Windows Vista Lepord OSX 64bit...

Hi Blogger! I know I've been slacking.. I'll pick up the pace. I swear.

SO... I wanted to show you a project I've been working on. I'm running Windows Vista 64bit Premium edition. I've been a PC user my whole life and wouldn't think of changing that, but the windows desktop is sooo boring. It's sloppy and just looks messy. I do fancy the MAC OSX setup quite a bit so I endevored to Switch my Vista to "Vista OSX" You can google the swap. I'm just posting this to show the end results

If anyone wants to give it a shot I can help walk you through it. It's not that hard.. Just setting it up JUSSST right so it's functional can be a pain..

Graduation

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Wow. Almost speechless. These past two days have been amazing. The feeling you be stepping onto Kenal Feild, seeing and hearingnpeoples reactions, the speeches from all of ou chain of command and guest speakers. Even The National Anthem sounded better than ever. The whole thing was just surreal. I don't even know how describe the ceremony. It was just awesome.

It sucks saying goodbye to some of these guys. I've made some good friends that have helped me through a rough time, especialy this past week. Even the guys I hated, they're all good guys and I'd proudly stand next to anyone of them in battle. It's a small Army. I'm sure I'll see alot of them again. This summer I should be in Chicago with Starrett and his family. And anyone else that wants to go. I'm also hoping for a trip to FL for Inglasias and Alan. And maybeee see Hancock on the way.

I noticed I am a different person than I was. I'm still me. I just.... Idk somethings different. I hope I don't lose what ever it is while I'm home..... I like it.

I still don't know what I'm going to do about my problem back home. I'll probably be calling my battle buddies to calm me down alot for awhile.

I'm gonna take a nap. I'm on the bus right now and it's going to be a long ride.

Turning Blue

I am the infantry.

Today was my turning blue ceremony. It was amazing. Learning where the blue cord came from, feeling the excitement in the air, and seeing look in someones eyes when they got to put the cord on their loved ones. It was too cool. I wish I could have had someone there for me. My mom would have loved to have been here.

Graduation is tomorrow. I'm amped and scared at the same time. Maybe scared isn't the word. I just don't know how I feel about going home. It's going to be hard for a long while. Idk I can't even predict where this one going to end up. *sigh* I wanna just disappear.

I guess I really don't have much to say other than life sucks. I'll move on.

I just wish I didn't have to.

Blogging on my iPhone.

This can't be a good thing. Now i'll end up updating this thing ever time I get stuck bored somewhere.

So blogger, I'm indeed back. Well not really i'm in FT Benning as I type this out. But I'm back online.

I'm sending this out to you know from my iPhone that I got I've break. I have grown quite fond of it. We were supposed to tie. Our phones in, I said fuck it an kept mine. I'm a rebel.

Let's try to catch up huh? 15 weeks ago I set out on one of the hardest challenges of my life. I started my training as an infantryman withrhe United States ARMY. I serve my state in the Massachusetts National Guard with C CO of the 181st infantry regiment. . We dont deploy until 2015 and by them my service will be up. I think i'll volunteer with the 182nd and go to Afghanistan in 2011. I had alot of challenges here and overcame everyone. I just passed my of test just in the nick of time. Another failure and I wouldn't have graduated. I made I just under the wire and I graduate Jan. 16th 2009. Two more days. I kept a journal while I was here, day to day, for the majority of the time. I admit I stopped going into the last couple of weeks. It just got to busy. I'm hoping I can get all my journal entries back dated into here. We'll see.I got to come home from Dec 19th 2008, till Jan 6th 2009 for Christmas block leave. Leave had it's ups and it's way downs. I won't get to into it because I don't need some of it posted up on the Internet ya know? Anywayss here I am now. I'm in the middlebof a 4 hour fireguard shift. I bailed on a formation and this was my punishment. Not as bad when you can blog right? I'm having alot of mixed feelings about going home. On one side I can't wait to be back in Boston where I belong. The other half Of me doesn't want to go home and face the harsh truth that's lies back there. Idk if I didn't have tobpay time to my state I'd just run.... But running is kinda how I ended up in the Army. Idk we'll see how it all turns out. I'm have 3 big things to take care of when I get home. I need to start talking to schools so I can get my Pre-pharm out of the way before I deploy. I need to take my bonus and buy a car. I don't want to deal with bills so I'm gonna buy used and insure it for a year or two upfront. Finaly, I get to help orchestrate the opening of a tattoo shop. Coreys mother wants to open one up with José as the artist. It shouldn't be bad. Bro some big talent into the shop like Jimmy or Mise and just let word of mouth take wind. We'll see. I'm going to turn my life around. I want to go somewhere far. I don't want to have to live check to check forever. I know who I owe my thanks for motivation too, but I'll leave that out of here too lol. Blogger, despite everything going wrong all at the same time... I'm feeling optimistic. All I can do is just sit back and enjoy the ride, right? Night Blogger. PFC John P Heald JR

Last one

This is it.

This should be my last post for awhile.

I ship for Basic tomorrow, Well Wednesday, but I'll be tied up all day tomorrow with the ARMY. I'm going to try to keep a writen blog in a journal while I'm there, and I'll fill in the blanks and back date them all when I get back in December. 

This is going to be the hardest thing I've ever done. I'm scared as hell but I think I'll do okay.  I'm gonna miss Sarah something feirce. But I'll work around it I guess.. We're not really together. I have to stop thinking we are. Maybe the time apart will help fix things, or at least make it easier.I don't know. 

I'm about to start in on the craziest adventure of my life.. It's just alot to take in..

So I'll be seeing you around Bloggers .. 

Bye

Private First Class John Heald.

So I'm im the military.

          It's official, I'm now Private First Class John Heald. I ship out to Basic on Wednesday morning as long as all my paperwork clears on tuesday, and I meet my PT requirements. Pt requirements are just a minimum amount of exersize I can do. The minimums are 17 sit ups in a minute, 15 push ups in a minute, and I have to be able to run a mile in under 8 mins and 30 sec. I'm a little nervous about the running, but I'm going to time myself tomorrow morning down at the track. 

          I'm nervous still. I'm more nervous than I was. This is gonna be crazy, but it's going to be a really good step for my future. 

          I got to talk to my Uncle Billy Boyd the other day.  I'm really upset that i lost contact with him. He's a really good guy, with some really good advice. Talking to him made me feel a lot better about everything. 

          I'm gonna miss my new blog while I'm gone. Lol Maybe I'll write a bunch of stuff down while I'm there, date it all, and just come and backdate it into here in December. Give everyone a look into military life.

          We'll see. 

So tomorrow/today is the day.

Which ever way you look at it. 

          In 4 hours I will be on my way to the MEPS building in Boston to finalize my enlistment. I will be all signed up and as long as everything goes the way it's supposed to, I'll be in FT. Benning Georgia by wednesday of next week.  

          Reception week for Basic training starts Sept 22nd, and they're grouping my basic and AIT so I'll be home Dec 19th for X-mas break, and then 2 weeks after that, I'll head back until the end of January. Then from there it's a mystery. 

          I'm scared shitless. I won't lie, but how else am I supposed to feel? 

         I need to get some sleep. Long day tomorrow. Cross your finger everybody (and by everybody I guess I mean Sam lol) Who else is gonna read this right? 

          NIGHT SAMANTHA!

   

First post.

Let's see how long I can keep on top of this.

Thanks goes to Sam for the pointing out of this. :-D