I made my way through and out of boot camp. It wasn’t really that hard but we ended up being one of the worst divisions in ten years by our score. I’m going to be a petty officer as soon as I finish the next two schools over the course of 10 weeks. I live in Groton, CT now, I love New England and it’s making me pick up a New Jersey accent lol.

Sowers, Rodriguez, and Me

October is national energy awareness month so go out and buy solar panels or the world will cry. No, I’m just kidding but seriously it’s pretty cool. I changed the theme of my blog for it…in case you haven’t noticed yet. I’m going to treat this month kind of like it’s Environmental Awareness Month (April) because I can’t afford solar panels or anything fun and exciting like that. Write a letter to your senator telling them to support alternative energy and fuel options. Make a graphic about climate change or write a song about it. Whatever your talent is you can use it to help further the message this month. In my last post I mentioned One Day On Earth, I didn’t know it at the time but it’s an awesome way to celebrate this month. Also, Tuesday and Wednesday next week I’m going to MEPS for my medical consult so I’ll (hopefully) officially be in the Navy.

This design was done in Photoshop CS5. I’m submitting it to win a competition to be produced as a t-shirt design. If it doesn’t win I have a few people who want to wear the design on a t-shirt anyway so I’ll make it as a t-shirt and offer it up at a place where they can buy it, free advertising eh? I also got a job offer today to be the Head of Design at a corporation that does Joomla web templates for businesses. This is a great opportunity to jump at so I’m really excited. In other news I leave for Portsmouth Naval Base to get my chest x-ray and choose my job for the Navy and I’ll finally be in on Friday, let’s hope nothing goes wrong this time. Don’t forget about Blog Action Day this year either. It’s October 15th, 2010 and the subject hasn’t been announced yet. Now without further ado, or reading, here’s the design in all of it’s glory:

So Zach (Rurounizakku) and Zane (Vidmister91) have their fitness channels, so this blog will be my multipurpose blog, it’ll cover design tutorials and my fitness practices for getting into shape for the Navy Seals. So today I decided to do the P.I.G (Pain Is Good) workout with Zach and Zane. Since I workout a lot I decided to take it a step further and double everything they did. All told I did 168 push ups, 100 jumping jacks, 60 crunches, ran two miles, and 30 four count scissor kicks and 30 leg lifts. So now the important question, What Do I Want? I want to sleep for 20 hours and wake up to two amps and my girlfriend visiting, I might get the sleep. The main thing that kept me going throughout the whole process was OS2 Clayborn and EM2 Thompson telling us to keep pushing and keep trying during the Naval PT meetings. Next week I have MEPS if I’m cleared to go, I had dental work done a while ago and had to take two pain pills to cut down on the agony. I hope to get some videos up soon and also get some tutorials up hopefully tonight for XHTML and CSS. The music I listened to varies vastly depending on what I was doing. For the P.I.G workout I didn’t listen to music, for the running it was Bullet for my Valentine and for the walk afterwards to keep from cramping it was Eminem and DMX.