Today as I was backing out of the auto hobby shop on post, where I went to save some money by rotating my tires and doing all my own work on my beautiful suburban. Well I did all that and got it put back together and was pulling out and on the passenger side there was a support pillar that I did not have much clearance on about 6-8 inches or so. Well I pulled out and cut the wheel over to back out into my lane and I heard the crunching sound and I went oh man. I caught the last few inches of my front right quarter panel and the bumper on the very edge of the pillar. Messed up my quarter panel and took off my bumper about halfway and cracked my grill and broke a light. In the end for all new parts about 1600 according to the people at the shop. That is way to much so I am gonna get some parts from E-Bay and do it myself. Save a lot of money and I will learn all about the front end of the Suburban. Never had to do any of that before.
This sucks as the parts are still expensive however it is cheaper than having the insurance agency do it for me. That Sucks.
And my father said he knows of a body shop up where he lives that will paint it all up for me real nice for not to expensive.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
890 days left
HA
you know as an adult I expect certain things from other people.
The first thing is I expect to be treated as an adult. I am not that old about 28 however I have seen and done a fair amount of stuff in my life. I do not need to be treated like a child.
The next thing I expect is to be allowed to do my job. My job right now is to learn how to be a chemical officer in the United States army. In order to do this I do not need to be ridiculed I do not need to be punished for some other person's mistakes. I do not need to show up to work 30 or 45 min early to prove that I am ready to work. What I need is a clear goal and the means to execute that goal.
The next thing is be treated as a professional. I admit it when I am wrong. I expect other professional people to be able to admit it as well. Even if they refuse to admit it then be a mature person and do not punish me or other people simply because your mental capacity is to small to understand what we are trying to say.
I know this is to much for many people and impossible for most people in leadership in the Army. This simply adds in one more reason why I will be getting out of the army in 890 days
you know as an adult I expect certain things from other people.
The first thing is I expect to be treated as an adult. I am not that old about 28 however I have seen and done a fair amount of stuff in my life. I do not need to be treated like a child.
The next thing I expect is to be allowed to do my job. My job right now is to learn how to be a chemical officer in the United States army. In order to do this I do not need to be ridiculed I do not need to be punished for some other person's mistakes. I do not need to show up to work 30 or 45 min early to prove that I am ready to work. What I need is a clear goal and the means to execute that goal.
The next thing is be treated as a professional. I admit it when I am wrong. I expect other professional people to be able to admit it as well. Even if they refuse to admit it then be a mature person and do not punish me or other people simply because your mental capacity is to small to understand what we are trying to say.
I know this is to much for many people and impossible for most people in leadership in the Army. This simply adds in one more reason why I will be getting out of the army in 890 days
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
today was a day
Today for the first time in forever I had a couple of hours of down time. After waking up at 0430 or so and then pretty much being at work from 05005 until about 6 at night I got home and relaxed. These long days really take it out of you. I had Mac N Cheese for dinner cause it was easy. While I was eating dinner I pulled out my chinese and did some more studying. I really like Chinese I wish the reading part was easier. My brain is so taxed memorizing all the crap for chemical school it is hard to get it to focus on Chinese. My brain is weak it needs push ups.
I have to get another Chinese Book of Mormon I seem to have misplaced mine. You can orde the 3 n 1 combination from church distribution correct?
I did my laundry now it is drying soon I will have clean dry clothes. And as soon as it is done I am gonna read some scriptures and go to sleep.
You know one day I will look foreward to going to sleep not beacuse it means I do not have to think about my Job but beacause it means tomorrow I get to go to work. That is one of my goals in life to have a job I really like to wake up in the morning to go and do. Not even every day just most days.
peace
I have to get another Chinese Book of Mormon I seem to have misplaced mine. You can orde the 3 n 1 combination from church distribution correct?
I did my laundry now it is drying soon I will have clean dry clothes. And as soon as it is done I am gonna read some scriptures and go to sleep.
You know one day I will look foreward to going to sleep not beacuse it means I do not have to think about my Job but beacause it means tomorrow I get to go to work. That is one of my goals in life to have a job I really like to wake up in the morning to go and do. Not even every day just most days.
peace
Monday, September 15, 2008
today i was the wind
HaHaHa not really I just ran really fast did a 1300 min 2 mile. It was the fastest I have ran in several years. All the time I was thinking I have to impress britta. I was also thinking please God help me finish in time and come on body do this for me do not puke yet. Then I came back to the place where I live and passed out for about one hour cause I was so exhausted.
I woke up at 0230 and could not get back to sleep. I tried everything. even that meditation thing did not help. I am gonna be so tired today. and my guts hurt but other than that it is a great monday. I did run really fast. Yea Me
peace ya'll
I woke up at 0230 and could not get back to sleep. I tried everything. even that meditation thing did not help. I am gonna be so tired today. and my guts hurt but other than that it is a great monday. I did run really fast. Yea Me
peace ya'll
Sunday, September 14, 2008
two posts for one day read them both
So I got a new calling today. I was shocked when I heard it......................I am building the suspense. I was called as the new teacher for the 6 year olds. The CTR 6 class. hahaha that is interesting. I have never been called as a teacher for little kids in fact I have never had to teach little kids anything at all except for my own children and sometimes I really suck at that. So we shall see how this works. Little kids have very short attention spans. I am going to have to learn to tell some really cool stories if I am going to be able to keep their attention for very long. I have never felt more overwhelmed with any calling then I feel now. interesting.
You know what keeps us going in the midst of everything I have discovered it is Love wether it is love of ourselves love of God love of our families but love I think is the root motivator for just about every action we take. I sure as heck would not be doing this job if I did not think that it would somehow benifit my family. A person can put up with a lot of crap for those that they love.
Even hope has a basis in love and love has a basis in hope. Of all the emotions of human capabilities I think love and hope are the two most basic good emotions.
You know what keeps us going in the midst of everything I have discovered it is Love wether it is love of ourselves love of God love of our families but love I think is the root motivator for just about every action we take. I sure as heck would not be doing this job if I did not think that it would somehow benifit my family. A person can put up with a lot of crap for those that they love.
Even hope has a basis in love and love has a basis in hope. Of all the emotions of human capabilities I think love and hope are the two most basic good emotions.
went to the river
Well yesterday I went fishing in the river. It was a lot of fun and very very relaxing. UNtil the end when we decided to go over a small dam and waterfall thing with rapids at the base of the waterfall. The dam was only about 4 or 5 feet high so it did not seem to bad. However we did flip our canoe and ended up stuck on some rocks trying to put our canoe aright while all the water in the river rushed over it. That was not easy at all!! Took about 30 min or so to get it right. But I will now always be able to say you know what I tried to take that stupid canoe over that. I would have made it too but we were not going fast enough and as we came down the wter grabbed the front end and ripped it to the left and then we went over. I will post some pictures as soon as he e-mails them to me and I figure out how. That is what I do when I get really bored I try and do soemthing different. It was very nice relaxing on the river the only sound of human habitation we heard was the occasional 50 cal burst and the occasional explosion. Other than that it was great. So relaxing. Now I want to buy a canoe. If I manage to DLPT in chinese and get some extra cash I think that is one thing I will want to buy. As soon as we get completly out of debt.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
cool stuff
Wiggling Plastic at River Bottom to Generate Electricity
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/26/river-power-energy-02.html
i thought that this could happen for years.
What I thought of doing is putting little turbines in the water submerged with power conduits running back to shore.
cool stuff
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
what you want is sometimes not what you get
So it seems as though the last two times I have tried to change my duty station they both failed miserably. The first time the guy that said he was going to trade with me changed his mind at the last min. and then the next time it was taken by someone else before I had a chance to put in my paperwork.
So I will just keep on praying that I get it. As the duty assignment I am trying for seems to be all the better. The most important aspect is that the deployments are only 6 months. For the army 6 months is really good. Then it would be the North west and closer to britta's family. So that would be helpful while I am gone. However the best and most important part would be the 6 month deployments. That would be so nice.
however It appears that even though when I pray I feel really good about it I am not going to get it. I do not quite understand what God is doing as it seems to be so much better in that I will get to spend more time with my family. However as hard as it is and seems to be to me. I will trust in God. I think that is what he is going to see if I am really willing to do. Before this most of the things I prayed about I get. I have very rarely had a prayer turned down. Maybe this is the time where I think everything is right and i feel that it is right to pray and ask about this and God just wants to see if I will still have faith in the end whether or not I will continue to pray and trust in him.
To those of you who are not separated from your families this may seem a trivial thing. to be gone for 6 months or a year the difference is only a few months. However that is huge. I love my family more than anything else in the whole entire world. I am such a happier person when I am around them. It is better to be with your family.
Maybe the reason I get to go to the year long deployments is so that we can develop as a family in a different way that God wants us to develop in. In the eternities 6 months or a year is not that long but when you are going through it. It seems like forever. I do not know and can not claim to understand the reasoning behind this. However I will perservere and drive on. It just really sucks to be sepereated from those you love for any lenght of time. espically if you think there is a way to avoid it.
So I will just keep on praying that I get it. As the duty assignment I am trying for seems to be all the better. The most important aspect is that the deployments are only 6 months. For the army 6 months is really good. Then it would be the North west and closer to britta's family. So that would be helpful while I am gone. However the best and most important part would be the 6 month deployments. That would be so nice.
however It appears that even though when I pray I feel really good about it I am not going to get it. I do not quite understand what God is doing as it seems to be so much better in that I will get to spend more time with my family. However as hard as it is and seems to be to me. I will trust in God. I think that is what he is going to see if I am really willing to do. Before this most of the things I prayed about I get. I have very rarely had a prayer turned down. Maybe this is the time where I think everything is right and i feel that it is right to pray and ask about this and God just wants to see if I will still have faith in the end whether or not I will continue to pray and trust in him.
To those of you who are not separated from your families this may seem a trivial thing. to be gone for 6 months or a year the difference is only a few months. However that is huge. I love my family more than anything else in the whole entire world. I am such a happier person when I am around them. It is better to be with your family.
Maybe the reason I get to go to the year long deployments is so that we can develop as a family in a different way that God wants us to develop in. In the eternities 6 months or a year is not that long but when you are going through it. It seems like forever. I do not know and can not claim to understand the reasoning behind this. However I will perservere and drive on. It just really sucks to be sepereated from those you love for any lenght of time. espically if you think there is a way to avoid it.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Biography Monte L Bean
I like to read Biographys sometimes they are interesting you can find out how real people dealt with real problems and you can also kind of better understand yourslef I think. In that it allows me to think how would Ihave acted in a smiliar situation or what would I do differently. So here follows one of the ones I just finished.
The biography of Monte L Bean. In the back it has some quotes one of the ones I like the most is "The greatest test the church helped me survive was the financial crash in 1929-1932" (the great depression started then) Monte went from having a huge fortune - he was one of the top general managers of what was to become the Safeway Corporation and making 50,000 a year - to having 20,000 total including his house and car and everything he owned. he goes on to say "Like many others in the Skaggs (Safeway) organization, I was financially ruined. But, unlike some of them who went stark crazy, committed suicide, or became overnight alcoholics, I sought out Birdie (his wife) and took heart. When we counted out blessings we found that we had our youth, our health, our wonderful little family, each other - and above all, the staunch bedrock of our religious beliefs upon which to begin to build anew. We shook off the dust of our financial collapse and went to work again, knowing that if we would but abide by our beliefs and be industrious and not downhearted, we would persevere and thrive again."
And he did just that in the next several years he built up several huge business A drug store chain a sporting goods store chain , a grocery store chain and helped to found Shucks auto parts.
During this time he was called as the first stake president in Portland OR and the Second in Seattle. Absolutely amazing.
But something that amazed me probably the most. Is that throughout his business dealings he was not corrupted by the world. He remained faithful to the gospel in so much that President Harold B Lee came and administered to his son when his son was sick after coming down with Polio. that story I will share tomorrow. But about his business dealings he says once a tax assessor came and said for a 500 dollar processing fee I will save you 10,000 on your taxes. This year the tax man had been paid this way by the last several managers and owners. Monte said No and threw him out. He paid 10,000 extra in taxes but he was faithful to his covenants
So that closes my little bit today tomorrow I will tell the story about how his son met President Lee and what that resulted in
peace
The biography of Monte L Bean. In the back it has some quotes one of the ones I like the most is "The greatest test the church helped me survive was the financial crash in 1929-1932" (the great depression started then) Monte went from having a huge fortune - he was one of the top general managers of what was to become the Safeway Corporation and making 50,000 a year - to having 20,000 total including his house and car and everything he owned. he goes on to say "Like many others in the Skaggs (Safeway) organization, I was financially ruined. But, unlike some of them who went stark crazy, committed suicide, or became overnight alcoholics, I sought out Birdie (his wife) and took heart. When we counted out blessings we found that we had our youth, our health, our wonderful little family, each other - and above all, the staunch bedrock of our religious beliefs upon which to begin to build anew. We shook off the dust of our financial collapse and went to work again, knowing that if we would but abide by our beliefs and be industrious and not downhearted, we would persevere and thrive again."
And he did just that in the next several years he built up several huge business A drug store chain a sporting goods store chain , a grocery store chain and helped to found Shucks auto parts.
During this time he was called as the first stake president in Portland OR and the Second in Seattle. Absolutely amazing.
But something that amazed me probably the most. Is that throughout his business dealings he was not corrupted by the world. He remained faithful to the gospel in so much that President Harold B Lee came and administered to his son when his son was sick after coming down with Polio. that story I will share tomorrow. But about his business dealings he says once a tax assessor came and said for a 500 dollar processing fee I will save you 10,000 on your taxes. This year the tax man had been paid this way by the last several managers and owners. Monte said No and threw him out. He paid 10,000 extra in taxes but he was faithful to his covenants
So that closes my little bit today tomorrow I will tell the story about how his son met President Lee and what that resulted in
peace
Saturday, September 6, 2008
a good reason
"You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep a record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of these meaningful and significant things. Some of them may be funny. Some may be of significance only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experience." ~President Gordon B. Hinckley
"To you women of today, who are old or young, may I suggest to you that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous education effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many--now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings."
-President Gordon B. Hinckley
I also think of the scriptures as a journal. I Nephi... it seems to follow his life and it seems to me to be very similar to a journal in many aspects and many of the experiences. Especially the part in 2 Nephi 4 15-35 very cool.
"To you women of today, who are old or young, may I suggest to you that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous education effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many--now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings."
-President Gordon B. Hinckley
I also think of the scriptures as a journal. I Nephi... it seems to follow his life and it seems to me to be very similar to a journal in many aspects and many of the experiences. Especially the part in 2 Nephi 4 15-35 very cool.
Friday, September 5, 2008
britta fix my blog
i wish britta had her computer so she could fix this for me. i have no friends who read this and post. Also i can not figure out how to make my computers playlist work. bummer. one day i will figure it all out
peace
peace
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
plants are alive
so plants have feelings to. I wonder if this means they have intelligence. hmm something to think about when i have loads of down time. hahaha not gonna happen anytime soon. http://spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug3/twobooks.htm anyhow there is the link to the site if you have time peruse it it might be interesting.
I really do not like being separated from my family. so i bought 5 gallons of ice cream yesterday and a bag of oreos. they are good.
I have pt test tomorrow. I really hope the remnants of gustav cancel the pt test but they probably will not. one can hope.
So I love the army they are the absoloute most efficent force ever.
today I learned nothing except that Inteligence preparation of the battlefield has some steps that were really well illustrated on about slide 123 out of 300.
after slide 25 I was p[retty much off in day dream world. I tried to study chinese for a while but I did not want to push my limits to much .
so I drew a picture on a piece of paper and everone thought I was taking intense notes.
When that gave out after about 2 hours. I daydreamed abuot all sorts of stuff
Like a vet pratice and flying in a space ship and about going home to my family. and many more things cause after a while there is only so much paying attention you can do before you break the bank then it is time for something else.
these last few days have just made me crazy.
I have a pt test tomorrow all I want to do is pass. I do not even remember the standards gotta look them up
peace
chris
I really do not like being separated from my family. so i bought 5 gallons of ice cream yesterday and a bag of oreos. they are good.
I have pt test tomorrow. I really hope the remnants of gustav cancel the pt test but they probably will not. one can hope.
So I love the army they are the absoloute most efficent force ever.
today I learned nothing except that Inteligence preparation of the battlefield has some steps that were really well illustrated on about slide 123 out of 300.
after slide 25 I was p[retty much off in day dream world. I tried to study chinese for a while but I did not want to push my limits to much .
so I drew a picture on a piece of paper and everone thought I was taking intense notes.
When that gave out after about 2 hours. I daydreamed abuot all sorts of stuff
Like a vet pratice and flying in a space ship and about going home to my family. and many more things cause after a while there is only so much paying attention you can do before you break the bank then it is time for something else.
these last few days have just made me crazy.
I have a pt test tomorrow all I want to do is pass. I do not even remember the standards gotta look them up
peace
chris
Monday, September 1, 2008
i am back
so I just got back from my fathers house. It was fun went fishing a little bit and just relaxed and enjoyed it.
When I left I left with plenty of time to get home at a decent hour. then when I was half way home I somehow missed a turn and all of a sudden I saw a sign that said END OF PAVEMENT I was like what the.... and sure enough the pavement ended right there. I was thinking i have traveled 20 miles on this road and it is heading south may as well keep going. I need to go south and this road heads south. SO i continued on and the entire time I was thinking this is the part in the movies where there is a car in the road and a psycho with a chainsaw. Then I thought well I drive a big truck I will just run em over. Cause in the movies they always drive these little crappy cars. So I took heart in that. well I continued south on a dirt road for about 45 min till I saw a campfire i then got out and asked where I was and how to get back to the road. Their were a few people just sitting around the campfire chilling out. So they told me go down past the bridge with the water and take the first gravel road on the left no the first road cause that is a driveway but the next one is a road take it and head on down that till you find a paved road then take another left and that will take you to 17 which will take you into Fort Leonard Wood. well I did not see any roads on the left that were not overgrown with weeds so I stayed on the road I was on and that eventually dropped me out on the paved road then I wandered around for a few min looking for a road sign to tell me where I was and it turned out that I had taken about one hour to go 25 miles or so through the bush. Hahaha. so that was that then I turned my beautiful truck in the right direction and headed home. I got here about 0130 or so. after an hour or more delay wandering in the woods.
peace
When I left I left with plenty of time to get home at a decent hour. then when I was half way home I somehow missed a turn and all of a sudden I saw a sign that said END OF PAVEMENT I was like what the.... and sure enough the pavement ended right there. I was thinking i have traveled 20 miles on this road and it is heading south may as well keep going. I need to go south and this road heads south. SO i continued on and the entire time I was thinking this is the part in the movies where there is a car in the road and a psycho with a chainsaw. Then I thought well I drive a big truck I will just run em over. Cause in the movies they always drive these little crappy cars. So I took heart in that. well I continued south on a dirt road for about 45 min till I saw a campfire i then got out and asked where I was and how to get back to the road. Their were a few people just sitting around the campfire chilling out. So they told me go down past the bridge with the water and take the first gravel road on the left no the first road cause that is a driveway but the next one is a road take it and head on down that till you find a paved road then take another left and that will take you to 17 which will take you into Fort Leonard Wood. well I did not see any roads on the left that were not overgrown with weeds so I stayed on the road I was on and that eventually dropped me out on the paved road then I wandered around for a few min looking for a road sign to tell me where I was and it turned out that I had taken about one hour to go 25 miles or so through the bush. Hahaha. so that was that then I turned my beautiful truck in the right direction and headed home. I got here about 0130 or so. after an hour or more delay wandering in the woods.
peace
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