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House

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:42:35 GMT

Fun night, especially when you fall asleep on the train and wake up at the opposite end of where you're trying to get to.

I've been thinking

Sun, 24 May 2009 17:45:38 GMT

Is it really so bad that groceries can be delivered to your door? I think not because that gives another person a job who might otherwise not be able to find a job. Find a good thing out of everything which might be considered negative.

Ferry Corsten Wins

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:18:14 GMT

What an awesome night that was....

Springtime

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:04:36 GMT

I missed the Cherry Blossoms blooming by a couple days. Now they're all turning into green leaves again.

Future Technology

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:09:44 GMT

So, I was trying to obtain my mac address for my wireless card and as I had done before I opened up cmd.exe and ran ipconfig, which was followed by an unexpected restart of my 13 month old Windows XP Pro installation. My first initial reaction was confusion which soon followed by investigation and assumption that since Windows tends to do very random things when it's installed on my computers for more than a year. The second stage of this oddity was a missing task bar. Sure enough, I looked into my root drive and found a virus in tagalog. It was a worm, that I somehow got due to either the Korean boot leg dvds that I had bought or from my outdated security software that I was running.

I was browsing for downloads of Windows XP Pro ISO files on Mininova.org, and I read that Windows 7 was a very popular choice and it was actually getting decent reviews. I took a look at several benchmarks and I was sold.

One hour later I'm using Windows 7 x64 and I'll have to say that I'm very impressed with the rebuild of Windows Vista, called Windows 7. It has many Vista aspects, the good ones but it doesn't feel bloated and it is much faster and responsive compared to what I had encountered before when I was using Vista.

Now I just need to get all my games back and I'll be good, mostly Final Fantasy XI. /sigh

Wondering...

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:59:01 GMT

Why do you still play FFXI? What makes people quit for 2 or 3 years then come back? I know the reasons why I would still play, if I could right now but I'm interested in hearing the reasons why everyone else does. I'll state my reasons later on.

Goodbye Thailand

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:57:03 GMT

Thailand was an experience I'll never forget. I'll be back in some time. I have several things I bought from roadside hagglers and gift shops. I have around 200 photos of the area including Bangkok and many places within the city. Also, I'll never forget what a Thai massage girl said though, and it makes perfect sense and sums up the basic mentality of most men who visit Pattaya city.

"Good boys goto Heaven, Bad boys come to Pattaya."

So true...

Thailand!

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:57:17 GMT

Alas! I have arrived in Thailand for a short visit in the city of Pattaya. It's about 160km from Bangkok. Thailand from what I have already experienced in two hours at night, last night, is a great place to take a vacation to. The night life is really nice and it seems like there are many places to eat, shop and enjoy the Thai culture. When we were driving from the pier into Pattaya I had a chance to observe how Thai people drive, how they eat, what types of stores they have, etc. The writing style used in the Thai language almost looks Arabic to some extent. It's hard to compare any writing style though because most are so varied compared to the next. There were a lot of road side food stands with food things mounted to their motorcycles so they could goto different locations.

Tomorrow I'm going into Bangkok to do some shopping and to take pictures of everything I see. The day after that I'm going to see the Grand Palace. I've actually never had Thai food but I've read that it's really tasty so I'm looking forward to trying some. If it's anything similar to Vietnamese food then I'll love it. This is one of the places I can say that I will definantly come back to in the next 5 or 6 years after I find a different place to work.

Hello

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:23:43 GMT

Awakening to the sound of a robot making an obnoxious noise and your leg vibrating is quite an awkward experience when you've only allowed yourself 4 hours of sleep. I began my day having images drawn in my mind about the dream I had during the night and most of the morning hours between midnight and 5 am. I really couldn't remember much, though I do remember being in a cave of something the extent of a cavern.

On another note; I'm looking forward to watching NaNa 2. I watched NaNa a long time ago, and again last night but I really never made time to watch the second. I heard it was nothing like the first one though. It s'ok though...

I still havent gotten sick of the 2100 songs I downloaded before I began this voyage in the ocean. I consider my thoughts thoroughly on several things that I've been doing lately to benefit my life and my health. I've been exercising and eating healthy, or normal for that matter for the past four days. I've been consuming less than 1800 calories a day and tonight I plan on running a good portion of those calories off. I've always been a pretty decent runner, I use to be fast but that was back when I was a young teenager. I still think I have it in me, under the many years of neglecting my own personal health. It'll show by the time I make it home in July. I know I'll reach my goal of 160 lbs. Once this is done, I'm working on my associates degree. I don't mind that it will be from some shitty college because once I have an associates degree I'll just transfer to a college with a good background on whatever I choose. I have several things lined up, now all I need to do is my research to make sure I choose something I can do to really express my personality.

Four Days and Counting

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:58:14 GMT

I finally managed to Linda Blair the toilate in my berthing. The seas were pretty rough, I had a cold, a migrane and I had been awake since midnight the previous day, and the time of going demoic state happened a little past noon. I had infact been awake for 10 or more hours at the time. It was fun and I didn't think I could ever feel as bad as I had that day.

I'm getting a solid 6 hours or more sleep each night and work is less stressful than it was before. I guess some underways, people tend to do just the minimums and save their energy for when they really need it. I banged my elbow around lunch time and it hurts to bend my arm now but I'll live. I've also been eating like a normal person. I have been soda and candy free and junk food free for the past 3 days, minus the two pieces of pizza and cake I had the other day for a birthday meal. I did have ice cream though... Hmm. I'll exercise tonight after work to set my self in line. I'm planning on running several miles and including some pullups and situps into the routine.

Now the only thing I need to do is pay my credit card bill that's due today. Too bad the website is down for maintenance.

Summertime

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:06:55 GMT

I'll be back in July. I'm going on a 5 month deployment to the middle of the ocean and several foreign ports. I'm really not looking forward to the unnecessary stress and boredom. The good thing about being away for so long is that I'll actually get to save up some money, and at the end of this all, I'll get to go home for 2 or 3 weeks on vacation.

I can't wait until July. Oh and my email is behind the cut, so email me please. ;]

My email address is: leroyj@ddg63.navy.mil

Life

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:14:23 GMT

Today I feel horrible. I'm sick, I'm tired and I'm beyond bored. I don't even think bored is the word, because I don't even want to do anything. I'm at the lowest point in my depression. It feels that way, though my actions do not perceive me to be. I feel destroyed internally. Maybe it's the fact that I've been here nearly a year and I still do not have any friends and I do not see myself making anytime soon. I don't know what will make me happy anymore, nor do I know what will make me sad.

This is bad. I hope it passes soon.

Hi

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:44:10 GMT

This is where my mind wants to be.

Just Another End

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:35:48 GMT

What do I expect to accomplish this year? I expect a lot.

I'm going for a total of 40 pounds lost, furthering my intelligence by becoming fluent in Japanese so I can communicate with the people around me. I also need to figure out my relationship situation. It's difficult to manage having a girlfriend when I'm in Japan a total of a few months every year. This bothers me alot because I wouldn't want to be away from someone I care for, especially not that long. Something else though, I need to learn a musical instrument, preferably the guitar because I enjoy singing and I think I might have a talent with music. I'm still trying to figure that out though.

I need to also take more photographs and work on my skills as an amateur photographer. It's possibly a career I may pursue professionally, so I might as well tune the little knowledge and adjust my photographic eye for the next 36 months that I'm here. I also need to loose around 30-40 lbs. I'm currently at 188 lbs and I would like to get to be around 150 - 160 lbs by the time I return home for vacation in the summer.

A lot can happen but at least they're all realistic and I'm sure I can accomplish at least one of them. And with one goal accomplished comes another and so on and so forth.

Maybe I'll even get the girl. Who knows, not me.

Today I Grew Older

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:43:19 GMT

I'm 22. Waaah!!! :[

Sooo old. Tomorrow will be filled with sleep + call of duty 4 + dota + photography and then my sleep.

Here...

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:31:23 GMT

What can you do when everyone is finding reasons to bring you down and put you in an unstable mind? You try to do everything right but it eventually comes out wrong. When you stay home on New Years and spend the night by yourself watching movies and being responsible and unaccompanied by the immature, obnoxious population of the people you work with. I'll tell you what I wake up to. I wake up to a fire alarm going off, a smoke filled room and someone telling you to get out of the room. I wasn't completely aware of what happened, though I had a small grasp of what had happened when the cold air hit me at 4:15am outside when I was amongst the rest of the building outside.

Many things were going through my mind because I knew the reason we were outside was because of my room, though I knew I had no involvement in the cause of it - I knew I would still be held accountable for some reason. And I was right, because today I'm woken up by a banging in the door and I'm yelled at by someone who is much higher ranking then myself and told to go back to the ship and find someone else and explain it to them. Well, basically the person who was drinking alcohol and who put the item in the microwave had no recollection of doing it and isn't completely admitting the fact that they did it, so the blame is being put on me and him. Now this put me in a confused state of mind, because how the hell do you completely forget that you put something in the microwave. Honestly, it just sounds like an excuse so the blame isn't put directly on the person who actually did do it.

The outcome of this is now putting me in a suspension of sorts. I've been told that I'm more then likely going to be kicked out of the room and I'm going to have to live on the ship again. I absolutely hate having to come back there and having to sleep on my small, uncomfortable bed and having to use the dirty bathrooms and everything else associated with living with 40 other people as opposed to living with only 3 others. If this does happen, I'm going to loose complete faith in the reason I joined this unorganized organization.

Happy 2009, maybe I'll have a reason to post something positive this year.

Luke Pickett

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:49:30 GMT

Thanks Boo for introducing me to Luke Pickett. He's probably my favourite singer / songer writer now. He sort of makes me want to buy a guitar and learn. I'm looking forward to his new album coming out, if it's not out already.

I can't wait until tomorrow. I'm going to go check out Tokyo for New Years Eve. I'll probably end up going myself, but that's not too bad of an idea. I'll be able to get about 50 good photos and hopefully check out some clubs and meet some people while I'm there.

Progression or...

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:33:14 GMT

Have you ever just sat down and began to think about your past, about what you use to do and the life you use to live. Most people can recall having the same as I have been feeling for the past several weeks. It's been over a year since the last time I had complete control over my life. I was able to say no to things that were bad for me, and I was able to educate myself and always have an answer for questions that people asked me.

I was growing.

A year later, after being in the most fitting lifestyle that I had ever been in, I was healthy, my mind was right and everything was utopian. I'm now at the point in my life where I realize I had made a great mistake with my career choice. I guess by choice I gave up on what was hiding behind where I thought I was. I do think my previous point in life was geniune, however before I made this choice that I'm living with I could have taken a step back and looked at what I had accomplished and went toward the path that I've originally been destined to.

Where am I at right now is something that runs though my mind eveytime I'm not doing something. I'm a slave, I'm no body, and I have no one except for myself. Being given the chance to shift your life from it being difficult but rewarding to just being tedious and exhausting, and realizing you had complete control over the outcome is what makes it the worst.

I could have had relationships, I could have had education, I could have had gone through with all of the things I wanted to while I was still young.

But now I must wait until I'm old, and how do you fix that when you're in the position that I'm in? I'm still trying to come up with that answer.

A Little Late...

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:02:45 GMT

Happy Holidays.

Last Night

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:53:18 GMT

Meh....

I'll be the first..

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:32:48 GMT

Merry Christmas. Now I have to wake up in a few hours to go to work. =|

Is it ever too late..

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:06:11 GMT

To do what you want to?

Tis the season...

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:10:59 GMT

It seems my holidays are always filled with a sense of emptiness. This past November marked the fourteenth passing of my Dad, last week a friend of my family died from unknown causes and on Sunday my dog that I grew up with ever since I was 10 passed away. I feel so empty right now...

Writers block.

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:35:38 GMT

Maybe the reason I can't ever think of anything to write about is because I'm not a writer, or do I just have writer's block? I'm still trying to find presents to get my family for Christmas. So far I've spent $200+ on myself and $0 on them... What ashame. I really just don't have any ideas on what to get for them this year being that I've been away from them for the past 6 months. It's difficult to know what anyone likes or wants especially when you observe people like the way I do. A doll and a few movies / gift card for my niece. A few gift cards for my sister? And the same for my Mom... Honestly, it's difficult. Last year I got a few gift cards for my sister. I got a few things from Toy's R Us for my niece and I got my mom one of those nice mixing bowls and a microwave plus a few gift cards since those are things she had been asking for.

I can't wait until I sleep in my own bed for two weeks again, home in New Jersey. Too bad I have a little over 6 months until I can do that. Sigh... I need to start working on paying off my $600 credit card bill and my $800 laptop bill. I have a little over $2000 to my name. Maybe paying everything off and starting fresh would do well for me. I'm hoping to go home with $4000~ saved up. It's going to cost $1400 or something to fly back home and I'm expecting to go out every night that I'm home so I could imaging that would cost $500+ in expenses. I wish money wasn't the object of every event in life. Maybe I'm just in the wrong sense of mind and I can't see past this barrier.

There's going to be a lot of photo taking this winter. I can feel it. I need an escape for just a short amount of time...

Thanksgiving

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:59:04 GMT

Happy Thanksgiving from Japan. Now off to Yokohama to do a little Christmas shopping and to take some pictures. Tomorrow I'm headed to Harajuku early to catch some more pictures and hopefully meet some people.

Take care and be safe this Holiday.