Putting the Pieces Back Together

This is more of a social experiment for myself.  Something that I have a hard time doing is talking to people.  I tend to think that I'm being an annoyance whenever I want to start a chat with someone just to ask them how they are doing.  I tend to just not talk to most people then. So my experiment is to use Facebook, the only real place that I have any friends, and to use my posts as conversation starters.  I'm starting simple: tell everyone have a good day or ask how their day went.  I don't expect people to reply every time.  I don't expect a lot of people to respond at all. But that's not the goal.  The goal is to try and get my brain to understand that if you ask a question that people will respond.  And to not be offended if no one responds.  I might even get some fun little conversations out of it, which would break any expectation that I have with this. Hopefully it helps me.  Maybe it'll help someone else.  I think it's...

Everyone hates getting sick.  Usually when I get sick it lasts for at least a month.  Usually sinuses are the thing that gets messed up for me the most.  But I tend to not get sick that often. *knock on wood* Today I wasn't feeling well, but it was different than norma.  The head was just not there.  I've been feeling off for a few days now.  Finally got to the point today that I just had to take a sick day.  Woke up and was light headed from the beginning.  Fell down a few times and just had to give up. Slept for most of the day and finally started to feel normal again.  I can't tell if it's the weather, maybe allergies, or maybe the sleeping pill that I usually take that just has messed me up.  Going to try going without it for awhile to see if that improves things. It's also a good reminder of why I enjoy having a full time job that allows for paid sick days.  I used to go into work when I was feeling like crap before, just be...

When you write a post about history and then lose it, is it just repeating history to write about history again?  Well, probably, but I'm still going to write about it, although I'm going to keep it more brief. When in school, history was boring.  Not because history itself is boring, but because they tended to teach the same history over and over again.  It doesn't change, so why teach it again and again?  The biggest offender was American history.  Nothing wrong with it, it just spans such a brief part of the overall history of the earth that putting such a big focus on it is a waste. I know it's where I'm from, but expand the horizons a bit.  There is so much to teach and learn from.  The one part that they barely even touched when I was in school was WW2.  And of course that is the one area of history that I'm interested in the most. I enjoy learning about the events that led up to, occured during and the fallout after the war ended.  ...

One of the things that was a big part of my life after high school was joining a Call of Duty clan.  We get high speed internet and my parents bought me a computer, so naturally I wanted to try playing some games online.  I tried in the past to play Medal of Honor online, but that was a slide show.  When I got cable internet, I decided to try CoD. I found a server by chance and started playing with them.  They had recruitment messages in the server message so I decided why not.  They had a boot camp program that you had to go through as they were a military style clan.  The first boot camp did not go well.  While I was someone just goofing around, they were more serious about things.  I was kind of a dick.  I learned to behave and soon graduated.  I went got to the point that I was in charge of a squad as a Corporal and had kept our squad active, all three of us, while the rest of the platoon was inactive. I had thought that at some p...