Recently.
Ok... so I've decided to go ahead and resume updating this thing more often. I need some new userpics, I think. Switching between Cowthulu and Domo-Kun is good - but it just doesn't exactly span the full range of emotional expression... :P Time to start hunting the web - or making my own or something. Who knows.
I realized recently that I don't know how to treat women anymore... I used to be really, really bad in relationships. I couldn't settle down... but I had grown out of that stage. At this point - I think what I am, more than anything, is good-intentioned, but out of practice... and that, mixed with lonely, is going to wind up getting me - and more importantly - someone else, hurt.
In the end, I think I just need to finally come to a conclusion - a direction to go in - and go in it. I have no interest in being a man-whore like so many of my constituents... running from juicy-bar to juicy-bar every night, hooking up with the prostitutes and getting drunk. No interest... Not much point meeting a girl in Korea - because I don't intend to ever come back here, other than maybe for a random weekend shopping trip - and I'm only here for 14 more months. (How weird is it that after 3 years in the Army, 14 months of deployment seems short to me now?)
... Speaking of tiny-fonted sidebar comments ...
I'm getting an award this coming month for - of all things - running D&D games...
Because our weekend gaming is hosted by the Community Activity Center (CAC) here on CP Humphreys, and run by volunteers - helping with the set-up and production of games is considered "volunteer work" because we are "providing an MWR activity for the soldiers" (MWR meaning Morale, Welfare and Recreation). So... after having run a D&D game at these events for the past few months, I have accrued over 100 hours of volunteer time - and as a result, I am soon to receive an MOVSM (Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal). It looks like this:
By the time I leave Korea, I will probably be closing in on my 10th of these, based on the # of hours I'm spending on it each month. And I don't mind - I sacrifice a few hours here and there to run a game rather than playing - and as a result, I'm giving soldiers something to do OTHER than pimp juicy girls and drink. So - I think it's great.
Anyway.
Today was nice. I got up this morning at the usual - 0520 - and was in the process of getting dressed when my phone rang. I was told that PT was cancelled - which ROCKS - so - I dove back into bed to sleep. Phone rang at around 0820 or so and I snored/talked for a little while with my lovely friend Amanda (no, not the Amanda I've written novels about in the past, who I'd like to see gutted on the side of the road). Then I went to work around 0900.
Did some stuff this morning, blah blah blah, went to lunch. After lunch, I came back to the office just a bit early so that I could link up with the boss - who needed me to sit at his new house for a while and wait for the movers to bring his household goods down from his old place. He couldn't be there due to meetings, so I got to spend my entire afternoon of "work" sitting in his nice, air-conditioned house - using his nice, fast internet - and talking to friends online, including Kaycee for a while - which was really nice. She's a sweetheart. And, talked to Amanda for a good while again. It was nice.
Came home around 1630, chilled out in the room for a while, then realized a crisis was about to occur tomorrow morning, so I had to run back to work. Fixed crisis - came back home - went to the other building (like almost every night) to run my game - and proceeded to wait for 2 hours before my people showed up. :P That part kindof sucked... and then we didn't get anything done in the game - but that was because everyone else had been having such a horrible day that they were just plain giggly - so we sat there and kept each other laughing so hard that it was literally leaving people gasping and getting headaches - it rocked. :)
That eventually broke down and I went to Darren's room to hang out for a while - and we wound up just talking. He gave me some valuable advice about a situation... which I'm not sure if I'll be able to follow... but at least it was insightful. And - now here I am back at my room, getting ready for bed.
Probably have to drive tomorrow morning - so I can't stay up much longer - have to be able to stay awake on the road. So... I guess I'm going to go ahead and wrap this entirely too lengthy post up right here... But - here's the deal. If anyone has actually bothered to read this far - go ahead and comment something - anything... that way, when I check my e-mail - it will send me to this site, and I'll remember to post something new each day. ;) At least - that's the plan.
Ok... that said... Death Dealer 06 Delta - Out.
I realized recently that I don't know how to treat women anymore... I used to be really, really bad in relationships. I couldn't settle down... but I had grown out of that stage. At this point - I think what I am, more than anything, is good-intentioned, but out of practice... and that, mixed with lonely, is going to wind up getting me - and more importantly - someone else, hurt.
In the end, I think I just need to finally come to a conclusion - a direction to go in - and go in it. I have no interest in being a man-whore like so many of my constituents... running from juicy-bar to juicy-bar every night, hooking up with the prostitutes and getting drunk. No interest... Not much point meeting a girl in Korea - because I don't intend to ever come back here, other than maybe for a random weekend shopping trip - and I'm only here for 14 more months. (How weird is it that after 3 years in the Army, 14 months of deployment seems short to me now?)
... Speaking of tiny-fonted sidebar comments ...
I'm getting an award this coming month for - of all things - running D&D games...
Because our weekend gaming is hosted by the Community Activity Center (CAC) here on CP Humphreys, and run by volunteers - helping with the set-up and production of games is considered "volunteer work" because we are "providing an MWR activity for the soldiers" (MWR meaning Morale, Welfare and Recreation). So... after having run a D&D game at these events for the past few months, I have accrued over 100 hours of volunteer time - and as a result, I am soon to receive an MOVSM (Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal). It looks like this:
By the time I leave Korea, I will probably be closing in on my 10th of these, based on the # of hours I'm spending on it each month. And I don't mind - I sacrifice a few hours here and there to run a game rather than playing - and as a result, I'm giving soldiers something to do OTHER than pimp juicy girls and drink. So - I think it's great.
Anyway.
Today was nice. I got up this morning at the usual - 0520 - and was in the process of getting dressed when my phone rang. I was told that PT was cancelled - which ROCKS - so - I dove back into bed to sleep. Phone rang at around 0820 or so and I snored/talked for a little while with my lovely friend Amanda (no, not the Amanda I've written novels about in the past, who I'd like to see gutted on the side of the road). Then I went to work around 0900.
Did some stuff this morning, blah blah blah, went to lunch. After lunch, I came back to the office just a bit early so that I could link up with the boss - who needed me to sit at his new house for a while and wait for the movers to bring his household goods down from his old place. He couldn't be there due to meetings, so I got to spend my entire afternoon of "work" sitting in his nice, air-conditioned house - using his nice, fast internet - and talking to friends online, including Kaycee for a while - which was really nice. She's a sweetheart. And, talked to Amanda for a good while again. It was nice.
Came home around 1630, chilled out in the room for a while, then realized a crisis was about to occur tomorrow morning, so I had to run back to work. Fixed crisis - came back home - went to the other building (like almost every night) to run my game - and proceeded to wait for 2 hours before my people showed up. :P That part kindof sucked... and then we didn't get anything done in the game - but that was because everyone else had been having such a horrible day that they were just plain giggly - so we sat there and kept each other laughing so hard that it was literally leaving people gasping and getting headaches - it rocked. :)
That eventually broke down and I went to Darren's room to hang out for a while - and we wound up just talking. He gave me some valuable advice about a situation... which I'm not sure if I'll be able to follow... but at least it was insightful. And - now here I am back at my room, getting ready for bed.
Probably have to drive tomorrow morning - so I can't stay up much longer - have to be able to stay awake on the road. So... I guess I'm going to go ahead and wrap this entirely too lengthy post up right here... But - here's the deal. If anyone has actually bothered to read this far - go ahead and comment something - anything... that way, when I check my e-mail - it will send me to this site, and I'll remember to post something new each day. ;) At least - that's the plan.
Ok... that said... Death Dealer 06 Delta - Out.