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Well I flew back in to Cuba on Tuesday and five hours later I was back at work. I just woke up from my first real sleep of 4 hours since then. Goin back to work in a couple hours. Oh! this schedule. now I remember what I really just did NOT like about this place...the constant exhaustion. Won't be here much longer. We should...
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mirkwoodmaiden:
OOOOOH RAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

give it up for MRE bombs baby. lmao. i remember when i was stationed on lejune a few years ago when bonnie hit us. we all crammed in my buudies room and played cards and shot the shit till the sun started going down and mre's began being distributed. well when u have no power for the light is hard to play cards. so what do we do? we get out the heaters.............find a few coke bottles................BOOM!!!!!!!!! (we almost got busted too, lmao)
faith:
I love lemon poppyseed paistries, they make me happy..almost as much as the orange skittles do. Good lunch! I'm glad you made it to Cuba alright and your settling in, don't worry the time will pass quickly. Thank you for your comment in my journal yesterday, it ment a lot to me.
{{hugs}} Oh, hey, remember to check your teeth after eating anything with poppy seeds in em.
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Well the vacation is winding down to its conclusion. Tomorrow morning I fly back to Virginia to hop a military flight back to Cuba. I'll only be going back for a couple months, so that at least is ok.
things I got to do on my vacation (a report by Volkov)
1)got to hang out with my friends
2)got to see my cat. I missed...
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volkov:
Ok....just flew back into Cuba. *looks around as if daring anyone to make tired arms jokes...hefts machine gun*
I already miss home. well not San Antonio so much...but the people. It is really two different sets of people I deal with.
and I wish you could have joined us too Faith. we woulda taken you to a firedancing show and the opera and everything. I know what you mean about wanting to leave your life behind...but as was pointed out in a slightly uh...altered state of mind type conversation betwixt Howard and myself...you can never really leave your life behind...cause it's always you and it's always your life....even sometimes after you die...just like you cannot really "be somebody else" you can only be yourself being somebody else. oh and the Springs rule the universe. I definitly remember that being decided on as well. :-9

love and slack and squalor and hope and joy and pain and all that

V
girlblue:
Man, I was getting so used to you being around at all hours of the day...now you have to go back to the daily drudgery and our contact will be hit or miss. I will be in Portland Friday-Tuesday but I will still be online some while I'm there. You know some of us can't stay away from the internet, even on vacation. tongue
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Howard's Mom's birthdat was last night...so all of her rugrats threw her a little party. Lots of good Chinese food...mmmmm Scallops and stir fry vegtables! :-9
and Howard made the Chocolate Cake of Doom!(tm) it contains 3 sticks of butter and just under a pound of chocolate...damn thing actually gave me a buzz!

Tattoo is healing well. it is now in the itchy stage.
I...
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girlblue:
ok, i saw a cute pic up there last night of a boy in a toboggan and now it's gone. where is it?!?!?! *pout*
raven:
yeah. i dont allow myself to go into bookstores because i know ill spend too much money and squander away my inheritance. well. or least my savings.
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my trip home is already half over! I've taken care of some things tha tI wanted to get done. went out with M. Dragonfly and her new boy to play pool the other night. I think I managed it very well. I even bought drinks for us all and playacted jovial. found a friend that had slipped into reclesuvisity and pulled him back into the...
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raven:
i wanted to be red. she was my favorite fraggle. yeah i used to be a cute kid too. i wish i could regain some of my imagination back. its all lost.
charlie_stars:
of course i'm crazy if i wasnt crazy what fun would life be then i mean come on half of the guys in my unit know i'm crazy especialy after they heard i was trying to get around the military's policy on tattoos and piercing by using the religious clause and by the way the chaplin says its legit i just have to work it out with my shirt and legal with whom i'm meeting next tuesday so the results should be in and should be final by next friday and if so i already know what i'm getting done
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ok I am kinda leery of this...but whatdafuck? Y not.
so here is the first attempt.

I am: A straight white guy. sensual experientaialist. card carrying member and Grand Poobah of Romantic Lovefools Local 151. former liscenced masseuse, professional student, gardener, digickal operator, hotel manager....currently active dutied Marine Reservist.an Odd person. afraid of crowds. a felinophile. in good shape, I 'spose. non-religous. politically opionated and...
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bionicfemme:
Whoa!!! What kind of tattoo?
volkov:
well I tried to post it as my profile pic but it won't change! it's a heraldic design of a wolf's head. I'll try to post it again or something. but I am super excited about it. I am going to get a couple tattoos done while I am home that I have been meaning to get. but when I went to Cuba I had to wait on them.
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Wow it is good/wierd/odd/stressful/relaxing to be home!

It's just wierd being home as a visitor. I am crashing on the couch in my apartment because my room downstairs is already occupied by a subrenter who will take over the lease when it runs out in a month or two.
But I am back with my closest friends and that makes me very happy.
I spent...
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volkov:
oh my woken up by a train. the apartment and the Blue Star are old converted warehouses...(turns out my Grandmother actually worked in one as an accountant on this huge old adding machine in the 40's) train tracks run about 20 feet behind the back wall. Train just came by going slow...squeeling sound of metal on metal death like a baby robot being tortured and torn to pieces. Awoken from a deep slumber. I was working in this house...not a brothel but a strip club with lots of private rooms. I was friends with some of the girls and would help them set up thier rooms at the beginning of thier shifts...of course I wasn't sleeping with any of them...I am an idiot that way...anyway there was some kind of oddness....lizards running loose in the building and a serial killer that I was hoping to keep away becuase he was sending evil postcards....(competing influences of SG, having seen Red Dragon, and read the Enigma comic I guess) I don't want to be awake right now...things were odd last night.
charlie_stars:
spoken like a intellectual poet but not like a marine are you sure your not in the air force? by the way how was the red dragon i didnt get to see it this weekend like i hoped i would
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I am back HOME! woooooooooooooooo!
I just flew in this afternoon. No my arm are not tired.
*shoots the drummer before the snarerim can go off*
I am having minor culture shock. I was only away for 8 months, but after 8 months of no traffic or fast food or my car or wierd friends to moderate the influences of the Marine Corps, and NO...
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faith:
Welcome home baby...you're right, it is like going to sleep. I'm waving my flag for you., it's high in the cool October air and I'm taking a nap benieth it.
{{hugs}}
charlie_stars:
i havent seen red dragon yet but i have had teh book for over 7 years and william blake is one of my favorites. i might be going to see it toonight though
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ok....back in my room finally. I've spent the last two days (since 2am Friday night/sat morn) in a storm shelter below a guard tower way out on the fringe of the base staring alternatly at Cuba and the sheets of rain, falling like weighted darts.
2 days in the dark in a concrete bunker watching the world wash itself away.
2 days in the same...
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caradoc:
I hear you. The Marines have given me such wonderful similar experiences.
girlblue:
I do hope your absence online means you are on your way to San Antonio! biggrin Get there safe...here's wishing you some release from all those pent-up snuggles. wink
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I was reminded last night why I do not allow myself to get drunk very often. It is not that I act the fool. Unless it is Tequila or Gin. There are two rules about my drinking...1) I am not allowed to drink Tequila under any circumstances....the only two times I have ever been arrested, tequila was involved. 2) I am not allowed to drink...
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chiquita:
hi V!

i loves me some tequila, but have been unable to drink gin for many a year, as it makes a chiquita MEAN. like fightin and stuff. no good. i'm such a pomegranate....
tatum:
Hehe you're so cute tongue Thank you for the sweet compliment in my journal!! *hugs*
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excerpt of an actual conversation from two days ago:

VanHout: Hey, Anderson, man...you have, like..all mud in your teeth!
Anderson: *vigorously scrubbing teeth with a sleeve coated thick in mud* that better?
VanHout: *long blank stare* yeah.

It's been raining cats and dogs.
how do I know?
I just stepped in a poodle!
mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....uh ok...not as funny as it was when we were six.

anyhow...
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volkov:
yeah and I put myself on the other side of Claudia! ;-) I mean if she isn't happy with a Digdug/Volkov escort...what else could I do??
:-D

morgan:
I totally forgot the people having kids thing...i think there should be a kid licence just like there's a marriage licence!

anywho...back to my journal and then on to more damn class.

hi!
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OK, just came off a 40 hour working shift and still awake here early in the morning and listening to the LIfe Less Ordinary soundtrack and goofing on the net in a dark room, but I can still type because my fingers are ever so attuned to the shape of my keyboard...it gets more love from me than most things in this word. so it...
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girlblue:
Your homepage is a bit lacking...
slightpressureok:
Sorry about the late word on SA. I cut my visit pretty short, once the folks in DC told me I'll have my choice of Residencies (= Fort Lewis.) I did manage to "dine" at Taco Cabana and drank a Coors (the best choice considering) to you. I chowed! Otherwise, it was all bidness at Brooke and Wilford Hall. September is still too hot and muggy for me. I'm only an administrative Texan.
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After almost two weeks of straight working, I am getting three days off. Happy to say this is the second night and I am spending it drunk on whiskey and soda partly outside and partly in here on the computer. It's good to unhinge the mind on occasion. I am and have been all day in one of those lazy/hyper states that I fall into...
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chiquita:
well, of course, silly, i DO wear me a big fruit basket on my noggin and a silk wrap dress and sing in a lilting combination of espagnol and english!! cha cha cha!!

man, i can't believe my worst suspicions were true about the global corporatization of under-pillow tooth exchanges. isn't it so typical of them to exchange the genuine tooth fairy with a generic tooth collection agent. bastards. next thing you know, santa and his boys will be flying a coca-cola sponsored sleigh...

enjoy yourself, luv!
penelope:
Only if you do them ever so occasionally.