my trip.
06/14/03
I know this is rather old news but still, I thought I'd put up this new drawing
depicting my hatred for such trash like Andrea Yates. She's that crazy bitch who
drowned her five kids in the tub. Click
here to check out my idea of dealing with that piece of garbage for
a mother. Good lord, even in that picture she looks evil.
05/29/03
You've all seen those hot babe silhouette decals that people stick on their
cars right? Well, I drew an altered version to suit my standards, scanned it on
my computer, cut it out using the stencil machine we have in our shop, and then
stuck it on mine. I'll bet the next person who comes up behind me will get a
kick out of this! You can check out a larger version in my gallery or just click here.
Also, thanks to that class I took last spring, I
got a new layout in my gallery page. There's little buttons that light up as
you move the mouse over them and a description pops up next to them. I learned
how to do that in Adobe ImageReady. Although it took me all damn night, I think
it turned out pretty good. But sadly, I'm probably going to go back to my old
layout soon when I upload more of my works. That's because I'll have to
rearrange everything in the ImageReady file and upload all the seperate GIF
files the program makes for this package. I know it looks pretty and all but it
would just take too much time. I think I'd be better off doing the fancy shit
for my main page or something.