Pass The Brass

Seeing as this site was originally created to cover all aspects of my life(for the most part) I think it’s time I bring in some of the other stuff besides my simplistic and occasionally ridiculously stupid thoughts.

I don’t seem to be harboring that fear of someone watching my blog anymore. And seeing as for the most part all I have been posting on is spiritual and mental turmoil with an occasional hate for politics thrown in the mix, I’m not really afraid of anyone getting on here saying how I’m violating some kind of OPSEC cuz frankly….I’m almost to the point where I want this to be as far from military as possible, haha!! Interesting the way things are comin along here.

So what have I been up to over the last few months? Well truthfully not much. My months consist of 3 weeks working my “other job” and then one week training for the Special Reaction Team here on post where I retain the nickname “Tweak”. I couldn’t tell you why, to be honest. Heh…yah right.

Those other three weeks are spent sitting in a small room with a cage for a door. Inside of this room are guns…lots of guns. I play Armorer for those 3 weeks. To tell the truth though, I absolutely love the job. Funny part is nobody else who works the job likes it even remotely. HAHA! What can I say, I’m a Solitary Man. I actually prefer the midnight shifts and just going and breathing the night air while waiting for the next shift of cops to either come pick up weapons or turn em in. Something about standing in a spot that is normally buzzing with activity and just enjoying the silence and calm solitude that just makes me feel to focus my Chi…um…or something like that. And for anyone that knows me, thats a good thing.

Oh and I’m in the middle of that whole painting my car project I talked about while I was in Irak. So far I have painted everything except the roof and part of the side panels. I’m still working on the design for the hood painting. I can’t decide how I want to lay it out, and how I’m going to apply it, ie: stencil, or freehand. I’ve been just painting her in stages really. And every stage looks better than the last. I slowly get better at learning how to apply the spray without it looking like absolute crap. You can see a HUGE difference in the panels. I’ve been taking photos of the panels as I go so I’m keeping it all well documented.

You’ll most likely see the photos here soon as Chad implements his new design. I want to incorporate my Flickr photo stream and bring another aspect of reality to this site. I don’t update the photos too often these days as my camera is practically dead now. She still takes pics, but can’t focus for beans in normal mode any more. I have to keep it on macro setting just to stay focused on anything. I really want to be able to pick up a Nikon D40 or something later on but as it is I have to stick to what I got.

So that about sums it up. I’ll try to keep this place lively with new content. God bless!

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