Holy updates Batman!
Well fuck. I haven't updated for a while so this might be a big one, won't know until I'm done.
First off, and most importantly, my brother is home from Afghanistan for a two week or so leave. He'll be going back on Tuesday or thereabouts. Hopefully but to turn around and pack up to head home.
It's been nice to see him home, alive and well, relatively unchanged and unscarred from his stint overseas in an active warzone. Apparently the most stressful times have been during the guarding of Afghani engineers. I'm praying to all the gods that might exist that is remains so. He's supposed to be home for a good year sometime in late December/early January, so it's not that far to go.
We recently went down to State College to visit the alma mater and friends. The town hasn't change much, and the college atmosphere still boggles my mind. Granted, I didn't mind the relaxing and the revelry, it just isn't really my speed anymore. Amazing how fast the stamina of youth dissipates. Going home early, getting up and spending time making sure everything works correctly, everything's changed. Yet it all seems so recent, and Penn State will always be a place of awesomeness and good times. The friends, the games, the craziness that we all had together is something I will never forget. That I got four good years of semi-reality without the responsibility is more that I can ever thank anyone for. Parties, playing magic and video games, learning that everyone rocks out now and again and has the good and bad; it's life at the best you'll ever get, and I'm sad to say it's pretty much over.
I got second degree sunburn on my face, drank way too much, and don't really care. It was awesome and that's all that matters.
Since that last post I made nothin much has changed. I'm still going to South Korea to teach for a year with Jill. Only now we have a deadline. Paperwork has to be finished by the second week of October and we'll start teaching the 16th of November. Such a short time, and so latent with potential. Yet the only thing I can think of is that it'll interfere wtih my NanoWrimo for this year. I think I'll either try a new story based on a poem I started last year, or go with a sequal/continuation of the last Nano. Not sure.
October will be my practice Nano month, where I work on writing 50k words on something. November will be the real deal. Hopefully it'll all work out. I don't know what Jill has planned for my birthday on the 17th, but it'll most likely interfere with writing. Not that I won't welcome it, I just hope I'll have the chance to write something. She tends to go way overboard on my natal day. And I have to say i really appreciate it, since no one else does much of anything anyway. I already got my brother's b-day present, which is about $180 worth of Irish whiskey and glasses. Holy heck, do I love the bastard. To enjoy it, I'll need more than a year. Talk about the gift that keeps oh giving. I have no idea how to repay him next February.
For the next few days, we'll be having fun, watching movies and eating/drinking the good stuff. Hopefully with friends if not family. purplehaze9 has to come over and have some fun if nothing else. Time passes to quickly to not have friends.
In other news, check out Pandora. It's a free internet radio site that works to tailor radio stations to your music selections. So far I've enjoyed it, and it does expose the user to new artists without any major popups or whatnot. Mostly just keep a browser window open to play music in, maybe submit revierws, or just select music you like. So far I found a few bands I wouldn't have known about otherwise. My username is afgullett if anyone wants to try to find what I'm listening to. It might not even register.
Here's to the future, whatever it might hold.
First off, and most importantly, my brother is home from Afghanistan for a two week or so leave. He'll be going back on Tuesday or thereabouts. Hopefully but to turn around and pack up to head home.
It's been nice to see him home, alive and well, relatively unchanged and unscarred from his stint overseas in an active warzone. Apparently the most stressful times have been during the guarding of Afghani engineers. I'm praying to all the gods that might exist that is remains so. He's supposed to be home for a good year sometime in late December/early January, so it's not that far to go.
We recently went down to State College to visit the alma mater and friends. The town hasn't change much, and the college atmosphere still boggles my mind. Granted, I didn't mind the relaxing and the revelry, it just isn't really my speed anymore. Amazing how fast the stamina of youth dissipates. Going home early, getting up and spending time making sure everything works correctly, everything's changed. Yet it all seems so recent, and Penn State will always be a place of awesomeness and good times. The friends, the games, the craziness that we all had together is something I will never forget. That I got four good years of semi-reality without the responsibility is more that I can ever thank anyone for. Parties, playing magic and video games, learning that everyone rocks out now and again and has the good and bad; it's life at the best you'll ever get, and I'm sad to say it's pretty much over.
I got second degree sunburn on my face, drank way too much, and don't really care. It was awesome and that's all that matters.
Since that last post I made nothin much has changed. I'm still going to South Korea to teach for a year with Jill. Only now we have a deadline. Paperwork has to be finished by the second week of October and we'll start teaching the 16th of November. Such a short time, and so latent with potential. Yet the only thing I can think of is that it'll interfere wtih my NanoWrimo for this year. I think I'll either try a new story based on a poem I started last year, or go with a sequal/continuation of the last Nano. Not sure.
October will be my practice Nano month, where I work on writing 50k words on something. November will be the real deal. Hopefully it'll all work out. I don't know what Jill has planned for my birthday on the 17th, but it'll most likely interfere with writing. Not that I won't welcome it, I just hope I'll have the chance to write something. She tends to go way overboard on my natal day. And I have to say i really appreciate it, since no one else does much of anything anyway. I already got my brother's b-day present, which is about $180 worth of Irish whiskey and glasses. Holy heck, do I love the bastard. To enjoy it, I'll need more than a year. Talk about the gift that keeps oh giving. I have no idea how to repay him next February.
For the next few days, we'll be having fun, watching movies and eating/drinking the good stuff. Hopefully with friends if not family. purplehaze9 has to come over and have some fun if nothing else. Time passes to quickly to not have friends.
In other news, check out Pandora. It's a free internet radio site that works to tailor radio stations to your music selections. So far I've enjoyed it, and it does expose the user to new artists without any major popups or whatnot. Mostly just keep a browser window open to play music in, maybe submit revierws, or just select music you like. So far I found a few bands I wouldn't have known about otherwise. My username is afgullett if anyone wants to try to find what I'm listening to. It might not even register.
Here's to the future, whatever it might hold.