Ty Ewup

Good morning everyone. I just back from a three day holiday and I feel Fantastic.

No really, I do. I had an excellent monday. Visiting, Coffee, Card, reminded myself of the Good ole days of university. I sit here at my desk and forget about all the bad things I loathed about university and just remember the good.

Its true what they say, youth is wasted on the young.

So I got a really funny email today and I thought I was share.

A painter, not of walls but of canvas, wants in the military. What do you say to someone like that? "I'm sorry you picked a useless trade, like society, we here in the military have no use for you". I directed him to the infantry and have been giggling all day.

He even sent me a picture of a tank painting. Its a very pretty tank to be sure, very well done, but still useless.

"Surely the military has some use for me"

I shit you not, this is how he worded it. Do they teach being delusional in the Humanities?

Im just asking.

So Mini golf at West Ed


Exciting, sometime in the later afternoon or something. We'll figure something out Im sure. Call Jorge and organize times, Im pretty open to anything, and Im sure you all already knew that.

Jorge and I have to Work out before hand so be aware of that timing.


Cya tomorrow!

I havn't blogged in a while. So I will fill you in on the details.

I went to Taboo and may (or may not) have purchased something(s) from the show.

I watched the display on the bondage bed, I found it Very Educational.

It was in a much larger venue, but nothing out of the ordinary. Some of the female clothing was exceptionally nice, and extraordinairely expensive. With Fashion comes a price tag I suppose. Apparently some of you went Christmas Shopping whilst there, I felt kinda bad. I went there to see the sights and take home souvenirs.

Christmas is approaching as Carol screams excitedly more and more frequently. When her peels of laughter start overlapping on eachother, I will know its Christmas Morning. What shall I get people, I was thinking Signed autographs. If you have a present you'd rather have in mind, let me know.

Actually, now that I think of it, I know EXACTLY what to get Kim...oh this will be good. Yes Indeed.

continuing to work out more and just work in general. It cuts down on fun time, but it keeps me out of trouble.

I want to go out and do something Saturday. I'd like to go see serenity and go minigolfing or bowling.

My roomie, Jorge wants to go Minigolfing...so its one vote Minigolf.

thankfully a stack of application was not crammed into my actual inbox, I did have 42 emails though, and more to follow.

I had a great weekend just playing video games and lounging about, too much fun. I have a new found appeciation for water and I take showers whenever possible now.

today marks the first day back in the gym. I tried the aikido thing and it just kicked the shit out of me. I obviously have to be in better shape to take the physical punishment Kenji doles out.

so gorge and I are going back to Kinsmen, but I'll be focusing more on cardio than muscle build up. As much as I liked "balloning" as gorge called it, I need to improve my breathe more.

now that I've done my basic SERE, advanced SERE is next. and what that entails is been hunted by people who are trained to find you. Dogs, the Infantry, etc. Its a full scale man hunt, and I'm the main event. the details are withheld but its a three or four day evasion event. you have to stay up for 3 days and run crazy in the woods. I have a new goal for the next year, being fit enough to run far. How far? Im not sure, We'll start with 5 miles and work my up.

I get the 23rd of December to the 9th of January off! Sweet deal. So any christmas plans, I am totally up for it.

Crap work got in the way and I am OUT

I actually WASN'T in Winnipeg. No I was in a place that made Winnipeg look like heaven.

I was in springer lake...basically 100kms from anything substantial. Well a moose is a pretty substantial creatur, but a moose is no mall, or heated building for that matter.

So there we were, in the middle of a fucking muskeg...which is code for treey swamp. Its also situated on the Canadian Shield, which is fucking rocky. So anything that wasn't wet submerged in water was rocky covered in slippery moss.

A perfect place to learn survival. Thankfully it never got TOO cold, nothing below -10 I don't think.

No indoor plumbing, No running Water, and real food no where to be had.

First two nights we spent in a sort of a hunter's cabin, with a wood stove and a single electrical light (wow, such extravagence, I felt spoiled) and we learned how to build shelters and fire when it was REALLY wet (which it always is in Springer Lake)

When on the third night, we lost the luxury that was the cabin, and moved into tents, little 4 man jobbies that we easily constructed. this would have been great if anywhere on that god forsaken rock was flat to sleep on. Needless to say I learned to sleep with a root in my back. We learned more interesting things, like spotting a guy in a gillie (spelling?) suit. A gillie suit is something a sniper wears, and its fucking scary how blended into the background they can get. On the 5th night we slept in a large improvised shelter made out of logs and a parachute that we made ourselves (we fit 6 people into this thing, it was FAR more comfortable than the tents).

All the time, they'd been giving us 2 meals a day, about 2200-2400 cal a day (most people need atleast 3000, with more active people needing 4000+, and we were quite active). well after the 5th night, they gave us 3 meals, we knew something was up. Turns out, we were right, an entire day of navigation. Trekking across that god forsaken swamp, crossing streams, and climbing up fucking slippery rock "contours". We definately needed 3 meals that day, and I ate everything they gave me. It took me 2 hours to get dry infront of the fire. By this time, I thought being warm and fed were things pretty damn close to perfect.

The next day we only received breakfast, this was sunday, practical day. On this day, we would eat a beautiful white furred red eyed bunny. Practical day was a full day, we started at 7 building our lean-to, and maintaining a fire. For lunch we learned how to kill and skin a rabbit. After that, we cooked and ate them (2 people per rabbit).

Now I know a lot of you don't like the fact that I did away with the bunny. I only skinned it...well I did something else as well.

If you have a weak stomach don't read on.

I'm not really sure why I did it, but it seemed like a good learning experiance.

You see the instructor ate his skinned rabbit's eyeball...and rabbits have two...well I ate the other one.

For the rest of the course I was refered to "eye-guy" or something like that. I won a lot of infamy that day, and some of my course mates were throughly disgusted.

In a survial situation you have to stare hunger in the eye...and eat it (boo- bad joke)

Carol is reading this and is really grossed out, oh well she'll get over it.

The two days after that were on my own, left to my own devices to survive. I had 6 ju-jubes, 4 chiklets, and 4 packets of juice, it was supposed to last me 48 hours.

It did, but I was a tired boy on the trip home. I now know I can survive with a saw.knife, and some rope. My life is better if I have a tarp of some kind, but its not entirely necessary.

More details to follow if required.