Friday...sucked.  I got tagged by my new plattoon sergeant (Blake) for the 20K ruck march.  grrr.
I haven't done a ruck march since like january...even then it was only a little podank 5K or something silly like that at best.

So four hours, in formation, through nine miles of sand/dirt, plus another three on hardtop...all up and down...sore feet, sore calves, sore hips, sore shoulders...all weekend.

But now, now, I feel better.  And, as an extra kicker, it will if life goes my way to any degree, be the last damn 20K I have to do for this man's army...I tell you though, there is no pain in the ass greater than the last mile or two of a twelve mile ruck march with forty pounds...

Oh yeah, did I mention, stupid ass me try to be all huuaa huuaa about this ruck.  We were only required to pack 15lbs.  I figured since we'd be in formation, it wasn't at our own pace, it'd be a slow ass walk, so I could afford to pack 40lbs and be OK, get a workout out of the whole deal...

stoooooopid shit.

This weekend I fullfileld a long stadnign desire of mine--I put a bid in on ebay, dutch auction, for a 700mhz Athlon Bare Bones system...motherboard, cpu, mid tower case.  Finally I can upgrade my system, put a video card in, dvd and mpeg decoder, and a scsi drive... :)
Course, it set me back $485 after shipping, meanign my next paycheck is flat out just about nearly ALL gone...making bills interesting this month I think...may be late.

But then again, that loan from my credit card company might come through in the next few days and then I'd be hooked the booty up...

The weekend was spent with finishing off that Petite Sirah and a Merlot in addition, a few cigarettes--yes I backslid, but held fast last night when I wanted another pack ;)  OK, so the line being real long helped me on that one last night, but hey, who's counting...

Got a ticket to see the pumpkins in Orlando on May 8th...supposed to be a 2400 capacity club.... Yay!  Picked up the new album too--it is *so* good.  (it's in the car now otherwise i'd be listening to it instead of this one...)

SFC Wade and 1SG Willis were going to have my AAM presented Friday morning, but since I was out on the ruck, we'll just see when they want to do it now...I think SFC Wade wanted to do it when I got back from the ruck, but SFC Blake gave me the rest of the day off...hours I spent asleep...

And I FINALLY finished all those remastering jobs from some analogs a fellow Rustee (neil young mailinglist Hyper Rust) sent me.  The rest of his CDs and the master tapes then go back this week. So now I cna devote time and hard drive space to my own projects!  I won't say what it is now, lest it not turn out so well, but I have a very very very special project in the works...something unlike anything I've ever done--something very artistic and dealing with the human condition and growing up in today's world. 
 
 

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