I couldn't go all of July without putting out something for the month. Well I have been sick the past two days, but I muscled through with a dashboard full of tissues and took a drive with my buddy Keith up to Great Yarmouth to ride some shred sickles.
It was fun!
This week has been a great one despite the awful weather. I got my skateboarding on this week and made a video of some of the footage from the week. I would like to thank my friend Jeff Paulin for doing some of the video recording and my friend TJ Aycock for allowing me to use his song in my video.
Today was a great day at work it started off rainy and chilly will I was at PT, but after breakfast the sky cleared for the most part creating a gorgeous day of work. I worked on a ton of building making doors work. "Hi I'm Bob the Builder!" Haha, except I wear an Air Force uniform.
After work I went on a solo mission to the skate park and just played around. It's surprising how you don't even notice yourself progressing until you think back to how many hours and how much effort you put into something you love. I might have crafted the best line of my life. The term line in skateboarding is the art of string a series of tricks together one right after another. I land a boardslide grind down a hand rail and rode up the quarter pipe that was located ahead of it and did a revert tail stall and then rode up hip transfer and ollied to smith grind. I was shocked I landed it because that last trick I spent forever on and could not land it Sunday. I was satisfied to say the least.
If I lost you in the skateboarding lingo then here is a video of a speed drawing clip I made a few months ago and just recently uploaded.
9:30 is when today started. I was a little tired from the few drinks I had from the night of socializing. After cleaning up I grabbed a few of my friends and caught a train into Cambridge we walked all over the place and filled our belly's at a place called Clowns. Clowns is an Italian sit down eatery. After that we went to The Fitzwilliam Museum. That place was amazing I was not allowed to take any photos while I was in there, but my favorite painting was the one of twins sisters that were in there twenties called Kate and Grace.
After adventuring through Cambridge we got back on the train and called it a day. I feel very artsy today. :]
This last picture is of a girl I meet when I was home for two weeks of leave I told her that my favorite era was the 1940's and 50's and she put together a photo shoot dedicated to it. This girl is incredible.
After two weeks of being in the sun and the heat of Florida I have returned to it's exact opposite... England. Well it was harder than usual to adjust back to this climate and culture, but now that a week has gone by I think I might be back to my normal schedule finally.
I am super excited about my college class that I am taking now it is a Public Speaking class. To easy Sergeant.
So I look like a cross between and old man and a cowboy. I am so sore from that run on Friday. I am glad that I got the chance to talk to my friends last night. 22 more days and I will finally be back and be a able to sword-fight, draw, play video games, go on long drives to the beach, roll up in waffle house at 2 in the morning, and shuffle with my friends! And most importantly see my family.
So I put together a tutorial on how to do the shuffle or hard-step, whichever you know it as. I hope it helps you learn how to shuffle. I forgot to mention that there is a glide step you can add in to your shuffle and there is a spin step you can add in also. I just covered the basics.
Early this week I went to a Taking Back Sunday show that the played on base for FREE. It was a great performance. Adam broke his leg while on tour I think, but he toughed it out like a camp. They set list was really good. I am glad that I finally got to meet them and tell them how much I enjoy there music.Here are some picture of that.
This is a picture of the lead singer from the opening act serinading me with that adorable face of her's. She asked out to the crowd who the most dishonest man in the crowd was and all my friends point to me. I know what you are thinking, that's messed up. I try to be a very brutally honest guy. I think it was the heat of the moment that lead to me becoming the center of attention on this one though.
So it is interesting to look back at myself a year ago and see this different person. I was so young and uncompromising. Now I am older and a ton has changed for me. I wonder sometimes if the person I was hates who I am now. It is amazing how so much can change so fast.
Anyways! Today was an interesting day we got to do some moral boosting! We had an 8 hour run and we won! We dressed up in these ridiculous looking outfits and did 100 meter sprints to see what squadron could do the most laps. We won with 430 laps which is like 107 miles which it is cool. I am glad I was apart of that.
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