With little Nina on the way, Vincent made the tough decision to join the Army. It was an intimidating organization to him, at least from the outside. We intended to get married, raise our daughter together for a month or so before shipping off, but Sacramento MEPS suffers from severe myopia, and it was challenging enough to wrangle a ship-date just ( Read more... )

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I have the strange craving to start playing Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

That is all.

I've got to lose a little around the middle, so I made my impromptu appointments today by running/trotting across Petaluma (ALL of Petaluma, practically) through the rain, despite Mom and Krista insisting otherwise. Got there in 50 minutes, I did, and helped by all the rain. Now to narrow that down to fifteen minutes and less ( Read more... )

It was a picnic looking through my brother's Profile and his Pictures. It proved me right all these years, the bad crowd and the drugs ( Read more... )

That ASVAB practice book bore a hole in my brain. I'm not sure how about the specifications of the auger bit used to bore said hole, but I wouldn't be pondering that before it. At least I am learning much from the book, though - having started swapping schools around Freshman year, I managed to sneak around the carefully-constructed lessons of ( Read more... )

I have not been updating this as much as I've been meaning to. For good reason, too, mind you - we finally got a great new place in Cotati, which really beats the place in Santa Rosa we had before upgrading ( Read more... )

I took Nicole's advice to try out a Temp agency place, and let her fudge some of the details of my employment. It's been a long while that I've been job hunting, and I was getting weary. Hopefully, one of those many restaurants I've applied to would call before-- Tomorrow, I suppose, I begin life as a temp.

Please don't judge me.

I had an odd dream last night. I had an odd one the night before too; to be brief, the night before I dreamt of an affair with some tired old queen and killing the Joker as a tearful Batman. Tonight's dream was more weird than that ( Read more... )

I've said that we are an entire family of hard heads, but that is not entirely true: Isims is soft-headed ( Read more... )