What I did on my vacation from reality

I know it’s a DOD project, but all those orgs… Awesome.

Hey, your troops like you, too. And those little ribbon magnets on your car, even though half the people with them are military, former, or family.

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Top 10 questions I get asked, along with my responses:

Q10: So, what do you do?
A: I’m a Marine in the reserves.

Q09: No shit?
A: Yup.

Q08: Been deployed yet?
A: No. [Followed by whatever the last future deployment date I heard was.]

Q07: Are you nervous?
A: No, I’ve had a hell of a lot of training.

Q06: Have you heard about [recent events in Iraq]?
A: Yes.

Q05: So, what’s it like?
A: Not bad, once you hit the fleet. I especially like the boots and free drinks.

Q04: Is it true that [stupid question here]?
A: No. We do not actually piss acid.

Q03: What do you think of George W. Bush?
A: He’s my president and my commander-in-chief. If he gives me a lawful order, it is my duty as a United States Marine to carry it out to the very best of my ability. That said: long story short, I didn’t vote for him.

Q02: Why do a lot of Marines drive like that?
A: Because they’ve been deployed for a while, or haven’t been off-base long enough.

Q01: What’ll you have? I’m buying!
A: Double Jack, straight up. And, thank you.

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There are no words to describe this.

Everyone thank Viss.

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Here, code to grab weather from rssweather.com. Merry Christmas, don’t say I never did anything for you.

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Well, I was perusing the referrer logs for my blog. It looks like there are a few of you out there Googling about military suspensions with T-Mobile. (The rest of you are looking for “alien dildos”. What the hell?)

All you need to do is call customer service (611 from your phone) and say you’re going to boot camp, or getting deployed, or whatever. They’ll go ahead and suspend your service up to (I believe it was) 18 months with no charge. You can even have them do this automatically at some point in the future. Just tell them when to turn it off and on, and they’ll go ahead and do it.

By the way, for you civilians, they’ll do it up to three months, and there is a fee. I think it was $25 or something.

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It ain’t easy being green.

All that time I spent active in the Corps — boot camp, MCT, and MOS school — and now I have to go back out into the civilian world and find a job, with hardly anyone biting on my resume. Not to mention most civilian barbers have never heard of a high and tight.

If anyone out there in San Diego or Orange counties needs a Linux guru, shoot me an email.

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I blew away pretty much all of the old blog. New content to come.

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