Just returned from the vet, Sebastian has heartworms. So that kinda sucks. He'll be starting treatment in a couple of weeks. When it starts, he has to stay in a kennel for about two months. So I've started crate training today, that way he'll be less bothered by it... maybe.

Can't say that Dobie or I are really surprised at all, most dogs don't get the care they need.

Prevented him from going to a shelter this morning. His previous owner died and her sister couldn't keep him so planned on taking him to the pound. That woman's son objected and began sending out messages, hoping someone could help. A friend of the family relayed the message to my sister and she sent it to me. After tracing the message back through all of them I scheduled a meeting at the dog park around the corner.

Kodi and Sebastian got along great from the start, they played in the park for a while before I put a leash on them both and took them for a walk for about twenty minutes. Still no troubles. I agreed to bring him home and tried to get more on his history, unfortunately the guy didn't know much about the pup at all. So we'll just have to take him as he is and learn about him as he opens up to us.

I'll be taking them both to be checked out by the vet within a week or so, I'd do it sooner but I was irresponsible with my last paycheck.

From the same man that came out with Thrift Shop.



Lot of respect for him, a brave man.

Ask away

I realized something while at work about two weeks ago, I've been kind of lacking in my drive to do much recently, ever since I moved in fact. I think I've been feeling lost because I did everything I've been working on for most of the last decade, and it all wrapped up within a month. I have job security finally, I have a home and a loving mate to share it with. I have almost no real debt aside from my mortgage and a tiny student loan. I own my car and it has been very reliable. I feel secure.

But now what? I don't feel the guidance I've had driving nearly every decision based on if something brings me closer or takes me back from my goals because I don't really have any now. I don't know what to do with myself and it's an odd feeling that I'm not used to.

I know some of you will get upset and think I'm being an ass but this has been kind of bothering me a lot and I feel stupid for not just being happy with being done with what I'd been working on. Should I go back to school again? I guess that's one thing I haven't done yet, I always figured I'd be an electrical engineer or possibly try for aerospace engineering.

I've never been to college, I don't really know what to expect.

Well, now I'm rambling. Good night everyone.

He fell on his butt running for the shower and I locked my Chance in the dish washer so no old women have a stroke if it got thrown through their kitchen window. ^-^

Get to work and step out of car, suddenly rain. Get inside, rain stops. Odd start for the day.

Ask away and I will answer when I get home after work and the Ihop meet tonight, or tomorrow morning if we have too much fun.

It was south of either of us. I'm currently at work and Dobie is at home keeping me up to date.

Nobody I know of has been hurt, though one so far has lost her home. Hopefully those numbers don't rise any. Moore got pretty messed up.

Stolen from  askari who stole it from  sammypanther


A - Age: 25
B - Bed size: Queen, but I'm thinking of getting an upgrade.
C - Chore you hate: mowing the lawn. *looks outside* "Damn."
D - Dog's name: Kodi!
E - Essential start your day item: Shower
F - Favorite color: Dark green
G - Gold or Silver: silver, it's way better
H - Height: 6' something"
I - Ireland or Italy: Ireland
J - Job title: Aircraft Electrician at my Tinker job and Aircraft Electrical and Environmental Tech with the Air Guard.
K - Kid(s): Do pets count?
L - Living arrangements: Dobie and I live in our own home with Kodi
M - Mom's name: Barbara
N - Nicknames: Torn, Torn-butt, Wolf-butt, face, facey face facer, butt, Kodi's owner, that guy with Kodi, Dobie's mate, sick puppy (used by my mother occasionally when I do something terrible), pup (used by my much older co-workers and boss), mmm.... probably more,m just can't think of them.
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: None
P - Pet Peeve(s): Willful ignorance
Q - Quote from a movie: "Hey! stop fucking with Korean Jesus! He ain't got time for your problems! He's busy... with Korean shit!"
R - Righty or Lefty: Ambidextrous but with a tendency to use the right for more dextrous tasks.
S - Siblings: 1 older brother, 2 younger sisters and a younger brother.
T - Time you wake up: About 9am most days, 5:30am on drill weekends.
U - Underwear: boxer briefs, with the length of boxers and the non-bunching ability of briefs, these things are crazy!
V - Vegetables you dislike: lima beans and corn
W - Water or land: ... can I have both? Like a beach?
X - X-rated or PG: Well... I'm probably x-rated...
Y - Yesterday's best moment: Coming home to a hot bath that happened to be full of doberman body. ^.^
Z - Zoo favorite: I like the reptile building and the aviary.

Dobie and I will be there starting Friday and leaving early Monday. Seeya there!

It's always a little disappointing to wake up afterwards.

Am I crazy for having trouble separating the dream from reality sometimes? Like when I wonder if I might actually still be dreaming when I'm awake?

Also I'm pretty sure I have ADD, I can't pay attention to people if they talk for very long at all. It's not that I really notice other things, I just have to fight with myself to focus on what they are saying. I don't know how many times I've not realized that I'm not paying attention until they ask me something and I give them the deer in the headlights look. (I think I've perfected this facial expression by the way, even those who just met me can quite clearly understand what I'm thinking, "Oh... Fuck, what do I do now?")

Finally back in Oklahoma.

My ride has slipped for 24 hours!

Oh... wait, that's not good news at all.... bad news in fact... *shuffles off*

Oh well, just means I get to enjoy the sights here for one more day. Yep. 24 more hours of gravel and powdered gravel... for as far as you can see... not that far really, the air here is pretty dirty. Constant wind keeps the dust whipped up...

Good news everybody!

Outbound in under 36 hours. Should be putting boots on the beautiful red packed clay of Oklahoma sometime on Tuesday. It's hard to know exactly when and if I knew I probably wouldn't say. Just know that I'm going to be there around then.

I can't wait to see trees and grass again, this place is depressingly desolate. The largest mammal I've seen is a mouse once, though I've been told that a fox lives under the stage in the bra. One woman showed me a photo of it, pretty cute little guy had snatched a burger patty that was left unattended.

The days are going by fast but this week feels ridiculously slow. I thought Polly's shout was from a week ago but apparently that was only three days ago. Yesterday felt like two days and I thought today was tomorrow.

Just remember that if you don't want the answer to a question you shouldn't ask it.

Have fun...

I'll probably be on the ground there for a day and thought it'd be cool to meet some of the locals.

I noticed something funny today, a surprising number of people on this site really hate april first, not as surprising is that a lot of these same people are ones I noticed also consistently complain, be judgemental or ridicule in their journals. Mostly people who seem to lack any happiness in their lives. To these people I'd like to say, fuck you.

Also April first is the day I swore in so I'm one year closer to being finished with my military career, today marks five years in. Turns out, recruiters get the last laugh when you tell them April fools...

They told me it couldn't be done, (cue loud slamming noise)

They said I'd vomit everywhere, (cut to scenes of children crying and another slamming noise)

They were wrong. (Silence building into a trumpet crescendo)

3 bananas and two liters of sprite later, (giant tentacle monster flailing around screaching)

With my opponent hunched over a trashcan spewing frothy, lemon-lime flavored banana chunks, (show single airman heaving into receptacle, arms wrapped around belly and moaning like a little bitch)

I bellow my victory with one massive and mighty belch. (Flipping back and forth between a scene of me roaring triumphantly and a less impressive but still okay lion roaring while banging a she lion on the Serengeti)

(Trumpets reach an apex and cut out suddenly and the screen goes black)

(Then quietly as a disclosure) And a bunch of smaller, less impressive, burps for the next hour or so.

(Trumpet blares loudly for a split second)

Qatar is a wahabbi muslim country, think fundamentalist Christian except muslim. It's actually illegal to eat pork... I think yall will have to deal with a wolf afflicted with PTSD in a few months. ..

Also thank you all for you well wishes, kind thoughts, good energy and prayers, I do appreciate each of you all.

These aren't defects or imperfections, they're the little details that make you who you are, and I love them because they are you.

Just one more reason to support gay marriage.

To say to those who come after me that "back when I joined the military you weren't allowed to be gay"? Or to say "when I was a kid the internet was not very popular yet".

Just think for a moment how much has changed in your lifetime so far. What would you tell your successors? What do you think might be coming up soon that will be as world changing as what you have already experienced?

We, as a race, are hurtling through technological advances and evolution has no chance at keeping up with, maybe the next advances will be to bring our bodies up to date to what our minds have created. I mean, do you honestly think we are really built to move at the speeds we do? Or go to the heights and depths we do?