Well it is another year that has passed on the Lunar Calendar. I spent the last two Samhaine in Iraq, and so this year, has been a definite improvement. I see myself in this last year having made mistakes, correct decisions and hard decisions. I lost my father in the last year, a man who had more effect on my life then I ever realized till he was sick. I miss him terribly but there is nothing to do for it, but try to learn to love those around me more obviously. I also lost my Uncle Jerry, a man who had another effect on my life, giving me education, pointing me in the right direction in my life time and time again. I will miss him as well, but I learned from the lose to value those gifts of education, and to try and learn every day.
I am dedicating this year to learning, and spending whatever time I can with my daughter. Sylvia is an important part of my life and I don't know where I would start in trying to love anything more.
Happy New Year everyone... Happy Samhaine

So, here is my life in a nutshell, the movers come on Monday to pack most of my belongings to be shipped to my new duty station, I still have to pack everything that is being turned in or packed for a 4 week live-out-a-suitcase marathon seperately to keep it from shipping. My mom is refusing to do anyhting to provide income for herself, which means I am going to have to do somthing to remedy the situation.

I have to:
-Ship goods on Monday/Teusday
-Prep my stuff for turn in, and turn it in, outprocess mannhiem.
-Get my mom's roof fixed
-Get the old house's roof and waterline fixed
-Get my mom's land surveyed and fenced
-Have someone come out and look at the pond and figure out if the damage done by my neihbor is reverseable (they clear cut the hillside above the pond, silt damage...)
-Have Elf_baby in for Thanksgiving at my Mom's.
-Buy thanksgiving Dinner (mom doesn't feelup to cooking this year).
-Buy a Car...
-Get a cellphone
-Get an apartment/Barracks room. My housing is still up in the air, and I don't know if they will let me have even offpost family housing since I only have Sylvia for 126 days out of 365. The army is arbitrary about things like this somtimes, and it really sucks.
-Get internet/phone hookup,
-Prep for various visits,
-Learn my new Job at my new unit and make myself indispenseable.
-Get into a Martial Arts class,
-Lose 30 lbs and gain however much muscle mass I can in my upper body by March for MarCon cosplay.
-Find the local SCA near Ft Meade.

So here is my call out to all my friends, family and hell anyone who might read this. If you are in the KY area (McCreary Co.) and might be willing to enter into a lease in which you pay no rent, but do construction, and land management work, in lieu of rent, for a year, contact me at my username @gmail.com.
If you are able to do any of the construction labeled above or know of a trustworthy contractor in the McCreary area, please contact me.
And finally, anyoone know where a guy can just relax for about two hours. I am seriously gonna need it...

To all my friends in McCreary Co, and KY in general, (or Scott Co Tn), This is the official notice, I am coming in on or around mid Novemember. If you want to visit with me, my time is going to be precious, I will need to actually schedule visits, so contact me if you want to see me and we will work it out. I miss you all but I have to do it this way if I am gonna get everything done.

Well this is a four day weekend for those of us in EUCOM (European Command), and so I am updating on Thursday instead of Friday. This week I managed to do push ups in PT with the rest of the command, this is the first time I have managed it in almost a year due to my wrist. I walked 7 miles today according to my pedometer and am quite happy with that result. I also was wieghed and taped this week (being in the military is kinda like a dirt cheap personal trainer...), and have lost 3 lbs, and an inch and a half around my waist meaning I am back in tolerance for the standards!!!
Wish me luck on exceeding them...
~Mark

I GOT IT!!!



And it is awesome! Some of the immediate changes that stick out, Wizards and Sorcerers are at a d6 hit die. Fighters have high level play capability. Rogues are absolutly deadly at high level with they're new Master Strike class ability, and Paladins now truly Smite Evil, rather then just severely inconveniencing them.

I Has a New Game System, and it is Pathfinder.

With that said, who is up for some play by post. Once I get my internet in my room, I plan to run a game Sundays via Yahoo messenger. Hope to see you there. (Drop me a line on Yahoo messenger if you are interested).

Mark

Well, I am basically sleep dep. posting to LJ... fun
I am back in the swing of things, as of 1100 this morning, Bridgette and I got the internet back up and working at my house, this includes the phone... so if your wondering why I have been out of contact, now you know, and knowing is half the battle...

~Mark

Hey Everybody

*pause for audience...*

Okie then...
This is an update on my situations and life to date. I got home from my E-Leave for my Dad's funeral. Got home safe, flight was long and annoying but I didn't lose anything this time.
I am working on my divorce.
My arm is out of the cast. I am in a brace for the time being when I need it, but I am encouraged to work the wrist as much as I can stand, so my typing time is back up to par finally. I got my new GI Joe toys in for the 25th anniversary. I am not collecting the whole line, just troopbuilding for Cobra, and getting some Joes I didn't have, and of course, all the versions of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow...

I am working on the divorce... It, hurts, but I am alive, and well. I am working on getting it set up to keep Elf_baby under Tri-Care
wish me luck everyone, some days I need it...

Mark

well,
Surgery went brillantly, and I was in a brace for some time. Now I am in a nifty new cast. I can type a bit more with it and play my FPS, and City! :D I got back to work tommorrow but I am on a VERY restrictive profile, so no worries about me re-injuring myself huh.

Wish me luck folks,
Mark

http://s598.photobucket.com/albums/tt65/elvnsword/?newest=1

pics of my girl...

hey all,

Mark a-typing away with one hand here to tell you all about my wrist surgery. The good news is, it worked... they tightened the tendon with no complications :D

the bad news is I am in a rather restrictive brace for the foreseeable future. I am hoping to get better at typing and the like with it on... but it kinda sucks...

two weeks and I get the stitches out... 8 weeks I should be braceless... 12 weeks and I will have a profile n thats all



wish me luck...
Mark

The Surgery for Elf_baby went above and beyond expectations. She is hale and healthy, recovering from the incision in her leg, but she has teh patch in her heart. The pulse already slowed to a more normal rate, and already her EKG already lost the echo!

My baby is gonna be fine
Mark