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Name: Josh
Gender: Male
Interests: TUBAS, Soccer, Computers, Games (video, arcade, PC, you name it), hockey, basketball, volleyball, doing fun stuff with friends
Expertise: None. I suck at everything.
Occupation: Other
Industry: Other
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AIM:  invernes38
MSN: unwrittenpoet113@yahoo.com
Yahoo:  unspokenphilosopher
Member Since:
5/25/2005
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| I'd just like to thank a very special friend. You know who you are. =) | | |
| It's over She tells him Grabs her things And slams the door He's never felt this way before A list of wrongs The things he's done And it all comes down to one thing He just missed it all along And in her eyes He fell apart A simple misplacement Of her heart Bound to strength, She didn't care And to herself She was betrayed Broken statue she had made That he was never meant To raise Everything falls Everything falls Everything falls I'm through now I'm leavin This life has got me down It's time to take a swing At fate I've worked too hard Put too much faith In things I couldn't see No one to take the blame Just me Everything falls Everything falls Everything falls Fear in me I need you here to breathe At times you'll see What mine can do Well I've been around I've been replaced Been kicked to the ground I can't be changed I've been around I've been replaced Been kicked to the ground I can't be changed Everything falls Everything falls Everything falls Apart... | | |
| Got this in an email. Thought it was interesting. Agreed with over half of it. Strongly disagreed with the soccer part. >.< Lemme know what you think: Hey all! (You dont have to like all of it... but some points are pretty good!) Wouldn't it be nice to hear something like this in tonight's
speech...
My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of Iraq regime has been completed.
Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our
mission in Iraq is complete.
This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all American
forces from Iraq . This action will be complete within 30 days. It is
now to begin the reckoning.
Before me, I have two lists. One list contains the names of countries
which have stood by our side during the Iraq conflict. This list is
short. The United Kingdom , Spain , Bulgaria , Australia , and Poland
are some of the countries listed there.
The other list contains everyone not on the first list. Most of the
world's nations are on that list. My press secretary will be
distributing copies of both lists later this evening.
Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to
those nations on List 2 ceases immediately and indefinitely. The
money saved during the first year alone will pretty much pay for the costs of the Iraqi war.
The American people are no longer going to pour money into third
world Hell-holes and watch those government leaders grow fat on
corruption.
Need help with a famine? Wrestling with an epidemic? Call France .
In the future, together with Congress, I will work to redirect this
money toward solving the vexing social problems we still have at
home.
On that note, a word to terrorist organizations: Screw with us and
we will hunt you down and eliminate you and all your friends from the
face of the earth.
Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France , or maybe
China.
I am ordering the immediate severing of diplomatic relations with
France, Germany , and Russia . Thanks for all your help, comrades.
We are retiring from NATO as well. Bon chance, mess
amiss.
I have instructed the Mayor of New York City to begin towing the many
UN diplomatic vehicles located in Manhattan with more than two unpaid
parking tickets to sites where those vehicles will be stripped,
shredded and crushed. I don't care about whatever treaty pertains to
this. You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid tickets. Pay those
tickets tomorrow or watch your precious Benzes, Beamers and limos be
turned over to some of the finest chop shops in the world. I love New
York
A special note to our neighbors. Canada is on List 2. Since we
are likely to be seeing a lot more of each other, you folks might
want to try not pissing us off for a change.
Mexico is also on List 2. President Fox and his entire corrupt
government really need an attitude adjustment. I will have a couple
extra tank and infantry divisions sitting around. Guess where I am
going to put me? Yep, border security. So start doing something with
your oil.
Oh, by the way, the United States is abrogating the NAFTA treaty -
starting now.
We are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately, we'll be drilling
for oil in Alaska - which will take care of this country's oil needs
for decades to come. If you're an environmentalist who opposes this
decision, I refer you to List 2 above: pick a country and move there.
They care.
It is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its own
citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism. I answer them by
saying, "darn tooting."
Nearly a century of trying to help folks live a decent life around
the world has only earned us the undying enmity of just about everyone on the planet. It is time to eliminate hunger in America . It is time to eliminate homelessness in America . It is time to eliminate World Cup Soccer from America . To the nations on List 1, a final thought.
Thanks guys. We owe you and we won't forget. To the nations on List 2,
a final to thought: You might want to learn to speak Arabic. God bless
America. Thank you and good night. If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.
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| Long story short: Good food. Lack of sleep. Did really well on the tests. Failed the color vision test. >.< The physical sucked. I leave in June. | | |
| Alright... Well, here's the first part of the huge update. Monday: My recruiter comes to pick me up at 10ish am so we can get back to his office in enough time to finish the last of my paperwork before I had to get on the shuttle to Oklahoma City at noon. As we're walking into the building around 10:45, we hear this loud BOOM! You know the sound that 2 flat, solid surfaces make when one of them falls from a 90 degree angle to collide with the other? Like when you slam a hardback book shut? It was like that, only on a much larger scale. It wasn't until we got inside that we found out what it was. A transformer had blown up, and we had NO power the whole time we were there. So, since we couldn't print anything (obviously), we didn't get the rest of it finished. SSgt Chambers (my recruiter) said the people at MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) were going to hate him for not getting my paperwork finished, but eh... what can ya do? When the shuttle driver arrived around noon, I was all ready to go. We were just waiting on the Army guys to finish up so we could leave. The shuttle run on a pretty tight schedule, so the driver was gettin pretty upset when 12:15 came around, and they still weren't done. Right around 12:20, we ended up leaving without the Army kid because he had just realized that he had left his High School Diploma at his home... about 1 and a half hours away. I was taken directly to the MEPS one we got to Oklahoma City. I walked in, went throught the rude security guards and the metal detector, put my bags in the baggage room, got my name tag and test sticker, and sat & waited until they called for "applicants taking the evening ASVAB." Those of us that were taking the test followed the man back to the room and each had to leave 1 computer between us (as the test is done on computers). They were standard keyboards except for the labels on the keys. The key that is normally "F1" was red and labeled "Help". The number pad on the right side was normal, but all the keys around the numbers were blank. Other than those numbers, there were only six other keys even labeled. ALL the other keys were blank. What is normally the spacebar was the "Enter" key. The middle row of keys is usually laid out as follows: ASDFGHJKL;' (not including Caps Lock or Enter/Return). These keyboards were laid out like this: *A*B*C*D*E*, where the * represents a blank key. The ASVAB was a lot harder than I had thought it was going to be, but apparently much easier than I thought it was. >.> It took me about 45 minutes to finish, and I got my test results within the next 20 minutes. I ended up making a 94, which is pretty decent. One of the applicants for the Marines got a 99 on his. He's 25 - so I'm assuming he has a Bachelor's degree, though I didn't ask. After that, we all had to sit around in the waiting room for a few hours for the shuttle to the hotel to show up. It was nearly 8 pm by the time we got there. When you check in (there's a seperate area in the lobby for military applicants/shippers) they try to put you in the same room as another person (same sex) that's going to the same service. Army with Army, Navy with Navy, and so on. Anyway, when it was my turn, there weren't any rooms available with other Air Force guys, so they put me in a room with a Navy guy named Terrance McCloud, who was shipping out the next day. He had been in the DEPS program - like I'm in now - for a few months already. Only the Navy does things differently than the Air Force. He actually gets credit for being in DEPS, heh. He's starting his BMT (Basic Military Training) as an E3. I'll be starting at E1, which is a whole rank and 2 pay grades lower. He was a skinny black guy, about my height. We got into a small conversation getting to know each other and what we each did/enjoyed. Turns out - he rides BMX, and has for 10 years. I thought that was kinda cool. I'm gonna skip over the awesome dinner that I ate too much of, because I have plenty more to tell. We ended up watching Pitch Black, then went to sleep. Please, stay tuned and check back for updates on Tuesday and Wednesday!! | | |
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