Seems like I make one of these every few months.

I'll see you guys later. Try not to get into too much trouble while I'm gone, and do what the babysitter tells you.

I'll try to find a place to hop on while I'm there, but I can't guarantee anything. So you may not see me for the duration.

Anyways, later, have a good time.

Topic Edit: I'm back! Sweet Jesus!

Topic re-edit: Oh yah, off I go again. This time it will be very short (hopefully). A few weeks at most before I return. I know where I'm going, so I should be able to drop by. The biggest pain in the ass is that I'll be gone for my birthday this year...

Topic re-re-edit: I'm back home finally. Though I was utterly useless in Alaska, and all I did was lay around playing Mass Effect. I don't know if I'm still on the hook for October. If I am, I have three weeks until leaving again. I'll probably stop using this topic for saying goodbye since they have Wi-Fi in the desert now so I can stop by anytime.

I made Staff Sergeant during the desert portion of this trip, though I don't sew it on until next August, most likely. I have to celebrate that and my birthday this weekend.

aw, well don't get into too much trouble, either. :heh

good luck with everything. see ya in a few. :)

Good luck Jag, see you soon.

hope to seeya soon

Bye Bye! >:

Jag is live from England now. I've still got quite a bit of travel ahead, but we've got two hours here. Seems sort of anticlimactic to post so soon after saying goodbye, but that's how it is.

A few stolen minutes with my favorite people.

Ah well, see ya in a bit, hope you come back eventually.

come visit me ;)

dont rub that arm on any cows over there.

And now I'm at an undisclosed location. Although maybe the access logs show where, who knows.

Anyways, seems I'll be able to get here from one of the base computers every so often. So it's not so bad, yeah!

glad you arrived safe. did you take any games with you?

imagine if you compromised an operation cos you came online to browse a katamari site :lol

I'm sure vix knows how to keep her mouth shut. Or we'll have to send in the black ops.

I took all my games with me, excluding the 360 games. Which is just as well, sand gets everywhere. I'm relegated to my Wii and PS2 collections. It all fits nicely into a CD case. Also, what I have for emulation (from the beginning of gaming through N64) on my laptop.

Not that my collection is small, but the doubling up of pockets along with GCN games that can fit on top of that make it fit into 96 slots.

I haven't hooked up my systems or even played any emulators yet, though. The main focus is staying alive in 100+ weather... at 9 A.M. Today was decidedly cooler, though. Because a sandstorm rolled in and blocked the sun.

Well, I don't know if blocked is the correct word; the sun is visible as a pale, white disc hanging behind a screen of brown that covers the entire sky. I thought it was the moon for a second since I could look directly at it with no ill effects, but it's too perfectly round.

just thought i'd ask, but did you hear about the new medic achievements in tf2 and the new weapons? i don't know if you have access to your pc games, but i thought of you when the news came out. iit's available yet, if i remember correctly. how long are you going to be gone, do you know?

:eek

:dead :dead

would certainly liven up this place :D

not in a good way. there'd be black censor bars through everything.

but you wouldnt go down without a fight would you?

no, but i don't think i would really stand a chance at winning. :lol

ive got your back V dawg :brucelee

:brucelee awesome. :P

believe me though, if there was a way to make this board active, i'd be all over it but without another game, it's all :dead and it totally didn't help that bk's lifespan was uber short.

why was it so short?
BK hardly boosted activity at all

i think a few factors had to do with the lifespan of bk being so short.

the starting point was the 360. this game would have done just fine as a ps2 game where the fan base for it is. even if they had done multi with the wii included, it would have garnered much more activity i would think.

being only on the 360, a lot of people simply picked it up for the sake of achievement points since it's a simple game to get a bunch of them.

for the most part, bk was just another katamari game with a shiny new coat of hd paint. the awesome levels were there on the disc but you had to pay for them apart from the full game which a lot of people felt it was a rip off. especially when you were only paying for an unlock key to get access to the content. i saw countless threads like that on gamefaqs.

it's sad really, cause namco could have made katamari much more than a cult following.

ive never seen the point in achievements, seems like a waste of time to me

i feel the same but at the same time i see their appeal.

I'm sure the domain is af.mil. At the very worst, it's still rather obfuscated anyways. I'm not on any country domain, which is a pain in the ass, since the Blue Coat proxy government computers use blocks some of my favorite sites.

I'm just gonna continue to be :dead in this matter. :D

well, you said sandstorms, so that's obviously um... maine. :P

what? i thought that was south dakota? :P

I think God turned his hair dryer and forgot to turn it off, placing it on his counter in such a way that a continuous blast of hot air hits this region. It's been like this for several days now, and another sandstorm has rolled in today.

It's quite miserable. The days with wind used to be cooler, but somehow, the wind is now hotter than the ambient air. I've never experienced such a thing. Wind is supposed to be cooling. I just spent three hours out in it (to be fair, I was also on a giant parking lot), and the sweat was enough to soak through my entire uniform.

That's gross. It'd be even more gross if you couldn't wash your uniform everyday, unless you get multiple uniforms, but still...

I have four uniforms, but laundry takes three days to get back here. So... uh... yeah...

Just had my evaluation, so now I'm fully mission qualified. And it only took three years, a month and a few days to do. Now I have to wait and see if I get attached to a normal crew out here. If I do, it will be extremely tiring for the rest of my time out here. If I don't, it will be extremely boring.

I think I handle boredom better, I'm already sleeping 10+ hours a night. Catching up on all the sleep I never get back in America.

sleeping is overrated. :P

Getting real sick of this place...

aww, sorry. do you know when you're coming back?

Yeah, not much longer, but it still feels like a long time away.

well, that's good anyway :)

Waiting on the plane ride home. Just a few more hours.

Incidentally, tomorrow will be the longest day of my life (32 hours). Kind of fitting for the first day of summer.