Funny enough, I feel thats what I've done here (panel 3 anyway)
I will not really be expecting any reads since I haven't posted in nearly a full year (I did post last August...)
Anyway, on to whats going on in my life
NAVY
Thats right, I'm planning on shipping out to sea. Joining the finest fighting force in the world, and the strongest naval force in the entirety of history.
I lost my job back on March 31st, and I should stab my alarm clock (its had it out for me since day one) for having let me down like that although I do accept that losing my job was my responsibility. That same day, I headed straight to the NAVY recruitment office and filled out the initial paperwork. A few weeks passed and I took the ASVAB test and scored high with a 97 (natl. avg. is 50 btw). Ahem... I'll spare you the details of the physical three days later, but this all qualified me for the Navy nuclear program (I am a smartass). So the weeks passed by and the most work I've done has been for the NAVY recruiting office (of course the pay for a non-employee is lunch). Its now been a couple months and I've received a couple emails back, though I'm assuming they were automated replies, my ability to do push-ups has not increased, and my social ties are not becoming more copious. I may turn back to writing (but on my own for a change), although I find that I may become bored with it unless my own written content intrigues me enough. But even if I do turn back to writing, I have a guaranteed job coming in February at the latest.
On the topic of my job: for the first two years of service, I'll be getting paid to take the courses required to become a NF-MM/EE/EM (Nuclear Field - Machinist Mate/Electrical Engineer/Electrician's Mate (at least thats how I remember it, but it could be wrong)). I'll be getting paid to take courses, so that means my grades could be like what they were in college when I had quit my job at McDonalds, but I'll aim to make them better than that so I can choose my ideal post (on a Navy super-carrier (the biggest and arguably the coolest machines to see the open sea), on the Pacific Ocean)((PARDON THE PARENTHESIS!)).
Life (rant)
Honestly, I've been severely bored since I lost my job. I keep busy by riding my bicycle for ridiculous distances around the Dallas Metroplex. I made a 60 mile loop last week even (the commuter train system helped on 17 of those miles - I was pooped). I've put in dozens of job applications too, I suppose I am just not what companies are looking for right now... I may have to do a job in foodservice again - I've been avoiding them. I'm trying to get myself together until the Navy calls for me which could be anytime - moving back with mom and dad, consolidating/giving to friends and neighbors all the furniture I wont be needing, and getting that job - whatever it is.
Anime
Yup, I can't drop it and I wont try. I can just watch what I've seen before and loved. My absolute favorite completed anime YuYu Hakusho was first. Watching it all the way through (its also better in the English translation). If you haven't seen it all the way through, you have indeed missed a masterpiece greater than the abridged version of Dragonball Z (see youtube, its amazing). As for what's next on the anime flashback express - who knows? If I keep posting, I'll let you know.
Questions:
1. Are you a United States Citizen? (if not, pardon the questions since they don't apply to you)
2. Have you read the Declaration of Independence lately?
3. The Constitution?
4. Are you or a close relative in the US armed forces?
5. Would you be willing to live your life in defense of those documents and the liberties and rights they provide United States citizens with?
6. Do you feel that the United States is as free as it once was?
My Answers:
1. Yup, and just as important, I'm a citizen of Texas.
2. I have, I need to find my copy of it again (seems I lost it somewhere in my room)
3. yes
4. I'm a future sailor in the Navy and proud of it, both of my grandfathers were enlisted in the armed forces - army and navy - during WWII.
5. I made that decision when I walked into that recruiting office, and I sealed that decision when I gave my oath. I will not take my service lightly or let it go to waste. I intend to defend those documents to the best of my ability and return every opportunity given to me back to the people who paid for them.
6. I certainly feel there is work to be done in this regard. There was once a time when men were more free. Free to defend themselves as well as their property against not just each other, but their governors. It has not been perfect, but that is accounted for in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence "In order to preserve a MORE perfect union". Making the union more perfect with every change is the intended goal, not punishing the innocent citizens with restrictive and demeaning laws because of either ancestral wrongdoing or perhaps the criminally ill-thought intent to be master of the people that the government was originally set up to serve. I have no room for apologies for the past in regards to the ancestral sins, because I do not take part in the reasoning for the sin of slavery and never have, and as for the latter - the intent to control people and their success or failure is dangerous and foolhardy when you look at every time it is tried in history.
By the way - I welcome all debate in case you disagree with any part of my answer. You must be willing to back up your points with reference data however, since I am not a fan of fact-checking without listed references.
-Krustyknuckles
