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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
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11:35 pm - growing up
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Ever look at your friends you've had for a while and compare them to how they used to be a couple of years back? I did and fuck: why am I the only one without a damn beard. It's only when you lose what you took for granted that you truly realize what you had. I miss you beard, I truly do.
current mood: beardless
current music: prodigy
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| Friday, December 31st, 2004
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6:51 am
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so i was supposed to go to mainland japan in january for about 6 weeks to be on a working party for a field exercise. that is getting canceled. i do however get to go to sri lanka for humanitarian aid. i'm excited as shit. i'm not really looking forward to all the death but i am happy that i will get to play a small part in aiding a small area so devastated in the past few days. i know it sounds cliche, but i really am. i don't know how soon i'm leaving, maybe later today or sometime this week, but they told us we could be in country for 60 days.
current mood:  excited
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| Saturday, November 20th, 2004
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2:38 pm
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| Sunday, November 14th, 2004
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2:43 pm - away
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Sorry I haven't called or written or anything all that much. I always forget there's 13 hour difference and always remember at bad times I want to call home. Okinawa is beautiful, I've been on the rifle range twice, been on two field exercises and I've got another coming up in january. I like my shop and I'm doing my job well. I'll try to get some pics up soon.
current mood:  contemplative
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| Monday, July 19th, 2004
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7:52 am - a couple more days
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the moving place is coming to get all my shit today
i cant fucking wait to get back to florida
i miss my friends and family
i miss rain
i miss doing jack shit all night with my best friends and not giving a fuck
i will do my absolute best to see everyone that i know and love
if i know you i almost certainly love you
im sorry if i miss seeing anyone, 20 days just isnt enough to see everyone ive met in the last 8 years
current mood:  chipper
current music: Radiohead - Everything in Its Right Place
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| Thursday, July 8th, 2004
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1:57 am
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why is trying to avoid heart ache so hard? why can't i be a better person? I am manipulative and obnoxious. I am stubboron and i care littly for the feelings of others when fulfilling my own whims. I am detatched and emotionally inept. I don't trust myself in situations when others might be counting on me fore something other than a cheap laugh or a shallow comment or something emotionally involved. i am quite well versed in small talk and sounding smarter than i actually am but i find myself speechless when asked how i feel. i dont even know why im writing this.
current mood:  indescribable
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| Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
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12:45 am
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im getting ready for a wall locker inspection and nothing makes you feel like a bigger douchebag than 6 pair of neatly pressed and folded whitey tighties
current mood:  awake
current music: adult swim
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| Friday, May 28th, 2004
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11:09 pm - fucking right
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I got my fucking orders today. 3rd ELMACO, Camp Kinser. That means I get to go to Okinawa, for two fucking years. And I get about 30 days leave before I go. Since ELMACO'S ['Electronic Maintinance Company's' I'm a marine, i have to talk in acronyms] rarely deploy, there is very little chance I'll be going to Iraq, Korea, or any of the other hot spots. That does give me an oppertunity to take college courses or get a second job in my spare time. I can't fucking wait.
current mood: excited
current music: Amon Tobin - Fast Eddie
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12:30 pm - on the moon, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with moon rocks.
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lets give it up for the tampa bay lightning. 4 to 1 and 4 fucking fights in the third period alone. game three saturday. my ac finally got fixed and my room is deliciously freezing. time for bed. i have to wake up for the 0530 company run tomorrow. well today actually. in about 4.5 hours.
current mood:  cold
current music: aquateen hunger force
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| Sunday, May 23rd, 2004
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11:11 pm
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today i bought a razor that vibrates. i have never wanted to shave so badly in my life.
current mood: amazed
current music: futurama
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| Thursday, May 20th, 2004
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5:49 pm
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i realized today that everyday is like going to a birthday party because i get ice cream and cake for lunch. and not on a paper plate either, it's in a styrafoam cone. delicious.
current mood:  good
current music: Grooverider - Cybernetic Jazz
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| Monday, May 17th, 2004
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4:30 pm - as i lay dying, in flames, and killswitch engage
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fucking amazing show. i havent been to one in quite some time. rob and i got lost on the was to san diego and ended up in el cajon but eventually made to the show none the less. just about everyone there looked like they were wearing fucking uniforms. 80% of them were wearing black shirts, about 50 of them were "that guy" [the guy who wears the shirt of the band he's going to see, pcu] and they all looked like the just got done binge shopping at hot topic. just about all the guys were either too young to grow facial hair or had the thinning, i shave once a week to make it grow faster, patchy beard. i almost felt old. its good to know that everything is the same everywhere i go. i rocked out hard as fuck and i think i broke my hand. as i lay dying was rockin my fucking socks and hat off. and someone stole my wallet.
current mood: tuckered out
current music: Massive Attack v Mad Professor - radiation ruling the nation - protection
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| Monday, May 3rd, 2004
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12:49 am - fuck
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Mission accomplishment first, troop welfare second. Although I wholeheartedly believe that mission accomplishment should be foremost to a marine, these past three weeks have been fucking ridiculous. since were behind, we've been going to work for 12 hours a day and 6 days a week and its getting rather tiresome. I understand coming in extra hours to complete our projects, but the whole fucking class is behind and that can’t be a coincidence. Thankfully our SSgt decided that we had been working too hard and gave us this past Saturday off. Of course my room fails field day and I have to stay on base to get my room re-inspected Saturday morning. As I'm making a final sweep for dust on every single horizontal surface in the room, the assistant duty noncommissioned officer comes to our room to get Alba for the duty he was supposed to stand that he happened to be 15 minutes late for. Since the fat fuck never exercises on his own, he has like 8 stress fractures in his legs and has a no duty chit for the next four months. He being unable to stand duty was told to find a replacement, namely his room mate, i.e. me. He couldn’t sit behind a desk for 24 hours but he sure could sit on is fat ass in the fucking room the whole fucking time and watch TV. So I posted for duty at 0720 Saturday at the duty desk downstairs in my building and wasn’t relieved until 0715 Sunday morning getting a total of 2.5 hours of sleep the entire time. I had planned on going home and suprising everyone for the 4 days we got off for memorial day weekend but it turns out i have rover duty twice during the 96 so that idea is pretty much fucking shot. On Friday I left the lenses to my microscope uncovered and when we get caught for that we normally get assigned a 500 word essay on lens safety. As it so happened earlier that day smith also got caught with his lenses uncovered, but that happened to be the 3rd time he got caught. so instead of writing a 500 word essay, he had to write a 2000 word essay. My instructors decided that we should write a 2500 word play together. At the end of the day Jamie also got his lenses taken upping the word count to 3000 words. We never got together so here I sit struggling to create some bullshit to make it past 292 words. I put in for Okinowa and I think I'm going to get it but, my instructor got an email from one of his former students. it turns out that although his job is to fix crypto boards and solder little fucking shit, right now he and one of his classmates are in Falluja on security patrolls.
current mood: peeved
current music: prefuse 73 - 360
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| Thursday, April 22nd, 2004
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10:41 pm
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so my roommate is a fat disgusting fuck. abla is about the biggest shitbag marine i ahve ever seen and, of course, he's one rank above me because his recruiter gave him two referals and he's been in the marine corps a grand total of 2 months more than me. the mutherfucer falls out of every run we go on, even the fuckin easy ones; the ones where i could take a break, beat off, drink some hot cocca and still be up front. so one morning like 2 weeks ago, the mutherfucker falls out of yet another run and goes directly to BAS (batalion aid station) while we keep running. so after the run, i go back to my room to take a shower and im greeted to a pair of shit stained whitey tighties in the middle of my fucking floor. the bitch fucking shat himself. he walkes like an ape who got shot in the ass. at our work stations, i sit directly across from him and when he works he looks like a fucking orangutang. me and about 3 other marines in my class about shit our fucking pants when the fat fuck ate two banannas during a break. the fucker eats constantly and smells like shit and i want to stab him in the neck with a hot soldering iron.
current mood:  aggravated
current music: in flames - dead alone
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| Wednesday, March 10th, 2004
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9:57 pm - fuckin right doggie
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so in total i ran about 10 miles today
fucking 7 for pt, up 3 heinous mountains:
one about 30 degrees; another about 45 degrees, made of sand, which we did sprints up; and the last about 60 degrees, made of loose sand, which we had to crawl up at the end.
me, warren and hay always lift after work. warren was like "lets go" and hay said "i'm tired," so i was like "fuck that." i started my laundry and thought to myself 'well ninjas dont get to be ninjas by sitting around on their asses.' so i ran about a mile to the chow hall, got some chow, then ran about another mile to the gym, lifted, and ran back. then we watched ninja scroll. in soldering we use this stuff called flux that is a resin based soldering aid and i think i ate some because im feeling toreup as fuck
current mood:  sick
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| Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
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11:13 pm - updog
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i got my mos (miliatry occupational specialty) today and its 2881, microsoldering. i can look forward to staying in 29 palms for five more months with next to no chance of going back to tally because i graduate bec, my first course the 11th and my followon school picks up the 12th. i can also look forward to soldering tiny, tiny components for about 5 years. the soldering instructor passed around a circuit board and said 'do you see the resistors that are about the size of the tip of a pencil? well all the 81's, that is what you're going to be working on.' with the exception of the reservists, my entire class got fucked into that mos. and i totally fell out of my chair because i had to lean back, not thinking of the height or the wheels on the bottom of the chair and fucked up my thumb. on the other hand, at the end of the day i asked sgt gooch (yes his name is gooch);
'are we going to learn about updog tomorrow?'
'what?'
'updog.'
and i kid you not he said;
'what the fuck is updog?'
i would have said 'not much sgt, how about you?' but i was trying to keep from shitting in my pants from laughing so hard. they whole class exploded because ive been trying that joke on our other instructors for about a month now. he looked at me, chuckled and said 'you'll get yours next pt day.'
so he's probably going to run us about 7 miles but it was totally worth it.
here's pics of me beating gigowski's ass as a ninja and us ziptying him to his rack for his birthday and some shots of beautiful california
current mood:  sore
current music: the daily show
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| Sunday, February 29th, 2004
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12:40 am
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i left base at around 0900 with dial, barry, gigowski and carlton to go snowboarding. the car overheats about 2 miles out from the base so we get it to a nearby gas station and barry and i found a lose hose, fixed it, filled the radiator reservoir and tried to start the car. now antifreeze shoots out of the thermostat housing. i skate about a mile and a half to repair shops and all i get is, 'we don't fix vw's because we can't get the parts for 'em' or 'the earliest we could look at it would be monday.' i call lane up and he drives me back out to my car and we try to tighten the thermo housing with absolutely no success at all. carlton calls a cab and when the cabbie gets there he says 'do you need any help, i've been a mechanic for about 15 years.' he looks at it and he says that the thermo housing gasket is loose and we could fix it ourselves with some tools and silicon and he gives us his number if we need any more help. after 20 minutes of no progress at all, we cal the guy and he agrees to fix my shit for 30 bucks. he comes out and the guy is cool as fuck, ex-army and funny as shit. so he fixes the motherfucker and i'm getting all excited because i’m gonna see snow for the first time and shit and he says 'crank it.' *insert atrocious engine sound* turns out i blew a head gasket too. i could get just the upper half of the engine fixed, which would cost about 800 bucks and it will probably drop a rod within a week, or i can totally replace the engine, which in gonna run some where between 1500 and 2000 bucks. so i got the car towed back to the barracks and slept for about 6 hours.
current mood: indescribable
current music: DJ Danger Mouse - My 1st Song
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| Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
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11:26 pm - fun stuff
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pft
18 pull ups
100 crunches
3mi in 21:28
all with only 4 hours of sleep
i love my job
current mood:  accomplished
current music: Moloko - I Want You
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| Sunday, February 8th, 2004
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11:04 pm - Moto Tat
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| Friday, July 25th, 2003
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4:40 pm - this is what i know so far
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Pvt. Binitie
590269219
Plt. (platoon #)
Company (company designation)
(battalion #) Battalion
Recruit Training Regiment
Marine Corps Depot
Parris Island, SC 29905
Everybody give me your addresses.
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