day 1 of quitting smoking for 30 days. I've entered a contest, and If I win I'll be really happy. If I dont though, I'm not sure whether or not I will take up smoking again. Only time will tell. My friends are mostly saying "I give you a week tops".

What do y'all think about Wisconsin?

the people are nice enough but i'd never live there or anywhere in the midwest

there's really only one thing to think about wisconsin: you support the workers. if not, you're among the first against the wall

I wanna visit the midwest just to see the sprawling valleys and nature stuff. The rest would probably be pretty boring. I want to go through arizona on a Harley or a bike like a Harley, does arizona count as midwest or is that too far east and south? Dunno I wanna go see the desert in the fall though that would be cool.

So we're gonna be headed into the Malaka straits soon (in the next two weeks I think) and an old chubby guy on here named Rusty Russ has been assigned pirate watch.

He's our QA (quality administrator) all he does all day is work in the office doing paperwork secretorial type stuff. He's never been in the military or stood any kind of watch as far as I know, he's pretty much an old fat hippy. The captain was bothering him about doing some kind of stuff to get ready for an audit and he didn't want to do it because he's pretty sure he's gonna get laid off soon. And he said he told the captain that.

I don't know if its a joke or not but the guys that told me were dead serious about it and I laughed my ass off. I think the captain gave poor old Rusty pirate watch because his job scope is kind of empty at this point. He was helping the clerk take calls but I don't think the clerk needs him anymore so I think the captain decided to stick him on the watch thing to be an asshole and not have to move me or my boss to the night shift in order to do it...

I kind of really hope this isn't real because there was an attack four days ago at where we're headed and I really don't think the old dude is up to it.

you had to think of them to bring them up in that post.

I'm down, gang. Way down. I want to be up.

do stuff that makes you forget you feel bad (tv, game, internet) until you forget how you feel is bad

or try counseling/therapy? I dunno, I haven't tried it but I've been thinking about it.

I'm down, gang. Way down. I want to be up.

who aint.

Someone once told me that volunteering is a good way to drag yourself outta the muck. I've actually been thinking about volunteering at my local food bank lately, if I can ever manage to roll out of bed and drag myself down the block to get there

in the winter i might be moving to either scotland or switzerland. either way, fun times ahead!

who aint.

Someone once told me that volunteering is a good way to drag yourself outta the muck. I've actually been thinking about volunteering at my local food bank lately, if I can ever manage to roll out of bed and drag myself down the block to get there

well I don't want to ruin it for you, but don't get your hopes up

reminds me though, after something pretty shitty happens to me I like to be super nice to strangers out of the blue when there's a chance. like I'm always considerate but when I'm feeling more down than usual it feels good to boost someone else up especially if something shitty just happened to them

Manning might get death penalty
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41876046/ns/us_news-security/

but charles manson is still alive.

Velf: I took a math test the other day about trig identities and the answer to one of the problems simplified to secxtanx. I thought of you and laughed quietly to myself.

arent you a bit young to bet aking math tests

I've never had a problem with Asian drivers before. I've heard the stereotype and the attending jokes, but I'd never actually seen a real example of it - until the other day when I had a guy decide to attempt an impromptu kamikaze run on the side of my car. It was five o'clock traffic, I was trying to make a turn onto the main artery out of the city after I was derailed from my shortcut by an unfortunate road closure/detour. A nice motorist helped me out by staying put to open up a slot for me before a red light put all motion in the lane to a halt. No oncoming traffic to worry about for the moment, I start to make my turn, which meant I had to cross the oncoming lane and a turning lane to get into the 5 o'clock queue. All of a sudden I have to stand up on my brakes to avoid a car. Apparently, the guy was in a hurry and got pissed that the other driver was letting me in, so he'd jerked into the turn lane and floored it to try and cut me off. Well, by now I had oncoming traffic cresting a not so distant hill, and a roadblock dead ahead of me. It wasn't bad enough he tried to squeeze into my slot, when I had to jam on the brakes, he decided to do the same - and just fucking sat there. With a muttered "fuck this" I threw it in reverse, gave myself enough room to swing around behind him so I could get into the pocket that the other guy had held open for me, but that the aggro driver had overshot by almost half a length in his rush of road rage. I got into my lane as it started moving again and tried to give the guy an out,  sitting there as the cars ahead of me got underway, but he just wouldn't budge so I gave up on him and drove on.

That wasn't the worst part for him though. Either because they saw that the guy had acted like a total dick, or because they were just in a hurry to get home, the whole line of traffic froze him out and left his car marooned in the relative safety of the turn lane, his right blinker pitifully conveying his urge to just get back in the lane he started from as lines of vehicles filed past in both directions.

After helping set up and sitting through a piracy attack scenario for a security drill today I can confidently say that we're all completely fucked.

I already told the chief mate I'm not going out on the main deck and holding a fucking fire hose and shooting it at a boat full of pirates with rifles, I'm not going to draw fucking fire so the officers can lock down the house and hide. I'm going to sit infront of the nearest hatch with my axe I just sharpened and wait for those motherfuckers to come inside. If they catch me and ask who is in charge I'm going to tell them because they are both goddamn idiots and do the stupidest fucking shit and make the stupidest fucking plans and its their fault if anyone actually boards this ship.
 
I'm not that worried about it because it prolly won't happen but there have been alot of attacks recently right at where we're headed and where we're going to anchor.
 
Those idiots want me to stand out on deck and shoot a 2 1/2 inch fire hose at pirates. And they want us all to go gather in the galley and lock the doors so they can blow them open and catch us all at the same time. Want to make sure eveyone isn't out in the open and is hiding in the house when the bridge can so easily get taken and if they take the bridge it doesn't matter where you hide because they can take the entire fucking ship and do what they want with it. The captain has got to be as close to legal retardation as you can get (I'm not joking) and the chief mate has no real experience going overseas and isn't taking this shit seriously.