Well just letting ya all know that I am alive and well here in swealtering Keeseler Mississippi. I passed my first block of exams with a 95% passing grade and would have of had higher if I hadnt changed 4 of my answers. My test taking skills are a still a lil bit on rusty side but I am getting back into the swing of it now. Things are great and I should soon be phased up, or in other words given more privelages. I am happy, healthy and safe and just wanted to update y'all on that info, and to also change the header of my blog with something my TI said at BMT. Something I feel is significant and has helped me to rediscover my competitive fiery side that mixes perfect with my humble side.

Easter Eggs abounding!! Im sure some of you have found this page and secrets so to you below me...for the rest, this is a treat of a link as it has 'easter eggs' for like every movie. Easter Eggs, enjoy

I am not going to write too much today, just letting everyone know that I am at my first Tech School in lovely Mississippi. And I find it weird that I am using the words 'lovely' to descrbe this state. For if this were a year ago there would have of been no way in hell I would have of used that adjective. Tech School is wayyyyyyyyyy different from BMT, I like to describe in this way "College on Steroids". That is what Tech School is, a college atmosphere only with people in uniform during duty hours. After duty hours (from 4:30 PM) reminds me a hell of a lot like my old Alma Matta. I have been made a student leader in my dorm and what that means is a quicker promotion to my next pay grade, or "Under the Zone" as they like to say around here. I have to wait to take the officers candidate exam because there is a saturation of degrees in the Air Force right now. But it is better that I am enlisted first cause it will give me a better perspective of the regulars persons gripes and strengths if I ever make it that far. Long story short, I like it hear at Tech School, and to a degree miss BMT. What I am going to get out of the military is going to far outweigh what I put into it (Montgomery GI Bill, Tuition Assistance Programs, benefits, etc). I cant believe I allowed myself to put a hold on this decision earlier...but there is no time for regret, only progress. As my old TI would say.

Goddamn, that is where some of my funnier stories about the military come from is BMT. My TI was an awesome man and treated us wayyyyyy different from how other TI's would treat their flights. Ours kicked ass, helped us to tap into our full potential and we responded by winning quite a few streamers over 20 other flights. I know that I personally improved physically under his tutelage and am now exercising again like I used to. Our TI also used to make some of the funniest goddamn comments from time to time. For example when we werent performing too well in a day the guy would stop us in the march on the drill pad and ask "What? Do you miss your ugly/nasty lil girlfriends". Definetly doesnt sound as funny here as it does in person, but I get home you will hear the impression that I do to make that much more funnier. The guy was great and I am glad that I was a part of his flight, and I made a few friends too while there.

This was a brief synopsis of my TI, cause to be honest this a story that will be better off told in person or heard over the phone. Other things I am taking part in here at Tech School is being part of the baseball team (and not softball/beerball), martial arts, and dorm leader. I am now doing things instead of talking about them, and it is paying off huge benefits for my soul. It is great to get away from the drama that I was allowing myself to get wrapped up in, and now laugh that I allowed myself to get upset with bullshit like that. Like Sgt. Burton says: "What you plant or bring to anything you do in life, is what your entire life will be like". Translation bring your heart and motivation to do things and you will go far and those who attack what you are all about do so out of fear and the fact that they cant do what you do.

Wow, I go away for a few weeks and the world goes up and changes itself...That is how I am feling right about now as I blo for the first tim since I have finished Basic Military Training. There will be more of a blog to come when I get more time on the internet, but just know for now (to those who really care) that I have changed and yet I am still the same in some ways. I feel like a million bucks as I have lost more than 25 pounds and am in pretty Goddamn kick ass shape. I know how to fire, reload and unjam an M-16 rifle and am not as adverse to Southern Weather as I believed I would be. I gotta say that before I left for BMT I was a bitter fucking idiot and what not. That is all I will say about that. The time away from home has given me time to contemplate a lot and realize that I need to get in touch with my inner being more than anything. Long story short, I am happy to be away from home and hope that I get the base choices that I have put down.

For now, just know that I am healthy, happy, and safe...and there shall be plenty of stories that will come from me, either echoed here on my blog or spoken to in-person...