SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) is awesome. At National Guard this weekend we had competitions taking them apart and putting them back together. The fact that you can remove the barrel easily when it gets to hot and slam another one in there makes it a bad as machine gun. What is the SAW you ask? Every play Counter-Strike? Its the M249 under the "Machine Gun" category in the gun buy menu....
Out on the lake across the street there is some open water. It has been getting warmer here so the ice is starting to melt. There are also a lot of people who like to ice fish. (you can see where I am going already). Somebody was dumb enough to put up a shanty like 20 feet from open water. I would like to say they checked the thickness of the ice but who knows. Now whats bad about this (even if the ice was thick there) is the fact there is open water so close, that the ice might start to crack and then break and spread to where he is.
So next time you are doing something think "Is what I am doing/about to do dumb?"
Its been a while since I last posted so what the hay, I figured I would throw out some random stuff.
My addiction to Mountain Dew leads to me drinking it everyday. So, last week I finally hit a week where it wasn't on sale. A 2ltr of Mountain Dew cost me $1.70 !!!! The store I normally go to, I quit going because if you use a Debit/Credit card(ie. says the word "Debit" on it) they have to use Debit which charges an extra $1 and I am not going to pay $2.50-$2.70 for a 2ltr. So anyways, the sale started back up again and now its 5 2ltr Pepsi products for $5. So I bought 5 2ltr's of Moutain Dew and will have to stock up on a few more once we get close to the weekend.
On another note, I am awaiting for the approval of my application to use the UPS Ready Program (XML Api for a project I am doing).
So I received my copy of Vista Business the other day from the PowerTogether Campaign by Microsoft. Took me 23 minutes from starting the shutdown process of XP to logging in to Vista after it installed. It looks great, as I expected. VERY stable for all that I have done so far. The only software I had trouble with was Zend Studio. I have ZS 5, and that did not copy the exe over so it wouldn't work. I upgrdaed to 5.5 and everything works fine. The only other thing I found was my sound. Every now and then it needs some inspiration by testing the speakers to get it to play the music. Other than that its been great. Downloads are quite a bit faster than in XP. In my opinion you can never have to big of a download speed.
ROCK ON!
So, Thursday was my last day attending school. YAY!!! So now I just work. Oddly enough that ends me right back at the school only an hour later.
Yesterday I got to train on a FATS system at National Guard. It was.. BADASS!!!! Think of "Duck Hunt" from the Nintendo with the gun. Trade the gun with a M16-A2 Assault Rifle, a big screen and shooting at guys instead of ducks. This system is A LOT more advanced than duck hunt but its very close in the same contents. You shoot things on a screen with a gun. The guns has CO2 hooked up to them so they could function like a normal M16. It was amazing and I want one, or several. This thing is so advanced it even manages your ammo, and when you run out the bolt stays back(like a normal one), you have to pop out the clip put it back in and hit the bolt release and you have a new clip.
Although my back hurts from being in the prone position a lot yesterday it was well worth it.
So, Dec 19th, I was goofing around coming home from M-Tech. I was goofing around and jumped some railroad tracks at around 30. Some tracks this is no big deal, however these ones were like a jump. Here is a picture of the ascent and descent coming off the tracks. "picture --> / \ <--" . See, its basically a jump. I ended up braking the cross member that holds up the transmission. :eek: . So Thursday (Dec 28th) I got it towed and fixed. When they towed it, here were the conditions of my car.
1. Broken cross member
2. Couldn't shift out of drive (yes its was sitting in drive for 9 days straight) due to #1
3. Flat tire. I'm guessing the jump may have caused this but am not positive.
4. Dead battery. Seeing as I couldn't get out of drive I couldn't take the keys out leaving it in the on position ("not running").
So I got it back and it was quite less than what friends/family told me it was probably going to cost.
Friends/Family Verdict: $700+
Estimate from Rays Auto: $200 - $300 + tow
Total (including tow and tax): $306 (without tax like $299.9x)
I was pretty happy and had the money to pay for it. w00t!
In the end, I learned a lesson. Screwing around in the car can cost you money. For me, putting money into getting my car fixed is probably one of the last financial things I want to do, so lesson learned.
So tonight, I decided I would go to the basketball game going on at my highschool with my brother and some friends. It was all going good, had a good time until I go to leave. I wait around for a while to let the parking lot to clear, and my brother and his friends left to go to Burger King while I was gonna go straight home. So about 10 minutes later I decide to finally walk out and leave.
I go walking out into the parking lot all by myself, and I feel this sharp pain in the side of my face. This black kid had run up behind me and punched me in the face and took off running. Then it happened again, only it was a different kid and a different spot on my face. I thought for sure they were gonna rob me, so I was just trying to stay standing (which I did). Then I here "hey man, are you all right?", I respond with yeah, I guess so, then this asshole has the balls to run up and punch me in the mouth and take off running like the other two low life pieces of shit. The first two pissed me off enough, and then the shit with the third guy. Oh man... I look around, and this kid was about 15 feet from me and asked me if they had done to me what they had just done to him. I said yes, and see my brother standing there astounded as it had happened to him to, and he walked out about 5 minutes before me.
The 3 guys had run off to who knows where, so I went and let the principal know so if he saw any of this nonsense to continue hopefully he could catch them. So I left, as did my brother, and I went home. So now its a few hours later and my face still hurts..
So I got cheap shotted not once, not twice, but three times... Such a great night.
