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Why do this? Why treat the customer this way?
One sufficiently motivated might ask why I'd go to the trouble of making a website (in case you didn't already know from facebook it's www.alucinor.net and you should hit me up on facebook) when I've already got a free livejournal I never update. Good question ( Read more... ) -
...until I met a man with no feet
Twelve-hour days suck. Especially when they're during seven-day weeks. If I were flipping burgers at the BK Lounge, I'd be earning 44 hours of overtime alone. Then I'd come home to good friends and good times, pass out, and do it over again. Here is just suck ( Read more... ) -
Even Jenni should be able to tell this is a joke...
BLARGH! I r ded! Teh hezbullahs kill't me! The noble spirit of Jihad has raineded sulfur fires down upon my infidel head, and those infidel heads of mine comrades! The afterlife has revealed to me the error of my ways, coming to this foreign land to try and build playgrounds and schoolhouses. Now I will commence to haunting y'all for the next ( Read more... ) -
Don't worry, I'll use my credit card!
Knowing me, one could easily believe I would do such a thing as purchase thousands of dollars worth of mail-order products. The surprise was that I haven't actually done it. Over a thousand, yes, but not in the multiples. Yet. The rationale behind such a spree is thus: this deployment, I'm drawing on my experience as combat veteran (*snicker*) ( Read more... ) -
Here's how it is...
"The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a..." You know ( Read more... ) -
Brief update
I'm safely in Mosul now. I've also got a mailing address. If you want it, just email me for it. I haven't got internet in my room yet, so I must be brief. Though I will say this: within 4 days of getting here I've networked our platoon's XBoxes. Internet will be here as fast as I can get it. -
Deployment antics
Everyone always laughs when they get to the part saying weapons are prohibited on the plane ( Read more... ) -
That deployment mindset
I think the reason Iraq is not so hard for me is because it's pretty much the same as here. My reasoning is twofold:
- The heat - Iraq is hot. Houston is hot. No big deal.
- The solitude - There's practically no women over there with whom to interact. Even if there were, fraternization is prohibited. If the women won't have anything to do with ( Read more... )
- The heat - Iraq is hot. Houston is hot. No big deal.