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Monday, November 19th, 2007
7:42 am	Almost There I'm in Nashville, TN. been here for a couple of days visitin' drew and wendy duffy. we got up and went to the gym at 5 this morning. i have not done that in awhile, so it was a real ass kicker. before here i was in north canton ohio for a couple of days with my friend drew barker from the marines. we went to cleveland and saw a dj that we both like and basically drank and smoked and spun drum and bass records and stayed up too late for a couple of days. this morning i'm heading on down to arkansas to see my grandpa and aunt and uncle and cousin, then i'll finally make it down to texas sometime later this week. i am not used to the trip taking this long! i usually drive to or from NYC in a day or two, so taking a whole week and a half is a huge change of pace. it's nice to get to relax, but i hate having the rest of the trip hanging over my head. id kinda like to just have it over and done with. i really miss new york alot already... looking forward to seeing ross, and gene , and the guy, and jake, and patrick, and carolyn, and jimmy, and...haha you get the idea. seeing all the peeps will be cool Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: vhi is droning on in the background.. (Comment on this)
Friday, September 21st, 2007
10:39 am	house cleaning day! i gotta give the house a nice cleanin today. the landlords are gonna come through and check it out and give lee and i our deposits back. that is awesome because i totally forgot that we had that money coming our way. its like finding 900$ in your pocket when you put on a fresh pair of jeans. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 13th, 2007
9:46 am	moving well i'm moving back to austin. i'm debating on whether or not to actually bring anything with me. i was just looking up moving truck rentals. i was quoted 1,896$ for the smallest uhaul truck...one that can't even tow my car. then i got the idea that maybe this would be cheaper. looks like about 500$ cheaper..and alot more fun!~ http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/car/390988014.html and then i could sell it when i got home...or make a taco truck..haha that would be an adventure one way or the other for sure (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
9:57 am	USMC.....R so i'm back in the marines....this time as a reservist. it is waaaay different than active duty. the guys seem alright. everyone seems to talk to the new guy alot earlier than they would normally if i were active. seems like then everybody got the cold shoulder for a while before getting accepted. this time i only had to go through about a day of that. did my first "drill" this past weekend. most of it was sitting around because there was a fake "mobilization" going on and i did not have anything to do in that so i sat on my ass alot. took a BST which is a Basic Skills Test. suprisingly after a 3 1/2 year vacation i passed. of course i could have had a silent benefactor since our fellow marines grade us and smomehow not all that many guys failed. i also took a PFT which is a Pyhsical Fitness Test. in involves doing a set  of pullups (20 being the max required), a set of crunches in 2 minutes( 100 being the max), and a 3 mile run. I maxed out my pullups and crunches with 20 and 100 repectively and got a 24 min time on the run. the run was a bit of a disapointment because i have traditianally done better thant hat.....but since i was sick and have been taking alot of time off of my running schedule do to the whole getting hit by a moving truck while riding my bicycle....i'll let that one slide. also found out my "cutting score which is the score they use to promote you (or not) needed to move from my current rank of corporal to sergeant is 1658. right now before my PFT score factors in which will raise it i am sitting on a 1798u...hahah. that's good. welp, i'm off to work slangin booz. hope everybody is ahvein a good day ps. i did a spell check and decided that i spelled way too many things wrong to go back and fix them. have fun doin it yourself if you care that much sucker! Current Mood: drained (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
8:18 pm	dear gene look at me!!! i'm posting on my livejournal! wwooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
6:11 am	arf! arf! Originally uploaded by hcock45. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
12:31 pm	got nudged i'm only doing this because gene "nudged me"....bastard. so..hmm..i'm at school. everybody here is looking at myspace. this college is fun because i'm like the ONLY honkey around and so i get a good feeling of being part of something that's totally different than what school was like at the other two colleges i have attended (both in tx..). everything is going pretty well here. got a pretty good hold of the subjects i'm studying, the weather is great, the food is good. i gotta get to class (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 24th, 2005
3:37 pm	class of 95 reunion! last night i crashed the bwood class of 95 high school reunion. i went as gene,people kept looking at the name tag and trying to figure out what happened to the gene they had known. some of them were wise to the whole "this guy is NOT gene" bit, and so i explained that gene was unavailible, and i was standing in for him, but a couple of guys i actually got to believe that i was generz. rock n roll (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 17th, 2005
11:03 am	america fuck yeah! i went and saw Warrant last night in houston. i went there for the people watching i stayed for the rocking seriously....Warrant was really rockin it. it was silly. good times Current Mood: chipper Current Music: Warrant!!!!!! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
12:10 pm	hey fred my email is hcock45@gmail.com if you're reading this and you're not fred, then shame on you! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
11:49 pm	gotta see if this works (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 29th, 2005
12:26 am	hmmm tonight i was doing something that usually gives me great joy. going stupid fast in a stupid fast car. i was the passenger in a 400 hp WRX, and was following behind a couple of guys in an equally rediculous mercades AMG supercharged so and so, and as the turbo boost kicked in and i was forced back into the seat i felt instead of child like glee, an increadible emptiness. i was riding in a car that is one of the things that i would really like to own myself somtime, and yeah it was definatly what you'd expect from a 400hp all wheel drive firebreathing monster, but it did not make me feel as good as i thought it would. the first thought was "hmm, this is fast, but i think it should go faster." well if you've ever riden in a 400 hp anything, the last thing that should be crossing your mind at 130mph is "yeah this is good....but it could be better." and the more i dwelled on that idea the worse i felt. something is missing something big. i dont feel very excited anymore, even about things that i've been looking forward to for a long time. and it goes way beyond rides in dream cars. this trip is fun, but did'ny hold any kinda magic draw, it was just what i was gonna do this week people too.....not exciting. nobody and that's not a knock on anyone who would read this because the only people who might are people that should know how much i like them blah blah blah blah blah blah Current Mood: discontent (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 26th, 2005
9:08 am	Road trip made it to l.a. yesterday. had a real good trip here with ol fred. we stopped at a crummy lake, and white sands new mexico, and at his uncles house in phoenix and rode horses and had a great meal. got into town here a little later than hoped thanks of course to traffic, but still managed to spend a little time with drew n wendy, and go hit a bar for a few with generz so that was good. i'm about to walk out the door to head up to san fran. more adventures await (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
10:28 pm	hitting little kids is fun yesterday i played in a dodgeball tournament. we got 2nd place. lost in the end to a team of junior high kids....yeah...but i did manage to ding a few of them pretty good. today i drove the z up to bellville to meet a guy from norht of austin that wants to buy the car. if everything goes right the deal will be sealed next week. selling the car is good, but i feel kinda bad because the guy is buying it for his 17 year old son. the guy i met seems cool, has owned z's before, and seems to be a pretty good guy for the most part...but that's alot of car for a 17 year old. oh well, that's the pop's problem not mine i guess. tommarow i'm leaving in the morning with fred to go to cali. no real plan for the trip other than get there, wander around a bit, and eventually get back. Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
10:52 am	Strait Trippin' Dawg As many of you know, i sleep like shit. i'm real jumpy, and have trouble getting to sleep alot of times even when i go to bed early and i'm tired. last night i was hanging out with my friend Karen, and she gave me an Ambian (?) pill to help me sleep. i think that's the name of it anyway, the sleeping pill that has the commercial, that's how i remember it. this thing did NOT help me sleep. first of all i was up till 4:30 cause i was feeling very off keister, kinda drunk and woozy, kinda euphoric....and when i was laying in bed i started to fuckin see shit. i don't know if that's a normal reaction to this pill, but i'd bet not, and usually i'm pretty resilient to the effects of medicine but this shit told me who was boss. i dunno why it hit me so hard, but it did. while i was laying in bed the shadows on the walls kept creeping around and making ominous shapes and movements, and to top it off when i was almost finally asleep i was laying on my side and i thought i heard/felt/saw an explosion. no shit, i believed i felt it rock me in my bed, and that i saw the flash and heard the loud thump, so i jumped out of bed, and sprinted downstairs and burst into my parent bedroom to see if they were allright. of course since there was no explosion they were fine. fuck that shit Current Mood: groggy (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 12th, 2005
11:16 am	Crazy reunion Today my good freind Perry the cat came home. Perry (a.k.a. mr. been gone for 5 months a.k.a. been gone since christmas and i thought you were dead for sure cause it was snowing cat) found his way to the Wal-Mart parking lot gas staion where one of the attendants saw him, and brought him into the little outhouse they work in. She called me up and asked if I had a missing cat, and I of course replied that I am ( in fact I was missing three if you wnat to get all particular...guess I'm a bad cat owner). Anyway, I went n picked the errant cat up, and as usual he cried like a big baby in the car. He really hates car rides, and as soon as we got in the house he found the nearest couch and hid under it for half an hour. He's come outta hideing now, and taken up his place of vigil in the window that looks out onto the backyard where all the squerils and birds get his attention. Nice to have the guy home, lets just hope he doe'nt take up that habit he aquired while liveing in Austinwith Gene and I of pissing on overything.... Current Mood: ecstatic (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 9th, 2005
8:14 pm	back in the lj spent the weekend in austin with my old pal lonnie smith. that was pretty cool, i have'nt been able to hang out with that guy hardly any since he aquired daddy status. stayed with good ol c-lo in austin when we were there, and got to see guy (aka: stupid sexy bitch face norwood) out at the cabin and cook some good steaks. nothing like drinkin all weekend and trying to sleep out at the cabin to get rid of a good head cold! ran into a girl i had known as a youngin in an appartment complex here in lj. she was a perv, and used to draw pictures of butts and give them to me al the time. now she lives on somebodies front porch or some such nonsense. but she was fun. regailed me with stories of world travel and adventure, and seemed to be more well taken care of and strait headed than most of the "worldy" type hippies i've met in austin who live on porches. austin is a good pool player Current Mood: mellow Current Music: radio head - creep (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
12:23 am	Case of the Mondays I don't actually have a case of the Mondays, i just wanted to say that seeing as it's monday and that's a silly thing to say. i think perhaps i was abducted by aliens today because i cannot for the life of me remember what happened early in the day. or maybe it's just so mediocre that i blocked it out, i'm not really sure which. i'm bankin on the aliens though. those bastards are sneaky as all get out! i do know what did'nt happen this morning though. school. somehow my alarm failed to rouse me and i missed bio this morning. woops. that was not so good, in fact this whole semester has not been very good for learning. my heads been everywhere except where it was needed these past few months. as i hear it though this is not in fact the end of the world or even the end of my career as a student. i found great relief in that fact while talkin to good ol generz about the subject of destroying a semester, and now that this one is drawing to a close i find myself feeling better and better! later in the day i aquired possibly the most rediculous shoes ever. they are so stinking awsome that i have to pee on myself every time i look at them. i'm not sure how to post pics here in livejournal, so i'll be putting them in my Myspace instead. they are adidas running shoes, and they make me want to run and run and run and run. everytime i put them on they take over and i end up sprinting somewhere. i also got a brace for both knees, so the shoes don't kill my old man joints. went and hung out with ryan barnes this evening and played cards with him and his mother. she took us to the cleaners, and then we recieved a distress call on the bat phone from b.j. that he was stuck in the mud out at the levy, so we (ryan and i...his mom was not down for the adventure) took pops truck and went to try to help. we managed to get his truck stuck as well. after much grunting and fighting of the giant dow mosquitos, and digging we managed to get my truck at least untuck, but bj had to wait for someone with beefier hardware to rescue him. hung out with ryan some more at his house. i've said it before, and i'll say it again. ryan is hands down one of the raddest cats on the face of the planet. anyone who doe'snt think so i will kick in the nuts, or face baring the possesion of nuts. it's late...but my knee braces are begging for a shakedown run...so i'm out! hope everyone is well. Current Mood: cheerful (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 15th, 2005
2:00 am	Big L.R. damn....in little rock arkansas now. i lived here a whuile back, and only ever found one pace to go. tonight i found where weverybody else goes. busy place. wheew. goodnight fuckers (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 9th, 2005
10:58 am	what a day the news says that 2 years ago today baghdad fell, i don't remember to tell the truth if this is the right day, they all were muddled together, but anyway. 2 years. crazy Current Mood: restless Current Music: none (2 Comments |Comment on this)