An interesting day..

Almost got hit by a car today! Which happens daily usually just I'm in my car and not in the crosswalk when that happens. All I remember is a bunch of cars started honking and turn to see a car coming right towards me and my friend. My friend is about a step in front of me and I jump back away from the car and almost forget my friend but turn around and yank her back. The car passes us without even slowing down and kind of stop 40ft passed us and my friend tried yelling at them but she's sick she couldn't yell.. We were both shaken up.. Ahh The fun of Sunset Blvd :|
Well I drove her home after that and went home.. bored..

Determined not to be bored I got into contact with one of my buddies from training and made plans to goto a strip club since he hadn't really gone before.
So we meet at 4Play(TMI :P?) in West LA. Me and my buddy walk in to be greeted (and feel damn awkward) by six or so of the girls we have to walk by as they eye us. We buy our overpriced drinks and watch the show for a bit while I hound my buddy about getting a dance. I ditch him and get a dance before he does. We go on and off getting dances throughout the night.. and leave around 0130..

Dilapidated

...Is how I feel.. why? Not saying I keep a lot to myself, I'd like to tell someone but it isn't appropriate.

Anyways what I write in here could be a lot better.. I am eloquent just not here.. I usually just want to get it over with once I start writing-

Dooobie doobie dooooo

Well I didn't even finish what I wrote in my notebook :\ meh will at a later time..
Anyways I'm back off.. leaving in a few hours.. will write/call when I can

Take care!

10/13? On my way home..

-I'm typing this all from my notepad I had with me.. It covers a few days-

I get a ticket to home booked and dropped off to wait for the shuttle - or sit seems I was lead to believe.. So they're supposed to come at 0115.. but they don't show so I ask a different guy at the desk who told me I had to call and that they only take cash.
So he calls me a cab while I go to the ATM since I only have $35 with me. No dice with the ATM.. one I rarely use and the other I just got and haven't used int a month so I've forgotten the pin :(. Ugh now I feel stuck and there are no banks of mine in the area so.. I feel completely screwed. I re-book my flight and eat a $100 fee :X and the taxi shows up and almost leaves because I'm stuck on the phone with the airline.

I run out and no taxis is to be seen.. He then rounds the corner! which makes me just feel ok since I don't know if I have enough money. I ask if he takes credits cards (hey in LA they do!) "No". Now I think I'm really stuck :\ he ask me how much I have "35". He tells me it should only be 30. Yay! He gets me to the shuttle and we're at $28! I top him a few bucks and had spent two on a computer to look up the airlines number earlier so now I have $1. Which is my horrible tip for the shuttle driver (the shuttle place took credit cards).. That sucked.. a lot! One of my ATM cards - primary is locked from too many wrong tries.. on my other I have one more try... FAIL wrong for the third time that card is probably frozen! Woooo go Skams!

I still have my trusty credit card but having no access to cash feels.. really.. bad.. My flight to Vegas is now 20mins late.. (I'm going Atlanta - Vegas - LA!) I'd gamble a few bucks.. if I had any :\. If you've gotten a letter from me this has got to be dreadful to read after what's gone on with me. I don't know what to say my luck just hasn't been good at all lately. I keep thinking I've gotta win the lotto or something after all the stuff that has gone on.. I talked with my recruit awhile ago and asked if he's had anyone with close to this many problems.. He hasn't had anyone even close :X. Oh Oh kind of random and out of place.. I'm getting some fun stares - my left arm in between my elbow is purple from needles and IVs and my left eye has a burst blood vessel towards my nose right next to my pupil. I also have a wonderful raw rope burn on my left leg but I've got pants on so everyone doesn't get to stare at it like at basic. It's like 4"x15".. wait even better:



It looks worse in person.. my camera sucks

10/10 Convalescent leave

-I'm typing this all from my notepad I had with me.. It covers a few days-

Today was exciting.. I wasn't feeling good (fever) but didn't want to miss out more by going to sick call. But it came to the point where I thought it was getting dangerous and a buddy that felt my forehead was prodding me to get my temp taken. So I did.. my drill sergeant acted as if I was overreacting and was slow about it. Then he got his reading - 103 then he took it again to make sure and 103 again! Woooo! Ice sheets for me (the Army takes bed sheets and sticks them in ice for these situations). One sheet around your head, one in each armpit, on in the groin (thank god the soldier helping stuffed it in between my legs instead of on my.. groin) and the last sheet gets draped over you.

Makes ya feel freezing cold for about 10mins then the sheets start to get warmer. Next my drill sergeant put a rubber band around my arm to start an IV but is complaining "You ain't got no fucking veins private! fuck" He takes the band off and puts it back on and is slapping my arm to get the veins to come out... then he starts to take the IV needle out and tells me he might miss. So I'm hoping EMS gets there before he can try... and they do! He tells me "you're lucky private I would had fucked you up!" (this is in a funny tone). So good ol' EMS shows up and walks my dizzy and now shirtless self to the ambulance. They take my temp again 104.6! Oh ya! So then I get taken to the hospital where I wait for 2 or so hours before I'm seen at all (wts?).

Bleh so besides that I got stuck in the infirmary again and for two days.. I hate that place with a passion. It makes you know how old people in bad nursing homes feel. It's like jail kind of and if you have a temp over 99 you can't leave even if you're supposed to D: . So come my second day I have a temp but I want to get out of this place badly. So! cold shower it is! and I wake up every four hours to take my meds in and effort to get out. However when it's time to get my temp taken I know I still have a fever.. So i put the thermometer on the edge of my tongue - 98.5! Oh ya!
I get out and my drill sergeant starts working on sending me home----- will continue...


(I just like this song no meaning behind putting it in here :P )

I'm out :o

like a fat kid playing dodgeball :D I'm off for a few months.. Feel good about it.. sorry if I didn't get much of a chance to say bye but have been in a rush a bit.
I'll be back soon!

Tagged :o

I tag My Random Jibba Jabba and amivero :D

30 Questions

1. What ended your last relationship? Uh without reason she did..

2. When was the last time you shaved your legs? Never!

3. What were you doing this morning at 8am? Sleeping

4. First thought after waking up this morning? "I gotta get outta bed"

5. Are you any good at math? Uh when I do it correctly :D

6. Your prom night? We went in a loud white Bentley limo :D and that was it :\ fiancee wasn't allowed to go out after..

7. Do you have any famous ancestors? Not that I know of

8. Have you ever taken out a loan to pay for school?
Yep :\

9. Do you know the words to the song on your myspace profile? Yep Eazymillion party :D

10. Last thing received in the mail? Three flashlights and a mp3 player!

11. How many different beverages have you drank today? Just iced green tea I think

12. Do you ever leave messages on people’s answering machines? Rarely if it's a cell since they will get my listed as a missed call

13. Who did you lose your CONCERT virginity to? The Aquabats :D

14. Do you draw your name in the sand when you go to the beach? No :o

15. What’s the most painful dental procedure you’ve had? Wisdom teeth pulled D: that wasn't fun at all

16. What is out your back door? Uh some stuff for the recycling bin

17. Do you have any plans for tonight? Might go for a jog

18. Do you like the ocean? Very much so :D

19. Have you ever received one of those big tins of 3 different popcorn? Oh ya I love the caramel only though

20. Have you ever been to a planetarium? I think so at Griffith Observatory

22. Something you are excited about? Some hobby stuff I bought

23. What is your favorite flavor of Jello? Chocolate of course! mmm I wanna try mixing it with pistachio :Q

24. Are any of your great-grandparents still alive? Nope only have one grandparent

25. Describe your keys: Leather key case with four house keys, a speed pass for gas, a tiny multi-tool, car key and remote.

26. Where do you keep your change? Pockets until I dump it into my car or at home..

27. When was the last time you spoke in front of a large group of people? As in got-up-on-podium and spoke? Uh 2-3years ago in an Engineering class.. had to explain a model I made and how I made it. The teacher kept it to scare people with since I did a really good job :D.

28. What kind of winter coat do you have?
A black waterproof Perry Ellis jacket with a liner you can unzip to make it a lighter jacket :o

29. What was the weather like on your graduation?
Sunny I think I may had gotten sunburned.. but at least I wasn't drinking or drink like most people.
30. Do you sleep with the door to your room open or closed?
Closed unless I'm at home alone

Into the time machine!

At least that's what I think the gov car that I rarely drive should be called. I drove to Palm Springs twice last week and it really seemed like time dissapeared when I was in the car. Even though it took up most of my day and only time when I was really thinking about time was when I was out of the car putting gas in and when I was eating. Anyways I drove to pick up a now friend of mine who I had met before but it took about an hour of talking to figure that out. She couldn't leave just yet so the next day I got to pick her up and drive her back on home which probably sounds.. shitty. But I enjoy highway driving (especially when I don't pay for gas!) and my friend was good at keeping company.
Besides that I've started running again everyday and had Mister skunk meet me as I walk back to my house and hiss at me :|. I really hope I never get sprayed.. I really think I'd punt Mister Skunk if he was to spray me.
Went to El Matador beach with the fiancee layed around.. she wouldn't go in the water.. and ate at Neptune's Net after

and I'm currently drinking Port :D

My name Skams and I'm an insomniac

So I've resorted to taking some Simply Sleep sleeping pills. I'd say I feel a bit cloudy after taking them and hope it puts me out since I need the rest before this weekend's drill. I hope it isn't too miserable with the heat but I'm thinking it will be. I just hope I don't pass out or get some horrible sunburn. Besides that last real training kind of drill I have to goto so I'm excited except that I will be repeating the same training that I have before because of delays in leaving before.. (This is vague isn't it :D ?) I'm missing our monthly outing to the range :\. Meh boring update but I haven't in awhile.. maybe I'll have some goodies from the weekend :o who knows..

Obviously..

I'm not gone.. forgot to update this but uh everyone that reads this should had heard anyways..

I may be gone for a bit tomorrow..

Don't know yet.. we will see tomorrow

Well something's wrong with me yet again

I'm racking up a fair amount of sicknesses.. hopefully this is the end..
So far:
Respiratory infection or some sort ( still isn't sorted out )
Kidney stone ( got pain some pain from it again last week )
Pink eye
Open socket after I got my wisdom teeth taken out
Strep throat
Thrush
and now!
Shingles.. something usually only old people get.........

It's a viral infection in the stemming from the nerves in your skin.. and painful.. It's on my back :X right in the middle so I couldn't see it in the mirror and blew it off as bug bites. Then it appeared on my shoulder blade and I could finally see it and didn't think it was a bug bite anymore.
Off to the doctor who had really bad vision so move his eyes like 2" away from me to take a look which was uh kinda of strange. He said it was too late for anti-viral meds so he just prescribed me ibuprofen 800mg and vicodin ( passed on the vicodin ).
Another doctor of mine recommended I still get anti-viral meds so he prescribed me
Valtrex D: ... I picked it up and told them I got shingles so no one's thinking I have VD..

I tag.... My random jibba jabba and amivero

You Would Be a Pet Cat

Independent and aloof, you don't like to be dependent on anyone. And as for other people, you can take them or leave them. You often don't care. You live your life by your own rules. And you have deep motivations that no one truly understands. Why you would make a great pet: You're not needy or greedy... unlike other four legged friends. Why you would make a bad pet: You're not exactly running down to greet people at the door What you would love about being a cat: Agility and freedom What you would hate about being a cat: Being treated like a dog by clueless humans

What Kind of Pet Would You Be?

Rather annoyed

So I went to Dave & Buster's in Arcadia and didn't have the greatest of times..
Here is my complaint that's being mailed to guest relations at their corporate office and to the general manager of the D&B I went to..
Let see what happens....
Sorry about the gross errors in the letter I was rather mad..

Vicodin here I come!

Ugh got to the dentist for my appointment at 10am to get all four of my wisdom teeth removed. Waited around for a bit and signed a form acknowledging all the cautions of anesthesia.. including death. I got called in and went in the little closed off surgery room where the nurse put two sensors on my chest, a sensor on my stomach(???), a heartbeat sensor on my finger, and strapped the arm for the IV onto the chair. It was wonderful hearing the heartbeat sensor beeping loudly and fast! Which made the surgeon try to calm me down and comfort me which wasn't working. He took out the IV and I looked away and he inserted it and taped it down..
While I was watching some show about Zebras the surgeon injected me with "something to relax me" which felt warm going in and just made my head feel tingly and seemed to relax my muscles. Then he got ready whatever he had to knock me out and told me he would tell me before it happens. So in it went instead feeling cold for about a minute then I just knocked out.. no warning.. no feeling sleepy just out in a flash..
Woke up with my mouth stuffed full of cotton and no sensors, IV, or apron thingy.
The nurse helped me walk out to my moms car since I was like a drunk trying to walk... and that's it now I'm at home in pain not able to eat :\

Out come the wisdom teefs

Well later today I get my horrendously 1 1/4" long and curved at the root wisdom teeth taken out. I'd always hoped that I could go throughout life without being out for any reason. The dentist made me feel wonderful about the whole thing.. staring at the x-ray and saying "wow" and showing a nurse how long my wisdom teeth are.. then she told me she doesn't know if it's possible because they curve and run right next to the nerve and vain in my jaw bone.. she then ask the nurse if they have nitrous oxide
She didn't exactly make it sound as if they're going to have an easy time. Though I'm mostly concerned with being put out. I've never really been put out except when my brother's friend knocked me out so it wasn't with drugs like this will be.
I'll be nervous when they're putting me out.. otherwise I hope it heals up good and doesn't hurt too much........................

You need to go to church/temple/a mosque etc.

I cant stand when I hear this when it's directed towards me in someway or that I should just "come along". Really like said person(s) is a bright shining example of how whatever religion says to live their life and treat others. Yet they don't even remotely live up to whatever their religions ethics are. I'm not one for religion personally, but that's just me. I really don't like when someone wants to push it on me or thinks I'm lost because I don't agree with their viewpoint. But the thing that really gets me is when someone is part of some religion and they're not a good person at all, don't follow the ethics they're told to follow etc... You would think this would be the perfect kind of person for some type of religion to be a control and make them a better person..

But I really think most of these people think they can be an asshole 6 23/24 of the week and that hour or so they spend at whatever religious service. Like it's going to give them a free entrance ticket to the pearly gates. As if they're going to show up and be told - well sure you lied a lot, deceived, took and didn't give, were unfair, and the list goes on. However you read what you have been told is my word and went to what you were told is my house so all is forgiven! Sure what you were given something as my word that had ethics for you to follow and you didn't but well ya tried.. slugger!

This rant was half about a person..

After 8 - 9 years

of talking to someone online.. I finally met Pat or as I call him Merc which is short for Mercury the name I met him by in a game. He's the second person I've known for a long time online and met. He just stopped on by on his way from school to home since it wasn't out of the way by much. Just talked for a bit and showed off my collection o' stuff. I was actually quiet a bit, more so then when I met my other long time internet friend because I'd always talked on the phone with him. Just hopefully next time he stops by we can go out and do some shooting or something.. :o

:D

Tag: Seven Random Things About Me

The Persican tagged me yet again:

1. I'm mechanically creative.. couldn't be any happier to be that way.
2. I always find someway to amuse myself..I say people are just interactive toys!
3. My favorite place to be is driving in my car on the highway or freeway late and night with some nice music playing.
4. I'm a really really secretive person
5. I'm really honest also.. those don't seem to go together though do they ? but it's not like that means I lie :P
6. I talk a lot online and but not so much in person unless I really know ya :D
7. I overdo the smilies with chatting more then anyone else.. some people hate it but it's the way I chat!

My random jibba jabba is tagged :P

Pink eye!

You can't be serious D: My eyes been bugging me the last few days but I didn't really pay attention to it. Yesterday I woke up to it really bothering me and looked in the mirror to see a nice pink eye. Which was followed by a crazy laugh from me because of the frustration of being sick again and again and again. Luckily my mom still had some drops for it so no doctors visit.
Someone must be cursing me ;D

I bought a lotto ticket today

because after being sick on and off for roughly 5 months I think I deserve something good to happen to me ;D I've had a respiratory infection, kidney stone, and now I get strep throat and thrush :X. I feel a little loopy, no idea why and my throat isn't hurting yet but it's supposed to hurt a lot soon enough. I'm sick of being sick.. I hope this is the last of being sick for the next 10 years..

Arroyo Seco

Well here are some pictures of our venture up to the Arroyo Seco bike path
It was paved for maybe two miles then just dirt.. and since my bike has street tires on it my bike was slipping and sliding around and I was expecting a fall but it never happened. We stopped when the trail started to get steeper because I really can't manage it on my BMX.. and the fiancee was having trouble with her mountain bike gears.. It was really nice though, only saw maybe 10 people who were all friendly.. Was nice and cool from the shade and the stream and plenty green which you don't often see around LA.. Stopped and had lunch also..
There's a neat wooden bridge back there that was built in 1939.. and well next time we go I just hope to have a bike with gears so we can go all the way up the path..






















As usual :

Meow

Well I'm about to go up to the Arroyo Seco bike path with my trusty fiancee. I just hope there isn't much of an incline as I have a BMX bike.. which only has one gear. So uphill is really really hard and just doesn't work. I kind of ommited telling my fiancee that there was a mountain lion attack up there. All is well though ! I can run faster then her ;D

I am

how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen ! ya...

See you there at 6:30pm!

Why why why do people do this in LA during the week ?? I mean from say 3:30-6:30 it's rush hour in LA, which means you might be doing a cool 10mph (at most) on the freeway. So getting anywhere past a couple miles means either taking the streets to avoid the frustration of the freeway... leaving before rush hour and finding something to do for a few hours... or have a fun time sitting really really aggravating traffic.
I just feel like blowing people off when they do it unless I live somewhat near wherever we're going. It aggravates me when tell me see you there at 6-6:30 at a place 30 miles away from me. I mean I don't wanna make my friends or family sit in traffic so if I do have anything planned during the week which is like incredibly rare, I do it at 8 o'clock or so. So they can leave at 7 and not sit in traffic... hopefully..
I've had this done to me by a few people a couple times.. I just wanna know does anyone take things like this into account ?? Now that I think about it I actually have completely blown off people who've asked me to show up somewhere at some ridiculous(to me) time (Ok and I don't really like them much either).
Sounds crummy but I drive a lot.. I might put a few hundred miles on my car in a couple days.. It's not bad driving when there isn't traffic but when there is it just sucks everything out of me. I mean ya I've had to sit in traffic for my old job but that was because I had to. I get annoyed over it because there is no reason to sit in traffic to go to dinner with someone for the most part..
blah that's it..

The usual:

Patent Patent Patent Patent Patent Patent

Well I don't think many people know this about me but.. I have a lot of mechanical ideas, I actually have a notebook with pages and pages of ideas. But! I've never managed to finish any of them or even manage to complete a prototype. Which has always bothered, even more so lately. The closest I've gotten is with my recent one. I had some parts made of plastic in a rapid prototyping machine (basically a 3d printer that spits out plastic parts) a ways back. Then moved on to trying to get a business license which I couldn't get so on to the back-burner my idea went.

Lately though I was doing my usually bit of thinking and devised a better way to go about it. So I went out and got a book on filing a provisional patent. It's kind of like a placeholder for a real patent that you're gonna file in the future and lets you say patent pending. I finished it up today and mailed it off.. now I wait to get confirmation back that everything is good and filed :). I'm happy yet nervous because the thought of someone beating you to the punch is really nerve racking.. Hopefully I can bring my idea to reality in some timely fashion and make something out of it.
Maybe once I get my postcard back telling me it's been filed I'll post more about it..
In the mean time check out
Sound101.org
and!

Amélie
I watched this last night on the Independent Film Channel - 550 on DirectTv.
I really recommend it unless you can't stand sub-titles
It's a movie about a girl who likes to anonymously make people happy or do mischievous things to the deserving.. and toys with a guy she has a crush on with games and notes..
I don't think any description really can sum up the movie.. I'd just say check it out.. it's really good..

As usual:

Save me from boredom !

I don't think I could be any bored then I've been lately.. and with the pain I got in my side that's been thought to be a kidney stone. I've been delayed from leaving until July... So I've got even more time to spend doing nothing now. I think I may go kill some time by taking some classes at the local college. I found a class that sounds interesting but I'm not sure if the class is what I want.. The description of it is : CIM 101 is an introductory course that provides a comprehensive study of the fundamentals of industrial robots.
I want to take a CNC (see link) class but I'm kind of unsure if that class is what I want.. I guess I will try find out tomorrow. I may take a math class also *shudder*, I really don't like math. The last math class I took was math anxiety. But with the new career route I've chosen I'm gonna have to get all the way up to calculus, so I've gotta get to it..
Hopefully I will be able to occupy myself until July so I don't waste away..

¡No esta in la casa!

Ok just two interesting videos to watch.. :o

David Bowie with Nine Inch Nails - I'm Afraid of Americans



A warning for the video below! it's quite graphic and:
This video is a mix of interesting, entertaining, and just really wrong I guess that's why it's captivating.. and there is nothing else like it.. I actually tried to find a clean version but couldn't because well I guess that ruins the fun of it.. Stop it at 1:50 to avoid the scene with nudity ..

I spent $93.60 today.. wait..

On fishing! I went with
The Ivan:


The Christine + her friend:


and! The Jessica


It was actually kind of a frustrating day.. I took me about an hour and a half of driving to get Jessica and get over there to fish. The whole time the freeway either wasn't going very smooth or people were driving really slow in groups..
We got there at the last minute only to be delayed even more by cashiers that lack a sense of urgency.
Our day of fishing could had gone better. We watched a guy yak what looked like french onion soup.. and we all caught some rocks and lost some lures. Between the the five of us we caught two fish and the one I caught had poisonous needles all over and was too small to keep. I did have fun putting squid in Christine's hood, which she didn't find out until about an hour after we finished fishing. She of course called me and thanked me for her new addition to her sweatshirt.

I had to buy gas also :\

So it was actually a $138.90 fishing trip.. I got no fish but got to spend some time with friends so all is good.
I'm now thinking a cheapy used boat would be a good investment if I were to fish more..


Meow here are some vid as usual:

Tagged again but !

at least Randomness agreed to eat some squid and a baked potato for a suitcase filled
money
I tag Jessica..

How tall are you barefoot? 5'9" I'm a giant!
Have you ever flown first-class? Nope, I've had my dad wave at me from first class however!
One of your favorite books when you were a child? Some spy book I have with pictures of their tools..
A good restaurant in your city? Buko Restaurant click it!
What is your favorite small appliance? Ice cream maker ? though I rarely use it.. Now I want to
One person who never fails to make you laugh? Jessica
What was the first music that you ever bought? 311 or Aquabats maybe
Do you do push-ups? Yep
What was one of your favorite games as a child? Bubble Bobble I played and beat all 99 levels! crashed my firefox so I use IE
Your favorite Soup of the Day? Clam Chowda!
Have you ever met someone famous? He talked to me for a minute.. Had Dave Chappelle say hi to me and Michelle Rodriguez almost knocked me over at the stunt awards..
From what news source do you receive the bulk of your news? Net.. the TV news is depressing.. You don't really get anything out of hearing about all this horrible stuff that happens..
Current worry? Just getting healthy..
Current hate? Neighbors.. mostly the fat guy they rent out their guest house too.. He's loud and thinks he's intimidating and parks so it makes it difficult for me to park...
Favorite place to be? My car
Least favorite place to be? Anyplace really crowded
Do you consider yourself well organized? In some ways :D
Do you believe in an afterlife? Yep
Where do you think you will be in 10 years? No idea.. I mean 5 years ago I never thought I'd work in a restaurants and I was..
Do you burn or tan? I used to tan! now I burn D:
Are you more optimistic or pessimistic about the future? Optimistic! bad juju to be pessimistic
What did you fear was going to get you at night as a kid? Stuff under my bed.. and spiders D: I woke to a spider crawling on my face once.
What's in your pockets right now? Nothing! I'm wearing scrubs!
Last thing that made you laugh? Something Randomness said
Worst injury you've ever had? Cracked my skull and my eye and area around it swelled upw with blood
How many TVs do you own? One.. and it's not in my room it's too big
Best compliment received? Not telling :) I got it in culinary school and I don't know if I've told anyone it really..
What leaves you speechless? Really stupid things.. I told a lady at an old job she had left her gift filled car open in the parking lot.. she told me she always leaves it that way..
What is your favorite book? Don't have one right now..
Last meal you cooked for the opposite sex? I cooked some veggies for my mom..

Doctors, Doctors, and more Doctors

I've been going back and forth to the doctor a lot lately. I keep trying to get cured of the congestion I have in my lungs but it's taking a really long time to go away. Out of three doctors I saw for it only one has seemed to semi-cure me the others efforts resulted in nothing really. It's still lingering around in me it feels as if it's going away but I can still feel it there and I just want it gone.. 4 months of it is no fun at all.. I'd rather have gotten the flu three times or broken a bone..

It gets better also, two weeks ago I got a really really bad pain in my kidney/back area so off to urgent care I went. The doctor saw me and was convinced it was muscle pain even after I described the pain as a 9 on a 1-10 scale. Luckily he didn't drop it there and to be on the safe side had me do a urinalysis. Which came back positive for blood but! the doctor was still convinced muscle pain! So he tells me to take some Motrin for my 9 our of 10 pain! and tells me to get a warming pad for my back. He says he doesn't know what the blood in the test results is though so he says he will send it off for a culture to make sure everything is ok.. but I checked with my doctor today and the doctor I saw at urgent care never sent off the urinalysis for a culture. So my doctor thinks it's a kidney stone and has me do another urinalysis and prescribes me a big bottle of vicodin and a CT scan. I felt kind of strange about the vicodin so I told him I wasn't having the pain anymore but I think he feels it will come back :\.
Which I am really really not looking forward to as the pain beats anything I've felt so far.. Burns and broken bones don't compare..
This has interrupted my ship date also but I'd much rather go later then sick by far..
That's it.. Just hope I'm healthy soon............

Random vid :

I'm a really private person.. hence lack of updates... so..

Randomness tagged me because I don't update much :o

Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback? Paperback is cheaper :D

Amazon or brick and mortar? Doesn't matter

Bookmark or dogear? Bookmark :o

Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random? Title

Keep, throw away, or sell? Keep most throw away the rest..

Keep dust jacket or toss it? They always just get torn off so off they go

Read with dust jacket or remove it? I always take em off and loose them

Short story or novel? Uh Novel?

Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket? Uh Harry Potter? wts (what the shit) is Lemony Snicket?

“It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”? "It was a dark and stormy night"

Buy or Borrow? Buy.. I'm not big on borrowing

New or used? Used the older books are usually more interesting.. and I've had a couple good finds $15-$20 at the used book store but they're $100+ on amazon.

Buying choice: book reviews, recommendation or browse? Browse :o I'm really picky

Tidy ending or cliffhanger? Tidy.. I don't like endings that leave questions

Morning reading, afternoon reading or nighttime reading? Night

Favorite series? None?

Favorite children's book? some book with a lot of pictures about Spies and their equipment

Favorite book of which nobody else has heard? Hazardous Duty: An American Soldier in the Twentieth Century

Favorite books read last year? Emergency and High Speed Driving :D ? or How to Buy or Design Investment Castings! woooo exciting!

Favorite books of all time? Don't have one..

Least favorite book you finished last year? No idea I've only really read cooking and gun books lately

What are you reading right now? Popular Mechanics :D

What are you reading next? The next issue of Popular Mechanics that comes :D

I need to get out more..

Ok my M&M makes no sense.. but I'm in a handlebar mustache mood and they had no hair like mine.. they did have a chefs hat though!

Tagged for music videos by the mexican one aka Randomness so :
All three of these artist don't have any bad songs on the CDs I have from them.. good music all around

The The - Sweet bird of truth, one of my favorite songs of all time :D


Everlast - Black Jesus, not too familiar with this song but I've heard it once before and liked it.. Wish he had more music videos from the album I have : Whitey Ford Sings the Blues it doesn't have one bad song on it I think.


Garbage - Push It
One the CD that this song is from they have around 20 songs on it.. and none are bad.. impressive to me...

N-gauge-d

6 and 11/12's of a year later :




Me and my girlfriend are finally engaged
I asked her at El Matador state beach :




Which looks like that minus all the people.. there weren't many people but there was a naked 50yr old man walking around and swimming.. ( it's a pseudo nude beach, not legal but it's known for it )
I asked her in a cave we walked into since it was pretty and private. She got really nervous and thought it was a joke and when she noticed it wasn't she said "wait, no!" then she said "ok, ya!". Then we just walked around a little longer and looked the starfish and various other sea creatures at the beach then headed out for some food at which is a casual seafood place. It was nice and ended the day nicely. We got back to her house and told her parents and her dad's eyes were watering and when she walked away he gave me a hug and said welcome to the family! now lets go hunting! :)

Miles driven today = 96

G-ride

I got to drive the G-ride which is just like a Chevy Malibu with the above plates on.. It's neat I mean how often do you get to drive a car with gov plates on it :D ? and in uniform so everyone is looking at you unless they are on their cell phones.. and well then they're just not paying attention to anything.
I'm just helping out my sergeant with delivering stuff to MEPS ( the place where you have to go to take the test to get in the mil and get all the fun medical stuff done ). It only took 10 or so minutes at most this time.. walked in showed ID once then looked at the scared/confused people sitting around waiting. Showed ID again at the front desk and told them who I needed to go see and got bitched at for not having my rank on ( I haven't gotten it yet! ). Walked down the hall into another room full of more scared/confused people and took a quick look around at everyone since it's interesting, but didn't make it obvious so I'd make people nervous. Got in the office I need to go to gave my stuff to the SGT went back to the front desk got my ID and left... Doesn't sound interesting at all or fun but well it was :D

Pranks.. are so fun!

I'm the guy on the phone.. turn it up loud so ya can hear!

the background :
Hi, my name's Patrick. My roommate Kourosh started a prank war with me a little while ago. Tonight I think I won. He was using a ... all » blackhead strip on his nose to clear his pores, and he asked me if I wanted to try it. I said sure, and we promptly put on the gayest song we could find, to fit the mood. We commenced with the blackhead strips and 10 minutes later, removed them. His was on too tight or too dry or something, and when he was peeling it off, it made a tiny cut in his nose. Not a big deal, nothing to worry about. The blackhead strips didn't even work that well. Probably because we had no business using them in the first place. But then I noticed Kourosh's nose was a little crooked, like it had been broken. It's important to note at this point that it was normal, and had nothing to do with the blackhead strip. His nose has been broken before, and we really had no idea why it looked like that. It probably always looked like that and I had never noticed before. I actually have the same problem, as I broke my nose last year. We (me and our other roommate, Sam) laughed at him and made fun of him for a little while, and then went back our rooms.

At this point, I start talking to to my buddy Elliot online. I've never met this guy, but I met him playing a video game online when i was 14 (six years ago) and we talk on AIM pretty much daily. I told him about the nose thing, and how I thought it was funny. He suggested I play a prank on him by editing a website to make it look like that could have been caused by the strip and he should seek medical help. It sounded hard, so I said no, but then he explained how easy it was. Find the website for the product, download it, open it with notepad, edit the html where the safety warnings are to say what you want, save it, re-open it, and copy paste the URL in there so it looks like it's actually on the internet and not your hard drive. I start to realize how funny this could be. We worked on the idea together for about 20 minutes, and it evolved to poison control hotline instead of medical help, but the phone number would be a phone sex line. But wait, no! "Have him call me," Elliot says. "I'll mess with him on the phone." He's really good at messing with people on AIM, so I think this is a good idea. It's taken nearly an hour to set up the prank, from editing the web page, to getting the kinks worked out, to finding placement for the hidden camera (it's not a prank unless you film it!). It's a good thing I have him calling my friend, because I'm not really clever at all and probably won't be able to make this funny.

By the time I'm finally ready, he's gone to sleep. This isn't going to work the next day, it has to be now. So I turn the camera on, give an introduction, and run into his room yelling for him to come quick and bring his phone. And the rest is in the video. Make sure to turn up the volume for the intro, because I'm whispering.

Jimmy Dean

I'll add something to this later on

Ahhhhh more taggage I need to get out so I've go something to write about!

1. When is the last time you held hands with someone? A week or two ago
2. You wake up as the opposite gender, what's the one thing you would do? freak out
3. Have you ever crawled through a window? I think so, me and my step brother used to go explore houses that were being built
4. Where is your mum? MOM, at work
5. Morning or night person? night!
6. What was the last movie you watched? In Good Company didn't get to see the end tho :\
7. Favorite number? don't have one
8. Any cool scars? not really I have a couple of burns but they're pretty hard to see now
9. Things about the opposite sex you notice first? I've never really thought about that, but it's not like I have something set that I do..
10. What do you do when no one is watching? not much to be honest..
11. Ever been in love? Yep
12. What's something your friends make fun of you for? can't really think of anything :o
13. What is your curfew? don't have one
14. Do you talk a lot? at times but I'm quiet most of the time
15. You + alcohol = same person unless I've had wayyyyy tooo much
17. Would you marry for money? no
18. Could you live without a computer? for a period
19. If you could live in any past time period, where would it be? uh, i'd prefer not to
20. Do you drink enough water? nah
21. Do you wear shoes in the house or take 'em off? wear em
22. What is your favorite fruit? pineapple when it's really sweet :D
23. What is your favorite place to visit? I don't think I have one
24. Are you photogenic? Not most of the time D: I dislike photos
25. Do you dream in colour or black and white? COLOR
26. Why do you take surveys? Randomness makes me D: at gunpoint
27. Do you drink alcohol? yes! not that much now though
28. What is the most beautiful language? no opinion
29. Do you like being kissed when you are asleep? how would I know!
30. What do you like most; sunrise or sunset? sunset
31. Do you want to live till 100 yrs? if I'm in good shape
32. Is a flat stomach important to you? uh
33. When you watch movies at home, do you like the lights on or off? off!
34. Do you believe in magic? nah
35. Do you like to watch cartoons? family guy and drawn together!
36. At what age did you find out that Santa Clause wasn't real? don't remember
37. Do you write poems? not anymore I had one published in Jr. High
38. Do you snort? if I'm sick ?
39. You sleep more on your back, front, or sides? side :D
40. Would you rather have a poodle or a rottweiler? rott
41. Are you basically a happy person? ya just bored
42. Are you tired? nah no reason to be
43. Did you drink anything with caffeine today? nope
44. How many landline/cellular phones do you have in your home? 6
45. Do you get along with your parents? Mom yes, Dad so-so
46. Do you like/love anyone now? yep yep
47. What do you do when you're sad? sit around?
48. What do you need most now? something to do!
49. What song are you listening to now? nothing
50. What are you craving for now? sushi :D

Tagged again :o

Attack of the vague food questions!
Cream cheese or butter? for what a bagel? cream cheese!
Coffee or tea? either
Provelone or cheddar? provelone.. taste good on pizzas also
Chocolate or caramel? chocolate
Strawberries or bananas? strawberries, bananas = :X unless its like pudding or ice cream
Pineapples or kiwis? really sweet pineapple I could eat all day long :D
Juice or soda? juice
Banana splits or sundaes? sundae!
Cauliflower or broccoli? broccoli with mayo!
Cucumbers or tomatoes? tomatoes
Brussels sprouts or asparagus? that doesn't even compare! asparagus!
Cinnamon or spearmint? cinnamon
Gum or breathmints? breathmints.. gum always makes my stomach turn since it thinks food it coming
Spaghetti or lasagna? lasagna!
Ravioli or tortellini? ravioli
Wheat Thins or Trisquits? wheat thins
Mashed potatoes or French fries? mashed potatoes
HoHos or Twinkies? twinkies if I had to.. the dollar cake snack things are horrible D:
Salt or pepper? both!
Ketchup or mustard? ketchup unless its like dijon
Onion or garlic? onion.. fried!
Cottage cheese or sour cream? sour cream.. cottage cheese I've never liked
Frozen pizza or take-out pizza? either
Bean soup or chicken noodle soup? Chicken noodle soup!
Corn chowder or clam chowder? clam chowda! mmmmm
Sourdough or raisin toast? raisin toast with some butter
Scrambled eggs or hard boiled eggs? scrambled!
Salsa or chip dip? dip
Ranch or vinagarette? either
Raspberries or blueberries? blueberries
Apples or peaches? apples
Coconut or mango? coconut just not shredded D:
Lemonade or Kool-Aid? lemondade
Beer or wine? depends could be either
Gatorade or Powerade? either
Water or milk? milk (rice)
Plain milk or chocolate milk? doesn't matter
Pancakes or waffles? waffles mmmm I'm hungry now :\
French toast sticks or slices? slices D: sticks don't appetize me
Cheerios or Wheaties? cheerios
Lucky Charms or Count Chocula? count chocula
Fruity Pebbles or Cocoa Pebbles? coco pebbles
Frosted Flakes or Corn Flakes? frosted flakes
Puffed Rice or Puffed Wheat? puffed rice wts is puffed wheat ?
Instant oatmeal or oatmeal from the can? can
Fruit and Cream Oatmeal or Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal? maple brown sugar
Cantaloupe or watermelon? neither D: I dislike melon in general
Orange juice or apple juice? apple
Grape juice or grapefruit juice? grape but neither are really good D:
Yoplait or Dannon yogurt? doesn't matter yogurt is yougurt
Macaroni and cheese or noodles with alfredo sauce? noodles with alfredo
Corn on the cob or frozen bagged corn? doesn't matter
Caesar salad or house salad? caesar!
Macaroni salad or potato salad? p-o-t-a-t-o
Peanut butter and jelly or meat and cheese sandwich? depends one what I want
Pears or nectarines? pears
Oranges or tangerines? oranges
Butter or margarine? butter
Dark chocolate or milk chocolate? dark! the Valrhona is awesome
Banana chips or apple chips? apple
Pizza rolls or pizza sandwiches? wts is a pizza sandwhich ? I don't like the rolls..
Eggplant or cabbage? fried eggplant = good cabbage in cole slaw = good
Celery or carrots? carrots.. cooked raw is nasty
Bagels or croissants? Croissants mmm especially when you use them for bread pudding
or french toast!

RSP #2

or Recruit Sustainment Program it's where the National Guard sends you before you go to basic training to get you ready for basic. The routine for RSP is get to my local armory early in the morning and we drive to another armory where a charter bus drives us down to Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base. From there you have to figure out which platoon you belong to which depends on how many times you've been to RSP and when you go to basic. The first time is really really really boring you're just in the classroom the whole time learning about the Army. This time around was much much better we did MOUT (like room clearing) on some of the broken down abandoned base house, which was actually kind of a pity seeing what can happen when funding is cut or a program is just closed. We had a special forces sergeant teach us which is always I treat I think. We started practicing as as a group of a couple entering a "room" that was spray painted on the ground and moved on to entering the broken down houses to clear the house of sergeants dressed with shemaghs, ski mask, and plastic ak-47s. It was an intro just to give use a taste but fun. Later we got new PT uniforms which make us looks like walking National Guard billboards but they're nice. Changed into them right after we got them and did a PT assessment (situps, pushups, 1mile run). Being sick I failed the run since I was kind of choking mucus as I ran once it cleared I sprinted in so I wouldn't be last. Then we got back to our dorms and I called my girlfriend up and went to bed.


Woke up at 4am and got in my PT uniform and we did PT for an hour or two. First we did circuit training then split into groups of 20 or so in a circle formation. We didn't have a sergeant with us most of the time so we just picked anything to do. One guy PTing next to me yakked and I tried my best to work my way away from him after asking if he was ok. After we finished we went back to the dorms and showered. We ate breakfast and headed back over to where we did our MOUT training but this time we all huddled inside a house. We all at the windows and practiced reporting on activity we saw from the house over the radio. I had to do it once with the special forces sergeant right next to me looking at me which made me nervous as hell. The last thing we did was go join another platoon who's sergeants were talking about financial kind of stuff which didn't seem put together too well but they tried.. and then we went home.. I'm sore but feel good after it..
and here is a video I'll end with :

Bored..

I've been pretty bored lately.. recruiting people for the National Guard is easy in a way but out of 50 emails I got one guy to join up. There was a lady that was about to but her husband said no :X
My sleep pattern is way off now also.. I go to sleep around 10am now and wake up around 5pm :\
I really need to shave also I've almost got a beard.. That's really all..
here is a great video though :D

52 Questions!

1. 1.Do you talk in your sleep? No I don't think I ever have
   
   2.) Red Jello or Blue Jello? Red
   
   3.) Whats the song thats getting on your nerves right now? Beehive and the Barracudas - Road in Sinaloa it's the first song that winamp plays when my alarm goes off..
   
   4.) Current Crush? meow? nobodies!
   
   5.) What's your favorite color? Tan or “Mistral Green Mica“ The first is the color of the interior of my car and the second is the outside color :D
   
   6.) Window seat or aisle seat? Window I like to look at everything
   
   7.) Ever met anyone famous? Dave Chappelle and Gary Coleman.. I've seen a lot of others..
   
   8.) Do you feel that you've had a truly successful life? So far it's ok.. but then I'm at the start of it

   9.) Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it? Both!
   
   10.) Dr. Phil or Oprah Winfrey? Neither
   
   11) Basketball or Football? Basketball if I've got to watch one.. I really don't like to watch any sports
   
   12.) How long do your showers last? 10-15 mins longer if it's cold
   
   13.) Do you know how to drive a stick? Kinda sorta... I can drive a civic pretty good but I couldn't make it around the block in a porsche without stalling D:
   
   14.) Are you self-conscious? With some people
   
   15.) Have you ever given money to a bum? Not lately.. I used to in the past but lately I really haven't dunno why.. Might be because a hobo called me an asshole for not giving him a handout
   
   16). Where do you wish you were? In my own house with my gf ?
   
   17.) Have you ever ridden in an ambulance? No thank god
   
   18.) Can you tango? I don't dance!
   
   19.) Last gift you received? Mmm a gift certificate to a gun shop
   
   20.) Last sport you played? paintball
   
   21.) Things you spend a lot of money on? Guns!
   
   22) Favorite FAST food restaurant? Long John Silvers! The closest one is in the ghetto tho :\
   
   23) Most hated food(s)? Raw oysters.. I really can't think of anything else though I'm sure there is something
   
   24) Can you sing? Uh I guess I only do it my car.. alone..
   
   25) Last person you called? My gf
   
   26) What's your least fav. chore? Sweeping my nose goes nuts
   
   27) Favorite Drink? Long Island Iced Tea!
   
   28) Are you a vegetarian? No.. meat is tasty
   
   29) Do you believe in Heaven? Yep
   
   30) Do you miss someone? Friends I haven't seen them in awhile
   
   31) Have you ever come close to dying? My skull was cracked when I was younger and my eye socket/head swelled up with blood..
   
   32) Are you eating? Strangely no
   
   33) Do you eat the stems of broccoli? With mayo :D
   
   34) Do you wear makeup? Every chance I get ! .. no
   
   35) Whats your worst fear? Without getting too specific letting a certain person down :P
   
   36) Would you ever have plastic surgery? Nope
   
   37) What do you wear to bed? Shorts
   
   38) Have you ever done anything illegal? Who hasn't
   
   39) Do you ever want to get married? Yep, my gf is the one freaked out over it
   
   40) What kind of sneakers do you wear usually? Something comfy I find.. I don't really stick to one brand but I do like Steve Madden
   
   41) Future child's names? Chloe and Aaliyah
   
   42) Do you snore? Nope
   
   43) If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be? Japan!
   
   44) Do you sleep with stuffed animals? no.. just pillows
   
   45) If you won the lottery what would you do first? Put it in a savings account with 5% interest
   
   46) Gold or silver? Either or doesn't matter I don't really own much of either besides cuff links and a ring
   
   47) Hamburger or hot dog? Hamburgler
   
   48) If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Pulled pork
   
   49) What was the last thing you touched? My scruffy beardish thing going on
   
   50.) Where did you eat last? Dad's house.. ham and pineapple pizza (what was he thinking?!)
   
   51) When was the last time you cried? A few years ago
   
   52) Do read blogs? Randomness.. I used to read another one of my friends but I lost interest in it