Snow...

I've seen my first real snow storm in over 2 years. That’s how often it snows in Japan. It happens, but rarely. I actually enjoy the snow. It's nice and cold, and has this silencing effect on everything. Especially when it's nice and deep. Sadly, it never got deep here. It didn't even stick. Just left the slippery slushy muck you get from melted snow. Several inches of slush is not a good thing at all. It's slippery, and there's this constant fear of busting my ass. Good thing I'm well versed in snow walking tactics. I finally got my pair of glasses today as well. I haven't worn glasses in a long time. Decided to give my eyes a bit of a break from my bad contact lens wearing habits. Taking some time to adjust to the difference. Everything has this slight fisheye look to it. I can see little reflections at the sides. There's dirt, water, and now snow to deal with getting stuck on the lens. Plus I finally look a bit more studious. Matches my character better. I've finally started thinking about what I'm going to do when I get out of the navy. Only a few years left. A few years seems like a long time, but then again, so did 4... College seems imminent. I'm not too sure what I really want to do yet. Way too many possibilities. I do know that I need to brush up a bit on all the basic subjects. The navy doesn't exactly promote proper writing or speaking for that matter. So while I'm looking into the future, it's still unclear, like staring into the snowy static from bad tv reception. There is a good chance that I'll end up in an electrical field. Mostly because I enjoy working with circuits, and mostly because that’s all I've been doing the past 4 years. So what do you get when you add two mostly’s together? A full reason? Not quite. I'm still working it out, but I'll more than likely impulsively make some un-thought out decision. Ah, but it happens. Just as I'm sure it'll all be alright in the end.

Try number 2...

This is the second attempt at this blog. The first one fell victim to an overly frustrated me caused by a horde of EQ players slaughtering the bandwidth of one stressed wireless router. I thought it was going to rain, but luckily it didn't. It was kinda misting when I came over here this morning though. Not that big of a deal, it's only a few minutes away. I found out about this "world" tour with Korn and Mudvayne. I say "world" tour because it should be more appropriately named North American tour. Got my hopes up for nothing. Scanning the list of locations for a possible over seas venue, and I see nothing farther than Canada. Ah, well I shall live. I also went and bought an album by "Morningwood". I had to just for principles. Turns out there's a few good songs on the album. I'm still the owner of morningwood. Listening to this album on an 'old fashioned' cd player reminded me why I put down 200$ for a pair of ear buds. I'm also reminded why I buy cd's. Of course, this huge cd player barely fit in my pants which takes me back to another good point. I now have a purpose for extremely baggy pants. You can carry all sorts of good stuff in large loose pockets. Like an 80's style cell phone, and a cd player with several albums. How about a cassette player? Good thing technology came along and shrunk things that are meant to be small, and enlarged things that need to be bigger. We still need to do something about the size of cd's. Maybe make a portable dvd player with no screen specialized for playing custom music dvd's. I could then enjoy several high quality loss free albums on one disc. Until then, I'll live with lower quality mp3's. I also need a cell phone. Not just any phone, but one with free international calling. Ha, something else not quite available. Until that happens, I'm stuck using payphones, and calling out side of work hours. Not an easy task, but it's manageable. With allot of patience.

Stupid rain...

Not really sure if this should be in a new post or not, but I'm not in the mood to care right now. I finally see a break in the rain. Thought I could make it all the way to the store. Nope. Only got halfway there, and it started raining again. Not too bad. Just enough to get me agitated. Pants only got a bit damp, and didn't start sticking yet. Sticky pants are bad... I'm having a good time looking at stuff, and browsing cd's. Bought a new psp game. Arcade style pinball game. Got all the classics in it. Not a bad game at all. Pinball is awesome. I purchase my items, and start to head out. It had started to rain pretty hard. I'm pretty much pissed before I walk out side. Normal people would have bought an umbrella. I happen to dislike umbrellas. I'm fine with my hair, and head getting wet. Even my shirt and jacket. Just the pants and shoes. Umbrellas only add to the wetness down there. All the rain runs off and falls right on your legs and shoes. So here I am power walking a 15 minute trek in stupidly hard rain. I enjoy the rain on my face, and the feel of it running down in little drops. Leaving the odd feeling trail behind. Sadly, I might as well have been walking in knee deep water. Had I had huge plastic bags, I would have worn them and been quite content. But nope. Now I have overly wet pants and soaked shoes. I've got a week of drying these shoes properly to fight odor, and swamp foot. Yes, I went there, it's not cool, but it's part of life. I have a change of pants in my locker, but I can't just stuff my wet ones in there. I'd have some crazy monster moss growing on them by the morning. Mad crazy monster moss. It'd probably even talk to me... So here I am, wearing cold, wet, sticky, and heavy pants just to properly dry them. I should have never left the building. The good side to this? I got a new video game with plenty of pinball machines, and you get to see a wet me. Ha, stupid rain.

Bad weather...

Not much to say here. Just got off the boat for once in like 5 days. It's only 1, but it looks more like 5 or 6. All cloudy, and rainy. Just bad weather. It's raining, but cold enough for snow or hail. I hate the rain, especially cold rain. It takes too long to evaporate. Thats more time for the wet pants to irritate me. Ah, but it's all good. I'm in a nice dry building. Had several nice surprises today, and a good day over all so far. I'm thinking of buying a new mp3 player. Yeah, it's mainly for running, but will probably end up as my main player. I like the 3 minute charge ability on it. Besides, it's a sony. I'm also in need of a haircut. Somehow I don't see it happening this week, or next week either. Too bad I'm in the military. I'd have some great hair. Definately some rocking hair. But enough of that. I've been severely addicted to Thirty Seconds to Mars lately. Just a great band, and I can't get their songs out of my head. Particurlarly The Fantasy, and Was it A Dream. Thats about all I have for now. Seems like I've been typing for days now. Thousands of words typed today, all from a huge back log created by 4 days of absence. Man, I've got find a way around that. Don't be afraid to send a letter though. I need the practice. My typing's been lacking lately. And right now, I'm gonna take off. Don't even feel like spell checking. Maybe later...

A bit of some thing different...

I started a new blog at http://somethingcyborg.blogspot.com. This one is a bit of a side project, and mainly deals with short stories that come up to me throughout the day. Actually more of a day dream, but whatever... Those of you knowing me in person, feel free to spread the news. I'm a bit isolated at the moment...

Woah...

Yeah, it's been along time since I've last written here. I'm sure many of you are wondering why. The truth is I wonder that as well. I've had plenty to write about, had the motivation, and even had a few typed out, but never did hit the publish button. Now your stuck reading my ranting and raving over many weeks and occupancies. This is quite lengthy, so get yourself a snack, and a nice beverage of your choice. First off, I'd like to that all of you who made my last visit a great time. Sorry I couldn't spend more time with some of you, and that I didn't even get to see a few of you, but with only 9 days, what can you do? I've also added a photo gallery here so thats where all my visionary shots end up. I've gotten a new lens as well, and I'm still learning to use it. It's a decent light lens. Definitely good for learning on, and thats what I'm doing. I've got a 70 to 300mm lens. Thats like a 10x optical zoom on a 35mm camera. Lets see... Had a few good conversations about my favorite subject, and it's almost a cliche, but I never end a good chat without mentioning music. In this particular incident, it was proven to me that I don't like certain bands, and I don't have any good reason for it. Well, I'm giving these a chance. Not only that, but I read a few interviews about them, that well... helps me relate a bit. It's funny how occupancies like coincidences always pop up at the oddest times. But fear not, for I've seen the light, and heard the light and now these great musicians have place on my ipod... I also was shown that there's one out there who hates ipod's more than I do. Burns me it does. I almost want to buy a new mp3 player just to rid myself of this ipod. So now that I feel petty, and cliche, I'll have to jokingly call this person a jerk. I think you know who I'm talking about... Still, you need to hear more of the amazing bands unknown to the public I have stumbled across. I think you should all listen to a band called "The Explosion" and particularly the song "Here I am" from the "Black Album". The entire album is great, but that one song is on a different level of being great. This just goes to make me realize that I still like punk rock more than anything. Of course I feel the ridiculous levels of categorization of the music industry is out of hand. Punk is punk, and rock is rock. No such thing as post emo industrial, or progressive rap metal. Just keep it simple. No one really cares if a new genre is created. Besides, who can keep up with all that? Just an irritation. And the irritations start already. Not even in japan for 1 day before I get my nerves rattled over some simple things. Some of it's just being in the navy, the other is being in japan. My mind is made up that I don't want to be out here any more. 2 weeks ago I wasn't even wanting to visit, let alone change areas. There's only so far ridiculously fast internet and incredible technology can take one. Even for me, I've had enough. I think thats been part of my problem lately, I don't really enjoy it here anymore. It's even possible that I've been lying to myself, and everyone else about my time here the entire time. Maybe not the entire time, but for the first year or two it wasn't bad. Maybe it's just my new command thats making this place unenjoyable. I don't know, and I don't care. I just want to be somewhere else. Another odd coincidence, one of those bands I didn't give a chance just so happens to have a great song. You should all check out "Mercy Me" by "Alkaline Trio" off the "Crimson" album. While I was having the time of many years, I visited a college community. Me never really diving into the depths of one of these communities found this to be most amazing. Of all the places I've seen and been, a college community has more potential for pleasing any one. It's all low budget, and sometimes ghetto, but all that is made up for by the simple fact that creativity is free roaming, and everything is fair game for anything. You can just feel it reaching out and grabbing you. Almost makes me regret becoming institutionalized in military ways. If my logic allowed it, I'd regret many things, but there's no reason for it, the past is the past, and can't be changed. The best option is to take responsibility, and make the best lemonade you can. I almost wonder where I'd be if I hadn't been so lazy. Never even applied to a single college. A bit off subject, but thats the way I think. Always in circles, with each thought re-in forcing the last. Now that a bit of ranting is done with, back to more current issues. I felt sick for the first time in months on the plane ride. Almost like sea sickness, but no, I think it was nerves. The vomit bag was looking real inviting for a few moments. Scared me for a few minutes as well. I can't be vomiting on a plane, especially on a ride as smooth as that. It's not even like I've had a history of it. I've had more take offs and landings than I can count. More turbulence than should be safe as well. Yet this smooth calm flight had me queasy. I hate that feeling and I hate the mystery behind the sudden onset of such for no reason. I hate finding myself stuck in a mystery, especially when the answer can't be googled. Damn you google, let me down this time. I'm sure it wasn't lack of sleep. I only had 2 hours the night before, but mid nap I woke up for no reason and felt like I'd been spinning for hours. I made it through the flight without further problems. At my layover, I couldn't even finish a small meal which added to the nervousness. I had a 16 hour flight coming up, and I still had yet to find the problem. By the time I had boarded the final leg of my trip, I had gotten over my wave of nausea. Probably the fact that there was no turning back now. No more thinking of ways to avoid the inevitable. Now I've got another problem on my hands. Work. I don't want to start, and I don't want to deal with the politics of the military. I think the college carefree lifestyle got a hold on me, and is dragging me back. But fear not, in only 2 and a half years, I may go that path. Moving on with no transition, the town I grew up in is still oddly the same. Maybe not oddly, more like predictably. Well, almost the same. The night life was dead. More so than any time I can remember. There's the addition of a decent coffee shop, and that's that. Nothing more, same town, new faces. Watched The Chronicles Of Narnia in the old and antiqued theatre. Good movie though. I also watched Ghost World and found it to be a great movie as well. I thank those that I watched these great movies with because without you, I would have stayed home, and missed out. There's no fun in watching a movie by yourself. I think that should just about cover anything I feel belongs on the public memo boards also known as a blog. Hopefully I won't have to write anything so amazingly gigantic, and spread the plethora of ideas and thoughts over many posts. I hope you enjoyed this in depth view into my thought out world...