Yeah, so it's been forever and a day since I posted a journal entry here...and I'm sure that's due to the fact that I'm currently living with an extraordinarily beautiful woman named Brittany Durnil (she's now Brittany Durnil-Whittaker) . And my job has gotten exceedingly shitty. My focus in writing n things have turned to novels and sketches (rather than contantly posting rediculously stupid short stories here). I have to say my creativity has shot through the roof, though I don't think I'm going to post anything here until it's revised down to being nothing but the little bits of programming that ensure an "H" goes on the screen whenever you press the "H" button on your keyboard.

At any rate, I just looked at the calander and realized to my extreme surprise that I have almost exactly 1 year and 6 months until I am OUT OF THE NAVY! Oh GOD I can't wait for that day. Neither can Brittany. But it's not going to be easy considering the ship is going through things that I haven't been through before (as far as the process of DPMA and LoA and things like that are concerned) so it's putting a lot of stress on me and my division because THEY haven't been through it either. Working hours are extended until almost 5 in the afternoon from 6 in the morning, my car was totaled...life's just throwing curve balls but I like to catch em. I'm learning from all this which is a good thing...so keep throwing them curve balls, Life...*readies his catchers' mit* >

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So me and a few buddies have been dabbling in photography lately. And I have to say after three shoots we've actually got a good idea on where we want to go with this. Currently we're building up a fund for a brand new professional camera. It will make things a hell of a lot easier for us and it will come out better. Also we've been scouting locations and brainstorming ideas, since the majority of our shoots are meant to take place outside.

The four of us got together in a group and decided to make our own little photography group known as Nogard Photography. We've put up a DA account for it here:

We want our shoots to tell a story with each picture and each different shoot is a different story. Now, since we're new to the whole thing we've been kind laying off the story idea and we're just going for sequenced shots, and it's been working out decently.

Til next time! ~Brandon

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Got it from 's journal and I was reading it, I had to fill it out xD.


You’re a 90’s kid if:

You remember watching
[x] Kenan and Kel (Could never stop laughing.)
[x] Doug (My favorite episode was the one where he knocked that dude out in one punch...)
[x] Ren & Stimpy (HA! My mom banned me from TV for a week when she finally caught me watching it.)
[x] Pinky and the Brain ("TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!")
[x] AAAAAAAH Real Monsters! (Shitty-ass cartoon...)
[x] Rocko's modern Life
[x] Animaniacs
[x] Gargoyles
[x] Hey Arnold
[ ]Out of the Box
[ ] Bear in the Big Blue House

[x] You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

[x] You just cant resist finishing this . . ."In west Philadelphia born and raised..."

You remember:
[ ] Step by Step
[x]Family Matters
[x] Dinosaurs
[x] Boy Meets World
[x] Full House
[x] You remember when it was actually worth getting up
early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

[x] You remember reading Goosebumps (I read pretty much every one. I was a Goosebumps whore )

When everything was settled by:
[x] rock paper scissors
[x] bubble gum bubble gum in a dish
[ ] miss mary mack

[x] When kick ball was something you did everyday (HAHA! ...yeah...)

[x] You used to listen to the radio all day long
[x] just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time on a tape. (Lost that...still a little disappointed)

[x] You remember Super Nintendos and Sega Genesis (I had the sega...and holy hell was it awesome.)
[x] You remember The Original Game Boy. (Oh yeah...had a red one, and it was the shiz)
[x] You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos... but never taped anything funny.

You remember watching:
[x] The Magic School Bus
[x] Wishbone (Ha! Yeah)
[x] Reading Rainbow (lol big time)
[x] Ghostwriter

[x] You remember when Yo-Yos were cool ( They still freaking are )
[x] You remember those Where’s Waldo books. (I was the MASTER at Where's Waldo!)

[x] You remember eating Warheads and Splashers Gushers (What about the Big League Chew? Ah Little League, good time xD)

You remember watching:
[x] Batman the Animated Series
[x] Aladdin
[x] Ninja Turtles
[x] Ghost Busters

[x] You remember Ring Pops!!!
[x] If you remember when everything was "da BOMB!"

[x] You remember boom boxes .vs. cd players. (Kids argued all the time in school over 'em.)

[x] Making those little paper fortune cookie things,
and then predicting your life with them. (I had a closet full of these at one point in time xD)

[x] You played and/or collected Pogs (Collected so many I lost count xD Still have some laying around somewheres...)

[x] You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano
and brought it everywhere you went.

You watched the original cartoons of
[x] Rugrats
[x] Wild Thornberry’s
[x] Power Rangers (Former Addict...)

[ ] All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand (I don't think I even know what the hell Lisa Frank is...)

You collected
[x] Beanie Babies.
[x] Pokemon cards
[ ] Carebears
[x] Silver dollars ( Still have a shitload )

[x] Everyone watched the WB

[x] When everybody knew all the pokemon by heart. (HAHAHAHA!)

[x] When digimon was still on.

[x] If you even know what an original walkman is...

[x] you know the Macarena by heart (Yeah...about that >.>;

[x] "Talk to the hand" ...

[x] You went to McDonald’s to play in the playplace and it was still sanitary.
[x] Before the MySpace frenzy
[x] Before the Internet & text messaging. (Yeah...those were the good old days.)

[x] Before Sidekicks & iPods

[x] Before PlayStation3 or X-BOX 360

[x] Back before X box period

[x] Before Spongebob.

[x] When light up sneakers were cool. (Yeah, I used to rock them shits)

[x] When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs

[x] When gas was $0.95 a gallon. (I TOTALLY wish it were that cheap now...half my check goes to gas)

[x] When we recorded stuff on VCR (Ha...haven't seen one of those in like ten years)

[x] You had slap bracelets! (>.>;;; Knocked a kid out once...)

[x] You Actually played outside until it was dark!

[x] Way back before we realized all this would eventually disapear...

[x] Post this if you smiled at least more than 5 times. . .

[x] And if you remember at least half the stuff on here.

Wow...just wow...seems like an eternity.

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So I kind of realize I've been neglecting DA a bit and I actually have reasoning for it. On the 4th of March my ship went into DPMA. Basically pre-dry dock. Our working hours are from 6am to 2:30pm, and I have to be up every morning at 4am just to get to work in time. My creativity has gone through a SERIOUS downhill tumble because I'm just far too exhausted by the time I get home to do anything. That and me and my roommates are being evicted in 28 days because of Luke (my roommate)'s ex wife. She tried to force her way into the house when he wasn't home, but Jin (my other roommate and Luke's girlfriend) forced her out, slamming her hands in the door in the process. So was does the crazy crack whore do? She calls the police and tries to lie to them saying Jin broke into the house, that she didn't know who the hell she was, and that she assaulted her with the door (which was I think the only part that was true.) Well, they had Jin call Luke and he confirmed that the crazy crack whore was lying so they told Jin that if she came around again to call them and they'd arrest her. Well the police also went over to management, and management was like. "Yeah...negative...last straw, here's your 30 day notice."

That was two days ago so we have 28 days left to get the hell out of here and into the new place we could possibly be getting here shortly. I hope everything works out in the end, we found a better place anyway, it's just that the rent is about fifty bucks more than it is here, but oh well. *Shrug* I'm sure we'll manage.

Till next time

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So the weather here has officially sucked lately. Rain, wind, thunder, lightning. It kind of sucks especially in going home when the roads are all sleek and slippery. I get a little nervous whenever I drive in the rain, it's kind of like a curse. I get nervous over the dumbest stuff when I'm driving...but the thing I'm most weary of is other drivers. God sometimes I think some people drive for the single purpose of scaring the guts out of people! Lulz, but on another happier note, I could POSSIBLY be moving back in with Luke and his girlfriend (former roommates). They're moving out of their current place and getting a new one somewhere, I don't know where since they're still looking, but Luke came out and invited me to move in with them. Given my financial situation recently, I'm afraid that I may have a little trouble helping out with the rent, that is of course, unless Luke's BAH covers this new place, too, cause we know that it covers the place he lives in now.

He's also currently utilizing my car since I have nowhere else to put it. Apparently, though, if you are active duty military in the state of California, you do not have to have a drivers license to drive a car. Which is awesome, but it's nice to have that card in your wallet.

By the way, the computers on a Naval ship SUCK! I've been tasked with making discs for the entire division containing study material for the advancement tests...well...unfortunately, about 9 out of ten times the data write to the CD fails because the computers just suck that much. Luckily, I made at least one working copy that I can use to put the data on my laptop and transfer it that way to CDs. It worked! YESH! I AM A GENIUS!

Sometimes it sucks being the only one in your division who knows how to really use a computer xD.

Til next time.

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