I heard somewhere in college there's no rules. So i changed the "s" in days to a "z". That'll show the man how serious I am!
ANYWHO!
I dont know if i ever fully explained the title of my blog. Quarters for the machine is because of how expensive it is to do my laundry. Three bucks! for one load. That is, only if you actually want your clothes dry. a load for wash is one dollar (two loads for a full set of laundry) and then both can fit in one dryer. Which for 18 minutes of drying is only a quarter, but to get your clothes dry (because believe it or not, a dryer tends to just warm up your clothes, not make them toasty warm and dry in this freezing cold weather!) So i shove another buck of quarters in that evil machine.
Man it was good to hear from Dan today. Maybe too many stories of porn, but he's a grunt, I guess that's what he has to deal with. I was reading a milblog today about a
grunt, and he talks about what kind of a person he is. Referring to him hitting on a married woman, and things of that nature. So I guess they are all in the same boat? I dont know.
It is getting much colder here alot faster then I'd thought. We are on storming warning, it's suppose to snow tonight, but I doubt it'll do much more then frost. Im a little excited to see it snow up to my knees like I hear everyone talk about it being able to. And not a moment too late to have gotten a pair of boots in, they keep my feet warm, look good, and are really versatile in support, construction of the shoe itself, and just the range of control they give. I had this idea of buying a used or crappy electric blanket and rigging it up to a battery ripping out the heating junk, and sticking em' in a pair of long johns. So I'm warm, while im coaching football or walking in the snow. or in a class with no heating. In my apartment with no heating for that matter... Plus then I'd wear jeans ontop of them so now wind or anything.
I see this idea going two ways: First, Ill spend more money then I'd like on a finding an electric blanket and battery supply, it becomes a total success and doesnt snow or remain cold the rest of my stay here.
OR
I could Hook it up, and the second I hit a puddle of water, or a wire becomes bare, I get shocked to death. Well not to death, but a lot. Which I'd imagine is as bad as death.
Ok, so my day, I had NO classes. Both of my friday classes were cancelled. Which is cool, but I dont have a job, and everyone I know is in class. So I dont know what's better. to be able to chill at home watching some cool military channel stuff and reading for my middle eastern studies class. Or sittin in the library on campus so I can download another show about the modern combat rifle has every Nazi and Commie to thank for it's creation. I cant tell you how many episodes* of combat rifle (weapon, or combat in general) evolution I've seen that have reenacted the revolutionary war. And, another thing to note is that all the military historians are ex-marines and overweight.
So I've been lazing around the house. At night, I went to an ultimate frisbee game in sub-artic temperatures. Ihave my national guard jacket and my BIG rain coat on, with jeans, two pairs of tall socks, and my boots, and I was still cold. Today is MUCH worst, but no snow (If you cant tell I fell asleep writing this.)
But One of my FHE sisters called me and said they were watching a movie, so they came up to the stadium and picked me up. I was like an ice cube when they came by.
Later on, I met up with a kid from my military physical fitness class and went running. His name is Cash. And he's been the only consistentancey in running buddies. In class, He does much better then me on the running, so I run with some people in the back, for two reasons:
My selfish reason is because some of the girls are pretty cute and fun to talk to. Plus it looks good when I push them to not walk, to sprint, to finish off good.
AND
Because I COULD run a little further then them, thats where the gap in people is, so I have no one to talk to or pace with, so I will inevitably fall back to them anyways. So, it's just easier to push one or two people to move up there with me and make it look like it's easy for me or something to make look like a stud.
I have more pictures to upload to my website. But I really have to go up to campus to do it, the upload speed is crazy up there, I dont think any other students upload things often, Maybe little text or something, but not much of anything.
Well, I will talk to you guys later.
Tim
*Maybe four...WAY too many.