Frankie is out of the Marine Corps today. I hung out with him last Sunday. I'm going to miss him. I will definitely fly to see him one day ( Read more... )

My mom would always tell me to try to achieve good things on the first day of New Year's so that the rest of the year will have good luck in it as well ( Read more... )

I was looking through my MySpace pictures. Yeah, MySpace not Facebook. I guess I really am drunk. Anyway there were pictures I had uploaded of when we were in Iraq. I also saw the pictures of the platoon from before the platoon I had deployed with Iraq. The picture with us on the humvee that was stuck in the mud, just brought so much happiness to ( Read more... )

Since my last post, I scored a 328 out of 350 on the rifle range. It's a good expert score. The day before qualification, I went to go get capped. Turned out everybody was getting their new jobs as I was cleaning my rifle. I didn't get the MTU job. Everybody that I fought for to get in, got in. They sent me to guard. The one place I never wanted to ( Read more... )

I spent my new year watching a rerun of the ball dropping in Times Square, in a hotel in Arizona. I was exhausted, wishing that I was still in Houston with my friends to celebrate. But it's time I went back to see my best buddies ( Read more... )

I ignored Christmas as much as possible, and I think I did a pretty damn good job. I'm glad I got to see my mom, Kevin and his family, and Quang. I've just been chilling on leave as if I just lived here. I haven't done anything special. I think it's because in exactly one year, on Christmas Day, my contract ends ( Read more... )

So I've been chilling at Novak's for the past couple of days. They went to the bottle and I came over the following day. I didn't go to the ball. In the morning I just got so aggravated with all the usual Marine Corps bull shit that I decided "Why the fuck would I go to a celebration of something I hate ( Read more... )

I've been back in the United States now. I sort of dreaded coming back. When they started playing MTV in the chow hall right before we left, I remembered what a shitty place I was risking my life for. And I think back to when I tried to call back to get my contact lenses sent to me because they never arrived, and how the lady tried to make it seem ( Read more... )

E.V.O. Search For Eden (SNES ( Read more... )

Three years down. One left to go.