Happy flippin holidays. ;)
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Posted:Dec 31, 2008 3:24 am
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Suprised the girls Sunday. Drug them out of bed way too early for us on a Sunday, get them in the truck, and headed South. Didn't say word one about where we were goin until we got there and they figgured out we were goin to Disneyland! 
Yes, I broke down and did it. May as well while we still had the money to do so, and I've always wanted to go for the Xmas celebration they throw. Not as much as I wanted to do the Halloween thing, but we kinda missd that one, but maybe next year,... The place was amazing with all the lights and all, and of course none of us had been there in ages, so there were some major changes, with several of the same old favorites too.
It was a good day all around, couple bumps here and there, but all in all we had a great time and the girls were very happy. I'd be happier if I hadn't dropped almost 5 bills on the whole trip, but yanno, sometimes ya gotta do these things.
New years will be a quiet affair, I have to work tonight so we wont be getting out, prolly just a couple drinks ar home, some new years sex, and off to bed. We'll more than likely spend the next couple days trying to get further ahead on unpacking.
Woo-frikkin-hoo!
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Odds, ends, and doing odd things with your end!
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Posted:Dec 27, 2008 3:50 am
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Xmas was a quiet affair in the house of three. We opened all our stuff Xmas eve, watched a movie, and crashed. Xmas day we slept till noon and then puttered around the house, me unpacking, Jamie baking and watching her new DVD (more watching than baking really), and Deni fritzin around on her laptop. Pretty average day off for us.
There was some melancolie here & there as each of the girls missed thier moms, Deni because she expected to see hers this year (but the weather messed up the pass), and Jamie because this is only the 2nd one she's spent w/o seeing her mom.
Real party animals huh? 
No plans for new years, it will be odd not being able to flip on the TV and watching the fireworks at the Space Needle in Seattle this year. It's always a great show too, and I was SO wanting to see it in person sometime soon. But thats how the cookie crumbles! We'll do something I'm sure, we always do.
Still unpacking bit by bit. Some things are pretty easy to get out of the way, some things are a real PITA,... Our books are in the PITA category as we have so frikkin many of them. I am glad I built that behemoth bookcase this fall tho, it actualy can hold all of them! Now we just need a media shelving unit that can hold all of our CDs, DVD's & VHS,... *gag*
However,... Soon I'm going to start putting things on E-pay and other sites to offload some of our excess crap. Wont suck too bad to have some extra change!
All in all, life is settling into some semblance of normalcy. Altho, I do sometimes sit in this big ol house, and the responsibility for everything we just went through to get here bears down on me a bit and I worry about my ability to keep it all together. Also the concern that we may need our little rat trap back in Oak harbor and have to find a way to get all of this,... shit, back there.
Not so much with time, but still, it's very obvious how far outside my comfort zone this new reality is. But then I've been in the Navy for so long, it never really was something I needed to worry about, I know it's that adjustment that's causing the stress & worry. I am confident I can keep my shit together and make this new job work for me, and if not, I know I have talents and skills I can sell to the competitors or anyone else for that matter.
And so long as we have eachother, the three of us will find a way, will MAKE a way, to keep it together.
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Move update
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Posted:Dec 15, 2008 11:57 am
Last Updated:Jul 4, 2010 4:00 am
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OK, so, we're here! Woot!
We had a seriously busy week, between driving up North, getting the house arranged for the movers, packing, loading, getting our truck and car haulers, packing again, loading again, then going to our party the night before leaving,...
Holy shit!
The morning we left we went to the house, shut off everything but the furnace(that was left on just enough to keep the pipes from freezing), shut off & drained the water, packed up the last bits and our critters, then hoppd in the convoy and headed South!
Arived Sunday night around 8pm, unloaded alot of it, got the rest the next day, turned un the truck, and went back to work. Movers got here Tuesday and totaly fucked up the house, we now live in a beutiful 2-story storage unit!
*whew!*
Anyway, been here a week and we're getting things ironed out bit by bit. We went to a local meet & greet Saturday, got to meet some of the local pervs & pervettes, gettin a start on our local networking at least. Jamie started work at her new shop today, not real thrilled about her demotion, but at least she has something to get her by till she can get back to her previous level or find something else.
All in all, we're gettin by OK, just have to see how things go in the next few months. Planning on gettin back North in the Spring or Summer to get the big ugly truck, or sell it, who knows tho.
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FYI on the move
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Posted:Nov 24, 2008 12:13 am
Last Updated:Dec 15, 2008 11:47 am
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We got funded Friday afternoon. We're officialy a quarter of a million dollars in debt. Woo-frikkin-hoo!
Once the county sends back verification of recording, which should be tomorrow, I get the keys. So yeah, after all that crap, we got the house.
Now it's time to get the move set up, find a truck sitter for 'tater, and mothball the house in Oak Harbor.
Party never stops,...
Speakin of parties!
We're havin a goin away party/Meet & Greet on the 5th at Mi Pueblo in Oak harbor. Just like the rest of the meets we've had there, it'll be @ 7pm in the cantina, in the raised area between the door and the hall to the restrooms.
No tellin who all will show, but I wont be suprised if we get a larger group than normal. We're also hoping that the psycotic bouncer is there, and moreover, the uber-sexy bargirl that we'd like to see naked, sweaty, and, in a word, fuck,...
ANYway!  We wont be able to stay up too late tho, gotta get on the road early the next morning. Hope to see many of our freaky freinds there!
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Some Navy shit,...
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Posted:Nov 23, 2008 9:15 pm
Last Updated:Nov 23, 2008 9:17 pm
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I posted this in my journal four years ago. Kind of odd to read things from back then, but then thats why I started that journal, so I could go back and see things from a different view.
Four more years & I will be hearing this read over the PA, four more years & my time will be done, my duty fufilled, my country served.
It's funny how I look back at the last 16 years & it seems a blur, just a few months ago I was leaving home. And now I'm here looking ahead, four years seems like forever. Time is like that. It's also funny how 16 years ago I heard this for the 1st time & it didn't really touch me, yet now, after all the time & sacrifices, I can barely read it through the welling of my eyes,...
THE WATCH
For twenty years
This sailor has stood the watch
While some of us were in our bunks at night
This sailor stood the watch
While some of us were in school learning our trade
This shipmate stood the watch
Yes.. even before some of us were born into this world
This shipmate stood the watch
In those years when the storm clouds of war were seen brewing on the horizon of history
This shipmate stood the watch
Many times he would cast an eye ashore and see his family standing there
Needing his guidance and help
Needing that hand to hold during those hard times
But he still stood the watch
He stood the watch for twenty years
He stood the watch so that we, our families and
Our fellow countrymen could sleep soundly in safety, Each and every night
Knowing that a sailor stood the watch
Today we are here to say
"Shipmate... the watch stands relieved
Relieved by those You have trained ,Guided, and Lead
Shipmate you stand relieved.. we have the watch..."
"Boatswain..Standby to pipe the side...Shipmate's going Ashore.."
In a way I cant wait to hear these words as I wear my finest for the last time, in another I dread it as the portend of change.
Oddly, since I didn't elect to have a retirement, I didn't get to hear this. In a way I'm sad, in another way I'm glad I didn't have to satnd up there and try to maintain my composre in front of my peers.
And something for my wife, for all of our wives:
The Military Wife
The good Lord was creating a model for military wives and was into His sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared. She said, "Lord, you seem to be having a lot of trouble with this one. What's wrong with the standard model?"
The Lord replied, "Have you seen the specs on this order. She has to be completely independent, possess the qualities of both father and mother, be a perfect hostess to four or forty with an hour's notice, run on black coffee, handle every emergency imaginable without a manual, be able to carry on cheerfully, even if she is pregnant and has the flu, and she must be willing to move to a new location ten times in seventeen years. And, oh yes, she must have six pairs of hands!"
The angel shook her head, "Six pairs of hands? No way."
The Lord continued, "Don't worry, I will make other military wives to help her. And I will give her an unusually strong heart so it can swell with pride in her husband's achievements, sustain the pain of separations, beat soundly when it is overworked and tired, and be large enough to say, 'I understand' when she doesn't and say 'I love you', regardless."
"Lord," said the angel, touching his arm gently. "Go to bed and get some rest. You can finish this tomorrow."
"I can't stop now," said the Lord. "I am so close to creating something unique. Already this model heals herself when she is sick, can put up six unexpected guests for the weekend, wave goodbye to her husband from a pier, a runway or a depot, and understand why it's important that he leave."
The angel circled the model of the military wife, looked at it closely and sighed, "It looks fine, but it's too soft."
"She might look soft," replied the Lord. "But she has the strength of a lion. You would not believe what she can endure."
Finally the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the Lord's creation. "There's a leak," she announced. "Something is wrong with the construction. I am not surprised that it has cracked. You are trying to put too much into this model."
The Lord appeared offended at the angel's lack of confidence. "What you see is not a leak," He said. "It's a tear."
"A tear?" What is it there for?" asked the angel.
The Lord replied, "It's for joy, sadness, pain, disappointment, loneliness, pride, and a dedication to all the values that she and her husband hold dear."
"You are a genius!" exclaimed the angel.
The Lord looked puzzled and replied, "I didn't put it there."
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Is it just me?...
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Posted:Nov 20, 2008 12:31 am
Last Updated:May 5, 2010 4:38 am
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But do many other people hear the opening chords of the Nine Inch Nails song "Closer" & instantly start thinking of animalistic sex?
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latest and not so greatest
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Posted:Nov 20, 2008 12:30 am
Last Updated:Dec 27, 2008 3:49 am
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So, next chapter in the "adventures in home buying" saga:
We DID get approved for the frikkin loan, barely. They waited till 3 days before close to ask for a SHIT ton of idiotic crap they should have asked for 3 weeks before. These morons even had to ask if I would be getting my Navy retirement for at least 3 years,... 0_o Whaaaaaaat? 1st clue that I'm dealing with F-tards here.
Anyway, 9 days after close and the papers still haven't made it to Deni for her to sign, should be there tomorrow tho. Then if Fed-Ex can avoid fucking up the return trip, IF,... I'll be able to sign them Friday and hopefully get the keys that evening or Saturday. Then I can get out of this frikkin trailer and be able to take a real live bath again, the shower in this camper is gettin old. Sure the house will be empty, but thats just for a few days.
Thanksgiving day I'm hitchin up the camper and heading North, drop off the camper with our freinds in Oregon, and should get home friday evening. Movers come the following Monday to pack us out. Then we get a rental truck, a BIG one, on Thursday, fill it with the stuff we dont trust the movers to take, and roll in my hot-rod behind it. We'll winterize the house & arrange the stuff we're leaving behind in it Friday, and goto our goin away party Friday night at Mi Pueblo. Saturday it's up early, get the remaining stuff packed up, hitch up Jamies car to the truck, drain the house water lines, lock-out the power, and head South for good. Dunno when we'll be back, prolly sometime in late spring to get the big ugly truck. Time will tell.
Ah well, in the mean time I'll sit here in my lil prison cell on wheels and listen to the trains rollin by, again, & again, & again,...
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IN the land of Oz,...
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Posted:Oct 16, 2008 10:32 am
Last Updated:Oct 25, 2008 8:11 am
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So! About he relocation to CA & all that fun crap that comes with it.
We've had some serious bumps in the road, and there's been about 20 times in the last week I thought about hitchin up the trailer and headin back North. If this job wasn't solid, with some pretty good people, & moreover is going to enable us to have a real home for a change, I would have. Not that I relish the idea of resuming my fruitless job search in WA, but it's closer to our comfort zone to say the least. Down here, not so much. Even the FriendFinder-x scene is pretty iffy.
We had a real issue with my last remaining credit account. I paid off BofA in June, and they charged me 11 cents after I made sure it cleared and was at zero balance. I never looked at my statements (never needed to in the past when I paid it off), and they never sent me a notice, so it got locked out. I paid the $16.08 to get it current and the computer said it was still ineligble for reactivation,... All over 11 cents! Frikkin computers!
The worst was I almost didn't have the money to get the girls home, nevermind the $3K for the deposit. Almost lost the house before we got the papers signed! We did manage, even tho no banks are lending anything to anyone unless you can offer up some serious collateral. Altho, it's still up in the air as we are waiting on the appraisal. Everyone is optomistic that it wont, because it's a great place and in immaculate shape, but if it comes up short by too much we lose the loan and have to start from zero,... Pretty much planning for the worst and hoping for the best at this point, I'll bang my head against that wall when it falls on me.
In the mean time, I started work already, and it's a LOT more than I was led to believe it might be. Most of the techs are real good people that know thier shit tho, and that can make all the difference.
We'll keep y'all posted on whats goin on and when. We already miss our freinds and neighbors.
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Boxing up history,...
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Posted:Aug 1, 2008 4:45 pm
Last Updated:May 5, 2010 4:37 am
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So today I'm kickin around waiting for a phone interview (that was just canx'd, dammit!), so I decided to go thru my uniforms and box up all the stuff I am getting rid of. Aside from my dress blues, a couple pairs of utility pants and my coveralls (keeping those for dirty work), I came out with a full box of stuff.
This is my 1st day of freedom, real freedom, in 20 years,... It was kind of sobering, & drove it home as I was folding up those items & placing them in the box. I suprised myself that I still know how to fold them like they taught us in boot even tho I haven't had to in ages. Last time was my last seabag inspection, some 15 years ago in Point Mugu.
Anyway, as I was doing that Deni brings me an envelope that just came in the mail, it was from my C.O. & contained a LOC for my participation in Operation Valiant Shield '07, and a Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal award.
That's it, my career is over. Here's a couple pieces of paper and a gold star for your medal, have a nice life.
Since I didn't go for a retirement ceremony, I dont get the letter signed by the presidents personal rubber stamp, thanking me for giving up 20 years of my life to serve my country, & Deni doesn't get one for not dumping my ass. No fanfare, no waving flags, no bell ringing as I walk across the carpet one last time. Just fading away into obscurity, a name found once in a while on some paper somewhere, and the occasional nightmare for those few people I made a lasting impression on.
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Posted:Aug 1, 2008 12:51 am
Last Updated:Nov 22, 2008 11:07 am
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After 20 years and 26 days, as of 10:30am PST Thursday mornin, I am officialy a civilian again.
And if 99.9% of the jobs I'm applying for didn't have whiz quizzes, I would be sooooo stoned right now,...
Guess I'll just have to be happy with the vicodin the doc gave me and some damned good Scotch Whiskey I just bought.
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Regrets?
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Posted:Jul 29, 2008 11:53 am
Last Updated:Aug 15, 2008 11:16 pm
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Recent blog entries have been pretty heavy, and a bit on the confrontational side, and truth be told, I'm not at all appologetic about it.
Things have been pretty crazy, and som folks are runnin about like the proverbial headless chicken. We're trying to be patiant with the flakes, but yanno, there is a point where you have to wash your hands of it all. I think we have reached that point, hence the recent posts and the posible end to the Mt.V meet & greet.
There have been a few folks that have backed off from us a bit and several that have bailed from our freinds list in recent weeks. Wether that's due to the tone of recent posts or from external influences (people spreadin BS rumors, etc.), we'll miss a good amount of them. Thankfully we seem to have made enough of an impresion on most folks that they know we are not what some folkks are trying to make us out to be.
But, in our reality, those folks that cant take us as we are,... Well, y'all have a great life & we hope you find what you're looking for on this insane asylum of a site. We'll still be who we were the day you first associated with us, and we'll be the same people long after. None of us is going to play asinine games and try to change who we are to better fit into the FriendFinder-x universe and please people that ultimately have no real impact on our lives.
So, again, take us or leave us, what you see is what you get.
Regrets? Nope, not a fk'n one.
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I'd be lying if I said,...
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Posted:Jul 15, 2008 3:20 pm
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2008 10:42 am
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that it suprises me what people will do. To eachother, to themselves, as groups or individuals. Because honestly, it doesn't.
But maybe I'm just a jaded prick!
Still, it's disturbing to see how people treat eachother at times. How rapidly people you would call a freind will turn on you. How they act like they want to be your freind, but will do nothing to prove it.
The fortunate thing tho? With the amount of people we have met, and will continue to meet through this insane asylum of a web site, we're garanteed to makwe enough real freinds to totaly eclipse the blemish those few make.
So, here's to the future, th freinds we know we can count on, and those that we have yet to make. To the rest, well, y'all have fun, c-ya!
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