In a World of Chaos

Well it's that time again.

Nothing happened big this weekend. My wrist popped bad and I hurt fairly severely for awhile.

Hope that passes.

So I can't talk to awful much often about what happens at work, but today we had a singularly wonderfully funny moment. My co-worked dropped a laptop. of course being a laptop the screen broke, and so we GREEN TAGGED IT and sent it to maintenance ::laughs::

Beautiful full moon tonight...

~Mark

Well another day another dollar is the saying, but those people never worked at Satcom on shift.

My wrist is fairly swollen, and we got an inch of snow tonight. I'm not sure I can explain the pain cleaning my weapon put me in, but it was sufficient enough my sgt helped me with the function check...

We have a new SFC in charge of the Shift. This is a relief as I get along far better with this man then the last guy. My medboard PEBLO got with me today to let me know that I am still in a holding pattern awaiting my NARSUM to go through. THAT is incredibly frustrating.

My divorce is going... Alicia and I (yea Alicia I got married again... mistake!), just aren't working. We havn't talked since October outside of emails, and that's been exceptionally limited.

::sighs:: No happiness for Mark.

My first resolution is to write in my journal here more. I haven't updated in over a year! (yea, wow)

So the rule is once a day. Even if it's just two sentences, exactly as George Washington did. I hope it will help my memory.

So my New Years Resolution in full:
1. Write in my Journal, DAILY
2. Finish my Med Board process, albeit I don't have much control over this I want it done.
3. Drop 20-60 lbs... I weigh 220 now, I would like to weigh 160-180. I already get regular exercise, so I will be changing my eating habits and doing a lemon/cayenne cleanse.
4. Get the house fixed up back in KY, I would like to learn to do the work myself, while I am going to school.
5. Be the best Dad I can to Sly, given how much distance is between where she is and I am most of the time.

Those are my resolutions... I will keep it updated on how I do.

~Mark

It's been awhile, since I posted on LJ. Partly that is cause well, I had been in a funk, sad and twisted about my own destiny. I have since embraced many truths that were inconvenient, found out what is important to me, and found someone who shares those thoughts.

In spite of my setbacks, I am fair to middling. I have good days and bad, and I have a loving woman who backs me in most things I do.

I have had wrist surgery again, still on profile,
seen my daughter end up in the cutest glasses EVER!
watched many many great changes to my MMO arrive
Gotten a D&D group together to play, next game is Thursday, if your in the Washington DC area, (Fort Meade) feel free to email me for directions... we can always use folk to gab with if nothing else.

I am headed to work shortly, the place is, well it's work... I am still in the Army.. I am still working hard,

I just wish...


Later folks,
Mark

...Since I posted on LJ. I figured I should take it up again. To update you all on the hectic year I have had, I am now in Maryland, living on Post at Fort Meade. I have my daughter Elfbaby every 3 months for 3 weeks at a time, she is still and probably always will blow me away at every opportunity.
I am still in the Army, just passed my PT test to get off of special populations PT, something I had been dreading but expecting to be on with my long term profile last year due to my wrist injury.
Speaking of which I re-injured my wrist during the PT test, but I passed so now I am free to get treatment without getting called a dirtbag by my command for being on profile. I have cable and internet now, my phone is up and working, and I am dating a young lady from a college in PA. Life is fairly good.
City of Heroes folks, I am trying to organize a Sunday playgroup (I have all my Sundays off), if anyone would be interested please feel free to email me at my username @gmail.com,

I hope it all works out...
~Mark

Hey Journal,
I havn't updated in quite a while. I finished out processing from Mannhiem, left my girlfriend there who I will hopefully be seeing agian in June. Then I came home. It has been an eventful month home. I got Thanksgiving dinner from my family, complete with a bird... I helped my Little brother get home to school when his car broke down in Somerset, I bought a shit ton of minis ::laughs::
I got new pajamas, which are wonderful and warm... Needed them given how cold mom keeps the place, and I have had fun. Now I am looking at getting to Maryland, and getting my family housing in order. I need to file my forms and records with the group that runs the govt. housing on post. I am tired though, trying to get back on that damn early morning work schedule. (wish me luck, I need it)
I miss you all,
I am on yahoo now, almost all the time given my cellphone's capability to run Messenger Mobile...

TTYS
Mark

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