Hey, I'm Jon
I've spent the majority of my life cheesein' it up in Wisconsin, where I got in plenty of trouble as a teenager, and I met my wife during those years. After dropping out of high school, I earned my HSED and turned where many in my position turn, the military. I'm just finishing up my first (and only) enlistment in the US Navy. I've seen and done a lot in my time in the service. I went to boot camp and Engineman school at Great Lakes, Illinois. After that I served a year aboard the USS Ardent, a mine countermeasures ship homeported in Bahrain (Middle East). My last command was at Naval Air Station, Sigonella Italy, which is located in sunny Sicily. It was while I was stationed there that I married the woman I love, Pam. The Navy was a fascinating job, with its perks and pitfalls. It opened my eyes to the way other people on this earth live, as well as introducing me to a wide variety of American subcultures. I would not recommend the armed forces to worry warts and people with, or prone to, high blood pressure. The stress levels that you can encounter are uncanny. I did not think one could get so close to losing thier mind and still remain sane. At any rate, I personally enjoy skating(inline) and working on all things mechanical. I am currently finishing up an Associates Degree in Applied Marine Engineering through Coastline Community College, and will be utilizing my Montgomerey G.I. Bill to (hopefully) earn a Bachelor's Degree in Busniess Administration with a minor in Foreign Language through Lakeland College. My best friend is from Sao Paolo Brazil, and we hope to open a few bar and grills both in the U.S. and Brazil. I plan to retire in Ireland, and live out my days as an Irish Citizen. And live happily ever after....... |
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I am an American badass.
Incense and Peppermints-
I am coming home after 5 unglorious years of military service. I am ready to take the simple yet meaningful title of 'Mr." again. I have learned so much since I was a punk 18 year old with no responsibilty. I am glad I learned the principles of discipline and commitment, the value of patience, and humility. But I am soooooo ready to move on. I have grown tired of the gross wastes, the 'ass-kissing' of the various chains of command, and especially the lack of acknowledgement of personal achievement. The military, they say, is now a corporation. Let me tell you that from what I see, without the backing of our tax dollars to shore up all the hemmorraging waste of funds, this corporation would have filed backruptcy long ago. And the HR department is a bunch of blithering idiots.
Anyway, my wife and I have found a house to rent. We are pretty excited in that if we like the place, we may be able to buy it. I'm no real estate expert, and maybe to others the place may seem like a waste of money, but I think the place has a lot of potential. It would take a lot of work to fix it up, but maybe.....
Thats the News for now.
Gloria Patri,
et Filio,
et Spiritui Sancto.
Sicut erat in pricipio,
et nunc,
et semper,
et in saecula saeculorum.
Amen.
510 Chuck E. Cheese Tickets Blown In Grape Soda Induced Frenzy
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CORDOVA, TN—Chuck E. Cheese patron Nathan Angrim, 9, was found passed out in a booth Monday, 510 game tickets poorer and surrounded by cheap toys, following a two-hour Welch's Grape Soda bender. "Dad, where'd all this stuff come from?" Angrim asked, gesturing to the plastic dinosaurs and slide whistles scattered across his pizza-sauce-stained T-shirt. "Last thing I remember, I was playing Skee-Ball. Oh, my head." The incident marks a backslide for Angrim, who swore that he wouldn't touch "the Grape" again, after last April, when he woke up shoeless in the colored-ball pool, his pinkies stuck in a Chinese finger trap.
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