Archive for April, 2009
WSC-3 is done
I thank whichever God it was, whether it be muhammad or Buddha or God God. WSC-3 was the worst thing I’ve ever gone through, and the lab was horrible. I passed my post with a 75% and my final fault with a 80 (I didn’t secure properly, forgot to shut off the RF power). I never thought I’d ever think to the capacity that not only my brain, but my whole body was in pain. The next module is COMM Systems, and the minute I walked in there I was asked a few questions about web development (funny where you meet people). The military and civilian instructor seem to be a few levels above complete drones so hopefully it wont be that bad in lab.
Jess is leaving really early Sunday morning, so I’m expecting to fly home Friday afternoon so I can spend a little bit more time with her and see her off safely. As usual I’ll be leaving Sunday, later in the evening. I’m still trying to buy a fucking car, which the whole process of has proven to be an entire joke so far. You’d think that in this industry, and the state that its in, people wouldn’t really consider credit as something to be based off of as much as they would consider how constant and guaranteed your pay is (ie., military). But its all good, I’m sure somewhere someone is going to be willing to give me a fucking loan…hopefully.
The Figueroa Restaurant
According to my wife, my father has aspirations to for my Jess and I to move out to California after I get out of the service and open up a restaurant with him. Discussing this with Jess we came to the conclusion that: she will end up being the only one cooking, my dad will be the security guy sitting in his recliner watching the video feed from the woman’s restroom. Robin would be the usher sitting at the front desk with a tube-top on and wearing moon boots (so she can bounce up and down). Mikey can be our resident competitive eater, and Liz will be our bouncer (she’ll just have to show her ‘tude).
Back to that whole Navy “accelerate your life” deal or whatnot, I finally tested for wsc-3 (pronounced: whiskey) and passed thanks to a ‘bump’ (mercy grade-increase). I finished my scat pack today and I’ll be starting lab after chow (fucking woo </sarcasm>). I’m now 3 days ahead, mid-july looks reasonable as a comp-date.
Tis a sad day
I realized it today after I finished creating Jessica and I’s bank account that one year ago today I smoked my happiness for the last time. Kind of weird thinking about it, especially if you knew how it was back home before I enlisted. I’ll never forget the days prior just greening myself out, and my last day in which I ended up in a oxygen-deprived coma. I always wished they’d legalize it so we’d all be able to enjoy more, and now that I can’t touch the stuff they’re seriously considering my wish.
Although its pretty depressing not being to smoke anymore, I’ve definitely taken the situation in a different light now that things are looking (generally) up. As much as some of us would’ve enjoyed just staying home and getting high all day, eventually that will get old and I think I realized that at the right time. I wouldn’t trade the decision for the world though, without it I wouldn’t have the job security, benefits, and (the best part) a loving and beautiful wife to show for it. Hopefully when I get out I’ll be able to secure a steady and well paying job, and get back a part of life I miss a lot.
**UPDATE**
I did a bit of editing a while back regarding TorrentCoil and an issue with the parsing from individual sites. When I first requested a few quick sets of regex from buddies online to get the site running and did what I could with them. Unfortunately, these sets weren’t exactly live-enabled and have since hindered the site’s main use. The editing I performed just got rid of the sections of data that the regex were fubar’ing, and I noticed that in doing so the hits on the site dropped dramatically. After reviewing that information, I ventured to my site and found that absolutely no data was returned whatsoever. As of today I reset the site back to a later date (before the changes were made) and everything is returning properly (including the errors returned due to the regex). I’ve already requested a few buddies give me a hand and I should have the site fully operational by Friday.