Monday, June 28, 2010
20100628
What: Run - 40 min, slow jog; abdominals: 4x25 curl-ups, 4x25 lateral curls ups
Where: OCS Clinic Quantico, Engineer Rd to Wake Rd to Guadalcanal to Classroom Trail to Dam Rd to OCS
Where: OCS Clinic Quantico, Engineer Rd to Wake Rd to Guadalcanal to Classroom Trail to Dam Rd to OCS
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
RAWRosaurus Rex
Monday, August 03, 2009
I'd get sleazy for Weasley...
And you would too.
Shirt.
So I'm getting this shirt, for me. I'm going to wear it when the 7th Harry Potter comes out (1st and 2nd parts of 7) and it is going to be awesome. In fact I might go so far as to go opening night and cheer when Rupert Grint's character comes out onto the screen during the movie. Just like the time I made the wookie noise the first time I saw a wookie during the episode three opening night (wookies were the best part of that damn movie).
See the BEST thing would be for me to be wearing this, randomly, someday and somehow run into Grint. I'm aiming for slightly uncomfortable to incredibly hilarious in terms of reaction. Either way I win.
Also I think wearing the shirt will be awesome on general principle. It will be almost as awesome as the time I wore the Joe's Crab Shack restaurant t-shirt into a bar. The front read, "I've got crabs." No one messed with me and people backed away so I could get to the bar. Fucking comedic GOLD that one.
Shirt.
So I'm getting this shirt, for me. I'm going to wear it when the 7th Harry Potter comes out (1st and 2nd parts of 7) and it is going to be awesome. In fact I might go so far as to go opening night and cheer when Rupert Grint's character comes out onto the screen during the movie. Just like the time I made the wookie noise the first time I saw a wookie during the episode three opening night (wookies were the best part of that damn movie).
See the BEST thing would be for me to be wearing this, randomly, someday and somehow run into Grint. I'm aiming for slightly uncomfortable to incredibly hilarious in terms of reaction. Either way I win.
Also I think wearing the shirt will be awesome on general principle. It will be almost as awesome as the time I wore the Joe's Crab Shack restaurant t-shirt into a bar. The front read, "I've got crabs." No one messed with me and people backed away so I could get to the bar. Fucking comedic GOLD that one.
Labels: Rupert Grint, shirt, Weasley
Friday, December 05, 2008
Ready. Steady. Go.
One more week.
On the fifteenth I start a new job. It is going to be quite the commute. It'll be worth it though. I'm sure I'll be able to find some sort of temporary weekly lodging there and then see Becky on the weekends.
In the meantime this temporary job will set me up for enough time to wait for the Navy or if they never get on the ball then it will give me the time necessary to find a permanent job.
So here's to one more week.
On the fifteenth I start a new job. It is going to be quite the commute. It'll be worth it though. I'm sure I'll be able to find some sort of temporary weekly lodging there and then see Becky on the weekends.
In the meantime this temporary job will set me up for enough time to wait for the Navy or if they never get on the ball then it will give me the time necessary to find a permanent job.
So here's to one more week.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
On lying.
One could make a case to call me an individual with grey toned morality. I generally believe that lying has its place and time. Given that I'm not entirely sure why I feel so built up over the last few days.
The story goes something like this:
I've been waiting on the Navy. I started applying back in May, when I graduated. I grabbed an office job in the meantime to bridge the gap between getting my diploma and getting passing my licensing exam. I passed my licensing exam in August. This is where the problems started. I needed a Physical Therapist (PT) job but I was also getting married in the middle of October. After October I thought (which was my first mistake) that the Navy would have made a decision by then and accepted me.
The timeline in my head went something like this: diploma, office job, license, temp PT job, married, temp PT job, Navy Officer School, Navy PT job.
It has gone like this: diploma, office job, license, no PT clinic wants to hire me because I'm waiting for the Navy, married, no one wants to hire me because I'm waiting for the Navy.
So I decided to look at permanent jobs and travel positions (which are usually for a set short amount of time). Here is my dilemma:
1. The travel job is 1.5 hours away and starts December 15th.
2. A permanent clinic wants me if and only if I am committed to staying there for a significant amount of time, i.e. bail on the navy. They haven't specified what that time is but if I agree I can start immediately.
3. I'm still at the office job.
4. The navy says I have been "professionally recommended" and am in the "final selection" process. There has been no answer as to WHEN I would be picked up, if ever.
Now what is my problem? Why not just take the permanent job? More importantly why did you ever tell them about the Navy at all? This is also why I mentioned the moral grey thing earlier. I feel like I would be lying by omission if I didn't tell them about the navy. I also feel like I would be lying if I just accepted the job saying that I would be committed to staying for a long time. This is really out of character of me. Since when did I care about something like businesses and jobs? Am I being professional or am I more scared of hurting other people's feelings?
The advice to me has been overwhelmingly: take the permanent job. I'm going to make a compromise here. I'm going to talk to the clinic and essentially say the following:
1. I really want the job.
2. This job has everything I want right now: outpatient post-op setting, supportive staff and competitive pay.
3. I would be awesome for this clinic: no seriously, I am friendly, polite almost to a fault, hard working and a quick study. I am morally grounded: I could have never mentioned the navy at all!
4. I am still interested in the navy: the benefits are some that I will not be able to find elsewhere and I would be a fool to turn them down IF they ever come calling.
5. The word if is important! I have no idea how long I'll be waiting for them and when they call me to join, if they even do, I might say no if I like the clinic enough.
6. The point is that I am being honest and went out on a limb to even try to convince you I'm worth the effort.
We'll see how that works out. Maybe I will be waiting around until December 15th for the Woodstock job? Will my honesty pay off? I hope so. Trying to be a good guy sucks something awful.
The story goes something like this:
I've been waiting on the Navy. I started applying back in May, when I graduated. I grabbed an office job in the meantime to bridge the gap between getting my diploma and getting passing my licensing exam. I passed my licensing exam in August. This is where the problems started. I needed a Physical Therapist (PT) job but I was also getting married in the middle of October. After October I thought (which was my first mistake) that the Navy would have made a decision by then and accepted me.
The timeline in my head went something like this: diploma, office job, license, temp PT job, married, temp PT job, Navy Officer School, Navy PT job.
It has gone like this: diploma, office job, license, no PT clinic wants to hire me because I'm waiting for the Navy, married, no one wants to hire me because I'm waiting for the Navy.
So I decided to look at permanent jobs and travel positions (which are usually for a set short amount of time). Here is my dilemma:
1. The travel job is 1.5 hours away and starts December 15th.
2. A permanent clinic wants me if and only if I am committed to staying there for a significant amount of time, i.e. bail on the navy. They haven't specified what that time is but if I agree I can start immediately.
3. I'm still at the office job.
4. The navy says I have been "professionally recommended" and am in the "final selection" process. There has been no answer as to WHEN I would be picked up, if ever.
Now what is my problem? Why not just take the permanent job? More importantly why did you ever tell them about the Navy at all? This is also why I mentioned the moral grey thing earlier. I feel like I would be lying by omission if I didn't tell them about the navy. I also feel like I would be lying if I just accepted the job saying that I would be committed to staying for a long time. This is really out of character of me. Since when did I care about something like businesses and jobs? Am I being professional or am I more scared of hurting other people's feelings?
The advice to me has been overwhelmingly: take the permanent job. I'm going to make a compromise here. I'm going to talk to the clinic and essentially say the following:
1. I really want the job.
2. This job has everything I want right now: outpatient post-op setting, supportive staff and competitive pay.
3. I would be awesome for this clinic: no seriously, I am friendly, polite almost to a fault, hard working and a quick study. I am morally grounded: I could have never mentioned the navy at all!
4. I am still interested in the navy: the benefits are some that I will not be able to find elsewhere and I would be a fool to turn them down IF they ever come calling.
5. The word if is important! I have no idea how long I'll be waiting for them and when they call me to join, if they even do, I might say no if I like the clinic enough.
6. The point is that I am being honest and went out on a limb to even try to convince you I'm worth the effort.
We'll see how that works out. Maybe I will be waiting around until December 15th for the Woodstock job? Will my honesty pay off? I hope so. Trying to be a good guy sucks something awful.
Labels: honesty, jobs, lies, lying, Navy, physical therapy, PT
Friday, November 14, 2008
Mawiage...
Mawiage... Mawiage is wat bwings us here today.
And then wuv two wuv will fowol you fowevar....
Man and Wife...
See my uncle's wedding had a priest that sounded just a little too much like the guy from the Princess Bride. I couldn't look at my family the entire time because I knew they were trying not to crack up about it too.
My wedding was funny but not the kind of embarrassing funny. More like the, everybody's getting hammered and having a fucking BLAST funny. The kind of funny where House of Pain comes on and suddenly EVERYONE is jumpin' around!
I could go on and on about it but the pictures are here:
http://sacramentophotography.biz/proofs/beckyjeremywp/
Our photographer was spectacular and really listened to everything we said.
Funny though, Becky has been girlfriend for 5 years, fiance for 2 and now I have to call her wife? That's crazy, man.
And then wuv two wuv will fowol you fowevar....
Man and Wife...
See my uncle's wedding had a priest that sounded just a little too much like the guy from the Princess Bride. I couldn't look at my family the entire time because I knew they were trying not to crack up about it too.
My wedding was funny but not the kind of embarrassing funny. More like the, everybody's getting hammered and having a fucking BLAST funny. The kind of funny where House of Pain comes on and suddenly EVERYONE is jumpin' around!
I could go on and on about it but the pictures are here:
http://sacramentophotography.
Our photographer was spectacular and really listened to everything we said.
Funny though, Becky has been girlfriend for 5 years, fiance for 2 and now I have to call her wife? That's crazy, man.
Labels: wedding
Friday, October 03, 2008
Superhwero Pow-ahs!
For starters, I passed my licensing exam. Awhile back... PT jobs are abundant however, they do not want to hire someone for a few weeks only to have that same hireling take two weeks off for their own wedding.
Otherwise, an article on powers as promised! (albeit a few hours later than advertised)
Due to my own particularly odd nerdy history I have somehow avoided the stereotypical favorite heroes. For example I really didn't care for Superman, Spiderman or Batman. See I was a fan of Lex Luther, Venom and the Joker. Growing up I was cheering for the villians. One of my friends was a huge Spawn fan (comic book). Alien vs. Predator (again comic) I was all about the aliens squishing the predators and humans alike.
Even most of my early video games I found the villians to be cooler than the actual heroes.
It wasn't until I learned the term "anti-hero" that I understood what I was so jazzed about when the bad-guy twirled his mustache and cackled.
Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way? I think you get the idea but I really feel the need to drown you in exposition before I get to the good (or in my case bad) stuff.
I have an old fixation on dragons. Just ask my 6th grade teacher. Was I paying attention? No, I was reading "the Hobbit" and wishing Smaug would just set everything on fire to flush that little bastard hobbit out. Ann McCaffery's "Dragonriders of Pern," "Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher," um... I'm sure there were more. THEN I was introduced to St. George the Dragon Slayer. I was appaled! A "Dragon Slayer"?! This armored pansy on a white horse took out a dragon? Preposterous!
I then started to hate the image of St. George, what a goodie-goodie, running around all white and holy, pure, etc. etc. The epitome of the good guy.
See that's where it started. The next logical step was to dislike good guys and embrace villany. Right, maybe that isn't the way it happened.
So anti-heroes take the traditional super"hero/ine" and turn it upside down. Wolverine from X-men is a pretty good example. He's that tough-guy biker dude greaser (I'm mixing genres?) that you wanted to take home to piss off daddy. Wait. I didn't mean it like that.
For me, anti-heroes didn't have this black and white sense of justice. Superman/Spiderman/Batman all had this faith in the justice system that I couldn't wrap my head around. Granted there is still a fair amount of vigilante-ass-kickery going on but the didn't kill the villian! You're a vigilante, you've already broken the law! Just finish him off!
There was this sense of empowerment that I got from bad guys and anti-heroes. The later being a sort of pseudo-goodguy or maybe a bad guy gone good but really what were the villians usually about? Destruction, power, revenge- all the things a 90 pound nerd would want right before the bully's fist connects with their face? Probably.
This doesn't seguay into my own personal power well but it'll have to work.
Once upon a time there was a game that had some really warped vampires in it. To date I can never remember what they're called or how to pronunciate their name (Tzimisce, took me a minute to look it up). These blood suckers had the unique ability to "craft flesh." I.e. they could take living tissue and mold it like clay. So they would pick up about 20 people and combine them into one big monster. Or scuplt it into wacky craziness.
Macabre right? I'm just getting started. There was another game called Parasite Eve. In this unique sci-fi RPG the antagonist could control mitochondria (these little things in your cells that produce energy for the cell). In this case she, the antagonist, could cause you to overload with energy and combust or maybe just make the mitochondria mutate you into something else entirely.
I'd like something that sort of blends the two. No I don't want to be able to control mitochondria but I'd like to be able to metamorphasize any living organism as I see fit.
Just think: I could modify you AND your DNA such that you had blue hair- and your offspring would have the same trait. I could remove bad genes that cause genetic diseases. I could repair/destroy tissue. I could introduce chlorophyl into animals for a breed of creature that gained sustinence from food and the sun. I could add venom glands and retractable teeth into my own mouth or maybe I can launch it via quills? Exoskeleton chitinous body armour. Limb replacement. Limb removal. Dinosaurs. Sand worms. Living buildings.
See how exciting it would be? I could completely self modify too. Am I being attacked? Did my arm just get blasted off by a superhero? Well let me grow that back, add some armour, and fangs, and venom and let's fight!
Well what would you call such a power? Lifecrafting?
Granted I wouldn't be a match for, say, someone with telekinesis like Syler. Or all the powers like that Peter moron (both from Heroes). Or Professor Xavier's mind control (X-men). But that isn't the point. I wouldn't want to be the all-powerful, just able to be useful and make neat things. I'd be the consumate healer of sorts. I'd have to be in direct contact to mend things but yeah that would be awesome.
So Lifecrafting, my superpower.
Otherwise, an article on powers as promised! (albeit a few hours later than advertised)
Due to my own particularly odd nerdy history I have somehow avoided the stereotypical favorite heroes. For example I really didn't care for Superman, Spiderman or Batman. See I was a fan of Lex Luther, Venom and the Joker. Growing up I was cheering for the villians. One of my friends was a huge Spawn fan (comic book). Alien vs. Predator (again comic) I was all about the aliens squishing the predators and humans alike.
Even most of my early video games I found the villians to be cooler than the actual heroes.
It wasn't until I learned the term "anti-hero" that I understood what I was so jazzed about when the bad-guy twirled his mustache and cackled.
Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way? I think you get the idea but I really feel the need to drown you in exposition before I get to the good (or in my case bad) stuff.
I have an old fixation on dragons. Just ask my 6th grade teacher. Was I paying attention? No, I was reading "the Hobbit" and wishing Smaug would just set everything on fire to flush that little bastard hobbit out. Ann McCaffery's "Dragonriders of Pern," "Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher," um... I'm sure there were more. THEN I was introduced to St. George the Dragon Slayer. I was appaled! A "Dragon Slayer"?! This armored pansy on a white horse took out a dragon? Preposterous!
I then started to hate the image of St. George, what a goodie-goodie, running around all white and holy, pure, etc. etc. The epitome of the good guy.
See that's where it started. The next logical step was to dislike good guys and embrace villany. Right, maybe that isn't the way it happened.
So anti-heroes take the traditional super"hero/ine" and turn it upside down. Wolverine from X-men is a pretty good example. He's that tough-guy biker dude greaser (I'm mixing genres?) that you wanted to take home to piss off daddy. Wait. I didn't mean it like that.
For me, anti-heroes didn't have this black and white sense of justice. Superman/Spiderman/Batman all had this faith in the justice system that I couldn't wrap my head around. Granted there is still a fair amount of vigilante-ass-kickery going on but the didn't kill the villian! You're a vigilante, you've already broken the law! Just finish him off!
There was this sense of empowerment that I got from bad guys and anti-heroes. The later being a sort of pseudo-goodguy or maybe a bad guy gone good but really what were the villians usually about? Destruction, power, revenge- all the things a 90 pound nerd would want right before the bully's fist connects with their face? Probably.
This doesn't seguay into my own personal power well but it'll have to work.
Once upon a time there was a game that had some really warped vampires in it. To date I can never remember what they're called or how to pronunciate their name (Tzimisce, took me a minute to look it up). These blood suckers had the unique ability to "craft flesh." I.e. they could take living tissue and mold it like clay. So they would pick up about 20 people and combine them into one big monster. Or scuplt it into wacky craziness.
Macabre right? I'm just getting started. There was another game called Parasite Eve. In this unique sci-fi RPG the antagonist could control mitochondria (these little things in your cells that produce energy for the cell). In this case she, the antagonist, could cause you to overload with energy and combust or maybe just make the mitochondria mutate you into something else entirely.
I'd like something that sort of blends the two. No I don't want to be able to control mitochondria but I'd like to be able to metamorphasize any living organism as I see fit.
Just think: I could modify you AND your DNA such that you had blue hair- and your offspring would have the same trait. I could remove bad genes that cause genetic diseases. I could repair/destroy tissue. I could introduce chlorophyl into animals for a breed of creature that gained sustinence from food and the sun. I could add venom glands and retractable teeth into my own mouth or maybe I can launch it via quills? Exoskeleton chitinous body armour. Limb replacement. Limb removal. Dinosaurs. Sand worms. Living buildings.
See how exciting it would be? I could completely self modify too. Am I being attacked? Did my arm just get blasted off by a superhero? Well let me grow that back, add some armour, and fangs, and venom and let's fight!
Well what would you call such a power? Lifecrafting?
Granted I wouldn't be a match for, say, someone with telekinesis like Syler. Or all the powers like that Peter moron (both from Heroes). Or Professor Xavier's mind control (X-men). But that isn't the point. I wouldn't want to be the all-powerful, just able to be useful and make neat things. I'd be the consumate healer of sorts. I'd have to be in direct contact to mend things but yeah that would be awesome.
So Lifecrafting, my superpower.
Labels: hero, heroes, lifecraft, superpower, villian
