Author: BigCountryExpat

Greetings and Salutations!
This’ll be the last poast for a few as I am not shilling out the MAD $$$ (unless there’s an onboard deal) for the WiFi on Ye Olde Tub. They want like $200 for 2x devices (when it’s just me rolling) and I’d rather have $200 to either buy a quality meal or get some brewskis. It’s the “nickel and dime them to death” business model…

Even the bleer is outrageously cray-cray in price… a 5 pack pre-ordered is $70 “but comes in a neat-o souvenir cooler!!!” That sort of shytte only appeals to fucking splits, so that’s a no go at this station.

BTW: Not shilling for them, but if you’re vet, I got the room for the cost of the taxes port fees and whatever… I paid $250.00 and that was it… there’s a bunch of stuff they’re still hawking thru Friday, so if you’re in Florida and hankering, go check it out.

THAT is a MomUnit’s “Traveling well for short $$$” lesson of the day. She’s a certified Black Belt in cheap travel. She used to regularly sign up with a courier company out of NY that she’d get a call the day before asking if she had her passport and “Are you willing to go to ‘X’ tomorrow?” Depending on her circumstances at the time, she’d either do it or not, and she ended up catching some cool flights for free to various European cities for a weekend…

“Travel on someone else’s dime!” was what she told me…

Since I wasn’t hot enough to lock in an Heiress, thus my stint(s) in the Army, and then as a Contractor… Yeah, the Machine Guns, High Explosives and High Adventure were part of it, but also getting to go to strange places, meet interesting people and possibly shoot them was ALSO high on the list of “How cool is that?”

So if you have a GovX account and can prove to the algorithm that you be you and are a Vet, there’s some good deals out there to be had.

Now, the next thing is laundry… I still haven’t caught up from N’awlins. That’s next right after I get out of work and finish this….

And as far as comments about me going bugshit on an Island?
Folks… I was in fucking Guantanamo Bay for six fucking months. THE MAIN REASON I bagged that job was the company I worked for totally buttfucked me on my vacation as they didn’t pay for my one vay-kay flight home, as stated in the contract… $1500 round trip, and then the general “locked down” nature of the place.

I mean it was the most maximum of maximum security locations… and after the Abu Ghraib scandal, they went full retard to the point of OMFG… there’s Big Brother, and then there’s Gitmo. Add on while I was there I didn’t make not one single solitary fren nor did I have anyone cool to even occasionally hang with… I mean there was nuthin’.

And as loquacious and gregarious a motherfucker that I am, I decided “Fuck this for a trip back to Iraq” and I punched… I mean there were ZERO social clubs… even the USO was a dead-ender… no fun to be had, and as one of you mentioned, the ONLY thing in abundance was the Library, movies and really cheap vodka. I did a LOT of self inflicted liver damage there I swear…

Part of The Issue was that the National Guard who was in charge of the various Camps… The regular camps, not the black sites… they were clannish AF and purely hated us high paid contractors… so unlike Iraq where I made some life long frens with the Active Duty kids (2/8 CAV!!!) there, these jokers were openly hostile, so no fun to be had there either.

It wasn’t all bad tho…
There’s bad then there’s…. well….
There were some ‘mandatory fun days’ among us Jailer/Staff folks, but unfortunately there, the Captain, female, BLAQ (and don’t you forget it you, you utter whytte scumbag) type one each was a primo example of a ball busting whytte hating Negress who got off on nutcutting her subordinates, and especially us poor fucking Contractors who were beneath her contempt.

Any wonder why I’m an eeeeeevil ray-cysist?
THERE IT IS!
Just another example of obnoxious Shaniqua Behavior…

The mandatory fun days sucked enough that I couldn’t wait to go back to the house and play my vidya-games while getting torqued on Red/Orange/Blue Motherfucker…(or Green if I was lucky to find it)…that’s a 1/2 a liter of 80 proof Vodka, one liter of water, and add the ‘color of choice’ Kool Aid and bam! ‘X’ Color Motherfucker as we called it in Iraq as it was going to fuck you up like a motherfucker…

No wonder I was damned near shitting blood a few months in amiright? Lost some weight so at least I had that going for me…

Gitmo is 45 square miles in size, but in reality is a LOT fucking smaller… like FUNCTIONALLY the Area, to include the McDonalds and BX? Yeah like call it 8 square NY City BLOCKS worth of functionality. I don’t count the housing areas, as the majority of them were and still are mothballed… and none of the “Detainment Areas” either. The warehousing and dock areas, as well as the off-limits airfield? MAYBE 8 square blocks AT BEST. So yeah, I have quite a bit of experience in dealing with smol island life if you will. Like I said, I want to do a recon and check it out before committing to anything.

Saipan looks pretty fucking cool… if only for maybe a 2 week vaykay… might have to have a travel companion on that one, IF I can swing the $$$. Like I said, lots of moving parts and maybe/maybe nots to look at.

At least the Sun seems to have calmed down.

I was getting a mite worried about the Solar Storm and those offputting X Class CME Flares that almost came our way. From what I can see, they look (at least for now) to have calmed down…

The last thing I want to have happen is get caught in a “Carrington Level Event” on a cruise shit-ship filled with (potentially) cannibalistic Negroids…

That’s like a fucking script for a Comedy Horror Movie right fucking there ain’t it Aye? Unarmed, except for my own skill sets, fending off Deonte and Shaniqua who’re determined to be the first to eat my fucking liver!?! I’ll ‘nope the fuck out’ on that one…

In fact, no bullshit….
If the power on the boat goes completely dead for a period of ten to fifteen minutes… like COMPLETELY FUCKING INOPERATIVE… no ’emergency power’ no backup genny… nada… just silence and a HUGE “Ooooooh SHIT!” moment?

I’ll risk a federal charge and hit a lifeboat ahead of everyone else… one of the ones that has the emergency hand crank and all the rations in it for what? 30/40 folks? Steady Steve can punch holes in this idea… I was Infantry, NOT a squid…

Either way as part of the traveling preps I ALWAYS have, I’m bringing my compass, map board (poast on that in the future) and wearing my Garmin GPS Watch as IF the GPS is operational, well it can’t hurt… in fact if IT (the watch) goes roastie-toastie and turns up DOA due to a Carrington Level event happening while I’m at sea, it means it’s time to get the fuck off the boat, and out of Dodge…

Fuck being the “whytte meat” on the menu with a bunch of potential cannibalistic fucking groids…

Like I said, I’d rather get hemmed up by the feds for ‘prematurely abandoning ship’ IF it came down to that…

In fact I think they wouldn’t even go after me that hard ‘cos they do not want me on TV explaining just WHY I did such a thing… anyways…

AND if nothing happens BUT a chimpout?

I’ll consider myself Blessed AND hopefully I get some great footage that’ll go viral as everyone loves to see a good chimpout.

So off to do laundry.
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Yep.
As asked, the recon is a loooong way aways however… I did find a place that IS within some distance and ‘out of the way’ but is still OUR territory.

Saipan

When asked by dude “How far you going?”
Dude… pretty fuckin’ far is my answer
I joke, I joke…

For real however…
It’s got a LOT going for it.
American (i.e. English) is the day-to-day lingua franca. Chamorro is the secondary locally. It’s a US Protectorate. Gun laws are close to the stateside ‘stuff’ i.e. no concealed carry but open carry allowed, and the Assault Rifle ban was struck down as unconstitutional. You need a Firearms ID card which I got no issue with, and hey… Palmetto State ships there!

Maybe become the Master Gunsmith of the Northern Marianas?

The rent on apartments are pretty decent too. $770 US for a NICE new fully furnished 2 Bedroom 1 Full Bath. Newly built mind you. One of my Expat Boards I roam on has the monthly utilities (electric/gas, water is included in the rent) is between 300-400. $400 if you need to keep your place cold-cold-cold with AC.

I get about $2k a month from Uncle with my retardedment.
That’d leave me (if I don’t keep working remotely) with about $600-700 a month for food and the like.

And the Apartments (at least the ones I’ve been looking at) are built like bunkers, with backup gennies and Typhoon Shutters as a Typhoon is on the menu so to speak… that’s a minor thing after all the shytte I’ve gone through in my life.

I’m waiting on a quote for a 20ft Connex now… that’ll tell me what I have to worry about $$$ wise there… I figure I’d sell the house, The Boat, get a good Motorcycle, throw it into the connex as well, with the guns, dishes and whatnot, (all my smithing tools and yadda yadda and clothing and bullshit) and hey… if the price is right?

There are far worse places (like Fucking New Yawk Shitty) to be living in… In fact Saip[an has a certain ring to it in my head… think “Puerto Rico” without the Puerto Ricans… It’s got a world class hospital in Garapan, however, there isn’t an Ambulance Service

Maybe a niche that needs to be filled?
DiveMedic, any thoughts?

Like I said, having lived in some true 3rd World Shitholes, I’m comfortable with what I speak of here. Saipan sounds pretty fucking nice, hence why I want to recon it. I know Costa Rica is nice, however No Guns. Ever. Not allowed… almost a dealbreaker right there IMO.

So your thoughts?
To me, so far it’s a fascinating mind-exercise.
Let me know in the comments

More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
A few good conversations had in the comments (per usual with the usual suspects) and also, per usual, I enjoyed the Hell out of it.

As far as any current news, the one thing I’ve noticed is the INSANE amount of ‘flooding of my feed’ of assholes talking about how any and all opposition to the Izzies is anti-God, Anti-AMerican and general badness all around.

What.
The.
Fuck.

To the point one significant poast was about the Texas Bell County Sheriff’s Orifice made the utterly stupid and retarded choice to do a knock and talk with a disabled vet regarding him being critical of the Izzies. I lived in Bell County (Ft. Hood) and never thought I’d hear of such a thing…

Fuck those ‘shabbos goys’ too

As I’ve stated before, for “Murica’s Greatest Ally in The Middle East” they suuuuuure AF haven’t ‘put up’ anything. Gulf One? No use of Airfields. Which meant we had to use a real Ally i.e. the Saudis, who in reality are “Allies of Convenience” in that they were worried Saddam had them up next on the “Roll in the Tanks” games…

Which in turn pissed of the Wahhabists as having Infidels on the ‘sacred soil’ of Muhammed’s birth caused us a lot of fucking problems later….

How many times have the Izzies supported us militarily?

Let me know… I’ll wait…………….

Yep. That’s what I thought.

OH SO Typical of them, and then to NOT understand where the Gen X/Z hate is coming from??? Literally the most clueless bunch of inbred retards that claims a bogus religion as a ‘race’. No WONDER they’ve been chased out of 109 places over the millenia…

And as an aside: If you count Afghanistan, it’s 110.

Seems the last Rabbi in Bagram packed up and left shortly after WE left as the US Army had been financially supporting him (despite the Taliban NOT fucking with him at all)… in fact the interview with locals were like “Thank GOD that whiney sniveling Jew-Bitch is gone… all he did was complain and whine!”

I’m not kidding…

See… the Taliban are unwilling to fuck with a Priest, a Nun or a Rabbi… the whole “Talks to God” thing… Places, regular people and things? Fair game. So they suffered the Rabbi… until he realized they were NOT going to subsidize his schtick, and he packed up and left.

How bad is it that you annoy the the Taliban and want they you gone, but aren’t willing to shoot you due to the respect of Religious Norms???

Sums up Judaism to a “T”

I mean for real…

Then, a VERY PERSONAL ‘bedbug’ of mine:
Like 15 (at a minimum) HoloCost Memorials in Every. Single. State. of The USA. Like. every. single. fucking. state. And WE were the ones who supposedly rescued them.

How many memorials in Izzy-Land dedicated to ALLLLL the grunts who died during the march across Europe to ‘liberate the camps’?

Answer: Not. One. Fucking. Single. One.

They are, as both a religion and a race the most GRIFTING and ungrateful curs to have ever drawn breath IMO.

May they all enjoy Hell when J.C. decides to make an appearance.

Add on their retarded Tribemember:
The amount of pushback too vis-a-vis that fat fuck Sen. Fine has been unreal too… The fat fuck comes right out and states that the Jews have been chased out/expelled and “…none of it was our fault!!!”

Fucking dude is a retard.

Yep…
Make of it what you will…
Me?
I don’t care per se… just another fucking observer.
In fact I might have discovered a place I might want to retire to. Problem is, I need to recon it… and it’s a $2800 airfare, so I’m going to have to save up to check it out. I’ll kep you all in the loop as I go….

So otherwise
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
WOW!
Weather changed and the ole hands crinkled and wrinkled up like witches claws! The ‘thritis kicked my ass over the past couple of days, hence not typing at all. The VA gave me a bunch of different ‘things’ to take but none of them seem to work (Big Pharma right?) sao I just sort of set back and dealt with it.

Then I had 2 days of a really sore throat, like I’d gargled broken glass. I know where that came from. When I went down to GunGirl’s store to pick up my lower, there was this really gross hacking-and-wheezing FAT (and when I call someone fat… man this guy made me look fucking positively svelte!) anyways… fat motherfucker was hackin’ and being all gross…
I figured to stay away from him…

But NOOOOOOOOOO

When I sat at the little table she’s got set up to fill out the 4473, this monstrosity plopped down right next to me… and not to fill out a form but b/c it was the only other chair available I guess…

SO I ended up with just a touch of whatever nastiness he was handing out… Go figure. I’m feeling better now… It just hurts if I gab too much.

Then… let’s see… LOTS going on out in the world. The Niggerian Christian thing? OrangeManBad making heap big smoke about it? No worries IMO… I’d call it performative. We –might– drop a bomb or two but I’d say this was more of a public warning than anything else. Lat year the US supplied a combined (military and humanitarian aid) of about $876 million in aid to Niggeria. (and yes, intentional misspelling).

I think this was a warning to the current crop of Kleptocrats there to start actually using some of the $$$ we’ve been supplying or we’ll drop a few bombs, declare victory, and cut off the $$$ faucet. “Start doing something or we will.” It looks good to the base of Christians who support the Orange Retard.

Then: The Krain.
Whooo boy. Ivan is on a tear over there.
LOTS of territory gained in the opening of the Rasputitsia.
And a couple of ‘strange things’ that happened recently… specifically how a group of GRU Krainian Special Forces guys got wasted on a really strange mission…

On November 1st it was announced that, earlier in the week, late at night two Krainian UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters in the northwest of Pokrovsk, were videoed arriving at extremely low altitude. According to multiple sources, The objective was supposedly to assist with a break through the Russian encirclement of the highway to Grishino.

This pic was given out on November 1st by the Krainians. It was taken by the other UH-60. Some say it was leaked, but either way… it doesn’t matter as according to ALL sources the 11 or 12 man team was smoked within hours of landing. ALL of them were KIA or wounded so badly as to be as good as dead, thanks to Thermal Drones that seeked them out and smoked them.

The problem with this ‘supposed mission’ and why I call bullshit?
There were only 11/12 guys sent. (Actual numbers are sketchy)
There’s only 10 visible in the pic, fanning out the way we were taught to do back int he day… which also raises some questions…
This was not even a full team.
This was like a light squad at best.
A wee bit light on the firepower to ‘open up’ an encirclement wouldn’t you say? An encirclement that’s hundreds of kilometers in the overall scheme of things, filled with hundreds, if not thousands of Russkies coming in for the kill?

(H/T Simplicius)

Now… there are other oddities about this mission… which calls into question the actual mission, and such. I have a few theories. The BIG One is that I think this was supposed to be an evacuation of Higher Ranking NATO folks. They sent two birds and ALL of the guys who put boots on the ground were on the first and only bird to land.

So why have an empty bird with them?
Not gun support… that’s for sure.
They would have had a HIND.
Plus: Where they landed?

(again H/T Simplicius)
That’s a wee bit too far west to do any good regarding breaking the encirclement or even the highway.

But, if you notice, it IS very close to a small holdout area of Pokrovsk… Which makes me think this’s very much like what they tried to do back a year or two ago at the  Azovstal steel plant siege in Mariupol in 2022. Then the ‘Krainian Special Forces’ attempted to evacuate some Command and Control NATO personnel supposedly. The attempt was foiled then as this one was now… The reason I use quotes is that even then, the troops who went in after the fact were suspected of being US or NATO troops… and after that failure… well…

Lets just say I found it suspicious that an AUstralian General and his staff died in a small aircraft accident in the Outback within a month or so… and that a US General died somewhere around the same time…

Never mind the various Special OPs kids… Navy SEALs ‘drowning’ during training or MARSOC Recon guys dying in Helo accidents during “training”…

I’m watching now to see if anyone comes up on the ‘BINGO’ board from out team(s) as the reason I suspect US or NATO Troops use and fuckery?

The footage of the dismount is purely US ingrained Air Assault tactics… then, the way the team split up… My understanding is as soon as the Blackhawks left, the Drones went hunting… which means they could be heard. The Krainians, having tons of experience with drones know to completely spread out and get deep undercover. The videos I’ve seen of these teams?

They scattered, but stayed with their battle buddies.
Like US Troops are taught.

Experienced Krainian SF troops would have boltered in multiple directions. Usually individually. If only to allow the others to continue the mission. Instead they reacted (IMO) like noobz. Clustered, and didn’t make use of any of the ‘stuff’ that even the normal Krainian troops do when night drones start prowling, like stop moving and cover up with thermal-proof covers and shells…

Then, after some getting trapped in a Gas Station, three of them got hit with multiple drones until they were obviously eliminated. The reason I say obviously was the pieces parts of the last drone sent in was a giveaway. I mean they were scattered and splattered per the vid I saw on telegram.

My thoughts are they went in and were supposed to rendezvous and extract a group of NATO/US/Brit ‘advisors’ and got hemmed up by landing smack-dab in the middle of “Drone Central”. And since #ourguys don’t have like any IRL experience being hunted by drones, they didn’t know how to react, and paid the price.

I mean why else would a single 11/12 man team be inserted? They sure as Hell are not going to ‘re-open’ any sort of encirclement. What’s more? Pokrovsk has acted as the logistical hub and rear operations base for Ukraine’s eastern defensive lines. It sits astride both a key railroad juncture and the highway to Ukraine’s fourth-largest metro, Dnipro. 

Which means it probably has a significant Command and Control presence. And C&C in this war for the most part has ALL be run by on-the-site- NATO or US Occifers… so my wild ass guess? Someone important got hemmed up behind enemy lines and needed their balls pulled out of the fire again…

Meh
I know… just guessing but I mean why else send in 2 x birds, and only one team? A light team no less. It does show that they’re getting desperate again to use up some of their best troops for whatever the reason actually was…

Then here on the home front?
Nada
Bupkiss
All’s Quiet on the EBT Front
Interesting that.

Not sure if it’s good news or bad news.
Meh

This weekend however I have some interesting news. I got an email from GOVX which is a group that gets you ‘supposedly great deals’ on tickets and flights and vaykays and whatnot… This one caught my eye. A cruise this coming weekend that was “free”…

Now we all know that there’s no such thing as a free lunch BUT I went to see. Turns out that yep. The room itself is a feebie. The only thing I needed to pay were the tax/port fees, which came out to $240.

So this weekend I’m off to Nassau I guess…

Why not?
The reviews are either “Loved it!” or “Hated it!”

Guess I’ll have to find out for myself. At least a Chimpout might happen and THAT would be some great blog-fodder right? There will be no blogging however as the add-on to get the WiFi is filed under ‘retardedly expensive’ so any and all Shaniquannigans will have to wait until I’m back.

And yeah yeah yeah… I AM packing in the ‘living’ right now as it may be a “Avē Imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant” sort of time in the near future, so I’m going to not waste a moment… I mean why the fuck worry so much as to cower in the corner worrying about “what ifs?” I mean every. man’s. time. will. come.

I’m going to enjoy what time I have here in this realm on Whammenz Wine and Song… to do otherwise would be lame.
Maybe I’ll do a rifle raffle to raise money for my drinks on board? They tend to get pricey AF fast. Heck… if I raise enough I’ll be able to get the WiFi? I did end up with an extra AR after all… What say you?

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
I’m still spent.
Add on that I’ve been getting beaten at People’s Glorious Tractor Factory like a rented mule or clubbed like a baby seal, it’s been a long week.

“You get what you fuckin’ deserve” seems to be the story of this week… Take a wonderful weekend off?
Pay the price later Aye?

So I found some new material, and re-found some older stuff, so what the hell… I’m cheating for the night:

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Ok…
So yeah, my body is still spent.
Fell out -I think- about 10/11 as I woke up at 0300+/- with the hand on the mouse still… So this’ll be a bit short as I have to crash to catch up again…

As I stated, it was a fun trip.
And in the comments some of y’all reference Katrina and it’s fallout. I did see a LOT of places that looked like it still had damage from there, but then again, it might have been just general 3rd-World Shitholiness if you will… a tough call either way.

One thing I forgot to mention on Ye Olde 3rd World aspect was this:

Yep

Almost ALL the nicer places and houses had them signs in the windows. “Keep IV Waste”… I looked it up… apparently it’s to urge the junkies to police up their shit…
Like

Yah…
3rd World…
Go figure.
Now… the other aspect of the 3rd World?
I wanna know who got murdered in my hotel room?

When I arrived on Friday (late) night I was exhausted and spent. The front desk told me that the place (a Wyndham Resort) was ‘under renovations’. OK… I can deal w/that… not my first rodeo…

However… I realized Saturday when I got back that well…
OK… I’ll say this: The bed was awesome. It had a (from what I can) tell brand new gel-mattress that was mad comfy. Good pillows too… however, as you can see the curtains?
Yeeaah
Level 4 Biohazard Anyone?
And when I brought this up to the Front Desk?
Oh yeah… I couldn’t.
Unless I went down from the 5th Floor to them, the room phone?
Oh yeah… the phone was plugged into itself!
There was NO phone jack!
So needless to say I’ve got a BIG email I need to shoot to corporate. The hot-tub was inoperative, the pool greener than my bass pond in the back yard and they had NO Breakfast as promised on the website.

Bait and Switch much?
It’d be one thing if they’d said the place was fucked up
It’s another to get there and find ALL of this out after the fact.

So that’s it for tonight
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Beat-to-Death Salutations!
Holeeeeeee Toleeeedo!!! as Professor Hikita in “Buckaroo Banzai” said…. (I think) I know it was a late 80’s early 90’s movie but the brain is smoked like a cheap cigar tonight…

I made it home…
THIS is a big deal as the beginning of this trip almost ended at the start (along with ME!!!)

So I’m blasting down I-75 with the music on, 0730, everything good… me chatting up some various frens and fam, letting them know I’m gonna be off the reservation…

So I’m at about 85mph which for The Boat is hardly pushing it, when I ran over -something-… a minor bump is all I felt and heard…

Next thing you know, the steering starts going ‘whonky’…
Uhhhhhh….
THEN the noises started…
Fuck! Fuck! FUUUUCK!
TBH, it no shit-for-real sounded like a Blackhawk was flying by… same rotor beat cadence, same ‘whop-whop-whop’ noise…

And then I realized
The truck luuuuurched like a motherfucker hard right
SHIIIIIIIIT!
I made it to the breakdown lane thank “Insert Deity of Choice”
That being b/c it was full on rush-hour Tampa Style and I’m fucking lucky I didn’t broadside a motherfucker, or even worse, flip the fuck over.

So….
I called AAA.
Man, thankfully I ‘landed’ so to speak right near a mile marker as the AAA App sucks donkey cock.

It kept trying to say I was at the fucking Mall…
And the tire?

Seems the tire was dry-rotted like a motherfucker
I had no idea
(J3, I blame you LMAO!!!)

No seriously, I had them checked when I first got The Boat and there was according to the local dood/Pep Boys guy, there was no problems…
Too bad I didn’t get it in writing Aye?

So yeah, AAA showed up with a MEGA-QUICKNESS (like less than 30 minutes) and HE was thrilled that I had already dropped the spare off of it’s winch/cradle. My back won’t let me bend down to swap out the spare and I apparently don’t have a lug-wrench (now I do of course), but hey… prepping the battle-space helps amiright?

Now, a couple of observations:
During my 25-30 minute wait, about maybe ten minutes into it, I stayed (after dismounting the spare) I got back in The Boat, and waited there, listening to the radio…

Until

Now I can’t prove it, but earlier examples abound.
One minute I’m sitting there, all chill, and the next second:

WHOOOOOOOOOSH!!!

The semi passed –so close– that the driver’s side mirror, on the gimbal moved FORWARD! I saw it happen… like missed the side of The Boat by mere inches… and The Boat itself rocked like it was in a fucking hurricane… Scared me TBH…

I dismounted like a minute or two after…
I took my battle bag with the Glock 21, went to the far rear right of the vehicle, on the grass (about 4 feet away) and -waited-. I can’t say for sure, but other instances of a similar nature during this fucking trip made me realize that there genuinely IS an illegal CDL issue out there for really-reelz.

Other scenes as I mentioned were like events where trucks had been running people off the road, trucks in car crashes (no fatalities that I saw leastways BUT!
MANY of the trucks involved seemed to be tagged with “Singh Shipping LLC” on them… Make of it what you will…. and me?

So b/c of this realization, I was worried that I was going to get smoked by one of them fuckers, so I figured to be on my feet, and IF and only IF The Boat got smoked, I’d then go over, and terminate the driver with extreme prejudice with the .45 because fuck that guy for real…

Personally when I imagine it, I can only think of how a Jeet would react after smoking another American Vehicle initially thinking “Oh well… guess it’s back to Punjabistan!” and then thinking “Well, I’m fine, fuck that guy and I’ll be back within 6 months!” only to see the owner walk up, and start blowing him apart w/a .45, ankles, knees, hips, balls, shoulders, elbows, and then maybe, just mayyyyybe if I was feeling sorry for him, one thru the brain pan.

I mean I don’t have collision, and 90% of those companies are shells w/out Insurance. Wreck my ride? That’s a killin’ right there y’all.

Because fuck those guys.

Tell you what, IF we started doing that, instant on-the-fucking-spot executions, we’d no longer HAVE that particular problem.
Tell me I’m wrong.
Go ahead.
I’ll wait.

So yeah… the majority of the trip was summed up in the poast from the other night. Good times. The only other things that happened were me doing (as suggested by one of y’all) the Natchez Riverboat Luncheon Cruise

The live Dixieland Jazz was great
The lunch was aight…
Generic N’awlins Chow.
TBH Cafeteria Level.
The Louisiana 256th BDE In Tigerland in 2005 fed us better in Iraq. THAT right there was some premium Cajun Cuisine…
A story for Christmas Later…

Meh.
TBH, the prices of the good restaurants were extortionist by my standards… add on the $75 parking for the ‘event’ I might have to raffle off the new rifle to make bills LOL!

The other thing I did, well…. a wee bit on the personal and deep side… To do the long/short of it, I went into a Catholic Church for the first time in like oh holy hells! since my 1st Marriage which was a High Catholic Mass, or maybe the Christening of the Spawn, and the first time I went to confession in 45 years.

My reason for the MAJOR lapse in going to confession was that the first and last time was when I attended the Volkschule in Mondsee Austria as a kinder. When FedBro and I were on our youthful Euro Trip in the early 80s, we attended the local school.

It was a Very Interesting thing to compare it w/Jr. High in the states. There? The fucking krauts ran between classes as a mandatory thing: “Vorwarts MARCH!!!!HUT!HUT!HUT! Run! Run you verdammnt Americanish Swine!!!!” with the teacher having a switch to swat slow asses…

Pretty fucking intense to an American Kid.

And Art Class was held by a Catholic Nun… Sister Mary Elephant (to steal that one from Cheech and Chong). Once a week, Sister Mary, who looked like she was built out of Krupp Steel by a panzer factory, was mighty quick with that metal ruler man… Get caught fucking off and WHACKUM!!!

Bleeding knuckles.
Again… NOT the American expectation
Rather shocking IMO

The ruler I knew about from the frens I had who went to Sacred Heart Academy, HOWEVER the STEEL ruler? Maaaan… the fucking Austrians don’t fucking play…

As an aside: Did you know the Austrians made up a significant number of the SS? Per the Google AI: “Austrians comprised approximately 13% of the SS, despite making up only 8% of the Third Reich’s population”

Yep.
The German Version of Appalachian Mountain Folks…
Harder and Meaner than boiled woodpecker lips.
And as my DeadDad said when he met her at one point, he wanted to ask her “Where were you in ’42 Sister?”

Myself? I was like ‘Bad Idea Da!’
I think she would have kil’t his ass had he had the gumption to do so… I think he knew it’d be a bad idea to do so, so he stayed quiet…

BUT
That sets the stage, ‘cos one day, we all marched down to the Big Local Church, which just so happens to be the church in the movie “The Sound of Music”

Per the google: “The church in the movie The Sound of Music wedding scene is the Basilika St. Michael in Mondsee, Austria. While the real Maria and Georg von Trapp were married in the Nonnberg Abbey church in Salzburg, the Mondsee basilica was used for the filming of the elaborate wedding scene due to its grandeur and availability.” 
Yep.
At the time, we were living in Mondsee for 6 months.
Off and on… we used it as a ‘home base’ so to speak to hit Italy, Belgium and other Euro-Points… this was when it was still 2x Germanies, East and West…

So Anyways…
Back to my childhood trauma
My first confession was in that fucking church
And it scarred me, and scared the fuck out of me.
They even went as far as to find a Priest who spoke English, and there I was shitting myself b/c GIANT FUCKING BASILICA and I was NOT ready for that shit…

Crazy amiright?
Lil Billy was NOT ready for all that prime-time intense Austro-Germanic Catholicism man…

Sooooooo…
Got an aversion to it.
BUT
SOMETHING this time in NOLA had me go into that church… and I ended up talking out a lot of things, some to personal too talk aboot. I told him (the Padre) A LOT about the ‘rocks in my ruck’ and things, to include all my service in Iraq/Afghanistan/Kuwait… all of it… I did a major emotional trauma dump.

Needless to say I felt/feel great after.

And I think that THIS was the reason I felt compelled to go, as the Padre who took my confession? He’s the Big Man of the church from what he told me… Head Boss-Dude.

Seems he’s the Archbishop of the Diocese.
AND
The reason I know this was a summons or something?

Seems as he’s the headman of this Tribe of Catholics if you will, and while we talked, he told me as part of his training, he was required to do 8 weeks +/- in the Army as a Chaplain. They sent him from the Vatican to Iraq.

He’d been there/done that.
He ‘got me’ so to speak…

And maaaaaan he told me about a particular hairy incident that he had to deal with that I specifically remember when 6 guys got wasted in two attacks in Baghdad in 2004… and he was on VBC at the same time I was!!!!
Smol World or something else?
I’ll go with something else…

God’s Will

And after 45 minutes, he was joking w/me about how the 45 minutes we spent was “One Minute Per Missed Year” in being a lapsed Catholic. He then gifted me a rosary:

If that isn’t the most “Marti-Gras” Rosary for around Halloween, I’ll eat my hat.

So yeah.
A great experience
I’ll have to go back.
I feel recharged. positive. even upbeat.
Other things of a positive nature happened on the trip, as well as some negatives, but overall, I feel “right” if you will, and man, it’s been a long fucking time since I felt this way.

So I’m still exhausted having been Flogged by People’s Tractor Factory where I’ve been training my replacement (I think joke or not? Not sure…) and I didn’t get enough sleep last night as I got in at 21:30 but didn’t crash until 0130 as I was ‘road wired’

So lets do some more Later
Big Country

Whuzzat!?! Huh… Oh Yeah….
Greetings an Salivati…. no, dat wrong… Les try… Shalutations Evvabody! Yeeeeah dats it….
WHHHHHHOOOOOIE!
Ladies an G’ntlemens and Kinder of allllll ages….
The Big Easy
Whotta Town!
How It Started:

0730, Bourbon Street

How it Started Going:

Because Breakfast was:

A 23oz Local Brew and a slice of 16 inch wide by 24 inch long piece of pre-game “pizza padding” Fookin’ HUGE!
Annnnnnd
How It Went Sideways:

And Finally, How it Ended:

Safe in the Room…21:00hrs Plasterated AF as I have a 0630 wakeup to get back for work on Monday.

More Shtories, Pix and Shytte to Follow
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
On the road again….

Ahhhhhhhhhh…
Willie my man man!
Grew up listening to him.

So I did my laundry after work, prepped the bags, got my HARD print maps as well as my nav-board and compass, as things are a mite ‘squirrelly’ out there… I don’t have anything specific, but the ‘hive mind’ out there is pointing to a bunch of potential weirdness… So in light of this, as soon as I made the decision to go, (last weekend TBH… It was one of those split second choices) but hey!

Being Bipolar is a BIG help when it comes to impulsive purchases and things like this trip amiright? That and last Sunday, the Palmetto State Daily Deal was just tooooooooooo good to be true:

With a $25 coupon, and using Sezzle, I paid $72 down, and three more payments of $72. Including the S&H? Like $288 in total, with Sezzles ‘nut’ being an additional $20? I think?

I had to do it.
ZERO Sales Tax Until the 31st.
Now, granted, no BCG BUT
I have like 4 on hand as spares along with all the fiddly-bits as you well know. Add on that right now they ALSO have a MilSpec BCG going for $69.99???

As stated:

Bolt is made of Mil-spec Carpenter 158 steel, Shot peened, bolt is marked“MP”, but is individually high-pressure tested and Magnetic Particle Inspected. Gas key is machined out of bar stock, chrome lined phosphate coated, and secured with grade 8 fasteners and staked per mil-spec. Bolt carrier is phosphated outside and chrome-lined inside. 

These bcg’s were purchased as a contract overrun for an overseas Eastern European contract.

Huh
“Eastern European contract” Sounds like they were destined for The Krain BUT considering how poorly things are going right now, they may have run out of DotMil Daniel Defense DDM-4s to refurb and repair. They’ve been from the REAL reports I’ve seen, getting their collective heads handed to them recently.

The Rasputitsa is when Ivan really gets rolling. Per the Wiki the Rasputitsa is…

…literally “season of bad roads”^[1]) is the mud season that occurs in various rural areas of Eastern Europe,^[2] when the rapid snowmelt or thawing of frozen ground combined with wet weather in spring, or heavy rains in autumn^[1][3] lead to muddy conditions that make travel on unpaved roads problematic and even treacherous.^[1][3]

THIS is why Ivan’s tanks have traditionally had tracks that are WAAAAY wider than US Tracked vehicles…. it helps to keep them from bogging down.

They’ve taken a LOT of territory as of late.
Upwards of 10-15km a day.
Which when dealing with the VAST distances, the Krainians are out of manpower per their own Generals. They can’t hold the line, and Russia has been doing the ‘encircle/cut off/annihilate’ thing, forming up, and pushing AROUND from two directions, usually stubborn defensive hard points, cutting them off, and then blasting the fuck out of them with 1000kg Flying Bombs until they either surrender, or everyone in the encirclement is fucking dead.

Anyways…
I picked up the new M-4 today, and then did my usual thing:

I switched out the rear stock for the one with a rubber butt-pad. Added the oversized mag release, and a BAD Lever (I keep those ‘in stock’ here at the Casa as well) and then I then zeroed the Trijicon with the bore-laser to 50m. (The length of the house which is good enough for DotGov work IMO) and then gave it some war-paint.

I figure that better to have a ‘disposable’ with me on the trip rather than one of my ‘custom builds’ with the specialized Ni-Boron BCGs and the 2lb triggers, never mind the custom buffer(s). Better a $300 ‘poors’ than one of my better builds.
So for sure I’ll be out of pocket tomorrow.

I’ll update as I go as I will have my portable tablet to keep up with ‘shit in general’ ‘cos as I said, shit feels squirrelly… We’ll have to see.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Yannow, when you look into the abyss…

….and you realize
“I ain’t got enough time for this shit!!!”
(h/t CA and WiscoDave)

Whelp…
After a few hours of contemplation, I’ve decided to say “Fuck it” and do what I do best.

Bail.

Depart my Area of Operations for ‘parts unexplored’

See… I’ve ‘done’ ALL of the EU with the exception of a few locations… Portugal, Hungary… a couple or so of the former Warsaw Pact places, primarily b/c it either was STILL behind the wall (1984 when I lived alllll over Europe as a kid for a year and East/West Germany was still 2x different countries) OR just not good enough to visit long-term, the former Yugoslavia case in point as they were shooting at each other for quite a spell

What I haven’t done is a LOT of US Travel

I’ve done the majority of Texas while stationed there, Tennessee and Kentucky, having lived there AND been stationed there, and ALL of New England having been raised there… I’ve also done a fair bit of Northern Cali, and a two week trip to DisneyLAND that MomUnit actually won in a contest no shit… like 8?-9? days in Disney, all expenses paid when I was 17.

The current female, potential X#2 and I did quite a bit of exploring In Georgia, and South Carolina where MomUnit currently resides, as well as our former bolt-hole in North Carolina… That’d being said, there’s some places I WANT to go…

And this weekend?
Well Fuck It All.
It’s payday.
Road Trip to New Orleans.
Only a 9 hour ride.
Off season, the hotel at the Airport is only $100 a night and gas? I can do this on the cheap.

Do a Riverboat ride, maybe hit the Haunted Ghost tour ‘stuff’
Shit like that.
Chase Random Strange
Maybe get in a Gunfight in the French Quarter with some retarded ‘groids…

That being said, I will be doing The French Quarter during daylight and yes, I will be heeled as they’re a Constitutional Carry State… Leave the vehicle at the Airport, and either Uber or take one of the French Quarter Hotel busses to the French Quarter right?

Why the fuck not?
Pictures to follow, and we’ll see how it goes.
Since deciding to ditch the bullshit, I’m much more positive.

So More Later
Big Country