So at the moment it looks as if I'm becoming active on DA again. Which that pleases me a great deal. I've missed my DA friends and the DA community. So much has happened in the last year that has affected a large portion of my life. Aside from that being military doesn't really give you too much free time to work with either. Here's a catch up on my life.

So, I guess starting from the end of Basic Training and the beginning of my Intel school to the time I reclassified into Satellite Communications. When I first got to Goodfellow it was a hard adjust. I've spent my whole life in large areas with stores and people all over. Goodfellow was out there. I mean you would be speeding in a 70 MPH zone and it would still take 45 minutes to get to Walmart. The closest city was farther than that. During my time there I worked on Intel stuff of coarse, took some college classes to try and inch my way closer to my programming degree, and worked long days with little sleep at night. A typical work week was Monday through Friday from 2:30AM till at least 6PM. If you had laundry or needed to study at school (which if you wanted to pass you lived at the school) it was at least 10PM before you got to bed excluding taking a shower and whatnot. Probably one of the biggest events that happened at Goodfellow was my girlfriend broke up with me after several years of being practically inseparable. With "friends" still open I dragged on with my hectic schedule. Eventually I couldn't keep up with my ambitions between the stress of the work place, stress of the Military Leaders in the dorms, and trying to keep up with college. I dropped my classes and focused solely on Intel. I was suffering silently between the tear in my personal life and the misery of my work life. After much stress and over 6 months in school as an Intel student I became eliminated from the 1N0 course. Set for reclassification, I began the process.

I ended up with my current job, Satellite Communications, which I didn't study. Passed with stress only from military leaders in the dorms at Keesler. I could live with that. Christmas rolled around and I came home to visit. So excited that I would be able to see my friends, family, and happy too see that old girlfriend. Christmas went well, I saw just about everyone I wanted to. Didn't get to see people out of state. The first visit to her house was one of those awkward silence times. New years was much better. But as always all good things must end. I went back to Keesler to wait another 3 months for them to fix my orders so that I could go to the second school for my job.

Finally at Ft. Gordon! I had so many run-ins with the Military Leaders there. Small things that were permitted at other bases no longer allowed. Like letting your phone charge when your at school so when you went out in the evening your phone would have battery life. Anyways, after a boring but easy stay at Ft. Gordon. I passed. Nothing failed again. Goodfellow taught awesome study habits and definitely provided the will power to push yourself through reading the most boring of school work.

After all that school, it was then June. A year and 3 months since my original departure from my home town of Jacksonville, NC. I went back home for about 9 days. I spent it with Jessi, Erika, and though I tried to get up with my ex it was unsuccessful. My last night there, I stopped by to say good bye to a family that I started with as unliked. After a couple years of being close friends to their daughter they eventually warmed up to me. I'd easily consider them my family if things didn't go sour over the next few days.

The next days I began my drive across country to Idaho. A good 3000+ miles away. To mess with Erika and my ex along with earn some money on that "Own your friends" shit on Myspace I bought my ex from Erika. The ex put that she was miserable toward me in the status. I messaged her best friends to see if something was bothering her. Not long after that the ex got online and became confrontational. That whole "What's your problem, You're my problem" BS. She pretty much said that when we broke up that she wanted me out of her life. Of coarse, after some of this and tired of drama crap, I snapped and said shit I didn't mean. Pretty much accused her of how I felt for a while now. I said that since her dad approves of me now, she can't get attention that her life sucks at home. So it's time for her to move on to the next guy daddy wont approve of. It was a dick move, I wasn't thinking clear, and I was pissed that by "Let's be friends" she really just wanted me gone.

Since then, I've broken ties with one of my best female friends and support, with the only people I really only called family, and lastly with the ex. I'm sure she's "happy" She's told her self that since I've met her. You can see in her eyes when she is or isn't. All I can do is wish her the best and continue on with my life. Thank her for the experiences that pushed me to not only push myself to do better, but help other people. Thank you for that.

A month later, ish, I'm still in training. I have my education and career plan. I'm in extra activities. I'm even working on becoming an advocate for rape victims and doing training with cops. When I have free time in those activities I still sit on the computer. Work on programming and chatting with friends. Weekends are like typical college parties. You don't remember anything from Thursday till Monday and you feel like shit till Friday so that you can do it again.

I know that this is a long journal. But in my time in service I've left so much out. I know that I covered some of this in other journals but to eliminate confusion I included with all the details I could remember. Anyways, I'll post some deviations and keep my journal up to date with my life. At least do a better job at it. Promise.

Take care everyone,
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After such a long time of prolonging joining another 'social networking' site I finally joined FaceBook. My reason was to stop those annoying emails. Any way, turns out it runs so much smoother than Myspace and I really like it. If you have a Facebook send an add. Just tell me you're from DA or something.

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If you happen to play Mafia Wars on Facebook I'm looking for some more people there aswell.

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Hit me up.

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So this has got to be the best day anyone could want as their last day in their home town before being sent to your next base. I don't know where to even start with this magnitude of day..

First, I woke up. (Of coarse) Got ready and began an approximate trip of 90-ish minutes to a friends work place for a massage that I've had planned for about a week. On the way there, a bolt that holds the brakes in place came off. When I got to the spa, I found out that I was at the wrong spa. So when we were at the wrong spot. (Turns out that two spas in the same area are called "The spa at topsail" Neither one is in Topsail.) Anyways, starting to leave the parking lot the car locks up do to the brake housing getting caught in the tire.

We called my sister and her boyfriend who came about an hour later. (They live about 15 minutes away from there) And they went up to Lowes to get another screw which should have taken about 30 minutes round trip at most. Took another hour. During this time I'm listening to my grandmother complain and bitch about how hot it is. We were sitting outside of an area with at least 10 air conditioned businesses within the parking lot. Even pointing this out she decided that she wanted to stay outside. I guess that she just likes having things to complain about.

So the appointment was at 12. We finished getting the truck to a temporary fix to get in close to the house for parts we were suppose to use about 4. So I missed the spa, the friends that I was going to see after the massage were already gone to work or whatever the people were doing. But they were gone. Gone home and changed out the part.

I had my grandmothers 3.5" floppy to pull pics off of and move them to a CD for her. Since I've left for the Air Force they decided they didn't like how I packed my stuff but they lost the power cord for the only computer I have that will do that. While searching for the power cord and the laptop I both broke the key to the lock of the trailer I'm about to drive cross country with. I smashed my finger in the door. After an hour of digging through the trailer for the items, I gave up. I went to Walgreens because they have those fancy little picture converters to move from cd/cards/floppys to film, disk, cd. Turns out they stopped making those where they read 3.5" floppys.

I would go out to meet up with someone I want to see before I go but I'd probably total my truck.. or get hit by someone and suffer some long drug out death. Guess I might as well go. No since in bypassing something that could happen like that..

Sup everyone, Just thought that I would give an at home on leave journal. So far, I've seen a lot of friends, I've talked to some I haven't gotten to talk to for a while. I went to see a concert with Erika, fun shit. She's like my new favorite person to go out with. We went to see Papercut Massacre up at a local bar/club. After that we went to Anytime, which is another bar/club. I left there for the beach on my own to await the sunrise. The only thing that could have made it better was if Erika or Stef would have been there.

Right now, I'm just sitting around working on a few new security things for some places online that I go to. Tomorrow I'll be getting stuff out of storage so I can have it ready to throw in the truck when I need to go to Idaho (June 22). I'll probably rearrange my grandmothers house tomorrow. It's kind of cluttered the way that it is and with my stuff it'll be a bigger mess. So I'm hoping that it'll be a nice surprise to come home to.

That's all I really have. I'll keep everyone posted on things.

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So June 10, 2009 I graduate from the final piece of technical training from the 2E1x1 Satellite Communications school for the US Air Force. It's been a crazy ride full of good friends and rough times. When I get done with here I'll be headed home for about a week or week and a half to hang out with a few old friends and some new ones that I've sprang a healthy relationship with that have really helped me through some hard times while I've been dealing with everything away from home.

Then I'll be on my way to Idaho, which you bet I'll be taking photos and writing on the trip here and there. I plan to be more active on here. Sorry I've really been slacking so much.

That's about all that is really going here.

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