pingsteal

Back from the sea...let the drama begin...

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:26:14 GMT

So you may or may not have noticed I have been gone for about a week. I just spent it on a ship at sea doing some work for my company. I just got back last night about 6 or so, and already I've noticed that several things have happened while I was away. People here are flipping out about God knows what...friends in SWG have shit going on that I'm just starting to find out about and none of it makes any sense. Add to that Sev hasn't been feeling well since I left and is still fighting a cold.

I swear it's like I go away for a week and all hell breaks loose. I don't think I'm ever leaving home ever again.

Rumors of my demise...

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:18:03 GMT

..arenot reliable. I am still here in many ways.

The end?

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:13:36 GMT

And so I believe that I have come to the end of a long and winding road in my life. I have been on Livejournal now for the better part of about three years. Seldom have I posted. Mostly I have listened...and now, I don't even do that anymore. In my time on LiveJournal, I have semi-reconnected with some old names from the past. And while I look back on some of those days and smile at the memories, too much time has passed, and too much has happened in all of our lives for us to ever get them back. During my time on LJ, I've been banned from a wrestling community, twice. I've stirred the pot, I've listend, I've offered advice where I thought it needed, and I've reflected on times when I needed to.

Through it all, I've changed. I'm not the kid I was when I first walked through the door of WBS back in 1997. I'm not the young man I was when I went into the Navy in 2000, and I'm not the same man I was when I left the Navy in 2006. I'm a completely different person then who any of you remember. If you met me now, you wouldn't know me from then to now. People I was once close to online have faded to the background, or in the case of one, have passed from this life.

Speaking of,

God bless you Outlaw. I wish I had one more chance to speak to you...

And so, kind of like how I came into LJ to begin with, with very little fanfare, I now leave you guys, with even less fanfare. If however, you still want to contact me, you can do so in one of the following ways..

By email at ssnvetusn@yahoo.com
By ICQ at 2055371
By Yahoo at hostelbant@yahoo.com
MySpace at www.myspace.com/pingsteal
Or by MSN under ssnvetusn@yahoo.com

So be blessed my friends in whatever it is you do. I will think back on the more pleasant memories of before we were all so scattered. If you're curious as to what goes on with me, I'm sure that </a></font></b></a>delmira will have most of the up to date information.

Good luck.
Be blessed.
May our paths cross again sometime.

Jason
aka
Hostel Bantilles

Damn me for having no pants...

Sat, 26 May 2007 17:37:20 GMT

The funniest thing just didn't happen...all because I didn't have pants on.

I was sitting here at the computer, contemplating bashing my own head in with a hammer since I have a humongous headache, when all of a sudden I hear Sev scream, "YOU OWE ME!" I kind of hear her because I have noise canceling headphones, but I did turn and ask her what she was talking about. Apparentally....MORMONS were going door to door and Sev deflected em for us. But when she tells me this, my jaw drops to the floor and I ask, "Why didn't you come and get me! I was rasied Jehovah's Witness and these Mormons are trying to horn in on the door-to-door market? Oh, UH UH No they didn't!"

Sev is of course pointing to me and points out the fact that I was just lounging in my underwear and had no pants on. I curse my lack of good fortune as I would have loved to have gotten into a religious discussion with some Mormons from the JW persepctive. I could have given them some pointers on the whole door-to-door thing. Damn and I don't even have a Watchtower to give them.

Damn the bad luck! That could have been the most hilraious thing to happen this month....

An update...

Mon, 07 May 2007 05:08:27 GMT

I'm alive. That's about it.

Kaybye.

15-0

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:57:40 GMT

And a world championship to boot.

All is right with the world. With Vince getting his head shaved being a bonus.

So...what is this?

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:17:02 GMT

I often sit and think about things when there is nothing to do, which there seems to be more and more of lately. I've found my life settling into a routine, and while there needs to be a change, I don't know what I need to do to initiaite this change. Here is what I mean.

I work from 3pm -1130pm Monday through Friday. When I get home, I get online. I'll check email, MySpace, friends list on LJ, my SWG guild site, my Battlefield 2142/Vietnam Clan site, and then either play SWG, BF 2142, or mess around online reading wikipedia or looking at stupid videos until the wee hours of the morning. I go to bed anywhere between 4am and 630am depending on the day, and then I'll wake up either at 2pm...or somedays, Sev just shoves her foot in my ass, like she did today, and make me get out of bed before noon. Every day I bitch about how I need to go to bed when I get home from work, and then when I get home from work, bam...back to the routine...

And so the cycle continues with no signs of breaking. And as usual...I have thoughts and opinions that I always keep to myself.

Shit like...I don't want to go back into roleplaying. While I enjoyed the good times I shared with many of you on my friends list, I still feel a twinge of bitterness and general sadness when it comes to some things that happened over the course of online roleplaying all those years ago. While I've toyed with the idea, I've kind of decided I'm just fine with popping into a room now and then just to say hello for a few minutes before disappearing again.

I'm really bored with Star Wars Galaxes, yet, I continue to play it. Honestly, there is not too much left in the game that I haven't done, but either I can't find a group to do the quests on Mustafar I need to get done, or I just don't have any drive whatsoever. Plus did I mention I currently am the guild leader of one of the oldest Rebel guilds on my server? So not only do I try to balance play time when I'm on, I also have to take care of the online children as it were. Though I can't complain too much about them because for the most part, they are a mature lot, but somedays, I just want to be left the hell alone.

I'm tired right now, and should really go to sleep. Problem? I don't want to. I don't want to go to sleep. I haven't wanted to go to sleep for a long time and I don't know if that is some sort of sign for something, but I just know that even though I enjoy it when I sleep, I don't like to do it unless I absolutely have to do it.

I wish I had taken piano lessons when I was younger. I also wish I was a better guitar player. I have more musical talent in my pinkie finger than any of those idiots on American Idol have.

I should start a band, but that would require work, which I'm not a big fan of...so I guess I shouldn't complain about mot being a famous singer when I haven't put in any work for it. Of course the part of the country I live in isn't really known for the stars and muscal celebrities it creates. Hell this place isn't even known for having any cute girls. If you're down though for the fat, bitchy, psychos, then my friend this is paradise.

I have a website. www.pingsteal.net . I've had it for almost two months now, but there is still no site there. I want to make one, but then there's that work thing again. I don't feel likedling any work of any sort, which is fucked up because whenever I play SWG, that's exxactly what I' trying to do. Work. But it's okay. I'll get over it somehow.

I wonder what's going on in the lives of friends I haven't seen in awhile. I haven't seen an update from Daki in several months and he used to be on everyday. Yon used to post stuff about what was going with her in Seattle, but she doesn't anymore. My friendship with Paige never did repair itself after it broke apart all those years ago, even after I started reading her journal and leaving small comments now and then.

People change, and they move on to new things, and I keep thinking that is what I ought to do...move on from LiveJournal. I don't use this blog. I'm not a blogger. I don't like people knowing too much about what goes on with me, but in truth, there really isn't anything going on with me. My wife is the bigger blogger of us two, and that's fine with me. Of course she goes through journals like most people go through pairs of underwear.

So yeah...these are the things that keep me up at night. These are the things I think about when my mind goes blank.

Man I wish I had some pot.

GOD DAMN!

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:33:13 GMT

It took sixteen years, and all I can say is...IT"S ABOUT FUCKING TIME!

http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/

The Force is strong in this one...

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:23:37 GMT

Is the Force with you? Your Result: Council Member You have progreesed through the ranks quickly. You now are in the top council of 12 masters. You give orders to young masters, and help decide on galatic matters. You are older and do not many missions, however you are very wise in the force. Go boss around the youngins.
True Master Status
Young Master
Bounty hunter
Undercover sith lord
Padawan
Academy Trainee
Imperial Army
Is the Force with you?

I'm still around ya know...

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:49:35 GMT

Just a note to let you all know I'm still alive and kicking. I don't post nothing here much anymore since when I'm online, it's usually to play either Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2142, Star Wars Galaxies, Guild Wars, or to write promos for my internet based wrestling promotions over at FWrestling.com

So please forgive me if I don't write all that often.

My Xmas Stocking

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:18:04 GMT

Xmas Stocking

leave a gift for pingsteal

get your stocking

This is more than slightly disturbing.

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:47:30 GMT

pingsteal's LJ stalker is clawmarks!

clawmarks is stalking you because a little birdie told them you talked behind their back. They are also getting with your significant other!

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What's happenin

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:24:41 GMT

Well I guess an update is in order since many of you probably haven't heard from me in awhile. For those that don't know, I moved from Indiana to Maryland to take a new job working on V-22 Osprey's for the Navy/Marine Corps at NAS Pax River. Job starts out at like 46K a year and the benefits are pretty good. My buddy Jon told me about the job and is letting me stay with him till I get my new place, which will be about the end of this coming up week. Wife and kids will be joining me about X-Mas time so the kids won't miss any school.

Everything is going well and I can't wait for everything to fall into place. I'm trying to find some ways to make some extra money since bills are kind of high right now and I want to get them paid off sooner rather than later. Other than that things are going pretty good.

Wish there was more stuff to talk about, but there really isn't. I just can'twait to get my own place so I can have my cable TV and high speed internet back so I can get back to fraggin dummies on BFV and avoiding idiots on SWG. That and I miss watching wrestling, which is silly in itself since wrestling hasn't been any good in years.

Anyways, I'll try and do a better job of keeping you guys up to date with all that's happening. Take care and I'll write again soon.

Not wasting time...

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:52:03 GMT

Well this was fast. I got approved for a townhouse yesterday abouty two hours after I left the library. I move in on the 28th. Rental houses around here are either way too overpriced, or they are complete shitholes...so I decided it would be best if I just got a townhouse for now and then get the wife and kids out here, and then we can go from there. Maybe if things are differnt a year from now when my lease is up, we can look at the house thing again, even consider buying one.

An update

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:49:17 GMT

Two weeks in Maryland and I'm just now getting to a computer at the local library. Such is my shcedule these days it seems. Things are going well. I'm currently looking for a place right now while staying with a friend of mine. I'm giving myself a week to find a good deal on a rental house, but if that falls through, then I'll look at getting an appartment or townhouse in the meantime.

Not sure when I'll be back online but I'm trying to get everything else taken care of first. Getting internet is a low priority right now so please bear with me on that.

Anyways, just wanted to drop a line to let you all know what is going on and such. I'll be sure to let you know what happens next soon enough.

New job, new location.

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:09:40 GMT

This is just a note to let those of you who are interested that I have decided to take the job offer in Maryland and move there. I start Monday, so I will be moving this weekend. Sev and the kids will stay behind until Christmas. This serves the dual purpose of not having to yank the kids out of school in the middle of the year, and also gives me time to find a place for the family instead of having to rush through and find the quickest, cheapest, most crime infested place with the shittiest schools around.

I will be staying at a friends house until I get things settled.

I'm a wide range of emotions. I'm excited, yet at the same time I'm worrisome. It's a huge change I know and I'm doing my best to meet it head on. I'm also sad about leaving home again, seeing as I just got back in July after getting out of the Navy. it's kind of sad leaving home, but then again, I guess this is the new beginning that I have been looking for, so I'm going to grab the bull by the horns and take it.

Anyways, that's all for now. I'll write more when I have more to tell you guys.

I. Love. This. Country

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:08:26 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/09/25/jihad_car_ad.reut/index.html

Quick Update

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:45:12 GMT

This will be short and sweet. Not sure if anyone knew but I have a job now working at Clark Regional Airport in Sellersburg Indiana. It's not the best job but at least it's money.

The radio thing I was working on before has fallen through as they are not approved through the VA in order to use my GI Bill. I am going to wait till my disability claim comes back from the VA. If I get the service connected disability, then I'll be able to go through the VA and do it. If not, I'll have to concoct some other brilliant scheme to get it done.

Other than that, things are good. I'll give a more detailed update when it's not so close to bedtime.

So what's going on?

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:26:43 GMT

Well I reckon everyone might have figured that I dropped off the face of the earth, but I haven't, so I guess it's time for an update.

It's been almost seven weeks since I was discharged from the Navy. In that time I have moved back home, got a job, quit a job, and now looking for a job still. It's to the point that I am probably going to have to end up working at a Wal-Mart or some other retail job just to have SOME cash flow coming in.

Now, in my last journal entry I made mention of a radio thing that I was interviewing for. Let me elaborate on that a little further.

I have always wanted to be a radio DJ. This is something that I have wanted to do since I was about 13. The reasons for why I didn't get into it sooner are long and varied, but let's just say that life happens.

Well, about a couple of weeks after moving home, my mother made the comment about how I should have done the "radio thing" like I wanted to all those years ago. I got to thinking about that comment and it bugged the shit out of me, so I went to google and I typed in, "how to be a radio DJ" just to see what would come up. Well something came up that caught my attention.

I ended up at a website for the Broadcasters Training Network. It's a company based out of Seattle and what they do is they set you up with a mentor, which is usually a personailty at a station in your home market. If you and the mentor agree to the course, then they will send you materials to study and the mentor adminsters the course work. On top of that, you get real life training in a real life radio station from a professional thats been in this business for a certain amount of time, usually several years.

Well, this sounded like something that I was defintly interested in and so I called and checked it out, and it's a totally legit thing, not a con or anything. I paid them 50 dollars to register me and set me up with a mentor. Well last week I had a meeting with my potential mentor, a local DJ at a classic rock station that I was familiar with, and we both decided that we wanted to move forward and get me on the fast track to a broadcasting career. This is great right?

Hold the phone.

I want to use my VA benefits in order to cover the cost of the entire program, (which runs about 5 grand) but the VA will not approve my request just yet. I have been playing phone tag, and the placement director fcor the company has been playing phone tag, and we think we might have got this thing all worked out, but it's going to take a couple of weeks. On September 1 they will be an officially licensed school, and be eligible for financing thought the Sallae Mae network.

Now Lord knows I dont want to take out a cllege loan on this, I want ym damned GI Bill to cover it since I did put the extra money into my account just for this purpose. Anyways, A rep from the VA has said that once the licensing goes into effect that there shouldn't be any trouble with the VA approving the course.

Thething I dont get about the VA is that they would approve the course if I was a disab;ed veteran, but I'm not one, yet. See there is something else I have going on. I have been havikng knee trouble since about January and even when I went to see the docs about it when I was in the Navy they told me it was something that they could do nothing about. Basically they told me that my knee cap was not in alignment with the rest of my leg and that was where the pain was coming from, and that the only way to make the pain go away is to lose weight.

This doesn't make any kind of god damned sense at all, because it's just my right knee that hurts all the damned time, and my right knee is the only one that I have problems with. And even when I went to the docs about it in the Navy the never X-rayed my knee, or cat scanned, or MRI'ied the thing. They just pulled, twisted and jerked on my knee till it hurt and then fed me that bogus line. Now while I don't dispute the diagnosis, I do dispute the advice, since I really cant excercise on a leg that I can hardly walk on some days.

I don't know. Too much bullshit going on right now and I dont' have the time or the money to deal with it all.

This sucks.

Quick

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:09:27 GMT

Just a quick blurb to let people know that I have my first meeting with a radio station DJ tomorrow. This could be the ticket to starting my broadcasting career so here's hoping it goes well. I'll post tommorrow after the meeting to let you all know how it went.

Still here

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:14:04 GMT

Just a note to let everyone know that I am still alive and well. Things here have been busy as usual and well, that and my mother has a seven year old Compaq on dial up so even if I do get on the internet, I have to go very slow.

Things in the job world are looking up a bit. I found an avenue into the orld of broadcasting on the radio so I am running with that as far as I can. I don't want to say too much and jinx the whole thing, but if it works out as great as I think it is, this is going to be a dream come true for me.

I'll do my best to keep you guys posted with what happens with that.

Well that was fun.

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:51:32 GMT

So for those of you keeping score at home, you may or may not know that I got out of he Navy almost a month ago. I moved to Jeffersonville Indiana, across from my hometwon of Louisville Kentucky. I have been drawing unemployment for a couple weeks now. I got a job as a field supervisor at a security company here in Indiana, and I thouht that this would be a good job to get into with my miltary experiance and whatnot. Plus I felt like everyone was pressuring me into getting a job like, RIGHT FUCKING NOW, so I took the first offer of employment that came my way.

Last night was my first night on the job, and I have to tell you, it sucked balls big time. It sucked so bad that this morning I went into my supervisor's office and told her that I had made a mistake and that I felt like this position and me were not going to mesh well. She asked me why and even though I had a million reasons in my head why, the only thing I told her was that it was a gut feeling I had based on what I had seen and done my first night on the job, and that I didn't want to waste any more of the company's time and money pursuing something that I was not going to be able to give my all to. I even told her that the company shouldn't even be worried with paying me fo the one night as I didn't want to burden the company anymore than I already had.

Well they are going to pay me for the one night, but now I'm kind of orried how this is going to effect my unemployment benefits. i don't want the amount I am recieving to go down, or worse, lose my unemployment benefits entirely. I want to redefine my job search and try and get into a job that is going to be something I can do without losing my mind. I know that is a broad statement to make, but riding around ina truck for ten hours, patrolling parking garages, office buildings, and industrial centers looking for homeless people and other unlawful acts is just not what I had in mind.

I need a job that allows me to interact with a lot of people, to do something tangible with my time, and something that gives me a sense of accomplishment when I do it. I'm thinking I'm going to have to go to school to getthe job I want, and I am hoping that the VA will help me with that. I still have my GI Bill, but I'm not sure if that will cover the entire amount of schooling I would need.

Plus I have to think of these boys and the wife. I want to do what's right by them, but not at the expense of my mental health. Is that selfish of me?

I just feel bad for quiting a job that I told those people I was willing to do. And I feel like I let everyone in my family down by doing so. I just feel lost, confused, and just want to do he right thing, but I don't even know what the right thing is, or if I can even do the right thing. Seems like everything I touch turns to shit lately.

I don't know. I just don't know.

I'll make you a deal...

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:27:48 GMT

Anyone want a couple of loud, unruly, hard headed children?

Free to a good home!

Just don't tell the wife...

FINALLY

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:25:04 GMT

So I finally got a job. That only took me three weeks. It's nothing big though, just a field supervisor at a security firm. Basically I get to ride in a truck to different sites where we have guards and check up on them. If someone is sick I have to fill in for em, that kinda crap.

This is probably going to be a strssful job because you can get away with so much in the way of bullshit with a civilian job. In the military they have this thing called the UCMJ where they can take away your pay when you blow your nose wrong. Here I'll have to be "sensitive" to people's needs and give "positive counsel" on how people can do thier job better.

Nevermind the fact that most of the guards I have seen for this place are all fat, or black, so I think I got my work cut out for me. And when I say black, it's not that I'm a racists. Far from it. it's just in my experiance, there are several types of black people. There are those that are cool and thatyou can get a long with, and then there are racists n*****s who just want to fuck over anyone they can.

Needless to say, it looks like his place has a lot of those kinds of black people. Which is fine. That place could use an injection of a little military discipline. This should be fun.

Or hell.....