Allow Me to Bring You Up to Speed

I think I shall take a break from what seems to be a futile attempt at changing the favicon (.ico file) for my blog and write a more thorough update like I said I would in yesterdays post. Before I delve in I would like to take a trip on the more random and humorous side and share some of my findings while browsing around the interwebs. Last night before I headed to the slumber chamber I was piddling around on Kotaku.com and came across an article about 45 various artistic interpretations on Mario and Luigi from the Super Mario Bros. franchise (you can check that out here). While I was looking around at the different pieces one in particular stuck out to me (I hope to God I'll be able to digitally paint as good as this guy one day) and one artistic finding lead to another. Here's the one that originally caught my eye (Credit to artist Gary Storkamp):

I looked around some more on this guys Deviant Art gallery and found another piece of work that at first didn't really know how to respond to but then I LMAO and it began to grow on me. On behalf on Mr.Storkamp I give you Snoop Kirby Kirb.


*LOL* Man it cracks me up every time I lay eyes on it. God Bless you Snoop Kirby Kirb for bringing a magical ray of sunshine into my day. Anyway, on to the next finding.....TALLY HO! My best bud Mal informed me the other day that she had picked up two new games,one of those being Xenosaga in which I would actually consider to be one of my favs for the PS2 and the other game being The Bouncer. I've seen this particular game around before and have been curios to try it out but have never gotten around to it. So in my state of peeked curiosity I moseyed on over to Youtube to seem if I could find some gameplay footage and was successful in doing so. I found a walkthrough of the game by this fellow / vash12349,who I must say did a little above a subpar job (the dude sounded like he was high off his ass the majority of the time but I guess it might of seemed like that due to so-so sound quality in places.) After watching the first three parts it doesn't seem to shabby of a game considering it's 8 / 9 years old. The game play pretty much seems like a SquareEnix version of Final Fight or Streets of Rage. Don't get me wrong I love those kind of beat em' up,ragdoll physics submerged games. However what kinda put a dint in things was the cheesy dialog and character designs. Scion (who from what I watched from the game play am assuming is the main character) looks like what you would get if Sora (Kingdom Hearts) and Titus (FFX) had a love child, Volt looks like a rip off of Billy Idol (with the exception of his little horns), Kou just looks like some leather clad dude who got in a brawl with a tatoo artist (despite his appearance he has a kick ass banana phone *lmao*), Dominique looks sorta looks like a bite size version of Aerith (FFVII,Advent Children,Kingdom Hearts) with an even more annoying voice, and last but not least we have the Mikado which is a group of penis-shaped,golden armor clad,thong wearing,renegade group of psychopath ninjas that have hightech red goggles who just LOOOooove to kill things / people. I'm sure there's pleanty more characters to pick on but I'll leave that up to your own imaginations. Anyway, despite those quirks of the game I think it would still be worth a try............and you know what I think I shall! Hell you can pick up a copy off of Amazon.com for $5 (if that),so WHAT THE HEY.

Okay fun time is over and now back to reality (j/k). Anywho, I have been quite busy in this little world of mine (a.k.a my home in Dallas) these past couple of weeks since I returned from my extended stay in Oklahoma. The day I got back from OK was quite drama filled. After Andrew (my husband) and I got back home from running some errands and going out to dinner that night things weren't quite right around our apartment. It's hard for me to explain or describe the notion,but you could definitely tell something awful occurred,I guess you could say it was kind of an eerie feeling. When we pulled up to the complex there were some busted lights in one of the entryways and there were some people looking around strangely on one of the upper balconies / walkway on another building facing ours. At first we didn't really give it too much thought and went inside our apartment. Probably between 30-45 minutes later (around 11:30pm or so) I went to go get something out of my car and notice our neighbors gathered around on the walkway (we live on the 3rd floor) looking down at something below. I looked down and there were probably 7 / 8 squad cars lined up in the street along with a few other vehicles (which I'm assuming were either news crews or investigators.) I asked around to see what was up and no one really knew for sure. When I walked out to my car I also noticed that there were some officers walking around with search dogs and a helicopter flying overhead,it all was starting to creep me out so I went back inside the apartment and watched for awhile and eventually fell asleep. The next day when I awakened there were a few police cars parked outside along with a couple of news crews interviewing people. It was driving me nuts that I didn't know what was going on so I went online to check out the latest local news. I went to the Dallas news website and discovered that what had happened was that there was a baby abducted from one of the apartments across from us. You can read the full story here.Supposedly there was a young couple in the process of moving out and at the time of the indecent it was just the mother and the baby in the apartment and the father was at their new home. The mother was in the restroom and the baby (I'm assuming) was out in the front room when some Hispanic guy busted into the apartment,attempted to assault / rape the mother, the mother fought off the intruder, the guy then took off with her baby and proceeded to escape by jumping off of the balcony,and the rest is history. It's scary and tragic to say the least. From what I've read about the incident (and I hate to make assumptions on this sort of thing) it almost sounds as if there might of been some foul play on the parents part. I say this of course due to the fact that there's a significant amount of discrepancies between the different stories that the parents have given to the police and investigators, what kind of assaulter would make off with a baby when trying to make a get-a-way, and on top of that the baby was born prematurely and therefore has physical limitations. I hope I'm wrong on that and that the baby will be found and returned unharmed.

So a couple days after all of that went down (Friday/ the 12th) I had to go back up to M.E.P.S (military entrance processing station) again -___-.Thank you Lord I never have to step foot in that place again.......well with the exception of when I do my finial swear in before heading off to basic and when I have to go take a test for one of the jobs I signed up for). Anywho, needless to say it was a long and yet exciting day. Got there at 5 A.M, reported the the Air Force liaisons office, waited around for who knows how long, got a health inspect done (basically them checking your weight and making sure you're doing fine health wise), waited around some more, and then I finally got to meet up with the job counselor YAY! *lol* And of course none of the jobs I was really hoping to get were available (except Aerospace Physiology), but the selection still wasn't too bad I guess (hey atleast I get to change jobs after 3 years if I want *lol*). From the options that were available these are those jobs I choose along with Aerospace Physiology:

• Signals Intelligence
• Radio Communications Systems
• Bioenviromental Engineering
• Diet Therapy
• Pharmacy Apprentice
• Diagnostic Imaging
  
• Histopathology Apprentice

And if for some reason there isn't any job openings in any of those areas I'll be guaranteed a job in the general aptitude area (which ranges from everything from a pest controller to a medical apprentice *lol*). After I got done with the job counselor guess what I got to do?.......MORE WAITING ><. Finally around 1 PM or so I had to go get my finger prints taken and my paperwork processed by some guy named Keith who looked and acted like the dude off of Office Space that obsesses over his red stapler. ( OH YA! MILTON!)

Following that I had the honor of participating in the swear in ceremony (yes they have two ceremonies for some reason.....*shrugs* go figure), in which as corny as it may sound was one of the proudest moments of my life. I can't tell you guys how thankful I am that God has provided the opportunity for me to serve my country, carry on the Air Force heritage / tradition in my family, to go back to school and finish out my degree, a stable job and income to help support my family,etc. It's a huge blessing in and of itself and I firmly believe it'll be a great and one of a kind life changing expierence. Anywho, pretty much after that was all over with I had to go take a physical for the Aerospace job and then I got to go home YAY FINALLY!

While I was at M.E.P.S I found out that I'm in the D.E.P (delayed entry program) ,basically meaning that I won't be going to basic til later this year more than likely due to the fact that all the spots for basic are filled up. For those of us who are in this program we get to meet up with fellow recruits twice a month and work on drills, marching exercises, go running, play sports, etc. This past Wednesday I went to my first D.E.P meeting and it was pretty cool. We mostly worked on different marching exercises and played touch football (which I royally suck at *lol*). I'm hoping to make some new friends through it and meet people who will be leaving to basic when I do and that will hopefully be in the same flight (Air Force's version / term of a squadron or platoon) as me.

Other than that not a whole lot going on. Since I'll be going to basic later than planed it's back to job hunting I go *bleck*. I think I've made a long enough post, so I'm going to stop for now and go for a run. That's all for now folks! Stay tuned to the same Rachael on the some Rachael channel!

*UPDATE*

It's been a while since Dallas News has posted any new news in regards to the case of the missing baby,it's been a few days since I last checked and thought I would do that now while I remember to do so. Unfortunately (and very much to my disappointment) it appears as if my assumption / prediction was right about the involvement of the parents. For a lack of a better work it's flat out appalling that people would commit such a heinous act towards an innocent child and to think that they're about to bring another one into this world is just absolutely absurd. I hope they both get what they deserve for what they've done. Here's the latest report.