more powerful than a locomotive...
Ive started lifting with sgt johnson (aka the black man). my lifting abilities are mediocre at best. all through my life ive gotten by on brains and agility, so in a fight i was mostly able to talk my way out of it or grapple the guy into submission using ninja skills (and bo-staff skills). iregardless, i only win about half of the few even fights ive been in (which are few and far between, i usually avoid fighting as much as possible). aside from the combat benefits, i just wanna look tougher. im sick of being the short skinny kid with glasses. i wanna become the short, cut kid with corective eye surgury. the surgury part wont be happening till a bit down the road, so i can settle for now.
i used to go to the gym fairly regularly, but since i had no experience and no one to teach me how to lift, i was generally confined to the dummy proof machines that force you into good form but ultimatly give you a lesser workout. also, its part of the intimidation factor when you see a couple guys putting up 300 + pounds on a bench press. it creats an ironic mental conflict where you wanna go to the gym to be like those guys, but dont wanna go to the gym out of fear of them seeing your weak attempts and laughing. but when you have an experienced workout partner, everything changes. its only been 2 weeks, and i'm starting to feel results, not nessicarily in the amount of weight i can handle, but in my own confidence at least.
ive decided that since i am so late on getting sarah her xmas preseant that i'm going to turn it into a valentines gift along with the other thing i was gonna send her. that other thing will remain a secret since its possible somone has leaked this journal to her. i want her to be able to read it, but i made the mistake of posting the original gift's description earlier, so i wanna minimize the potential spoiler damage as much as possible. maybe i'll send this URL as part of the gift as well, wouldnt that be somthing?
oh ya, the reason for me not sending the xmas gift out wasnt procrastination, for those of you who think im a retarded jerk for not getting it out in time. since i'm stuck in bahariah, a tiny little base near fallujah, my only outgoing mail service is letters. that means unless i can get a ride into the main camp (which never happens) then i would have to wait until jan 20th when the mail clerks do their first of many package runs where they come here and inventory and wrap our stuff. camp fallujah (or the mek as its called, not sure why) is only about a mile down the road, but since it travels through an unsecure part of the city it may as well be a thousand miles away, no chance of walking there without a full convoy of atleast 4 vehicles, 2 crew served weapons, and enough people to drive, A-drive, and man the guns (10, for those of you not keeping track).
somone tell me how to put pictures up on this thing! i found out how to trick the system into letting me put the pics from my digital camera onto these protected computers thanks to a friend with admin access, but i dont understand how to make them post. the intraweb is a vast, frightening place. also, i found a picture of a kitten that i'm sure justin with his cat fetish must see. i bet its been published on fugly already, which means he would have seen it as an internet image whore, but i have a scanned newspaper that proves it to be true and not just some photoshoped image. its really amazingly strange, but i wont spoil it till i can post it.
fin
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PS: while hitting the rich text button for the first time in an atempt to find a way to make fin look like fin, i found the add image button, so next time i should be able to post it, as well as a few pictures of the deployment thus far.