piratepete

There are times when our hands are tied and there is nothing we can do, this is a hard place to be in, especially for me when my job is to help people. Most people assume that being a corpsman my job is to sew people up, and to hand out meds for the common cold. There are times when my job takes me to...
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Talking to my daddy on his dying bed, With a smile on his face, this is what he said

When i came out of my mothers womb, I found myself in the delivery room,

All bloody and wet i rappelled to the floor, Cut the umbillicord and crawled to the door

Camouflage diaper, black baby shoes, Butter knife sword and baby dress blues

Humvee stroller,...
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Stupid Stealers!!!!

OK I'm not much of a football fan, but this game was kind of important to me. Having been born and broght up around diehard Seahawks fans I was really excited to see them go to the superbowl. During the first quarter I thought that they had a chance. Then everything fell apart in typical Seattle fashion. Oh well at least they made...
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THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY!!!!!\ Talk about a long week,

This week however I earned my pay several times over. All sorts of crazy shit, and I just had to be on duty during most of it. Today was a bit of a reprieve, I got a lot of stuff taken care of, and today put it all back into perspective for me. I got to...
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Take what should have been a normal and add some contractors that can't get stuff done on time and throw in their unscheduled overtime and my normal watch 2-5 and it now becomes 2-9:45!!! Oh well at least its just one day, or is it?

So there I was locking up the clinic after the contractors were done for the night when I hear a...
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This just hasn't been my week for getting any errands taken care of, my list of things that I have not been able to accomplish just keeps getting longer and longer every day I'm getting a little tired of this. I ment to get my passport taken care of yesterday, but the photo shop where I was going to go get my photo taken was...
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So I've got to have a certifiable copy of my birth certificate to get my passport and I knew that I had one somewhere, but in all the moving I have done in the last few years I've managed to lose track of it Not something that you want to do especially if your on a deadline. I spent a couple of days last week...
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Well no more reving the engine in neutral, or spinning my tires life has shifted into gear and hit the fast track 2006 has thrown me a curve ball, but I've connected with it and sent it soaring towards the bleachers and it doesn't look like its going to stop there... its going out of the park with the bases loaded!

Life is funny this...
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Today was well today, nothing special, nothing bad, it was just a day. Actually it was kind of boring, really boring (now I am going to pay for this tomorrow). There really wasn't anything worth writing down here that happened, no windstorms, no close encounters with traffic on the way in or on the way home. Ah, wait I know the highlight of my day...
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