Well today was a bit different to the rest, I was on fish and vegitarean, i did baked cod with a herb crust but post for out here mind you though. Was a pleasent change from veg though.
Been thinking alot about past exsercises that i've done and i would rather go back to jordan than be here to be quite honest, just found some pictures on my hard drive from it. Had a little giggle at some of them. Good team of chefs too, unlike here were there just a bunch of monkeys in whites.
I have definatly made my mind up now, as soon as its possible im transfering to something else be it dog handeler, computer gremlin, organ grinder or the little dancing monkey. This is a very stressfull job with little or no appriciation that i could do without. I wouldnt mind the pay drop to be honest, i wouldnt even mind if i lost my rank, all that matters is that im happy with my work. Ive been cheffing about 8 or so years, im not shy of hard work.
Well thats that anyway i thought i'd pad it out with something.
Its getting very cold out again, so cold infact that we dont need a fridge in the room, we just put the milk on the window sill. Im expecting snow again soon, either that or frozen pellets of water shooting out of the sky.
Mood - tired with a tinge of achivement
Song of the day - RHCP-Under the Bridge
6.7
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Monday 26 April 2010
26th
Today was like any other, early start, shift, food then shower. Shift went really fast to be honest. Not much to say to be honest. Just another boring day on the rock. Watching Freddie got fingered at the minute, not seen it for quite a while, funny stuff.
Thats all for today really, hopfully the internet is back on today so i can upload these posts.
Bye for now.
Mood - Bored with a seasoning of wonder
Song in my head - Daddy would you like some sausege-Tom Green
6.2
Thats all for today really, hopfully the internet is back on today so i can upload these posts.
Bye for now.
Mood - Bored with a seasoning of wonder
Song in my head - Daddy would you like some sausege-Tom Green
6.2
Sunday 25 April 2010
25th
Well today was like any other sunday, or any other day for that matter, shift went quite fast to be fair. Still dont like getting up at half 4 though. Had a laugh in the kitchen. Just a big joke really, Got my washing done. Watched some telle box, Made a few phone calls and played fallout3.
That game will never get old, sensless violence is always fun, now ive got it on the pc theres loads of mods for it, guns, places to stay, you name it.
Just listening to some music and waiting for the kettle to boil at the moment.
Gonna start rock climbing soon, apparently theres a club that runs twice a week. The wall looks alright though.
Cant do any computer qualifications out here the ''system'' has been broke since october and no-ones bothered to fix it or its like everything else that breakes here, they try to fix it and fail, ultimate FAIL!
Anyhow kettles boiled so gonna have a tup of tea, no biscuits though someones eaten them all, oh that was me. Damn!
I really do not make any appologies for the smelling pisstakes in this blog.....What do you expext i pre-write it in fucking notepad, then upload it when i can get a decent internet connection.
Just an extra addon of more complaining, itunes put an update out a couple of days before i came out here, so i updated and now my iphone wont update misics, some sync error, seems to be happening alot from the word on google and they still havent put an update out the fix there problems. Yak! Currently using MediaMonkey and it doesnt seem great for iphones but its working never the less(what does that mean, never the less?) well working kind of, sometimes it needs a double sync to makesure.
Mood - hap-penis
Song in my head - Laroux-going in for the kill(Skreams lets get ravey remix)
8.3
I suppose really i should put i disclaimer up to be honest.
********WARNING********
I am i foul mouthed and misunderstud individual, who has problems spelling on notepad.
Whatever you read in this blog is not to be taken literly and under no circumstances should you be offended but my foul mouth.
This blog is based on actual events that may or may not happened.
I am a moose.
That game will never get old, sensless violence is always fun, now ive got it on the pc theres loads of mods for it, guns, places to stay, you name it.
Just listening to some music and waiting for the kettle to boil at the moment.
Gonna start rock climbing soon, apparently theres a club that runs twice a week. The wall looks alright though.
Cant do any computer qualifications out here the ''system'' has been broke since october and no-ones bothered to fix it or its like everything else that breakes here, they try to fix it and fail, ultimate FAIL!
Anyhow kettles boiled so gonna have a tup of tea, no biscuits though someones eaten them all, oh that was me. Damn!
I really do not make any appologies for the smelling pisstakes in this blog.....What do you expext i pre-write it in fucking notepad, then upload it when i can get a decent internet connection.
Just an extra addon of more complaining, itunes put an update out a couple of days before i came out here, so i updated and now my iphone wont update misics, some sync error, seems to be happening alot from the word on google and they still havent put an update out the fix there problems. Yak! Currently using MediaMonkey and it doesnt seem great for iphones but its working never the less(what does that mean, never the less?) well working kind of, sometimes it needs a double sync to makesure.
Mood - hap-penis
Song in my head - Laroux-going in for the kill(Skreams lets get ravey remix)
8.3
I suppose really i should put i disclaimer up to be honest.
********WARNING********
I am i foul mouthed and misunderstud individual, who has problems spelling on notepad.
Whatever you read in this blog is not to be taken literly and under no circumstances should you be offended but my foul mouth.
This blog is based on actual events that may or may not happened.
I am a moose.
Thursday 22 April 2010
22nd to 24th
Well the last 3 days havent really been all that to shout about to be honest. I see myself just writing about work day after day after day. I'm slowly getting back into the pace of doing an 8 to 9 hour shift where you actually work for most of the time, unlike before when i mostly sat down and drank brews with a little bit of work inbetween.
So work thursday and friday, nothing much to say there.
Saturday I had a training day, pretty pointless but i got to see how much the RAF are actually mothered. We walked around alot, and my god it was so windy, my ears still ache from the shear roar of it all. Theres pretty much fuck all on this rock that stops it from blowing through here. Luckly the snow has stopped and disapeared, probably been blown away.
Anyway back to the RAF, i was told that they are all treated like they 'R' stupids. Mothered and watched over, well i can confirm its pretty much true, for most of the people ive met any how, not all mind you.
After ''training'' with consisted of dog handeling, vehical control point, LSW shoot(not training, just point that there and shoot the 30 rounds in bursts that way) and distance checks we went back to a classroom and were told to clean the weapons, there were 7 people cleaning a weapon(fair do's more hands get it done faster but it really didnt work out like that) They tret it like they were doing taught, not strip, clean, check and fuck off. Took bloody ages. I'm not the greatest shot in the world but im very good when it comes down to stripping a weapon. In cadets i used to have compatitions blind fold, fun times. I mean i don't want to sound big headed but i know what im good at. Its the tricky mechanical things that i like, the fidley things of life.
Well after all that boohaha i got back to my room and tried to get warm, took a while but i achived it. Finally set my 360 up, and it still works after the 8000 mile trip, But my controlers are flat, and the batteries cost the same as a small country out here. poosticks.
Now sat drinking some soup and pondering what to do for the rest of the afternoon, hmmmmmmmmm.
Well thats all for now, sorry its a 3 day'r in one but the internet has been pretty ropey to say the least, Cable and Wireless are pretty shit and rip people off, £30 for a 30 minute phone card, £10 for a wifi card that last god only knows but i used my last one in 2 days. So maybe about 2 hours of surfing. Asked how much it would be to get it put in my room, £150 a month WTF? Thats 5 months worth of internet back in the uk....
Well im off, time for fallout me thinks, cant wait for the new one in october.
Mood - Chipper(whatever the hell that means)
Song in my head - Tim Minchin-The Song for Phill Daoust
7.5
So work thursday and friday, nothing much to say there.
Saturday I had a training day, pretty pointless but i got to see how much the RAF are actually mothered. We walked around alot, and my god it was so windy, my ears still ache from the shear roar of it all. Theres pretty much fuck all on this rock that stops it from blowing through here. Luckly the snow has stopped and disapeared, probably been blown away.
Anyway back to the RAF, i was told that they are all treated like they 'R' stupids. Mothered and watched over, well i can confirm its pretty much true, for most of the people ive met any how, not all mind you.
After ''training'' with consisted of dog handeling, vehical control point, LSW shoot(not training, just point that there and shoot the 30 rounds in bursts that way) and distance checks we went back to a classroom and were told to clean the weapons, there were 7 people cleaning a weapon(fair do's more hands get it done faster but it really didnt work out like that) They tret it like they were doing taught, not strip, clean, check and fuck off. Took bloody ages. I'm not the greatest shot in the world but im very good when it comes down to stripping a weapon. In cadets i used to have compatitions blind fold, fun times. I mean i don't want to sound big headed but i know what im good at. Its the tricky mechanical things that i like, the fidley things of life.
Well after all that boohaha i got back to my room and tried to get warm, took a while but i achived it. Finally set my 360 up, and it still works after the 8000 mile trip, But my controlers are flat, and the batteries cost the same as a small country out here. poosticks.
Now sat drinking some soup and pondering what to do for the rest of the afternoon, hmmmmmmmmm.
Well thats all for now, sorry its a 3 day'r in one but the internet has been pretty ropey to say the least, Cable and Wireless are pretty shit and rip people off, £30 for a 30 minute phone card, £10 for a wifi card that last god only knows but i used my last one in 2 days. So maybe about 2 hours of surfing. Asked how much it would be to get it put in my room, £150 a month WTF? Thats 5 months worth of internet back in the uk....
Well im off, time for fallout me thinks, cant wait for the new one in october.
Mood - Chipper(whatever the hell that means)
Song in my head - Tim Minchin-The Song for Phill Daoust
7.5
Wednesday 21 April 2010
21st
The fire alarm went off last night about 11pm, i'd been in bed about 10 minutes. Stood outside for about 20 minutes getting very cold, then got let back in. Turns out it was an extracter fan in the washing room that had set on fire. Lol im guessing its about as old as the block.
Well it was my day off today, so not really done much. Did my fitness test and failed on situps. The monged it in my room for the rest of the day, fell asleep. sorted my kit out just incase i get called out. Ironed my stuff. Blah
Thats all for now really, Just a boring day. Snowing again, i just know im gonna get board of typing that.
Mood - bored already
Song in my head - bum biddy biddy biddy bum bum-8 Crazy Nights.
6/10
Well it was my day off today, so not really done much. Did my fitness test and failed on situps. The monged it in my room for the rest of the day, fell asleep. sorted my kit out just incase i get called out. Ironed my stuff. Blah
Thats all for now really, Just a boring day. Snowing again, i just know im gonna get board of typing that.
Mood - bored already
Song in my head - bum biddy biddy biddy bum bum-8 Crazy Nights.
6/10
Tuesday 20 April 2010
20th
Falklands isnt listed on my laptop time zones so i had to choose another one, it was canada or something like that, well that turned out due to daylight savings was only 4 hours, so i changed it manually to the right time, plugged my iphone in to try and put some songs on and it changed the time so that it was an hour ahead of what it should be. I didnt realise this till 6am this morning, i was gonna get up at 7am, So i got ready, put my boots on and had a look at my watch, it was only 6am, looked at my phone 7am, watch 6am, phone 7am. I think i swore at my self and went back to bed. To be honest im not really having much luck with time, no-one told me the clocks had changed so i tipped up to work at 4am instead of 5am the other day. Yes lol at me all you want.
So i woke up to snow this morning, luvly. Went down the cinama for my arrivals breaf. The blocks are quite warm but the ''spinal corridors'' are so fucking cold its unbelivable, its like walking outside, inside but it feels even worst. Sat in there for 5 hours the instructer said they left the heating off to keep us awake. Jeeze it was so cold, shivering much.
Went into work after that with the idea of finishing at 4pm, that didnt happen. Left work at half 6.
So its all fun in the snow here, coming down quite heavy now maybe i'll build a snow penguin or a snow turkey vulture(yes they do exist). Thats all to say right now, day off tomorrow but i've still got shit to do on my arivals chit. ceow for now bitchs.
Mood - Indiferent
Song in my head - Sugar-SOAD
6/10
So i woke up to snow this morning, luvly. Went down the cinama for my arrivals breaf. The blocks are quite warm but the ''spinal corridors'' are so fucking cold its unbelivable, its like walking outside, inside but it feels even worst. Sat in there for 5 hours the instructer said they left the heating off to keep us awake. Jeeze it was so cold, shivering much.
Went into work after that with the idea of finishing at 4pm, that didnt happen. Left work at half 6.
So its all fun in the snow here, coming down quite heavy now maybe i'll build a snow penguin or a snow turkey vulture(yes they do exist). Thats all to say right now, day off tomorrow but i've still got shit to do on my arivals chit. ceow for now bitchs.
Mood - Indiferent
Song in my head - Sugar-SOAD
6/10
Monday 19 April 2010
Falklands-the beggining
Well i've decided to keep a blog for the next 6 months while im here in the Falklands, maybe to keep me sane or maybe to look back on it and laugh. I'll try and write something every day but i might have to upload it every 3 days or so.
So i'll begin, I flew at around 12.10pm on the 14th of april. It was a really long flight, at around 8 hours we landed in Assention islands, the heat was quite intense when we got off the plane very humid indeed. my jeans were instantly burning my legs lol very strange. Well we were stopping over for 90 minutes while some people got off and the plane was refueled.
We re-borded and flew on for another 8 hours or so, Somehow it took around 19 hours in the end not sure how that works but it did. I got off the plane and looked at my new home for the next 6 months, windy, coldish and bleak.
Well i waited there for about 20 minutes and saw various people get picked up. Talked to a few people and eventually got through to the kitchen and found out that i wasnt due till tuesday and they didnt know i was there, Got picked up and went to the kitchen, met people and got taken to my room, its alot bigger than i though it would be but you can still tell that its army, strange curtains that must be cheap cos no-one else would want them. Carpet that doesnt quite know what it wants to be, thin pile carpet or lino and old wooden furniture that should have been skipped long ago.
I was in work the next day on lates, which wasnt too bad as i was still on uk time. It was a long shift but thats only because in used to sitting around most of the day drinking brews in the mess. Next day i was on earlies wich was ok, i was still on uk time so 4.30am felt like 8.30am. Finished at around 12 or 1ish cant remember.
Days have started getting easier, there still feeling long but i'll get back into it.
There seems to be an extreme shortage of knifes in the kitchen, or to put it bluntly(mind the pun) knifes that are shapt, i seriouls dont know how that kitchen had got along for so long. Some of the food that ive seen getting delivered is shocking, a fair bit sits around on container ships for six weeks or so before it arives here, meaning mold and growth, saw a box of oranges and atleast half were green with mold. Box of potates that had started growing quite a bit. Eggs that had gone out of date in february, some were fury.
Been on earlies for the past 3 days, fun times dont mind it too much really as it means i can chill in the afternoon. Today(19th) there was suposed to be a parade of sorts at around 6 or 7 am. It comes over the tanoys and you have to stop what your doing, get changed and get your kit and go. It didnt happen, i was glad because i didnt really know anything about it, i hadnt packed kit for it and i didnt even have half of the kit needed yet.
8am came around and guess what, the sodding tanoy went off. Not happy at all, i was told that the excercise can last anywhere from 10minutes to 3 days, well we just sat in a room for 2 hours, then i had to go back to work, piss take, who ever thinks of this stuff is a turd.
Well that me for the day, ive finished my shift and im sat on my bed waiting for my washing. Bored of this place already. Same shit, endless cycle......
Mood - Fuck this i want to be a pirate!
Song in my head - Marina and the dimonds-im not a robot
So i'll begin, I flew at around 12.10pm on the 14th of april. It was a really long flight, at around 8 hours we landed in Assention islands, the heat was quite intense when we got off the plane very humid indeed. my jeans were instantly burning my legs lol very strange. Well we were stopping over for 90 minutes while some people got off and the plane was refueled.
We re-borded and flew on for another 8 hours or so, Somehow it took around 19 hours in the end not sure how that works but it did. I got off the plane and looked at my new home for the next 6 months, windy, coldish and bleak.
Well i waited there for about 20 minutes and saw various people get picked up. Talked to a few people and eventually got through to the kitchen and found out that i wasnt due till tuesday and they didnt know i was there, Got picked up and went to the kitchen, met people and got taken to my room, its alot bigger than i though it would be but you can still tell that its army, strange curtains that must be cheap cos no-one else would want them. Carpet that doesnt quite know what it wants to be, thin pile carpet or lino and old wooden furniture that should have been skipped long ago.
I was in work the next day on lates, which wasnt too bad as i was still on uk time. It was a long shift but thats only because in used to sitting around most of the day drinking brews in the mess. Next day i was on earlies wich was ok, i was still on uk time so 4.30am felt like 8.30am. Finished at around 12 or 1ish cant remember.
Days have started getting easier, there still feeling long but i'll get back into it.
There seems to be an extreme shortage of knifes in the kitchen, or to put it bluntly(mind the pun) knifes that are shapt, i seriouls dont know how that kitchen had got along for so long. Some of the food that ive seen getting delivered is shocking, a fair bit sits around on container ships for six weeks or so before it arives here, meaning mold and growth, saw a box of oranges and atleast half were green with mold. Box of potates that had started growing quite a bit. Eggs that had gone out of date in february, some were fury.
Been on earlies for the past 3 days, fun times dont mind it too much really as it means i can chill in the afternoon. Today(19th) there was suposed to be a parade of sorts at around 6 or 7 am. It comes over the tanoys and you have to stop what your doing, get changed and get your kit and go. It didnt happen, i was glad because i didnt really know anything about it, i hadnt packed kit for it and i didnt even have half of the kit needed yet.
8am came around and guess what, the sodding tanoy went off. Not happy at all, i was told that the excercise can last anywhere from 10minutes to 3 days, well we just sat in a room for 2 hours, then i had to go back to work, piss take, who ever thinks of this stuff is a turd.
Well that me for the day, ive finished my shift and im sat on my bed waiting for my washing. Bored of this place already. Same shit, endless cycle......
Mood - Fuck this i want to be a pirate!
Song in my head - Marina and the dimonds-im not a robot
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