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  • Medieval Faire in the news

    Looks like the acting troupe I work with got into the paper recently:

    Orlando Sentinal

    Sun Sentinal

    I have been working with this group for eight years now. I started out as a fighter, moved on with the group to become a trainer, and have now hung up my fighting boots in order to cook for them instead. Next year, I’m just going to run around and do stupid stuff, because cooking is bloody tiring. Yeah, I have become a bit burned out from it all, so I need a rest from it. There are others in the group that are becoming the same way, so hopefully this coming year we will get a number of new people to step up to the plate and take the reigns for a while.


  • PETA Goes After Skater

    PETA Goes After Skater For Wearing Fur

    Yeah… PETA is annoying this way. Really, I am glad that more and more people are starting to realize and write about just how messed up this organization happens to be. I am in exactly the same place as this guy in regards to animal treatment. I believe in protecting animals that are endangered. But dammit, they are a resource, and I also see no problem in utilizing that resource responsibly!


  • Discrimination

    Employer told not to post advert for ‘reliable’ workers because it discriminates against ‘unreliable’ applicants

    It is stuff like this that flashes all kinds of warning signs that England is truly headed to a dark future as depicted in “V for Vendetta”. Yes, it is discriminating against the useless. Too bad. That is life. Life is full of discrimination… it is a part of nature. All parts of nature discriminate against other parts of nature… You don’t see pine trees growing in the bottom of the ocean.


  • HOA’s — They Suck

    Just reading the news this morning, and I came across this item about Col. Van T. Barfoot,a retired Medal of Honor winner who is being forced to remove the flagpole in his front yard by a home owner’s association.

    From the story, it looks like the HOA is going to get fucked, at least from a popularity point of view. My hope is that they back down and go piss up a rope.


  • Thoughts

    So… a number of thoughts have been popping up in my head recently…

    First, just to get it out there, is that I think may have tracked down where Kelley eventually ended up after moving away from Homestead. I think she is now out in Springfield, VA. The internet is a wonderful thing sometimes.

    Second, I have been thinking back on my naval career quite a bit lately. I realize that I was a pain in the ass for a lot of people, and that I was a complete slug. My apologies go out to all those that had to deal with me. My thanks go out in particular to Todd Hale and Kelly Zimmer, whom I think really watched out for me and probably saved my butt from going to mast a number of times. If I ever find out either of them needs help in some way that I can assist in, I am there.


  • No Title

    “The future does not belong to those who gather armies on a field of battle or bury missiles in the ground.” – Barack Obama.

    Let’s think about this statement now… if a country does NOT gather armies on a field of battle, than any other country is essentially free to come along, gather its’ armies, and essentially take over the country that no longer has any armies to gather.

    Yes, it is possible to have an army and not gather it… we do it all the time… but when it comes time to defend your country, you must gather that army. According to Barack we don’t have to do this, and the future does not hold that.

    The man is a fool.


  • On death

    This thing turned into a bit of a ramble, so just cope…

    So, a friend of mine, and a good friend of a lot of people I know, passed away on Monday. Apparently he fell in a climbing accident, though there is still some amount of investigation going on concerning it. Anyway, that is not what this post is about.

    This is about my feelings and approach to his death, and my observations of how others are dealing with it. Yes, I understand it is a sad event to have happen, and that he will be missed. I get it. But I just don’t seem to have the same sense of loss that everyone else is having. Am I just more cold-hearted than other people, or did I just not know him as well, or what?

    Perhaps it has something to do with my approach to life in the first place. I feel that you should look towards the good things in life, and the good things about any situation, and try to pay as little homage to the bad things as you can. As such, I look at his death and I think, “Well, at least he passed away doing something that he truly loved doing.” Yeah, little comfort for his family and all, but that is how I look at things. This is the same way I am with my father passing away… he passed away getting the sailboat ready for a little afternoon sail, something he loved doing.

    I think that this approach to life in general is what I feel is making me so susceptible to high stress levels. I normally lead a very low-stress lifestyle simply due to the approach I take on things. It isn’t that I have a bunch of low-stress things that I do, because I can see how a lot of the things that I do would be considered quite high stress, but my way of dealing with things in general simply reduces those stress inducers to levels that make life quite easy for me. So, when I am placed in a situation like I am feeling right now where there seems to be a lot of stress on me right now and I am seeing physical effects (I developed a god-damned EYE TWITCH!) I just don’t know how to cope with it because I am not experienced in it in the first place. Other people can probably go through the stress that I am going through and barely feel it, simply because they are accustomed to dealing with it in the first place because it has happened so often to them. I don’t allow my stress levels to reach this point in the first place, so I am not experienced in it and quite frankly don’t know how to react.


  • No Title

    Just woke up from a nap, and I think I have finally broken the cold. Woke up sweating profusely, etc.

    Had a dream earlier in which I was in some sort of boot camp, but there was flooding or something. It was odd. I was in a position where I already knew everything that they were going to teach, but just going through the motions until graduation or something. I wonder if this is telling me something.


  • Sick

    Looks like I have come down with a cold. Just a standard cold, but a cold nonetheless. Coughing which is causing a sore throat, that sort of thing. I have been taking aspirin, and it does seem to help somewhat, but I need to hit the store and get something a bit stronger and more targeted, I think.

    Also, getting next to no sleep because I stayed up all night reading a book probably isn’t helping all that much. The book was just so good!


  • Sadness

    So, the girl that I loved, who also dashed my dreams, is looking for songs that have to do with learning to fly.

    I can come up with tons of different songs, but she won’t even bother to listen to me…. what is the point?