Sour Swinger Predominantly follows my Army & Iraq Deployment. Also has some Geek, School, and other talk.

Now that I’ve begun to shoot videos regularly, I’ve decided to join YouTube.  Unfortunately someone has beaten me to SourSW, so I had to go with SourSwinger.  Up until now I’ve been using MySpace Video which frankly sucks in comparison.  The only thing that makes it better is MySpace will actually show you how much of the file has been uploaded during the upload process.  YouTube just makes you wait while you hope something is happening.

I’ve finally chosen a permanent online photo gallery! After much research and brain computing, I’ve chosen Picasa. Flickr does have some advantages here and there, but it appears their free service is not as good as Googles. I’d rather not pay for any photo service. My server and web address, though well priced, is costing me quite a bit already. For now, I uploaded pics of my fellow geeks at school. About 90% were taking with my new digital camera. As time allows, I’ll continue uploading the rest of my pics. You can see all my public photos -> !Here!

*UPDATE: I’ve changed the pics link to my Flickr account since I’ve learned that Picasa is totally frackin useless.

Do to some scheduling conflicts, my laptop didn’t get picked up till yesterday.  Suffice to say, its only been 24 hours with no personal computer and I’M GOING FUCKING NUTZ!!!!  AHAHAHAAHAHA.  I have to use the school’s computer lab and its very annoying having this restriction on when I can check my email and so forth.

So a lot of not much has been happening the last few weeks. I missed a week of college for some military training. I’m now certified as a level 1 hand to hand combat instructor. Cousin Frank is gonna get demolished now! With any luck I’ll get into the level 2 course in August. Also went down to Arizona for a century bike race with the Brady Bunch. Thanksgiving is going well and will finally see Adam today. With my upcoming deployment in October/November, I went ahead and bought a few domain names and Linux servers. Trying to get it up to speed. I’ve installed WordPress and plan to make a permanent blogging home there, however have had one major delay. I can’t seem to transfer this blog over to my WordPress. From what I researched, I need to get the server admin to recompile the PHP with openSSH support. This may or maynot work. Ultimately since I don’t have much here as is, I may just scratch everything and start over.

Your Personality Is Like Cocaine

You’re dynamic, brilliant, and alluring to those who don’t know you. Hyper and full of energy, you’re usually the last one to leave a party. Sometimes your sharp mind gets the better of you… you’re a bit paranoid!At your best: You’re confident, euphoric, and feel like you’re on top of the world.What people like about being around you: You’re intense and overpowering.What people dislike about being around you: You can be arrogant… and a bit of a jerk. How addicted people get to you: Incredibly addictive. And hanging around with you isn’t cheap!

What Drug Is Your Personality Like?

Well it looks like this month has seen the most postings ever. Yes I admit, I’m not one to blog a lot. Time constraints is a big key problem there. I just purchased my first pistol, a Ruger P97, and figured it’d be a good thing to blog before this month is up. Though its 4 years old, it’s only seen about 400 rounds. I hear 600-1000 are needed to fully break it in. Bought it from a long time buddy in the Army. I also bought a holster for my thy which looks totally cool. I’ve already started to fill out a permit to conceal carry. Hopefully that process won’t take too long. Unfortunately I won’t be able to fire off some rounds till next weekend.

Its been a while since I’ve posted anything and thought I’d give some updates. All my programing ideas were never started. The military kept me extremely busy this summer. So busy that I only managed to get in 4.5 weeks at my internship. That was not continuous either. Ended up being broken up about a week at a time. The rest of August will be spent with more military, a visit to the sis-in-law, and moving in my new apartment. Oddly enough, I won’t get any free time until school starts again. I got some ideas brewing of what to do with my spare time, however will keep silent until I actually start one.

I’ve just added my cousin’s RSS feeds for their blogs to Google and will need to create a link section here to theirs. Also need to figure out a way to add a nice stat recorder for my blog. If anyone knows a good one, let me know.