Rogue15 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 well i'm just about ready for the test. of course it's gotta be freezing outside! gonna drink a bottle of water and eat a slice of toast, not going to eat much more than that, don't want side stitches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Got some good sleep last night for a change... but it didn't really make me feel any better. Life just kinda sucks right now... though not in any exceptional way. It's not an unbelievable level of suck; more like the day-to-day normal baseline level of suck. It's just not moving out of that zone at all. Work. Eat. (Some) sleep. Repeat. No fun. No social life. No exercise. Basically: none of the things that might make life at all worth looking forward to when you wake up in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 no social life? no exercise? wtf happened man!!? just got back from taking the pt test....i ****ed up on the situps (wasn't going down all the way) and i need to cut 2 minutes off the 2 mile run (my time was 18:26). i did like 50+ pushups though. my recruiter said that once i pass the test there, i'll have to take another one in front of the 1st Sgt before they send me down to MEPS. got reweighed and measured, i somehow grew an inch taller, guessing it's because of working out and now i have better posture and don't slouch as much. I weighed in at 190, and i'm 5' 9". going to request thursdays off now since they're doing future soldier stuff there (pt, drill & ceremony, land nav, etc). it feels good waking up at 5-6am and seeing how much time i have to work out and do stuff. still kinda sucks that i didn't pass it. i know what i need to improve on and i'm only going to get better, and once i get to basic i'll be aiming for a 300 on the apft score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 no social life? no exercise? wtf happened man!!?Well... the summer is over. Back to working long hours 6 or 7 days a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 god, you should know where the pass/fail is 15... it only took me til my third PRT to find that out, even when I went up an age bracket i knew then what it was... >.> x2 its on the web. if its a struggle to pass the test I would think about MOS's other than say...infantry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 eh...but the basic training at those places isn't as "motivating", fort leonard wood was kind of a joke they didn't pt us enough, imo...probably because of the females. i don't want to go to a co-ed basic training site again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Well... the summer is over. Back to working long hours 6 or 7 days a week. this is my 2nd week doing 6 days in a row....today is day 6. i'm off wednesday and thursday. then i don't know what i work.. checked out Firefight mode in ODST.....it's pretty cool, though i only solo'd it, can't wait to try it with friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I hear you on the suck, ed. It's what I like to call...the Suck Zone. I seem to be a permanent resident. Oh, sure, nothing disastrous is happening at the moment, and that's good, but nothing good is happening either, and every time I try to make something good happen, the Suck Zone just sucks me back in. It...um...sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Exactly. While I have no outstandingly epic tragedies to report... I have no particularly good news to pass along either. And all efforts to change that have fallen totally flat lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 no news is good news? just ran about 6 miles.....well sortof, took breathers in between the miles. my 3 mile time was crap-32 minutes (i stopped a few times) so that's 8 miles for the day. did that all with only 2 pieces of toast and a bowl of oatmeal....now i'm starving so made some macaroni & cheese. gotta go work 3-9 then i'm off the next 2 days. might go hiking tomorrow then out with some friends to see zombieland and go for some wings afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 no news is good news?No. Not really. Good news is good news. No news is no news. To me, no news means: "Nothing happening even worth talking about. Life is boring and dull." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Lots of times no news can be good news, though. Like when you're waiting for some really bad news and then it doesn't come after all. But when it comes to the general question of "how are things going?" yeah, no news is just...no news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 better to be 'kind of bored' then 'totally fubar'd' unless kinda bored has been going on for months.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Yeah... like I said: No major tragedies to speak of. So that is... well,.. good, I guess. So, yes: in that respect: no news is good news, I suppose... But, then there is all the normal, almost constant every-day annoyances that lead to a general feeling of dissatisfaction and angst. And while it's not in the same league as a death in the family, loss of a job, or breakup of a long-term relationship... it does wear one out when carried out long enough. Especially when it's unrelenting and shows no trend towards letting up or improving in the near term... At least sudden and shocking tragedy causes one to rethink one's existence, and start a process of coping and healing... long-term stagnation typically causes the opposite. At least it does in my case... But while things aren't bad... I'm not particularly happy at the moment. Not depressed... just dispassionate and unfocused at the moment. Aimless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I feel ya on that one. I just found out an aquantence and occasional customer of mine who is at his oldest, low 40's, has kidneycancer thats already spread to his lung and brain. hes got a wife and a lil 4 year old son Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 So I survived yet another concert tonight. A couple of jazz bands. Pretty easy... despite almost nothing in the way of pre-production information. (And what little there was was mostly inaccurate. ) However,.. I have decided on my sole goal in life from this point forward: To discover the EXACT dollar amount that a "crazy loner" starts getting described as an "eccentric recluse"... and then get myself on the positive side of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 work was hilarious yesterday....they put all our supplies on a shelf behind some pallets, and my supervisor gave me a list and said me or the other guy (who i wrote a statement about that got "lost") has to make sure our supplies are filled in the lab, meaning every night one of us works we have to check it...it took like an hour getting all the stuff, having to move pallets and then getting on a ladder and basically just throwing it off onto the floor (beats walking up and down the ladder several times, if the stuff falls on the floor and breaks it really shouldn't have been placed that high to begin with, imo) so at first i was like '**** this ****!!' and a bit pissed, but i got thinking 'hmm... it's going to be hilarious seeing mr i-phone "try" to get them supplies' we have this stupid camera inventory audit thing we do and my supervisor assigns it to a different person every day, well on saturday i did it, all you do is check off all the cameras serial numbers and make sure they match whats in the book. i messed up on one, and the next day when he went to do it, he copied my mistake instead of looking at each serial number and doing it right. if i see his i-phone out again i might go straight to the store manager. he's got weekly maintenance on the printer, he worked saturday and sunday (saturday being start of the week) and NO maintenance was done on the printer at all. his next days of work are thursday and friday or something like that, so i guess he has 2 days left to finish it. i'm highly doubtful that it will get done. he left early on saturday without permission and sunday he disappeared after i left (according to my supervisor). i'm tired of getting coworkers that don't have any initiative to do any work, and get away with stuff that i would get fired over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 I hate people that dont their **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 saw zombieland. it sucked. went to quaker steak and lube afterwards, tried an atomic wing...ordering it next time i go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Dumb day at work. Meetings. Then some meetings. Then lunch. Then some more meetings. Then I went home. Life is still basically craptastic... though my mood has lightened (somewhat.) Tonight: I think I'll have something to eat; re-string my Strat; check out ODST; then read a bit until I fall asleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 saw zombieland. it sucked. so far with people I know its about 12-1 good to bad opinions of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 today when I was waiting for a veterans club meeting at the school, I ran into an Amry ROTC guy just going away on a piano in one of the ballrooms this guy was awesome, literally he said he had been playing since he was 5yrs old, and it showed or rather it was heard. things like that I would like to learn a little :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 ^ ed would be happy to help move a piano into your house... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 O rly? Huh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 ^ ed would be happy to help move a piano into your house... hehehehehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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