Well, the course I was attending ended a few weeks ago and after a fun filled 2 weeks of out processing, I finally left fort meade and pensacola.

Right now I am home in ohio, visiting family and tending to the resting buisness. Not much to be said there. Though I do have a few pieces of radio equipment and have been occupying myself that way.

Not much to really say ya know? I don't have much in the way of pictures to really upload save for a few pics from my trip to the kennedy space center. I just need to find the right memory card before I can do that.

Yeah...
This last week has been rather rough as we went from days into nights.
But I guess its just something you have to put up with.
Someone was telling me about the overall usefullness of this course on the civilian sector saying things like "Oh with this course and the earlier course you are pretty much set for life in terms of jobs"
pfft.
I doubt I'll be using this kind of work when I get out.
After japan and my next duty station I consider myself to pretty much be done wandering under army pay.

I wanna family man...


So, on the subject of catching some nuetral, It is my intent to go out to pensacola beach or somewhere along those lines and just relax, no loud parties, no drunken orgies, just me, whoever else is around, the beach and my shortwave radio.
Relaxing.

Well,
Leave was fantastic. I got to surf the pier finally and some areas around it. Funny enough though I ran into a sand bar and broke the back fin from my board. Its getting fixed right now in pensacola and should be ready by tomorrow.

I dunno if I will be surfing tomorrow though. The waves are way up past my experiance level right now due to that low pressure system off the coast.

While I was on leave I ran into a chick by the name of Dani who is from springfield ohio. Turns out, she came down there to do photography in college and wants to do photography of surfers and the likes. To say the least she is an interesting person. Heck, she even nearly got me out to orlando tonight just to hang out. Problem is, orlando is like..5-7 hours from here. so its better to do that thing on a weekend or something because there is just not enough time in the day to go running across a state just to hang with someone.


Well, in other news, I am getting settled in just fine in this area but I still have my reservations as I am not a big fan of this place due to experiances of 2 years ago almost to the day.



Final note:

I am going through a little process of removing names which have built up over the years and will likely delete most people save for a few new watchers and my cousin sean and ryuunex.

Everyone else, if ya wanna stay in contact let me know or something.


If you don't, no biggie, I am not on this site much and can never figure out a good picture I wanna post on the site anyways.


Cheers.

Dan

So, I am on my way to pensacola florida for some advanced training.

What do I do in my spare driving time?

Cape Hatteras for a surf session of course.

Yesterday it was rough more chop than anything.
Today looks about the same. thick waves breaking far out. Being that I am still learning to surf though, I could hardly get past all the breaking waves.

Its kinda funny but its been near 6 years since I became interested in surfing thanks to a girl I used to date. So, I guess I see it as a good roundabout. Go to the place which influenced me and surfing from the outset, get to know the area, relax a little. So on so forth.

Beautiful area ya know?

TOmorrow morning I will roll out to pensacola florida and will be there till mid july. From there, Its home for a bit then off to japan.


I REALLY need to network with a few japanese surfers so that I can learn the lay of THAT surfing land.

Pictures might be coming soon.

So...
When I got back from ohio (I'll discuss this later)
I was approached by my Retention NCO.
I told her that the only way I would Re-Enlist was if I could get Japan out of the deal.
Well....
I got japan!
I leave Maryland come november and go to Pensacola Florida.
I'll be there till april sometime. Then whoom right off to Japan.
Also, another update:
I went in for the soldier of the month board and got it by sheer awesome.
Those boards are tough.
Coming up is my Sergents Board and my re enlistment.
Plus, I gotta take my car in again to do some work.
I am a regular Bambi Slayer.

ALso on a photography note; I have been experiancing camera issues and have not been taking many pictures as a result. The memory card I have in the camera is full but also has a number of low quality pictures.

On an anime note:
Macross frontier is just about over, Clannad ~after~ is due to begin within the next week, and I will be following that series closely.
Visual novel wise, I have finished most of the character paths in Clannad but havent started on the after story yet. Thats a whole differant ball game there...
Clannad...By the way, Is epic...nuff said.