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April 27, 2007 by pseudosoldier
I just got $20 from Pepsi. I entered their sweepstakes exactly once. Go, me.
April 19, 2007 by pseudosoldier
Well, I've been keeping up pretty well with my personal accountability logs for the past week and a half. Yeah, that's not very long at all, but I'm hoping it's just a good start to what will be a fairly long personal campaign. I was 232 lb last Monday after I got home from PT. This is pretty much the top of what I've been, maybe not ever, but certainly since I've arrived here last year. I've said that I would do something about it, and now was the time to step up. Actually, now was ...
March 19, 2007 by pseudosoldier
From The Soldier's Comprehensive Study Manual , 11th edition: Q. What is the Army's separation policy for homosexual conduct? A. Homosexual conduct, to include pre-service, prior service, or current service homosexual conduct, is grounds for separation from the Army under Chapter 15 of AR 635-200. (para 15-2a) Q. What is the characterization of service for soldiers separated under the provisions of Chapter 15? A. The type of discharge will reflect the character of the soldier's servi...
January 7, 2007 by pseudosoldier
My online class began in early December and is slated for 8 weeks, so it's half over. I discovered, when I arrived at my parents' house, that the free internet connection that the military program I am involved with provides was unavailable to me, possibly due to password/userID issues. My attempts to contact them were met with much resistance, as the Helpdesk personnel seemed to intentionally misinterpret my requests for assistance. Additionally, I had some initial trouble installing re...
November 30, 2006 by pseudosoldier
Yesterday, I started my new class of students. It's a different group of knuckleheads, but it's the same sort of knuckelheadedness I'm coming to expect. No, that's not a bad thing, it's just that young soldiers tend to be knuckleheads. After class, I pulled duty... all... night... long. I was very glad that nothing major came up, and was almost equally glad that minor things did keep coming up. I could make forward progress or even actually solve problems (!) without being too overwh...
November 20, 2006 by pseudosoldier
Scene: SSG Doe surveys his soldiers mounting a house clearing operation during nighttime operations. His squad leader is down in the prone, not yelling orders to his subordinate team leaders. The Staff Sergeant squats down to address the student, when... RRRRRRIIIIP! That was two weeks ago, and I hadn't given it another thought, until this morning. This morning, as I'm talking to my boss, and happen to look down. I happened to look down, only to catch sight of some black clo...
October 26, 2006 by pseudosoldier
1. A package I sent two weeks ago, without delivery confirmation or insurance, has not yet arrived at the other end of the transaction. This was for an online trade of collectible items. The least this will cost me to correct is shipping his half of the trade back; the most it could cost is me paying price guide prices for the items (d'oh!). Yes, I am majorly responsible for not getting DC on the package... but it still wasn't delivered, so there is shared responsibility. 2. Three Net...
October 23, 2006 by pseudosoldier
Last month, my sister placed an order with Amazon.com. This order was shipped through the United States Postal Service. However, I did not receive this package successfully. I was required to go on a business trip at around the time the package was to be delivered. That Friday, I received a notice that the package had been attempted to be delivered ("First delivery attempt") and the slip said that I could pick the package up after 10 am the following day. By 10 am the following day, I ...
September 25, 2006 by pseudosoldier
Missing: Wallace & Grommit Curse of the Wererabbit , Bruce Almighty , and a paperback copy of Cannery Row . I came home Friday to find the opened (and empty) Amazon package inside my apartment on top of two identical phone books. Another package (containing the issue of Secret Society of Super-Villains that has my birth month on the cover) was not disturbed. I'd rather the Amazon package be missing in its entirety; as it was the wrapping paper with the "Happy Belated Birthday" notes...
September 12, 2006 by pseudosoldier
Just wanted to highlight this online comic of the 9/11 Report. I think it's very well done and, although I'm a day late, well worth looking at in the light of the anniversary of the attacks.
September 6, 2006 by pseudosoldier
If I had been smarter, or shrewder, I would have been able to swing a title like "Live, from greywar's!" and even snuck that in before his blog self-destructed... but I decided to wait for crappy Sprint Military DSL in the barracks. feh.
July 25, 2006 by pseudosoldier
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June 28, 2006 by pseudosoldier
1. I got up late. 2. I was jolted awake by some sort of computer-related stress nightmare. 3. I forgot akulaboy's swimgear. 4. pseudo jr's tummy was upset. 5. I forgot to get chocolate chips at the grocery store. 6. pseudo jr got sick. 7. Clothing sales opened late, so I didn't get my uniform parts this morning. 8. My car wouldn't start. In fact, I couldn't get it jumped, either. 9. I spent the rest of the morning at the mechanic's before I got a cab home. (re)BUT(tal) - ...
June 22, 2006 by pseudosoldier
I have been tasked to give a set number of presentations to prepare to become an instructor. My first was a 10 minute presentation on Divorce (Uncontested Divorce in Texas). Then, a 20 minute presentation on Superman. Recently, I did a 30 minute presentation on Radio Wave Propagation. Unfortunately, my next presentation, 50 minutes, looks like it will be on Cryptography. I don't know this subject as intimately as the last two, but I believe I can get 50 minutes out of it, especially co...
May 7, 2006 by pseudosoldier
I was serving on a starship, and my rank was indeterminant. There was a mutiny, maybe, maybe I was in it, or maybe we had been taken over by an opposing force and subjugated. I wound up having to kill a man with a pen in order to end it all. Well, it was me and someone else, and it was two pens, and my penstroke didn't actually kill him it set him up for the death stroke. There was this crazy game arcade, and there was a man not unlike a young Johnny Depp there running it, cryptic like....