Here I go again. Same old stuff again. 2756 more weeks and I’ll be through. I won’t have to look at you. You won’t have to look at me. Ugly, ugly, ugly you. Handsome, handsome, handsome me. Am I right or wrong? You’re right! Are we weak or strong? We’re strong! Sound off! One! Two! Sound off! Three! Four! Bring it on down now! One two three four! One two! Three four!
This was my favorite cadence while in the army. It helped me to know that no matter how bad things got, they would always end. You’re probably wondering why I wrote that. I can understand why you’re thinking that. And I’m guessing you believe I am going to start a long complaint about something. Well I might, but I hope that I don’t waste this whole long spiel complaining. Rather instead I would like to state what I want to do this year. I’m not fully sure what I will write this time around. So please comment after reading, I really do like to know what you, the reader, will think about what I will say.
Well for starters I’d like to say that I would like to go on a date at some point during the year. Yes there are a few girls I would most definitely enjoy going on a date with. And If you’re wondering if I would take you out on a date, you’ll never know unless you ask me out. Tradition has failed us in many ways, guys being the ones that are solely responsible for asking out a girl is just one of them. I’m shy. More than that I am stupid around girls I’m attracted to. And I am not talking about the haha funny kind of stupid but the idiot school boy kind of stupid. Or on the rare occasion, I am so shy that I have trouble saying much of anything to you in person. This last option probably means I like you a great deal. In short ask me out ladies, I kind of like that sort of thing.
Next. I will finish school this year. What am I doing at school? I’m gaining knowledge on a topic which interests me. No I am not gaining knowledge for employment with some mediocre job that I will hate for the next 33 years. What am I learning in college? I am finishing up all the automotive technology classes this year, one way or another. This semester I am taking Automotive Electronics 2, Automatic Transmissions, Engine performance and weight lifting. Two of those auto classes are the hardest auto classes the college offers. And I got them both. Can you feel the excitement coming off me? No, well think on this. If you’ve known me for a long time, since high school era, then you should know that I have never been great at school, I felt I had learned everything that public school had to offer when I was a sophomore in high school. I wanted to get my GED and move on with my life. After I graduated high school I never really wanted to go to college. I wasn’t raised that way. But after a year and a half in the job market I was convinced to go to college. I applied at Fresno State and got accepted. But then they told me I needed like 3 classes. Classes I didn’t want to take, English, biology and some history class. So I went to Modesto Junior College. I took what I could get into as a late entry. Some forestry, industrial technology and a few others. Yes I majored in forestry for about two semesters, then they canceled the program for a time. Now I feel that college is against me. I started college with no real goal in mind and only picked one just to annoy the counselor that told me to major in English. Yes me a major in English, the guy that failed two and a half year s worth of it in high school. So I quit college. Time goes by I work around and then get screwed out of my job the week of Christmas one year. My schedule changed and no one told me. So I went back to college and took welding and a couple of auto classes, the intro course and the guidance class. Yes I know heavy load there Dann. Any way I got an A in my auto classes but failed welding, as did everyone else in the class because the teacher left on a cruise the week of finals. But I had gotten a job and so after I was failed and such, I figured that I was done with college this time around. Didn’t have the cash to go on, nor the drive to push myself through it. So I worked. But here I am again, I am going to school on the G.I. Bill and i can say that there are days where I actually look forward to going to school. But in all honesty, I would rather be working 10-12 hours a day 6 days a week. So here I am going to school. And no one cares but me.
My next ambition for this year. This may come as a shocker for some of you but I have not been a worthy priesthood holder for a little over a year now. Why? Well that’s personal. How? Again, personal. But I will say this is the year I get it back. I only bring it up here where no one reads what I say because I am at least putting it out there for me. In my own mind it helps me to get it out in the open where it’s not so secret anymore. And if you’re sitting around wondering why no one has called you to go do something, chances are I’m sitting at home wondering the same thing. So for the sake of me and to help me out, get me out of my house, call me. I don’t care for what reason, just call, invite me over to watch TV, play guitar hero or rock band or any other game you got, or if you have some place available, we can go shooting. I got three guns. Guys you should already know that I enjoy shooting a great deal. Ladies, if you want to go shooting just let me know, I have over 1000 hours of combat live fire military rifle training, and if you have a pistol you want to learn a bit more about I also have over 250 hours of tactical handgun training. Just don’t leave me alone. When I was in the army I may have been surrounded by people all the time, but I felt so alone. That’s where I lost my worthiness. So if you’re reading this and have a few free hours, come on over, or have me over or just call. Or we can set up some kind of online game or something.
So what else do I want to do this year? Travel? I’ve seen a lot as it is. I’m not too big on seeing some place that some dudes built long ago. I do like to go camping out in the wilderness. I’d like to do some more camping this year. I also enjoy hiking around out in the wilds, no paths, no maps, just a compass maybe and a strong desire to enjoy the outdoors. Any takers? Also, I haven’t been hunting since I was a kid and that had some pretty negative side effects. Alcohol and guns do not mix. So this year I would like to go hunting somewhere. And I’ve never really been fishing since I moved to California originally in 1990. So I have a pole I found at Pinecrest when I was there last with Tara. So I want to go fishing. Oh yes. I want to go hang out at some large body of water for more than one day a year with my friends. I would like to go at least once a month when it gets warm enough. Play in the water, swim, BBQ, boating, general good fun. Everything I did with the YSA’s in 2008 was like tasting the greatest flavor of ice cream ever and then having no more. That’s just not enough for me. I want more of it all and then some. Greedy? I don’t think so. I’m still young-ish. And besides it’s not like I’m married with a wife that says I can’t go and have fun. I feel that any girl willing to marry me, let alone date me, is going to want to go out and have as much fun doing whatever as I am.
So I guess that’s it for now. I’m thinking I should go to sleep, again. It’s after 0400. I had slept for about an hour at around 0000 hours. I got up and watched jumper and then scrolled through my movies and selected another movie to watch. Transformers. So say something about what I have said. Anything will do, hi is fully acceptable, I am just curious to know who actually reads what I put up. Ok, I’m off to watch my movie then maybe sleep for a bit before I get up and get ready for school…class is at 1140. Wish me luck!
One last thing, I love you my friends, I hope to become a better friend to you this year as well!!!!
-DANN the MANN
