Home on the range

Howdy folks and welcome to another edition of Home on the Range. In this weeks edition I am gonna give yall a little run down on what is going on with good ole Bama. I can hear yall now asking man what the hell do yall do over there and whats the weather like. Well I will tell ya, the real work ie cool shit to do is wearing thin so thus increases the bullshit work. An well the weather you ask, its damned cold over here, I am just waiting on the first snow fall because I know its coming.

Whats that ahh whats bullshit work you ask, ahh well I will try and explain it best I can, but its pretty much all the dirty worthless work that no one wants to do. An usually everyone trys to duck out of it every chance they get. But to put it more simply its mindless tasks of cleaning, picking up trash that has blown in from the neighbors pad and so forth. Its kinda like you know you start to get a little lull and someone sees this and say WTF these people are fucking off for an extra hour instead of working the full 16 we better find something for them to do! Shit like that.

On a better note though I did finish up my book The Footprints of God, and let me tell you that is an amazing fucking book. I loved it and I would recommend it to anyone. An before someone jumps up on a stump and starts preaching to me not to preach to them, it has very little to do with biblical stuff. BUT there is a little bit in there and it gives the book one hellva ring. Full on great read pick up and make sure you have some time on your hands because you will not want to put it down!

What else have I been up to ya ask, well lets see I am working on a new warfare pin some may or may not know what that is but its a pretty big deal in the Navy. I can't really think of anything to equate it to at the moment but ill work on it and get back to you. Also I have been studying for my rating exam in March, because I missed E-6 yet again by 4 points. So cross your damn fingers and pray or whatever it is that you do to give me some damn luck! Cause I reckon I need all of that I can get when it comes to these damn test. I have never failed one yet these fuckers never wanna pay me more for passing it like the recruiter said they would, that sumbitch!

Other than that life is pretty much the same shit different day type. The hardest thing here is to keep challenging yourself with new things (hell just finding new things is a challenge) not becoming complacent and keeping your eye on the horizon. Cause you never know what might happen or when. Anyway as always I love and miss you.

Sincerely,
Bama

Peace be with you

So I awoke this morning, a little sore from my workout the day before, and still a little sleepy. I step out of my sleeping area to walk to the head so I can get cleaned up for the morning and go to work. First thing that enters my mind is damn its cold this morning but I carry on with my business. Get to work check my email looking for those little spaming bastards, but the majority of the emails I received this morning were from friends and family.

My brother Tracy sent me three emails and I was stoked to hear from him as always but sad at the news he had to tell me. A close childhood friend of ours whos baby was sick, has passed away from this world and onto the next. My heart bleeds for my friends and their families in this time of sorrow and need. I would love to offer a shoulder to cry on, but I can not because I am to far, but I can offer my prayers. I know this pain as I to have lived it, but I do believe Khara's pain is probably worse than mine, because at least she got an almost solid year out of the love of her child, where as I never even got to see my son. Khara and Josey my heart goes out to you and your family if you need anything let us know.

Peace be with you little Josey and Know your mother loved you deeply! Rest in Peace lil Lady!

Fucking Spam

So you all know that being away from home is a pain in the ass, and can be stressful. Especially around the holidays and whatnot. So I just checking my email and shit before I am going to bed and I see boom I got 15 new emails, so all surprised and happy I am thinking man there must be allot of cool shit going on that people wanna tell me about. So bam hit the inbox and up jumps my email list and HOLY fucking hell batman I got 14 fucking spam messages and 1 real fucking email. Well at this point I am super fucking annoyed because, before i was all happy thinking I was gonna get to read some cool shit, or hear a cool new joke. But nope, fucking dirty motherfucking spamers. I am blasting through all the fucking spam shit (normally I just hit the trusty old spam button and bam I am done with em) but today, today of all days I am fucking pissed about it. Because upon scrolling to the bottom of the email thinking ahh fucking it I am going to start opting out of these fucking annoying things. What catches my eye, was not the ad or the opt out button, it was a little note that said hey fucker we can spam you all the fuck we want to because we are abiding by the FEDERAL FUCKING CAN SPAM Act of 2003. WOW your fucking kidding me CONGRESS passed an act to allow this fucking bullshit. HEY FUCKERS THERE IS A WAR GOING ON OVER HERE! An my fucking ass is knee fucking deep in it. Thanks for think of all of the people of the world and peace and all that shit, will your fucking worthless asses are in session. This is the shit we get through congress, not hey here is the new defense bill cause dood need fucking new shit to keep em alive, or hey here is some more money for doctors and shit cause people get hurt. THANKS fuckers! Ill make sure and remember this shit come election day. I am on a personal fucking mission to find every fucking senator and representative who passed this fucker and make sure I do not vote for them. Also I started sending a nice little reply to there fucking spamming asses, and I hope everyone in the fucking world will do the same. See how these piece of shit motherfuckers like having there emails spammed with a bunch of pissed off motherfuckers! Anyways here is my happy little letter that I wrote and feel free to copy and paste it into all of your replies as well. You know normally I would not even bother with this petty shit, but you know the more I think about it, its the petty shit that is slowly killing our fucking country. Everyday I check my email and normally I just delete my bulk folder every few days because theres about 200-400 spam messages. Well I had decided lately that I would give it a month just to see how many make it in there and with 4 days left to go I have already received 5072 BULK aka spam messages, that's not counting the 50 that make it through that filter everyday. That I have been so idly deleting. Well you know what fuck those bitches from now on I opt-out reply then hit the spam button.

Just wanted to say that Your a piece of shit and your a huge waste of fucking time. Some of us have better things to do that set up bullshit let this just to fucking fill up peoples in boxes. I hope in return that everyone in the fucking world replies to your stupid fucking waste of time and crashes your damn servers! PS FUCKING LEAVE ME ALONE with you fucking I comply with can spam bullshit act of 2003. I don't give a fuck who you comply with, you don't fucking comply with my friend list or contacts, therefore your some fucking super nerd who is to fucking busy annoying people with this bullshit to actually go out and get some ass. PS Happy Holidays and Merry Fucking Christmas!

Lastly I will leave you with this fucking bullshit ass act because it is very fucking real. If you don't want to know the specifics of this piece of shit act you can skip the bold writing.

The CAN-SPAM Act: Requirements for Commercial Emailers

The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) establishes requirements for those who send commercial email, spells out penalties for spammers and companies whose products are advertised in spam if they violate the law, and gives consumers the right to ask emailers to stop spamming them.

The law, which became effective January 1, 2004, covers email whose primary purpose is advertising or promoting a commercial product or service, including content on a Web site. A "transactional or relationship message" – email that facilitates an agreed-upon transaction or updates a customer in an existing business relationship – may not contain false or misleading routing information, but otherwise is exempt from most provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is authorized to enforce the CAN-SPAM Act. CAN-SPAM also gives the Department of Justice (DOJ) the authority to enforce its criminal sanctions. Other federal and state agencies can enforce the law against organizations under their jurisdiction, and companies that provide Internet access may sue violators, as well.

I will not post the whole thing because its fucking stupid but that's the basis of it. Oh and if you read this far and are curious as to the other things that put me in a foul mood today, I just found out that a very close friend of mine 11 month old baby girl has a brain tumor. She is not doing very good and the family is well in and immense amount of pain at the moment and that brings tears to my eyes. As I have lost a son and can feel for these folks from the bottom of my heart. As always I love you and Miss you all

Bama

Evil Petting Zoo's

So I have been promising pics of the evil petting zoo we got going on and I am finally going to
deliver on my promise. So the first set of pics is obviously of the puppies and mom (Hesca) The lil lady that is tugging on that shoe string is the only puppy that I named . Her name is Loki because she is a little devil dog, and she is always into something. I am waiting on others to name the rest of the dogs. I will let you know the names as soon as I know the.


Then we got these two fellows here, on the left that is Goat (he is really a sheep but we named him goat), and on the right is Grudge, because he is always pissed off at someone. An he has a broken horn so we just assume thats what he is pissed off about. That is the basic story of our petting zoo. Camel to follow one of the days hahahaha! Out of the animials Goat and Loki are my personal favorites. Goat is funny and talks to everyeone all the time.

Book reviews

Ok when I first started this blog, what I wanted to do with it was critique books, movies, and music, but with my current situation well I do not get to hear a lot of new music or see a lot of new movies. Books on the other hand, I can do so I am going to review a few books that I have read recently and liked or disliked. Feel free to throw in books you have read that where good and when I get a chance I will try and read those as well. But I will be putting up a review about it later on so no lady romance novels please :) Anything else is fair game I suppose.

I recently just finished The Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan, its a teen series but its a fantastic read if you would like a new spin on Vampires. I do not know or really care to know if this author is a teen or not, because I simply enjoyed reading all 12 of these books. So check them out with an open mind to the vampire genre because this one is a LOT different from the norm.

Patterson - The Thomas Berryman Number was ok but not the normal Patterson read. Its very short and there are really no chapters just breaks in the writing which is weird for Patterson, no the less the story is well lacking and sometimes hard to follow with the way its layed out. Read it only if there is no other Patterson books left to read!

Patterson - The Quickie more of a typical James Patterson novel but I don't know if the co-author killed the book or if Patterson is just doing to many things at once these days, not as good as I had hoped for after reading the little excerpt. This story was good and readable but it just lacked that normal punch or suspense that Patterson novels are known for. Again its worth reading just do not expect to be in a state of suspense the whole time.

Currently I started a new book by Greg Iles called The Footprints of God, I am so far in awe of this book, if I could I would read it from front to back cover without putting it down, but I do not have that kind of time. It starts from page one and so far I am around 150 pages into it and am still just like WTF is gonna happen now. Lets just hope the ending does not suck or I will have to go on a baby punching rampage. Will update this once I finish.

Anyway as I get more time to read I will add more reviews, again feel free to let me know about some really kick ass books that folks are reading or have already read. I am trying to expand my book knowledge and i usually get suckered into the book with the cool looking covers with no one damn good page to read in it. As always I love and miss you all

Bama

Comedy lets talk about it

As you all know I love comedy, and I love hearing new comedians. So here is my request to all of you. If you have some random comedy cd's or dvd's laying around burn em and send em to me. I have the usual stuff ya know, Dane Cook all but his new cd, Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Mitch Hedberg, Carlos Mencia, Rodney Carrington, Dan Smith, Rodney Dangerfield, and Jeff Dunham. So if ya got any other shit thats funny (Steven!) send it on my way and let me check it out. Holly sends me boxes about every week so you can drop it in there or ask for my addy. Thanks in advance and again I love you guys and miss ya.

Bama

Another Day in the Life of

So I have been so damn busy that I have not really had time to write on here. I am well lets see working about 12-16 hours a day, working out 7 days a week and eating and sleeping a lot. The work stuff I can't tell ya about but some days its fun and some days its not. We did however aquire some new pets, one is a sheep (his name is goat) also called Willis from time to time (what you talking bout Willis baaaaaah) lil sheep humor! An I hear we are soon to be getting a camel, now whos fucking ideal that was I have no clue but ill tell ya what when I get a picture of a camel toe (Real one that is) for Holly its gonna be damned funny. We also got five new puppies in the fold and they are fucking cute little turds. They are finally starting to come out of there house and play with people, but they are still a little bit shy. I don't blame them cause there is a bunch of goof balls running around here.

I really wish I had a picture of the sunset tonight because it was fucking amazing, I was wondering while looking at it, if it would looks the same to you guys back home. I never came to a conclusion, but tonight be on the look out for a really kick ass sunset and let me know if yall thought it was a cool looking as I did.

What else have I been up to you ask, well I have started on the short stories that I spoke of in an earlier post. I have two started and I am slowly getting more ideals for those, however I lack the time I would like to have to concentrate on them fully. Maybe by the time I am 50 they will be completed and readable who knows.

Training, yes yes its vicious never ending cycle for me, train for work, train for school, train to train, I am always fucking training in something. Which is good a bad, sometimes it seems just as I am getting used to doing one thing now I gotta learn to do 15 new things. Most of the time I can handle it just fine, but lately things have been so busy that it almost seems I don't give a rats ass to learn anything new. My brain feels like a fucking saturated sponge and its flooded with knowledge that is probably useless as soon as my foot touches the ground back home, because by then all the new shit will be there and its yep you guessed it time to train up on the new shit. Oh well I am mostly just bitching, why, because I feel like it.

To end on a high note though, one of my goals while being here was to achieve a better state of healthiness, and I think I am pretty much on track there. I mean no beer or booze for 6 months all while working out 7 days a week. Shit I would work out twice a day if I had more time, never the less I do not have that time as of now so I will keep with my current regiment. I am doing a mixture of the good ole AB's diet workouts that I was studying up on before I left and mixing that in with crossfit, and Gym Jones. If ya never heard about crossfit check out www.crossfit.com or if ya never heard about Gym Jones google the Gym Jones workouts. They are pretty fucking intense as you will see when ya look at the sites. It has been really good to get back to basics all while working out on a more than regular schedule, added in with our daily regiment of work which can be fun and tedious. I set the goal of maintaining my current weight while being here but dropping down to 12-14 percent body fat. I am currently at 19 percent with some time left so I think I just might make my goal yet and I am stoked about it. Anyways hope you enjoy reading me blab on and on about nothing, check out the sunset, have a beer for me and as always I love and miss you all.

Bama

Stache Palace 4

Ya so I got bored and decided since I have never been completely bald I would try it out. So with our further ado. And no I did not lose a bet. I have won 3 of our 6 football pools so far and the only one to win more than 1. blah

Stache Palace 3

So I finally did the daytime switch aka I stopped working primarily nights and started working primarily days now. So fucking a my first day doing so I get woken up at 4am to go fix some shit, and after 3 hours of fixing stuff that got broken while I was sleeping I go back to bed right. Bam bam bam at 8am hey I need you to come fix some shit again after my ass just feel back asleep. It was awesome to say the least and then on top of that I got to go running but not because I wanted to because I had to pull a 3 mile stretch of cable, ie we got one guy driving the truck with the cable reel and me running behind the truck, making sure that the cable does not break and goes where it needs to go. So anyways after sweating my ass off I decided fuck its time for a hair cut, because no one should sweat this much when its this damn cold out. So anyway I wanted to get ya some before and after shots and also I am debating on bic'ing it since I have never been completely bald. I think I just might have to try it out and see how bad it looks on me. Enjoy
Bama