I recall this time last year… I suppose there’s many parallels with this time last year and this moment. Both times I was up in Kemess. Both times I missed my Brother’s visit to Vancouver, and my first meeting with my newborn niece. And both times I was caught up in an assignment which kept me up here weeks longer than anyone expected ( Read more... )

See that profile picture?
The one of the bearded dude holding up a sword with the word "destiny."
I didn't do that. That's not my picture. I never uploaded it, and never selected it. My user pic should be me chugging stein in munich.

Anyone know what the hell is going on?

"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan ( Read more... )

Arh Matey ( Read more... )

These extended field assignments have a way of messing with your mind. Espeacially when there's no end in sight. This time last year, I was supposed to be up here for three weeks. When my time was up, they told me that I had to stay for six. Then they changed their mind, and then did it again ( Read more... )

(The rebuttal to a response to my last topic. It was 2000 words over the limit to fit in the comment section ( Read more... )

I'm nearing the end of reading the book "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein. This is the same author who road the 1990's protest wave to spawn the late 90's anti-corporate protest bible "No Logo." This The SD, she attempts to grapple with more ambitious topics than vaugley defined anti-corporate protests. It almost seems as if she has reached a ( Read more... )

Imprinted from the wall of my Crackbook ( Read more... )

Arh! Listen up you scurvy Dogs, and here the story about the Maiden Pirate Voyage of yon SeaBus and the Pillaging O' Narth Vancouver! You'll be likely this story, as it has everything: Grogg! Pirates! Swashbuckling! Treasure! And a Love Interest ( Read more... )

This night finds me off the (War)Crack for 10 consecutive days. If I can hold out for an entire month, maybe the community will pool together to get my first 1 straight month of having a life certifcate. Probably not, though. It's at the point (and it only takes a week of non playing to get to this point) that if I actually do sit down in an ( Read more... )