Monthly Archives: March 2005

Me and Mine, Noteworthy

Mind Obliteration Gun

Another benefit to this is that it lends more to random entries.

Packing list for JRTC rotation:

+ Gameboy SP
+ asst Gameboy games to include a minimum of one (1) Metroid series game, one (1) Castlevania series games, and one (1) Mega Man series game.
+ portable DVD player
+ Season 2 of Babylon 5
+ Texhnolyze series
+ Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” trilogy
+ William Gibson’s “Neuromancer”
+ William Gibson’s “Pattern Recognition”
+ 512MB flash drive armed with Doom 2 + extra maps
+ Cellphone and charger

These items may keep me entertained. Everything else like BDUs, socks, t-shirts, army crap will be included on a case-by-case basis as room permits.

One of the worst things about this is that since I’ve never been to JRTC, I can’t fathom how busy I could be. There’s a little under 50 of us going there SOLELY to drive the 900 series trucks around and two are required per mission to drive a truck, one behind the wheel and one in charge. We’re bringing weapons but won’t be getting MILES gear and we’re not bringing night-vision goggles. I can draw from this that we’re NOT a part of any of the training exercise and that we’re needlessly bringing weapons for show. And without NVGs, we won’t be entering the training area at night. Sooo I see two polar opposites occurring. One, we spend all of our time in retarded formations and we’re constantly driving MREs and troops around. Two, we spend a lot of time in retarded formations and we’re called on once or twice a day to drive crap around but only during the week while second and fourth brigade are down there.

So this will either be a gruelling 30 days of duty or a mind-numbing 30 days of boredom.

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Another Beginning

With every ending comes a new beginning and this is where I begin using this as my main journal. It’s a lot off my shoulders in terms of site management and painfully user-friendly. Not to mention rather popular. Livejournal is still an internet cesspool but there are diamonds amongst the turds. I’m still working out the kinks here but that’ll have to wait until I come back from freaking LA. Oh how I love leaving with unfinished business.

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Has Anybody Here Seen My Corpse?

This is the title of an old song by Electric Funstuff about Everquest. It also applies to Temple of Elemental Evil. I take a well-rounded party of five down to the first level of the first dungeon and we all die in the first encounter. 1000 zombies and a pair of green slimes for good measure.

The ranger left our party in pinch

The fight had looked like it would be a cinch
But the mage ran out of mana,
the cleric said ma?ana,
and I was dead before I’d moved an inch.

That’s like a word for word description for what happens. If you can find the song, it’s hilarious and painfully reminiscent. And it was made right when Everquest came out. It was reminiscent before my trial month was up.

I finished Republic Commando, it was fantastic. Now I’m stuck in videogame limbo. A satisfying end to an excellent game without anything to follow it up with so I install and play everything else I’ve ever beaten for five minutes before promptly uninstalling it. I even get these sick urges to play some real-time strategy at this point. And we all know the only one I’m any good at is Total Annihilation. When’s the next good PC game come out?

Electric Funstuff presents a story which is sad but true.

The ranger left our party in a pinch,
The fight had looked like it would be a cinch,
But the mage ran out of mana,
The cleric said ma?ana,
and I was dead before I’d moved an inch.

See, I told ya it was a sad story.

Well can you spare some rations, cuz I sure need a drink,
I lost my stuff, I’m feeling, out of sorts,
Those trains just keep chasin,
No idea which way I’m facin’,
Has anybody here seen my corpse?

I’m fuming cuz my servers down again,
those women I’ve been chasing are all men,
“My name’s Galadriel!”
I asked one to join my side,
she just laughed until she cried and said,
Get your skill at begging up to ten.

Well can you spare some rations, cuz I sure need a drink,
I move so slow, I wish I had a horse,
It’s night and I can’t see,
danger in front of me,
Has anybody here seen my corpse?

“Holy Cats, we’re in the banjo spawning grounds!
“Ow!
Killed my pet!
You’re the tank, you kill it!
Ow!
I’m almost dead,
this is it!
sproing
good thing that guard came by.”

Well everything cons red now, when I play,
what would I like my tombstone to say?
Thanks well it’s been fun,
five more minutes then I’m done,
I’ve been sayin’ that to myself since, yesterday.

“I’ll be right there sugar just as soon as I kill this skeleton,
and this shadow wolf,
and this fire beetle.”

Well can you spare some rations, cuz I sure need a drink,
this game will be grounds for my divorce.
The lag times can be chokin’,
the quests can all be broken,
but still I keep coming back, of course
And I will surely seek you,
Next time you’re on EQ,
Cuz maybe oh just maybe,
maybe oh just maybe,
maybe you might have seen my corpse.

Dang moss snake.

P.S. It really requires the mp3 so you can enjoy the sound effects that can’t be spelled.

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Fantastic News

So I’ve got some GREAT news! I’m going to Ft. Polk, LA for a month! Isn’t that great?! No, dammit! I’m spending a month driving a 5-ton truck around! But it won’t be THAT bad. Usually when you get sent to Ft. Polk on these kind of exercises, you’re spending all your time in tents and eating MREs. I’m not actually part of the exercise, I’m just a fake truck driver so I get to stay in some barracks and eat wherever I want. It sounds kind of crappy but it won’t be that bad. And when I get back, I’ll get two 4-day weekends (at least) because I’m missing out on one while I’m there. But I’m going to be painfully bored while I’m there when I’m not out driving something.

I’m trying to wrap up Republic Commando before I go. And Katie and I took a break from the Buffy and Angel seasons to watch Wonderfalls because it’s short (13 episodes) and then we’ll finish those when I come back.

There’s no real point to any of this.

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Stable

I have an internet connection at home. It’s Comcast cable internet and so far, so good. Expect more regular updates, especially since I just renewed my domain name after god-knows how long it’s been expired. I’m sure I’ll have plenty to say later but right now all I want to say is that Star Wars: Republic Commando rules.

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