Pass The Brass

Before I went on leave I had been hearin’ from some of the other guys about how they felt near the end of their leave. I heard about how some dreaded the day…but I also heard how some were lookin’ forward to returning. One can only imagine why.

I feel the way of the former in that I dread the day I return to that pit of sheol. But also like the latter, I feel like I need to get back to my brothers in arms. I feel like I owe them my presence. Just the thought of AWOL pisses me off. How anyone could be so cowardly and selfish to leave all these men and women to save their damn selves. How can you get so selfish? I would never. Not to mention, then I couldn’t ever go back to the states, and I’d have to live in Canada or something….and who would wanna live there?

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Right now I’m at my one week mark on leave, and although I haven’t done anything “major”, I’m still feeling somewhat satisfied with how my leave is going. Some good news for myself and anyone who reads this stuff; I replaced my latop. Now, instead of being a whole year behind the power curve, I’m only 6 months back. Sweet dude! Funny story behind that one.

Ya know how when something is broke and you get so aggravated and when you go and show someone…it works. And then you just lose it and end up spiking the dang thing right then and there. Well this went somewhat similar to that.

Scene: Local Best Buy
Time: Um…noon…ish?
So I walk into Best Buy and take my laptop over to the Geek Squad(read, super intelligent beings who know everything about computers). I bust out the laptop and give the guy my sob story and even demonstrate how my computer does this flicker every time you try to turn it on. The “Geek” then tells me that they can try to run tests and stuff on it for about 200+ greenbacks. I thought that was a bit pricey so I gave the guy an offer he couldn’t refuse. I simply said no thanks. He then told me that it was a pretty good chance that the motherboard was fried, seeing as the computer was constantly subjected to jolts of static electricity(read “Irak sux becuz they don’t ground anything!”) So after hearing that my mom-board is BBQ, I decide now is as good a time as ever to update my tech. So I simply go and browse the other laptops for a new piece of hardware. I pick out a sweet HP aimed at Multimedia. This laptop being not unlike one that a friend of mine back in Irak just picked up. So now I can finally prove that I DID get one. Nuther story, that one.

So I’m back at the counter and purchasing my sweet new laptop and my old Dell(RIP) is sitting on the counter next to me. As I’m talking with the “Geek” about my new laptop, my bro decides to mess with my Dell(RIP) and flips up the top cover and presses the power button…the screen flickers to life and windows proceeds to load up.

I’m sittin’ there staring at the screen in complete disbelief. “How the hell’d you do that?!?” The reply,”I just pushed the button.” This is where that first line comes in…how something won’t work until everyone else tries it.

I swear there was an angry Iraki spirit inside my computer and it just recently died due to fresh air. They strive on the smell of poo-gas in the air 24/7 so this one was choking since the day I arrived in country. And it died minutes after I showed the “Geek” how my computer didn’t work. I hate it when that happens.

After the screen boots up, a set-up screen pops up and says that the computewr had been running at higher temp’s than were alloted the poor CPU. Granted it is hot in Irak but it wasn’t that hot it my room. I can only guess that it was due to a build up of dust on the cooling fan. Although I have yet to take the stupid thing apart and clean it.

So thus ends the story of my broken laptop. I now have two. One Dell and one HP. One old and one new.Hey that rhymed.

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