June 30th, 2011

  My squad was deployed three klicks from the forest where the opfor was situated. After extensive weapon and gear checks we began to move to engage the enemy. As we moved across the field our scout was sent in to the woods to ascertain the enemies location. The squad broke into a loose formation, I moved close to the tree line and scanned it for any form of movement, seeing none I returned to the squad to await the scout’s return. Upon his arrival it was clear the opfor was encamped on the far side of the bridge in a small clearing. Our squad broke in two and I lead the half sent to double around and strike the foe from behind. Creeping through the underbrush we crossed the river where it tapered into a murky pond. We cut through the forest and emerged on a dirt path, dropping to a crouch we peered into the woods looking for sign we were close to the opfor. Seeing the colors of their clothing through the woods we removed our guns from safety and slowly approached them. As gun fire erupted from the opposite side of the bridge it became clear the rest of our squad had engaged the enemy. I crept further along the path and seeing an opportunity I raised my rifle to my shoulder and fired off a burst, narrowly missing its target. Gaining a foothold we found cover in the surrounding undergrowth, the men poured it on the enemy and several were seen fall. After a lull in the firing, I called to the far half of the squad. To my dismay the line was silent as first, quickly calling again I received word they had taken considerable losses and that a few lingering enemies had fallen back into the woods and were likely to return fire. Signaling my squad we back tracked to a small crater and set up along it’s perimeter. Hunkering down we checked our guns and waited for the opfor to engage us. I edged up to the lip of the crater crawling across the forest floor, I managed to catch sight of a enemy taking cover behind a large rock. Firing a stream of suppressive fire I dropped back into the crater to inform my comrades were our foe was. Enemy rounds raked the ground above us, several soaring over our heads. We’d fire at them and duck into cover and they’d fire at us and drop to the shelter of the rocks. After while it became obvious our enemy had no intention of leaving his cover and I felt it was going to be us to make the first move. I informed my comrades of my plan and told them to give me supporting fire. Propelling myself from the crater I griped my rifle dove for cover, the opfor seeing my movements rose to give fire. A bullets whizzed by and one clipped my knee, dropping to the ground I looked up towards my foe. By firing at me they had left their cover and in a few bloody moments my squad had reduced their remaining numbers. After a quick inspection of my wound I judged it to be superficial and applied a simple dressing. My squad reformed under the cover of trees in the woods, several of the members who had previously fallen back with wounded had found their way back to the main group.

  As we were preparing to return to the base camp we received a message from command informing us of another group of opfor massing on a near by hill. I told them of our decreased numbers and it was almost sure we’d be going up against a stronger force and victory was unsure. Yet we were given orders and we were expected to follow them. The hill side was winding and studded with rocky terrain. Looking grimly up the hill face I could see the enemy and it became clear this would be a hard fought battle. As we slowly made our way up the hill enemy guns opened up on us, several of my comrades fell grasping at their wounds, I called for us to take cover behind the great rocks in front of us. The opfor unleashed bitter fire upon our positions, I could hear the cries of those unlucky enough to have been hit. I looked to our right and saw several enemy sharpshooters threatening our flank the utter futility of the situation dawned on me. Grasping my rifle I fired a quick burst at the rapidly advancing enemy. I saw the man at my side take a round to the face, entering under his right eye. I grimly turned to face our opponents just as a bullet clipped my left ear. I clutched at my wound and saw the many dead lying around me. I shouted for a retreat and the men broke from cover and fell back towards the stream. Under a hail of fire several men dropped to the ground and ceased moving. We fled across the water and ran through the underbrush hardly taking the time to watch our footing or vegetation in our path. As we burst from the treeline I turned to inspect our depleted numbers; far fewer of the men who set out this morning now stumbled from the woods grasping at their wounds. As we set back to camp I knew we had suffered a great defeat this day… Hopefully the next conflict will go in our favor and drain our foe of their numbers as they did ours.

Hello,

   I shall not lie, my day did not begin amazingly. I awoke at a late hour as I was up late the night before. So I mostly sat around, played on my pc and basked in the pure fantasticness of myself. Yet this would soon change…. Around 6:08 pm my chum proposed the idea we go on a adventure. So I swiftly readied myself and awaited my ride. First we went to a local establishment and partook of their selection of Ice Cream. I got the German chocolate, generally speaking I don’t typically choose the chocolate but as it was German I had to get it. While waiting in line and talking with my comrade in arms Tyler this short strange man thought it was a good idea to join our conversations. The pure gaul of this man was shocking, he was much shorter than I or my companions and I wanted nothing to do with him or his ideas…. Finally we managed to break away and flee from him before we were forced to destroy him.

    After finishing our ice cream we went on a hike around the wooded area of thee local park. This in itself was nothing much yet when we decided to scale the sheer cliff side it soon became apparent that this was to be a strenuous task.. We began the difficult climb and at one point I was sure Tyler was going to fall to his demise and neither Me or Chum would be able to save him. Yet luckily we all survived the climb, a little worse for wear. When we came upon the top I was shocked, the magnificent sight we were promised was hardly worth seeing. After some grumbling it became apparent that no one really knew how to get back to our base camp. Although some of our party began to complain and panic me and Chum knew that as long as we went downwards we’d be able to find our way to civilization. As we emerged from the rocky tree line and waled down the clearing I felt relived that the forces of nature didn’t in fact consume us and further brought about the realization of mans supremacy.

   Upon returning to my humble home My Chum and I set about battling with others upon the battle field that is Xbox Live. While there we encountered several people seemingly possessing super human attributes. I realized the key to success was to question them and learn the source of their skills. After long hours of interrogation I managed to determine these people were gypsies and their skills drew from a mighty reservoir of dark magic. Realizing I was walking the razor’s edge I bid them to teach us the ways of dark magic, they manged to learn us their methods… After truly seeing the gifts is brings I felt dirty and tainted. Managing to wash my hands of their foul ways I plan to launch a crusade against such perversions of a once great experience.

Hello,

  I hope you can forgive the fact I haven’t posted in a few days. In a previous post I made note of how you should always beable to write at least something in a day, this is true but there is one thing I left out. I was simply to lazy to do it right away and then I forgot about it.. It’s a shame but it happens and frankly this is my blog so I really don’t care if this has bothered you. Hmmm I think I should talk about something interesting now. 

   Did you know almost no aquatic mammals are omnivores? If you say “yes of course!!” then your a dirty liar and I’d be happy if I never had to talk to you again. This is primarily as most marine mammals such as whales and dolphins are descendents from canine creatures that over a long period of time became aquatic in nature. Initially they began to live near the water as it was a easy source of food, extremely slowly they began to gain characteristics through random mutation that allowed them to become more efficient as getting food from the sea. For example if one baby was born with webbed toes or slightly larger lungs he’d be more efficient than his kin and would hunt well and breed to pass on his genes and over time this mutation would become part of the whole of the species. As they evolved to live in the ocean they became more adapted to hunt fish and other aquatic organisms. You can tell by looking at the teeth of most Aquatic mammals as they are all the same they are only intended to eat one food source. as I’m writing this I realize that Manatees are aquatic mammals and eat plants not fish… Well screw the manatees and I now I vow to slaughter and devour a manatee if I find one.

    Also today I began playing a game called Team Fortress 2 on my pc. It’s a fps type game that revolves around choosing various different classes and battling rival teams. It became free to play off Steam so I decided that now was them time to play as I don’t need to pay for it. I’m enjoying it but I doubt I’m gonna go into great detail about it as I doubt anybody wants to hear it.

    While searching the internet I began thinking that it would be rather cool to buy a WWII Russian Commissar uniform to play airsoft in. Why? Because I can. Well actually I guess I can’t as i don’t have the spare money to buy an accurate one. Hopefully when I get job soon I’ll have money to spend on such things. This could also be a bad thing as if I have money I’ll need to avoid spending it on pointless things. I believe this is all I’m going to write, I apologize this post is so bad but I’m not quite sure what to write about this evening.

Hey,

   I’m sure everyone if familiar with the quote “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” as said by American president FDR. yet like most quotes or sayings this wasn’t very original. Sir Francis Bacon said “Nothing is terrible except fear itself” generally speaking the same thing was said. Yet things such as this are common and hardly a bad thing. It’s never bad to look back on history and adopt things that were well said or beneficial from the past. There’s really no point in not taking from history because it’s already been done or said that is if it was a good thing, repeating histories mistakes should try and be avoided. But as I was saying using examples from the past is typically good, although times change humans don’t.

  It true that everyone has fears, some people have more than others. Some might say some people’s fear is irrational, I disagree completely. People are individuals and have their individual likes and dislikes and nobody really has the right to dictate whether these are right or wrong. Unless of course you enjoy killing and dismembering defenseless girl scouts or the like. I have no right to say what if anybody else’s fears are ridiculous and they have no right to judge me. If someone is deathly afraid of moths I shouldn’t criticize just because I don’t share his or her’s fear as I very well might fear something they don’t. I’m very much in favor of the whole “live and let live” mind set. But I believe I’ve said enough about that now let me talk about my fears.

  Personally my biggest fear could be doing something accidentally and receiving a harsh punishment and having to way out. Not meaning to do something yet because of it I’m held responsible and have no method of defending myself. maybe accidentally hurting or killing someone in a car accident and being charged with vehicular man slaughter or the like. I hardly meant to hurt anyone, yet imprisonment it my penalty and I have no way of avoiding it. The inability to redeem myself. I have another even odder example, Imagine falling in with a band of cattle thieves yet you fear leaving as you could invoke their anger. Because your associating with these people when their caught your sentenced to hang with them… You made a bad mistake at first yet your trapped in a situation and because of that one mistake your signed your life away. I’m not sure if I made sense her or if I just kind of rambled here but regardless here it is. I have more fears of course but I figure I’ll save them for latter.

Howdy,

   At the moment I’m currently hit with two emotions, Frustration and worse Frustration. And I don’t know why I capitalized frustration either. The reason for this frustration is I had already wrote much of this post yet my computer decided it would be a good idea to become sluggish and stop working. Realizing I must restart my computer I quickly sprung into action. While I watched the screen go black I wept bitter tears over all my lost work. And I wasn’t alone in the displeasure of restarting my Laptop; I simply felt such a horrible hate radiating from this machine and I knew that if it possessed limbs it would try to strike at me. Luckily this is a computer and I am man and I hold dominion over this mechanical fiend. Hmmmm I think it would be best to get on with my intended point.

  Today I tackled two exams, oceanography and gym. If I said they were difficult or taxing upon my soul it would be untrue. I believe I approached each and left them maimed upon the field of battle after a very one sided conflict. Frankly I believe one would have to put concious effort to fail the gym test. If by some cruel joke I do poorly I will honestally question my idenitiy as a thinking being.

  After the exams I went on a grand adventure with my Chum, we stopped at a quintessential example of Cumberland fine dining. After we finished with out extravagant meal we partook in a few games of hockey. Although I have not mastered the skill of ice skating I believe I preformed admirably considering, even though I was bested. Then we went on a journey to see the Mama Shaw. I think I won’t go too far into details about the Shaw, maybe I’ll save those for another another post. But in general It was a good day!

  I wont lie, I was almost not going to make an entry today. I could say because I was studying hard for my finals or that my life was in the way but frankly those would be blatant lies. I’m not studying for my finals as I never study, is this a good quality? Hardly, it’s a flaw. I hate to brag but for the most part but I can get by easily by just paying attention in class, but this is also a problem. I know when I approach college and go farther in life failing to study is going to hurt me. I’m sure I could achieve higher grades and such but I don’t have the drive to be the best because frankly what will that get me? I have a higher average than other kids, so? Does that make me superior? Not at all. Does that guarantee me a job and good life? Hardly. I really doubt that doing better on a algebra quiz than the kid next too me is going to dramatically influence my life, and if it would I’m not sure I’d really want it.

  And with life and problems, I don’t believe you can be in such a hard spot that you cant write a paragraph or two in a day. Unless of course you lose both arms and you don’t have a computer or manner of writing accessible using ones toes or teeth. But if your in that situation writing is truly the least of your problems. My life is complicated at time, I deal with stress and frustration yet I try not to show it or complain. Really simply because I’m not alone, everybody feels and deals with this, its only a manner of how one deals with it and how they show it. What is the point of complaining? Why wallow in your own self pity? It may just be me but seeing people whine and complain hardly makes me feel bad for them or make me want to help… If anything the opposite happens, I find it repulsing. If you need help then seek help, I’m willing to help anyone who asks, yet if your more concerned with announcing how bad your situation is then you’ll get little help from me. When it comes down to it, no matter what your going through at the moment some one has it the same or worse then you. What can really be accomplished by sitting in a mess of your own self pity? Nothing excapt furthering ones belife they come before everybody else. When you fall you don’t lie down and whine and call eveybody around you too see your scraped knee, no you pick yourself up and keep walking and if you can’t find somebody to help you to your feet; because if you look there will be somebody there to help if you need it.

  This post was much more serious than my previous, yet I’m using this to voice my opinions and there not all about gypsies or mermaids. I think quite a bit about other more serious things even if I’m lighthearted around people. Because in generality life is a serious affair and your goal is not to let it bog you down. No need to drown yourself if you can swim.

Hello Fellow Catfish Enthusiasts,

     Yesterday I watched a Japanese animal planet documentary on Mermaids. I must say initially I was positive nothing I was gonna see was going to sway my belief on the existence of mermaids. I was watching and learned a few facts about the Dolphin and Whale and such, rather interesting really yet the mermaid stuff was a bit hard to grasp really… I understand most of the oceans are unexplored and such but that’s hardly evidence pointing to their existence. Say “well there’s no proof they don’t exist, so obviously they must” Is really a weak ass argument and rather annoying. But they had some doctors on saying their opinions on various sounds recorded and how human evolution could have possibly lead to the existence of mermaids…… Yet there was one thing missing, really the most important thing.. the FACTS! But regardless I continued to watch it out of boredom and fear; Only to be shocked with something rather horrific at the end…. a disclaimer came up that said…. get ready…. it’s all fake. What a colossal kick in the pants, the “doctors” were just actors, the recorded noises were fake, the grainy photos with fish with supposed spear wounds were altered. What a pathetic excuse for a show, really I wanted to watch a documentary about mythical beasts not such a rampant sham. Frankly at this point I’m not sure if I’m more angry at the Japanese for this or my mother for bringing me into such a world………..

Hello,

    Today it seems I’ve embarked upon a journey, a road less traveled if you will.. Today I’ve…….. I was going to talk more about this but I think it’s boring and I’m not gonna because it’s my damn site thing and I don’t have too if I don’t want to. So I was thinking it should be legal to hunt gypsies, they don’t benefit society in anyway and frankly who would care if they were horrifically butchered over a short period of time? Really it’ll help the economy as certain national parks can become hunting zones for these gypsies, this will bring tourism in the forms of hunters coming from all around the globe. Also who wouldn’t like a nice gypsy leather lamp shade or a gypsy bone hairbrush? If any wealthy people happen to read this and like the idea please contact me, we can work an agreement out.

 Sam