Everclear
Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: Bon jovi - Have A Nice Day
Well not much new to post here, but I wanted to say the following things:

1) I saw Everclear live in concert last Thursday the 22nd, here at Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (for those of you who are confused as to where that is, it is the Base I'm sationed at here in Japan). They were AWESOME. THey are currently on a tour of just about all of the Forward Deployed Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Forces bases here in Japan and South Korea. The concert was free. I got bought a concert tee-shirt, and had them autograph it. They also singed pictures of the band for everyone who stayed around after the concert for free.

2) Cindy Sheehan is a COMPLETE MORON!

This weekend, Mrs. Sheehan was quoted as saying: "America is not worth dying for!" during the weekend's Anti-War Protest in Washington DC. When she was interveiwed and asked to clarify what she meant, she said that she meant to say: "Iraq, is not worth dying for!"

Come on lady, you are so freakin' stupid. How can you mix up America with Iraq?

Yes, I am sad that your son has died before his time. Yes it is unfortunate, and you have my deepest sympathy for your loss. But it is quite obvious now that this has gone way beyond expressing your anger and frustration that your son died, because the President was wrong about there being WMDs in Iraq. Wake up and smell the coffee and stop being used by those who would destroy this country.

How dare you or anyone else say that America is not worth dying for! Would you tell that to the brave men who died during the American Revolution? Would you dare tell that to the men would died during World War I? How about the brave men and women who died during World War II? What are you doing for your country? Is there anything you would willingly sacrifcie your life for that you believe in? I think not!!! You yourself have been quoted as saying something to the effect that you believe the President and think he is sincere after you had sat down with him and talked to him.

So please stop your moronic protests and support our great nation instead of tearing it down!

Americans need to stand up and unite together and stand side by side united. That is the only way we will triumph over those who are evil and seek to destroy all of mankind. They also need to stop blaming others for their situation and misfortunes and take responsibilty for their own short comings and lack of progress and their misfortune. The attitude we are seeing expressed as a result of these hurricanes is the exact polar opposite of the can do spirit that made America great in the first place.

I want to add Two more things about last weekend's Anti-War Protests:

ONE) As I am watching the news, and they keep showing the protesters in Washington, I have seen two EXTREMELY hilarious signs been carried:
1) Bush is a Terrorist
This is not the exact words, but this is
CLEARLY the message.

How dumb can you people be? Clearly
you have got something coming, see
sign #2 below

2) Who would Jesus bomb?
If you are the poor SOB carrying this
sign, I'd watch out. I think his choice
of targets is fairly obvious!

There was also one lady, chanting that Aparthied (sp?) is here in America.

Some people are so clueless. . . There was one thing missing from the protest. . . Everyone wearing Tee-shirts that say: "I'm with stupid (finger pointing in some random direction)."

::Stepping off my soap box now::

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Based upon polular Request, I'm back with even less important stuff to say to anyone bored enough to actually read this . . .
Mood:  cheeky
Now Playing: Imperial March
Ok so I've been a bit neglectful of my little corner of the Blogverse, so clean up your spilled milk and stop crying already! Are you done yet? Oh wait you missed omse of milk over there under neather that stack of old magazines.

Ok you got it all now, can I continue? Are you sure?

Well I had a great time while Melissa was here visiting for the shortest three weeks of my life. I have no idea where the time flew off to? I mean one day I'm picking her up at Narita International Airport and the next I'm dropping her off there and walking her to metal detectors. We did quite a bit while she was here, but sadly we didn't quite get to do everything that we had hoped to do. I think we chocked it up to not wanting to put up with the brutal Autumn humidty and heat anymore. It really takes it out of you after a while.

Of course we saw the Great Buddha in Kamakura. Sadly never made it to Mt. Fuji. Instead we spent our the majority of our days going offo n little one day venture treks going all over the place. We went to Tokyo a few days, and even spent the the night up there at the New Sanno Hotel. The New Sanno is the US Military Recreational Hotel here in Japan. It is really hard to get reservations, particularly if you want to spend more then one night there. But it is worth it, at $75/night, especially since the equivalent hotel would normally cost 4 - 5 times that. We also went to Tokyo tower and surveyed the city from the highest observation deck. Tokyo tower is about 30 meters taller then the Eifel Tower, so in your face all you France lovers, buyah. . .

The last weekend was the coolest for sightseeing though. We signed up for an MWR bus tour to Nikko Provience. We went to two really impressive waterfalls and two lakes, before going to a combined, Buddist and Shinto Temple and shrine. It was just absolutely impressive. It was freakin' huge. We saw some of the famous Three Monkey statues and depeictions. You know the, See no Evil, Hear no Evil and Speak no Evil Monkeys. I promise you all I will have them the last round of pictures up on Snapfish soon. I need to finish organizing them and what not before I upload them and without Melissa to help, it just isn't all that fun.

On other matters, my appeal was denied by Commander Carrier Strike Group 5, and so I'm stuck in the holding pattern until I hear from Bupers. If oyu have no idea what I'm talking about, I'll be happy to fill you in if you want. But the thing that really gets me, is that somepeople are some damn quick to point the finger, but they don't stop and say hey, this isn't like this guy form what I can see, what happened, what is the real truth of the matter? Did he just have a momentary lack of judgement, or is someone out to FUCK him over! Doesn't this seem a bit over the top and overkill, why wasn't this handled at a lower level, why didn't anyone talk to him about this before fucking him up the ass six ways to sunday? What about his previous record? What do other people, people who know him SO MUCH BETTER, have to say about him? To hell with them I say, time to play hardball.

You know something, I'm suddenly reminded of one of the best lines form one coolest Movies ever: "Pulp Fiction:"

[Ezekiel 25:17 among others]
Jules: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

I know I'll get my day and they'll get theirs. And that my friends is why I'm able to sleep at night and they are not.

Till next time . . .

Bored at Work
Mood:  on fire
Now Playing: Nothing . . .
Well I'm sitting here bored at work as usual. Does anyone else have this problem? Or is it just me?

Well anyway, so I'm sitting here at work, getting ready to go on leave at end of the day. I can't wait, 20 days of sleeping late, staying up late and seeing the sights. Melissa flys into Narita Airport in Tokyo tomorrow afternoon, where I will be picking her up as she exits customs. We plan on spending at least one weekend in Tokyo, and climbing to the top of Mt. Fuji (hopefully before it snows up there).

Not much is new here. I am expecting to hear back from the Commodore any day now, but still no word back yet about my case.

It has been unbarably hot here the last few weeks, but at least it is cooling off at night. We had another minor earthquake over the weekend. The scary part about this one, was that my house shook at the exact same time that the movie Scream 2 had a scene that resembled an earthquake as well. The timing couldn't have been better.

Let's see what else can I mention. Oh I'd like to Congratulate Vanessa and Oscar once more on the birth of their second son, Andrew. He is now 2 months old. Where does the time go?

Well that's it for now. More to follow when I think of something else completely useless to write.

What a weak storm . . .
Mood:  on fire
Wow, what a let down. They call that a Tropical Storm? I've experienced worse rain showers. I mean there was no wind, very little rain to speak. Well it turns out that the land mass was too warm or something, so it drove the storm higher and higher or some such nonsense and it dissipated before it got here. We received the all clear message about 11pm or so last night. The last Hurricane I remember living through was Dennis I think, back in the late 80's. Every other storm, I have either missed or it has missed where I was at the time. I guess I'm fortunate or something.

Now it is ungodly hot out. There is hardly a cloud in the sky, but it is also extremely humid as well.

Well that is all for now, maybe I'll write more later.

Not sure what to say right now
Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: Everclear - Songs from an American Movie Vol. 1
Well I'm not sure what one is supposed to write in a Blog, but I've been thinking about it and Cerise said I should start my own Blog, and since I don't get to talk to her all that much anymore (she had ot up and move across the country on us), I figured I'd give this thing a shot. So here I am writing a Blog.

Well lets see . . . I've come to realize a few things over the last week or so.

1) I really hate using HTML. I was trying ot post something online, and I couldn't get the code to work just right, but eventually I got it working, but not the way I would have liked.

2) People start to get crazy and all kinds of ansy when you say a Typhoon is coming for them. The funny part is that it is not much more then a tropical storm, 60 mph winds (which as I am writing this have yet to arrive, and the storm was supposed to be here already). But I've got my house all battened down, and I'm ready to weather the storm so to speak. But I'll probably have to go to work tomorrow. I mean what good is a storm if you don't get any extra time off right?

3) I experienced my first real Earthquake on Saturday. It wasn't so bad, in my opinion, but I'd rather not experience a bigger one. My whole house was shaking for about 30 seconds or so. They say it registerd a 6.0 on the Ricter (sp?) scale. I have felt a cople of other ones since I got here to Japan, but they felt just like someone banged into my house. Or someone dropped something very large in my house, but BANG and it was over.

But onto better and greater things. Melissa is coming to visit me in August. I can hardly wait. She first has to take that pesky Bar exam on the 27th and 28th. So if you read this Bog before the 27th, please say a prayer for her and the Bar. She'll be here for almost three weeks.

Well that is all I have to say for now.

Oh and Joel if you are reading this, I've got something to tell you. I finished my Advanced Open Water Certification over the weekend. I went diving last weekend, did a night dive and a deep wreck dive. Unfortunately my certificaiton is from PADI, but I had no choice, there is no SSI over here. Well enjoy your 60ft limit my friend.