Hastily Written: Not abandoned, only neglected

It’s amazing what life likes to throw at people. I don’t feel like talking about it, but it did kill my blogging spirit for a while.

My birthday is less than three days away and I nearly forgot that my b-day was comming up until my dad casually said “Oh, I’ll call you on friday”. I do wonder if my grandma is going to call me in the right month this year. Last year she called me an entire month later, because you know that birthdays have a tendancy to shift months and all…

Anyways, I’m nearly finished up with leadership school. The fact that I’m going to be 22 years old and responsible for up to 7 troops is a) sobering b) a testament to my hard work and c) possibly an upcomming unmitigated disaster. But we’ll see if “C” actually happens or not.

Oh yes, I killed comments on this blog because I got sick of filtering all the spam on here. Nothing like botnet spam to ruin a blog, eh?

Lots of people are searching for Doom RPG stuff. I’ve beaten the game quite a few times, so if you’re stuck and need some hints, leave a comment and I’ll try to help you out.

Every few months, my beligerant anger dries up and so does my writing.

This is one of the few months.

With any luck, a rainstorm of sorts will come and resupply me with all the piss and vinegar I need to write again.

Brand new ipod. 60 gigs, black and it can play videos. Obviously, it costs quite a bit of money so a reasonable individual would try to protect it as much as possible.

Not me.

Well, not me partially.

I bought an ipod skin (www.theinvisibleshield.com) which prides itsself on using the same material that’s put on helicopter wings to stop them from getting all banged up. A little bit o research and we find out that it’s scotchcal made by 3M. Essentially, this stuff was created to take a beating.

It comes in two pieces, the ipod front and back. The back part (protecting the chrome) worked like a charm even though there’s a small air bubble on the side of the ipod. The front however, turned out like crap and I took it off. I emailed the company asking for a replacement because it really, really looks horrible.

Anywho, the site also shows video of a guy attacking the ipod with a set of keys and it not suffering ANY damage. So somewhere in my head I get the idea that I should try it too.

I’m at work and I’m showing a couple of buddies my new ipod. For hoots, I pick up an open ended crescent wrench and start hitting the back of my ipod with the open to see what would happen…
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/11/08/evolution.debate.ap/index.html

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17162341-13762,00.html

Scopes must be rolling in his grave right about now. The next thing kansas is going to be teaching is thw alchemical process of lead into gold.

Things like this mask the pain from eating candy corn.

Lewis Black has a hilarious skit about candy corn and it’s absolutely dead on. I’ve heard this comedy routine atleast 3 times and should have heeded it’s warning, but I didn’t.

I ate the candy corn.

It was fucking HORRIBLE. I’ve eaten some bad things before and some inedible things (read: a handful of biodegradable packing peanuts on a dare), and candy corn is still the worst on the list. It’s like eating wax that’s been left outside a sugar factory and it’s picked up some essence of sugar.

Lewis black, I’m sorry for doubting your wisdom.

BTW..do NOT watch “But can they sing?” on VH1. It’s almost as bad as candy corn. Ammet Zappa is hosting, and he knows better to do shit like that on TV. I hope he’s ashamed of himself.

First, the quote. This is from a friend. He blurted it out for no reason and the rest of us found it very funny.

“I want to start the quantum lottery, where everyone is a winner until they look at the ticket”

What isn’t so funny is trying to figure out Quicken budgeting software. If this was made for ease of use. then I’m gonna steer clear from the advanced one. On a few occasions, I curled into the fetal position and told the damn computer to figure out the software by itself. Really, it’s not the computer or software’s fault..it only knows what I put into it. After a few “what the fucks” and one “oh shit”, I’ve seemed to manage to get the software to accurately show balances and such. I’m still a little confused on how to enter some data because it deals with military pay, military pay dates, and non-taxable entitlements (such as BAS/BAH/etc) and I’m not quite sure if quicken can reconize stuff like that or not.

The reason why I bought the software was not because I wanted to spend 3 hours in money-wrangling hell, but to more accurately track where the hell my money was going. I had some budgeting software a while back (MS money 2003 or so) and it worked pretty well. Up until now I was using bank of america’s online banking system which also worked really well, but I wanted something that was designed to track a budget instead of trying to remember to save a few $$ out of every paycheck.

The really convinent thing is that I get to see exactly where all my money is going and I get little alerts telling me when I’ve overspent a category. It dosen’t matter much for constant payments like cable or cellphone bills, but it’s great for catching excess spending in pocket cash, entertainmenmt or other stuff. I figure by keeping better track of my finances, I can save another $100 a month or so.

Last but not least..after this whole little speech about being financially responsible, I bought a black video ipod. Pictures comming soon.

Dressing yourself correctly. It’s a must in today’s business world and not doing so can have disasterous effects. Even the military has a dress code, even if it is pretty simple.

The two colors of undershirt that can be worn with the Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) top is : black or tan. Tan is usually reserved for basic trainees in the air force in which upon graduation they may wear the black shirt. While it is still permissible to wear the tan shirt at your duty station, we reserve the right to make fun of you, and yell and point “trainee!”

This is the most basic of things in the military. Sometimes however, people just don’t get it. Such as a certain seargent who strolls into work wearing a gray tee shirt with his BDU top. Nowehere in the regulations where it says that grey is a suitable substitution, but there it was.

One of the airmen said to me “What? Is he wearing a grey tee shirt?” and before I could reply the seargent said “Yeah, I’ll go home at lunch and change it.”. This instantly rules out that wearing the grey shirt was some kind of a mistake, that he willfully put it on and went to work. 22 years experience in the military and he strolls in with a grey tee shirt. An airmain straight out of basic training knows not to do this and yet this old time seargent fuck it up.

This guy isn’t known for being the sharpest tool in the shed. However, he is my boss and I do try to look out for him but it’s stuff like this I can’t defend. He’s a technical seargent and even the airmen don’t respect him because of stuff like this. Worst of all, it really brings discredit upon the tech seargent stripe..how can you run a bay of 30+ people if you can’t dress yourself properly. Hell, do the smell test and use an already worn black tee shirt instead of wearing the beacon of dumbass.

On the flipside, this same seargent managed to find out (quite quickly I might add) when I was due to go to Airman Leadership School. I wasn’t particulary concerned about it (excpet it may have overlapped a certain best friend’s wedding I plan on attending) and with some guesstimation, I figured out roughly the month I’d be attending the school. Nevertheless, the seargent got me the actual dates that I would be attending. Tres cool.

At the end of the day, all of this left me a little bemused in that he’d do something quite retarded and then turn around to do something helpful. I think the main lesson that I learned today is that I need to put up with the stupid stuff because this is not a bridge I can afford to burn. While the bridge may be old, wooden and slightly rickety; it has access to things that a newer untested concrete bridge does.

All of the following has been discovered by me, and a lot of free time:

Bonus area - after section 7 when the 2nd attack from Hell starts. Inside the room is an Apollyon, Baron and Revenant. It’s stock full of ammo, bezerker orbs and soul orbs. This room also has cheaper stat upgrades than in the Junction.

The room is on the opposite end of Dr. Janson when part of the facility collapses. Instead of taking the fork of the room to the right to go to Dr.Jenson, continue on the left and head upwards to find the bonus room.

Code to the bonus area - 0,1,1,2,3,5,8

Super Secret Door - located in section 6
Code to the door - 2279
This room also has cheaper stat upgrades than in the Junction.

Win screens :

http://doomrpg.com/win/hound.html
http://doomrpg.com/win/spire.html
http://doomrpg.com/win/blues.html

Enemy weapon weaknesses :

Zombie class - axe
Hellhound class - shotgun
Commando class - chaingun/plasma gun
Imp class - shotgun/super shotgun
Lost Soul class - fire extinguisher/plasma gun
Pinky class - shotgun/super shotgun, resistant towards axe
Cacodemon class - plasma gun, malwrath weak towards axe
Pain elemental class - plasma gun
Revenant class - rockets/plasma gun, resistant to shotgun
Mancubus class - rockets
Archvile class - fire extinguisher/plasma gun
Baron class - shotgun/super shotgun/rockets
Kronos - BFG
Cyberdemon - BFG

Tips that make the game easier :
Use the appropriate weapon against an enemy
Use rockets/super shotgun with berserker mode to kill Kronos easily
Use rockets w/ beserker mode against the two power couplings in the final battle. Ignore all other enemies.
Use BFG w/ beserker mode against the Cyberdemon. 2-3 shots should kill him.

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http://doomrpg.com/win/sarge.html
This is the highest rating you can attain in doom rpg. No, I didn’t earn it yet but as you can see…it wasn’t too hard to figure out the site’s name.