Inside Daryl's Mind

2:27:52 AM EST
Feeling Happy
Hearing TV in background

So I am in a better mood than I have been in the past week or two.  Ive been on a short fuse lately.  If you like halloween or just like funny costumes you have got to check out Kristen's journal to see our costumes.  We went as Pamela and Tommy Lee.  I was from the Motley Crue era tommy lee :-).  It was fun.  I took a few days of leave too, it was nice to not have to be at work and relax.  It was great.  After the halloween party I really want a tattoo.

Here is my plan for the tattoo.  First..it will be on my back.  It will be scales...and on one side an angel and on the other a devil (both female...cause female devils and angels are cool).  The top of the scales would be the all seeing eye that you see on the dollar and different things.  It would symbolize A:  Good and Evil...and B: (a flashback to my psych degree) the ID, Ego, and Superego.  For those that dont know the ID is the psychological construct from which all desire and urges spring.  The Superego is the construct from which all the morality and social rules are stored.  The Ego is basically the balance between the two taking the urges, comparing them to your morals and making a decision that is the proper compromise between the two.  Thats the original psychodynamic thought anyways.  But it would be very cool looking, and it would have meaning.  I also want something on my arms, but i dont know what.  Anyways, i guess ill get back to work.  One of these days ill put some pictures on here to make things look better, but i have to be at home for that.  Later yall

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12:56:07 AM EDT
Feeling Happy
Hearing clickity click of keyboard

So here I am at work again.  We are trying to work a new schedule, and i am trying to work a new schedule for myself for that one.  Hopefully Ill be on an 8 hour shift soon, but who knows. My mother just bought some plane tickets to come visit us.  Which may not sound that interesting, but my mother has NEVER seen anywhere that I have lived since I moved out.  Well, she saw my empty college dorm room, and my first apt (also when it was empty), since then...nothing.  So the fact that my mom is actually coming to visit, is really amazing.  Supposedly I am the favorite child and the youngest (the baby), but I also seem to be the one everyone forgets about.  Such as my birthday that they all forgot about this year.  But Im a forgiving person, so they have been forgiven. 

For some reason lately I have been in the absolute worst mood EVER.  Every little thing sets me off.  I wanted to put a hole in the wall because the computer wouldnt make a CD.  The night before last I was about to lose my temper because the help number for SBC wouldnt pull up, and then when it did I got some guy that I could barely understand that started asking me the no-shit questions they always do.  The funny thing is, he turned out to be one of the most helpful people on tech support ive ever talked to.  Kristen has been recieving a good brunt of it.  I felt better last night after I went for a run, and today i felt better when i just sang at the top of my lungs on the way to work.  Of course i almost lost my voice and couldnt really talk that much when i got to work.  I think its because I am always so stressed about money.  I know I shouldn't be but I am.  We always have some bill that is our own retarded fault that cuts so far into my pay that we dont have any leeway with extras.  And I look forward to paying them off, thinking when I pay this one off, I will feel better and things will be easier.  When I pay them off, I dont feel better, and things arent easier.  Then there is my car.  So much shit is breaking on it, and I want/need a new car soo bad.  With the snow coming it makes me even more leerie of not having a new oh i dunno all wheel drive WRX.  I so dont want to have an accident because ive got a screwed up car and there is snow everywhere, i got lucky last year that when i came to work was when no one was on the road.  now i come to work at rush hour.  oh well.  Part of it is that Kristen doesnt worry at all.  Everything will work out and there is no reason to worry about it she says.  Well yea...things will work out, because I am actively trying to work them out.  Very frustrating, however, i do let it stress me out more than it should.  I see staff sergeants with 5 kids, making less than me with new vehicles and nice stuff and doing just fine.  then there is me...an officer...supposedly making a lot of money, and i can barely make bills each month.  and its not like we have a new BMW or something we have a mazda and a broke-dick mustang.  we dont have kids, we have two dogs.  and all the stuff we have, we have had for a long time.  oh well....im ranting again, but i guess thats what this is for.  Anyways...im out...and if you are reading....thanks for listening :-)

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9:59:37 PM EDT
Feeling Quiet
Hearing the sounds of the law enforcement desk

Holy Crap, Im bored.  So bored.   Tonight has been slow for the most part.  A big change from last night.  We had cars just lined up all waiting to get busted...crazyness.  But today is slower.  It is the last day of the cycle and I really need to catch up on some sleep once I get off work today.  These 14 hour shifts really start to suck especially when your break days are taken up with weapons firing and staff meetings and so on.  Im glad today is slow, we've had all kinds of crazy shit happening lately.  Ive seen dead bodies, bullet holes, and doped-up hippies. 

Today is one of those days that I am so not motivated to do anything.  Doesnt help that in the past 4 days ive had....6...maybe 8 hours of sleep.  Oh well.   Kristen and I took the doggies to the gorge my last day of break and that was nice and relaxing.  I love being in the outdoors.  It'd be nice to go camping or fishing.  I really want a big ass area that we can let the doggies run.  They are so happy when they can run.  We used to let missy run when we went to the lake in Waco (it was closed, and we werent supposed to be there...but there was never anyone there).  However, one day we came across a 7 ft Diamondback rattlesnake.  Luckily Kristen saw it before missy did.  I went and tried to get it to rattle by popping it with the towel.  it wouldnt...probly not the smartest thing.  oh well.

Im such a nerd.  The people I am surrounded by dont seem to have the same interests as me, which is frustrating.  No one around me has a love of cars.  My flight chief for example said he will never pay more than 5k for a car and it has to be automatic, front wheel drive, and get 28+ mpg.  Me on the other hand wants cars that cost at lest 24k used for the most part.  Get more along the lines of 22 mpg on a good day, Rear wheel drive, and I love driving a stick.  If I ever won a huge lottery...Id have a shitload of cars.  Love 'em.  No one i am around plays warcraft (another huge chunk of my time).  I used to be around SSgt Ervine and SSgt Kornelis, but one is in training and the other investigations...never see them anymore.  Then there is my sci-fi side...satisfied in part by warcraft, but i used to be a trekki....like...bad.  most people think sci-fi is retarded.  Grr...what do people like...ive got some sports likes...but im no fanatic like most guys i know...i dont care how many yards he ran last game.  whooptie do.  im not a big drinker, and i dont like large groups of people.  Hmm...i dunno what im even saying right now...just talkin.  I guess im done ramblin. 

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10:23:49 PM EDT
Feeling Loopy
Hearing Desk Seargents talking about College Football

There are times when i really should be doing work.  Right now is probly one of them, but i cannot seem to get my ass out of this chair.  And so therefore...voila...here i am writing an entry.  I did get some shit done today, but its really easy to get lazy and not do anything on a mid shift.  I will probly get up here soon.  lets see, anything interesting...oh yea.  I had a birthday.

Get this...the only person to wish me a happy birthday ON MY BIRTHDAY was Kristen.  No one from my family called.  Everyone at work told me happy birthday the day after.  I still havent heard from my family which is pretty shitty.  But oh well.  I forget shit all the time (not normally birthdays), but oh well.  I dont really care, birthdays arent that big to me.  Its just nice to know people remember.  Well, im done

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2:17:23 PM EDT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Toby Keith - Beer for My Horses

So the other night right after i made my journal entry, I went out doing post checks and doin some patrolling.  Low and behold we get a couple cars roll up to the gate and all they had were Mexican Drivers Licenses.  Well one of the patrolmen smelled a strong odor coming from the car, and asked the guy if he had any drugs.  He said just a little bit of pot.  (all this is through an interpreter btw).  well here is a pic of his lil bit of pot after we busted him (1.1 lbs to be exact)

 

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7:13:43 PM EDT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Some Investigation Show playing in the background

So, yea, i guess i can actually put journal entries in at work.  I dont know how appropriate that is but hey, whatever.  I am on mids now.  I come in at 4 pm.  I go home around 6am.  I like it though.  Got to chase some people the other day, and we get a lot of DUIs, so it is much more interesting than day shift ever was.  I will probably run some exercises later on tonight to make sure that my troops are staying on their toes.

We also got into our new house a few days ago.  FREAKIN AWESOME.  3 bedroom, 2.5 bath.  Brand spankin new.  We are taking drastic measures to keep the dogs from messing this place up.  I still have to go back to the old place and do more cleaning to get it ready to be presented as ready to be moved out of.  We are losing our nice DVR cable package, but to have a nice, new clean house is great.  One funny thing about the house is you cant hear from one room to the other.  Kristen can be yelling at me and I cant hear her, and visa versa.  I guess that means the neighbors cant hear either.  Since I can put entries in on here now (until the computer section catches it) I may be updating much more often.  Took a little break obviously. Later yall

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5:25:17 PM EDT
Feeling Chillin'
Hearing DHT - Listen to your heart
Well its a good thing today was only simunition rounds.  Simunition rounds are 9mm type rounds that fire platic bullets filled with colored paint.  they are fired out of modified M-16s.  I was the second one dead, taking a round directly in the chest.  Whihc sucks because the point of today was to show us how many people get killed doing MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain).  Good lesson though.  Crazy shit.  But anyways Im the RTO for tommorrow and we have a flight operation order to do.  Going to suck.  Later

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9:42:43 PM EDT
Feeling Chillin'
Hearing Collective Soul - Better Now

So yea, I know I havent posted anything in a long while.  I got moved off camp bullis into the hotel for about a month which was awesome.  Then it came down that we had to move into the NCO dorms which is allright, I just miss the Per Diem. Those who dont know, Per Diem is money the air force gives you while you are TDY to compensate for the cost of living and sustaining yourself.  Off Camp Bullis you make 47 dollars a day.  On Camp Bullis you make 11.  Big Difference.  But Anyways.

We have been doing field operations for the last two weeks and will be for the next two as well.  We get a mission briefing.  A Squad Leader is designated and we spend our time normally up to 10 to midnight writing and finishing an Operations Order.  The next day we carry out the Op Order, then get a new mission briefing when we come in.  Its crazy hard on you.  Getting no sleep, running our ass off in the field, and not knowing who is in charge next.  I was squad leader today, and it sucked.  We had a reconnaisance mission that turned into a hasty ambush, then we got ambushed, and then we got attacked by some guys in a Humvee.  It was a lot of yelling, maneuvering, shooting, thinking, running.  It was crazy.  Tommorrow we have a slight break, but not really.  Its so tiring.  And because of the hours I dont really get a chance to talk to Kristen.  But she will be here in 2 weeks (hopefully).  But anyways.. i need to get some sleep i figured id let yall (anyone who cares) know that i didnt forget about you.  just been busy.  Later :-)

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6:45:41 PM EDT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Right Said Fred - Im Too Sexy

Let me start by saying that Lt Snell and I are freakin BADASSES!!!   Land Navigation is the first progress checks we have had in field conditions showing we are physically fit enough and understand the material enough to make it in the field.

Well in both Day and Night Land Nav Snell and I have come in 1st!

Thats right, kicked the ass of all these i can run 3 miles in 17 minutes...but guess what...they get lost :-). 

Last night we finished in 25 minutes...the next team came in at 35 minutes and had teams all the way into the 2 hour mark.  the record is 23 minutes.

Im just in a good mood today, dunno why...class was interesting, everyone was cool today.  Its just a good day.  We will see how i feel tommorrow after PT..lol

 

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3:23:19 PM EDT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Christina and Nelly - Tilt Ya Head Back

Lazy Lazy Sundays....

Today I have changed my profile up a lil, might be best to view full screen.  I hope yall like the minor changes.  I am so not doing anything today.  Actually I kinda wanna go see dark water or seomthing, never know.  Anyways...Ill write more later today. :-)

 

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