9/11

Where were you? I was stationed at Barksdale AFB, La. The "undisclosed Air Force base in Louisiana" that the media told everyone about. It wouldn't have been bad, but there is only one AF base in Louisiana now. I worked in the building that President Bush came to. The first briefing he gave after the towers fell was given in the conference room I spent so much time in. That was a very bad day. We had our eyes opened to how the world truly is. I wish we could go back to not knowing.

Make a nice day.

Face Recognition

I got conned into doing a face recognition thing by Phain. You upload your picture to this site and it runs a face recognition program and then tells you who you look like with a percentage. She had some decent comparisons for hers. I did not!! I must be some kind of fugly to be compared to Pervez Musharraf and David Hasselhoff. UGH!! Somebody shoot me! And go give Phain some crap about distorting my fragile ego!!

Arrgghhh!!!!!!

Somebody tell me why I have a daughter!! Sometimes she drives me nuts! We live three blocks from the Atlantic ocean. I don't take her there very often because "it's boring, I don't like it!, No I don't want to!!" It has become a serious pain in the butt to try to take her.

I decided that since it was such a beautiful day, and all she was doing was sitting at the computer, I decided that we would go to the beach. I should have known better. As soon as I said we were going she threw a fit. She got her butt spanked. She eventually got her suit on and I tried to sunscreen her. She fought me the whole time turning away from me, pulling her arm away, stepping away. All she did was make me madder. The whole time I was trying to do it she kept complaining and whining.

Finally I got her done and we went to the beach. She had her towel and a book, I was carrying a towel, a book, two water bottles, keys, and cell phone. She couldn't put her towel down because her hands were full. I wanted to smack her right then. I said fine and put my stuff down and laid out my towel and let her do her own. She threw it on the ground and whined about it. I finally straightened her towel out and she sat down and started crying.

I was getting even more pissed because of the way she was acting just because she didn't get her way. I started ignoring her and she eventually went and played in the ocean, complaining that it was too cold, there were fish in it, etc.

She came back and sat down on her towel behind me and began playing in the sand. When my phone started ringing I turned around to see that she had thrown sand all over my phone and towel intentionally. I didn't beat her.

After the phone conversation I went and washed the sand off me and told her we were leaving. I sent her in the shower as soon as we got home. When she finished she came downstairs and started playing on her computer without bothering to clean the bathroom up after herself.

I lost it.

She cleaned her bathroom and she is now in the process of cleaning her entire room spic and span. I don't care if her room is a mess or clean since she is the one who plays there, but now it is time to pay the piper for being a whiny brat. I have yet to beat her, but it sounds awfully tempting!

I hope everyone is making a nice day!

Random HNT

I wasn't busy doing anything except drinking margaritas and I figured what the hell I'll post an HNT. Slightly edited of course. Can't have everyone seeing my triple chin...

This is one of the other pictures my daughter took while we were in Tennessee. The other one she took of me was more of an up the nose shot. Ummm, I'll pass on posting that one I think.

So have a quick look and then go find some truly half-nekkid folks. If you find any fully nekkid females come give me a pointer in the right direction! Happy HNT!!

Ernesto

Looks like hurricane season is back in full swing. yay. I haven't even had a chance to replenish my Pat O'Brien's Hurricane mix and a couple gallons of dark rum!! POODLE!!! I guess this will show me what I get for not preparing properly. Maybe I can get some hot women to come visit and pick some up on their way here...

We haven't been told to leave this island yet, but we don't have to go to work tomorrow, and Thursday is a "wait and see" type thing. It's good that we don't work tomorrow since school has been cancelled and I wouldn't have anyone to watch my daughter.

The reason I don't have anyone to watch my daughter is because my ex-wife is getting on a plane for Hawaii at 0700 tomorrow. Hmmm, I wish I could afford to go to Hawaii for a week. I wonder how she can afford to go even though she has no job and can barely keep gas in her car.

Enough whining from me for today. Get out the mixes and alcohol and lets have a hurricane party!! :)

Hurricane Party by Thomas Kelly

Make a nice day!!!

Beta Blogger

Well I switched to the new blogger. Anyone notice a difference? Other than signing in and a few other small things I don't see much difference myself. Of course I haven't played with it a lot since I just converted a few minutes ago. If anyone else has switched and they have any hints for me, throw me a life preserver!!

Make a nice day!

Pictures

I got some pictures to post. Finally. Most of these were taken by my daughter. If they are bad, she took them. If they are good, she took them... :)

The Lake

The Lake

The Lake

The Lake

The Lake

The Lake

Looking out the back door

More looking out the back door

A storage shed... Wheee!!! :)

Looking out the back door

There are more pictures but they have pictures of people in them and I don't want to post those. I keep hoping to see Recon hiding in the bushes in the pictures, but I haven't spotted her yet!!

Make a nice day!

Are you a Sinner?

I found this over at Crimson Visions and decided to do one for myself. How does yours turn out? :)

Your Deadly Sins

Lust: 80%

Greed: 40%

Sloth: 40%

Envy: 20%

Gluttony: 20%

Wrath: 20%

Pride: 0%

Chance You'll Go to Hell: 31%

You'll die from overexertion. *wink*

How Sinful Are You?

A trip

The trip went well enough. It took 11 hours of driving to get there. I am glad that I took my daughter to see grandpa. He won't be around much longer and this gave her a chance to say goodbye to him. On the way home last night I let her call her momma and tell her everything. I was only half listening to her talk when she told her momma that Grandpa was going to be "taking a dirt nap" real soon! OMG I about laughed my ass off, since that is something that only he would tell her. She seems to have the understanding that he will be dying soon since the doctors have only given him a couple of weeks to live, and that was a couple of weeks ago.

I gave her the camera while we were there and I told her to take pictures, so she had a blast with that. I will have to download them and see what I can post. The scenery there is very beautiful, and where we were is way back in the mountains so far that my mom told me to call her when I got to the Flying J and she would come get me. When we finally got to the house, I told my step sister that if I heard any dueling banjoes, me and my daughter were out of there!! Sorry Summer!

That was a few things from my weekend. I will try to post the pictures later today. Make a nice day!

Driving Weekend

I am going for a long drive this weekend. There is a family reunion in Tennessee this weekend so I am going to bite the bullet and drive for 10 hours to socialize with people I don't really know anymore.

I have to take my daughter out of school around lunchtime so that will put us in Knoxville around 10 PM. I will be trapped in a car with a bored 10 year old for 10 hours. I'll do it all over again on Sunday on the drive back!! I must have masochistic tendencies.

If Recon lived closer to Knoxville it would be well worth it. I don't think she is up to that long of a drive to see someone she doesn't know...

Tish lives in Knoxville though! I wonder how jealous Brico would be. It is the weekend though so they might be tied up...

I hope everyone decides to make a nice weekend!

Fortune Cookie

Sometimes I wonder about fortune cookies. Do they really have a true fortune? I'm wondering this because I went to chinese for lunch today. My fortune cookie said "Friends long absent are coming back to you."

Tonight when I signed on to MSN I got a IM from a friend that I haven't talked to in awhile because she has been busy with RL stuff. Right about the time she had to sign off, I saw a friend sign on who I haven't talked to in a little over a year and a half.

This is the friend that I stopped talking to when my ex-wife complained about me talking to another woman. She was not especially happy to see me IM her when I did, but I talked to her some, she had just gotten back from Iraq and was waiting to be picked up at the airport. I am glad I got the chance to talk to her again. I hope to be able to talk to her some more.

Time to go. Tell your special someone you love them. Make a nice day!

4 Things

I got tagged for a meme by the lovely Phain. Maybe someday I'll get to tag her. ;)

Four things about me you may not have known:

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
paperboy (that sucked ass!), plumbers helper (made my decision to join the AF much easier!), electronics technician, computer geek

B) Four movies I could watch over and over:
The Princess Bride, The Quiet Man, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (yeah I know, its weird!), Forrest Gump

C) Four places I have lived:
Oklahoma, Germany, Florida, Louisiana (also Kansas, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia)

D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
Good Eats, CSI, Eureka, Trucks!

E) Four places I've been on vacation:
DisneyWorld, San Antonio, Luxembourg, Amsterdam

F) Four of my favorite websites:
Google, Storiesonline, Yahoo, iwon

G) Four of my favorite foods:
Peanut Butter, Chicken, Steak, Cinnamon Life

H) Four friends I will tag:
No one this time

I) Right now I would rather be:
With someone who wants to be with me.

Song, no HNT

A song I have recently found that I like is Gary Allen's Life Ain't Always Beautiful. Sorry folks but I don't think I will be posting HNT's anymore. At least not on a regular basis, since I have not been posting anything on a regular basis lately. I guess I have hit the point in blogging where I don't feel like writing anything regularly. Like most everyone else, I started my blog as a sort of therapy. It helped in the fact that I met many people who took the time to talk to me and give me advice and just be there when it all got to be too much.

I have to thank Blondie for my life. Back in January, I found myself sitting in the back yard up against a tree. I held my .357 in my hand, loaded with a single semi-jacketed hollowpoint. I figured the tree would stop the bullet from going any further and hurting someone else. Outside was good because clean up wouldn't be very hard. As I sat there preparing myself, something Blondie said to me came to mind, "What about your daughter?" That was when I got up and put it away. I haven't taken it out of the case since I put it in there. Thank You Blondie.

I have actually had that paragraph written for a while now. Seems like when ever I decide to post it, I get cold feet and hit the save as draft button again.


Life ain't always beautiful
Sometimes it's just plain hard
Life can knock you down, it can break your heart

Life ain't always beautiful
You think you're on your way
And it's just a dead end road at the end of the day

But the struggle makes you stronger
And the changes make you wise
And happiness has it's own way of takin' it sweet time

[chorus]
No,life aint always beautiful
Tears will fall sometimes
Life aint always beautiful
But it's a beautiful ride

Life aint always beautiful
Some days I miss your smile
I get tired of walkin' all these lonely miles

And I wish for just one minute
I could see your pretty face
Guess I can dream, but life dont work that way

But the struggles makes me stronger
And the changes make me wise
And happiness has it's own way of takin' its sweet time

No, life aint always beautiful
But I know I'll be fine
Hey, life aint always beautiful
But its a beautiful ride
What a beautiful ride


Make a nice day.

No HNT

Sorry folks, no HNT. I'm on vacation at the ex-mother-in-law's house and don't want to be posting too much from here. I should be back next Monday.

Make a nice day!