Fri. Nov. 6, 2004- Confusion encircles me, closing in every minute. There's no space to breath. Slowly it constricts me, my head becoming dizzy. Suffocating in consequence, never knowing the ending. I wish it would stop but it only gets tighter. Can things get better? They can get worse. It'll hurt somehow, who will be first. I already am, everyday it twists me. The anaconda of uncertainty binds me with a curse. Its fangs peirce my faults and bleed them out. I see what's wrong, and I know what I have to do. If it's true, I will make sure, I'll be there somehow to sing to you. I'll sing the song that will lead the snake away, and refill my veins with you. I wish for so much, but not all can be granted. I wish for no pain but it will never leave. For some it will hurt, but they must understand. My heart is gone in another land. The snake is on me and it must be gone. Until this December when I sing it's song.
Wed. Nov. 3, 2004- Hey guess what? I actually put some new pictures in the Dictionary! And there are a few new things on the Dead Fish Texas Page as well.
Well lets see, what's worth talkin about....the weekend was pretty cool. On Friday I had a good skate session with Giggler, Putnam, Brandon, Jakes and co., and Tim. That was fun, I skated pretty good that day. The next day I had to go to Austin again to go to Harvey Penick's Golf Academy. It actually wasn't too bad. They changed my swing a bit and it's feels pretty good. I still have to practice it to get it more consistent but it's comin along nicely. Then I went home, had dinner and went to see Ashley by the Youth center. Of course the Youth center was closed so we just stayed outside. We had a lot of fun just sittin there talking and tellin jokes and just havin a good time. She eventually had to leave around 11:00 Which wasn't too cool.
The next day was Halloween! I went with Ashley to do some community service at this a kids Halloween party/fair. AA parent's children got to go to this party and get candy, play games, and eat food. My first job was to teach kids how to scare ghosts. WHAT! Man did that job suck. The ghost school was horrible and the people workin with me decided not to do it anymore because the kids didn't really like it, and because we just sucked. My next job was makin hot dogs so that was easy. We left around 5:30 and Ashley wasn't allowed to come on base afterwards. That really bummed me out and kinda ruined Halloween. After I got home I didn't really wanna go trick or treating or do anything. Ashley ended up callin me and we talked about a lot of stuff. It was really good because now I feel like we're so much closer. I'm lookin forward to next weekend becasue her dad is goin to leave and so she'll be able to hangout all weekend, YES! Fun stuff.
Lance left on Monday and so we had one last skate session before her had to go. It was pretty fun adn I got some good stuff on film. I'm gonna miss that kid. Sure he was the most annoying kid in the world at times but other times he was real cool. Either way, I'm gonna miss him.
Tuesday I skated it up but my box stuck like it was covered in syrup and I oculdn't find anywax so it stayed that way. It didn't slide very good at all and it ot pretty frustrating. It wasn't a bad day but it definetly wasn't a good day. It's starting to get cold here too. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 42 degrees in the morning. It reminds me of Germany and makes me pretty home sick. The German crap weather has made it's way to Texas, and the colder it gets the more I miss it back home. I love you guys and I hope that I hear from you soon. Shout me a holla K-dawg. You too D-MOD, we didn't get to talk very long last time. And of course you Sage, talkin to you is always great.
see yea
Wed. Oct. 27, 2004- THE RED SOX HAVE WON THE WORLD SERIES!!! 1918 is history
Tues. Oct. 26, 2004- Fun, fun, fun. Of course I'm not talkin about school. School is boring and always will be. School in Germany was awsome. I loved it. I got to hang out with everybody, see all my friends, tell funny jokes, tell crazy stories, skate it up at lunch, and just have a good time. School here isn't nearly as cool as that. No one really does anything fun, or talks about stuff that I really want to get into. There are no funny stories floating around the lunch table that everyone can relate too. Everyone used to get in on the conversation in Germany, and we'd be the loudest table in the great hall because we were all always laughing. Man that was great. I just don't get it here. So I skate and play guitar because they keep me happy and I love it. My sane-makers.
Well the only things that were really fun this weekend were goin to see The Grudge, hangin out with Ashley on Saturday night, and Skating in the rain on Sunday. The Grude scared the hell out of me. I didn't want to go home after that movie because I was gonna have to sleep by myself. After the movie Logan, Pascal and I got out my guitars and we played them in the car port til they had to leave. That was pretty cool. So I went to bed and tried to sleep, the movie was still scaring me, but eventually I was knocked out.
The next day I woke up an had to go to Austin. We went to the Harvey Penick Golf Academy. It wasn't to bad. We signed up for lessons this comin weekend and also bought some golf stuff. I got a new pair of Nike golf shoes that are pimp as ever. Then we went to the huge outlet mall that's between Austin and San Antonio. There I got a pair of Nike skate shoes for $20! $20! Who cares if they're Nikes, they were $20! I skate good in them too, so they're awsome. Then we went home and I got to hang out with Ashley that evening. Everything is so much better when she is around. I had A LOT of fun spending time with her. I didn't want her to go when she had to. But I had to let her go. I met her mom when she picked her up. She seems like she's pretty cool. I didn't really say much though so she probably thinks I'm a super quiet kid. I felt kinda dumb when I didn't really say anything, but I'll get another chance to talk to her sometime. And that was the end of that night.
The next day I skated with Justin and Tyler and Pascal filmed because he still doesn't have a board. I got a whole lot of footage at the ditch that day. Man it was great. I was proud of myself. Tyler is pretty damn good at skating. He has a really cool style that I really like. It's like on of thoose loose effortless styles. He's awsome to skate with too. It started to drizzle while we were skating but we didn't really care that much. Then it started to storm and thunder asd and lighting came upon the sesh. It made it kinda dramatic though. Tyler landed a frontside flip off the bank in the rain and we filmed that. Good stuff. Tyler took us to the Elementary to seek shelter but it didn't help much. You can interpret thte rest of the sesh by the pictures in the Anything section of the site. But that's about all that is worth tellin from this past week.
Peace out
Tues. Oct. 19, 2004- You all want me write about what's goin on? Well I'll tell you. Last weekend we went to TSR (Texas Ski Ranch) and it was the coolest place ever, aside from Barcelona. Man it was tight. They had a skatepark and a cable wakeboarding course. There's more about that on the Dead Fish Texas site. After that I went to a "party" at Dirty's house. First we just sat there, and watched Kill Bill. I understand that it's a pretty cool movie but I didn't want to just sit there for the whole time. At the party I met Tyler who is a really awsome guy. He's the Mickey's man. So hopefully, sometime we're gonna party it up together. Man he was so funny on the back porch.
The next day I had to go golfing. I didn't really wanna go because I was gonna get to see Ashley that day. I had to go anyway but then lucky Ashley called me while I was playin so my dad ended the round early just so I could go see Ashley. Thanks a lot dad. So I got to be with Ashley for about and hour and it was really cool. She always makes me so happy.
Today I went to school as usual and that is boring so I won't alk about it. That's it for now. I'll try to update more often. Later
Wed. Oct. 13, 2004- Well hey nothin is really the best right now but when is it ever. One good thing is that I got to see Ashley last Sunday. Wow that was fun. It was real good to see her again. She's finally getting ungrounded this weekend, so hopefully I'll get to see her again soon.
We took the PSATs today. I felt pretty dumb while I took it though. I need to read more or something because I don't know very many vocab words, and I read real slow. I didn't finish the writing or reading sections, I think I had about six left in each of them. The math wasn't too bad, but I couldn't answer them all because some of them were toughies. Oh well it's just the PSAT. The rest of school is goin ok. Sometimes it's kinda hectic with all the work we get. This school seems like it's a lot harder than Ramstein. Maybe it's because I'm not as comfortable or just not really into goin to school. In Germany I loved school. My teachers were awsome and I got to see all my friends when I went there. Homework here has been gettin to me and it's takin away a lot of free time. I hate it but I have to deal with it so I will, somehow.
Nothin else is really goin on. I'm skating as much as time permits and just tryin to stay sane. David, give me a call sometime. I know school and football are gettin crazy so you don't have a lot of time but just try to get at me sometime. You too Kevin, it'd be cool to have a good chat or whatever. Just get my number from David if he still has it. Well I'm sorry but I must go. I'll try to update more often. I just have to find time. Thanks everyone, later
Tues. Oct. 5, 2004- Nothing has happened really. I went to school and learned, then I went home and went skating. Logan wasn't home because he went to the gym and Pascal couldn't come out because he is grounded. I skated with Chase a bit which actually was pretty cool. Then he went in and I skated with Jake and Beans til I had to go in to eat. Then we ate and I went to Best Buy and bought a cd, A.F.I. All Hallow's E.P. Good stuff, only four tracks but they're amazing. That's pretty much it. Nothing else really. Hopefully I'll talk to you guys soon. Later
Sun. Oct. 3, 2004- I got my progress report the other day. Not to bad, A's and B's. School's still a bitch though. It's definetly not an easy school.
It rained yesterday. Man that sucked. I was so ready to go skate and get all the tricks I was thinkin of out of my system. But no, it had to rain. So I didn't skate and haven't for the past two days and it sucks. On that rainy day, Pascal, Justin, Logan, Lance, Derrick, and I all just kinda hung out. We went to Pascal's and watch a bunch of skate videos and edited the promo a bunch. It's comin along pretty good. It will be up soon.
I got to talk to Ashley yesterday, which is always good. It had been two weeks since I got to talk to her. So we had a good talk. She's finally ungrounded in another two weeks. It's gonna be great to see her again.
Hey does anybody know anything about a job opening around here. I desperatly need a job so I can get some cash. Just let me know if you know about any. You'd be a great help if you could tell me. Thanks
Sat. Sept. 25, 2004- I went to a skate competition today. Logan, Pascal, Justin, Corey, and my brother all came and along with Logan's dad. It was at Texas Ski Ranch or TSR. It was okay to watch I guess. What really sucked was the crowd. Justin and I were the only ones supporting the skaters by cheering and clappin and all that stuff. It was retarded. Everyone else was just sitting ther and they would maybe clap everynow and then but most fo them didn't even have a clue what was goin on. No one seemed to understand skateboarding and the fact that these guys put so much effort into the tricks they're doin. No one could understand just how dificult a backlip can be or a bluntstall. Even when people were doin alley-oop 360s in the quarterpipes they would just clap for a bit and stop. They didn't have music either and that definetly would have helped. Another thing that made it not so great was the skating. Sure there were guys doin feebles, tre flips, and switch heels but some people weren't really that good. I could have probably skated beter than half the guys there. Some of them didn't really know how to skate a competition. they would come out and do they're best trick first off and that usually meant they couldn't land that trick very often. One kid spent his whole run kickfliping the pyramid and he finally got it on his last try but it was after his run was over, so it was pointless. Some of it was cool to watch and some of it was stupid but it wasn't a wasted trip.
Our skatepark is finally getting built. They're laying down the surface now. Once it's done I'll get to skate park again and then the next competition TSR has I'll be in. That's it for now though. Think happy thoughts and stay healthy. Peace
Fri. Sept. 24, 2004- nothing is happening. Nothing important at least. I guess one cool thing happened, my brother and I made a song. An entire song with drums, guitar, and lyrics. I'm gonna have to find out a way to record it and send it to some people or post it on the site. I like it. I heard that the lyrics are pretty good so it should be good. For now I'm calling it My Last Goodbye, but it could change. Derrick is getting better at drums now. We can play that Juliana Theory song- Top of the world, and that's pretty fun, along with some other songs. Skating has been slow. I'm skating like an idiot right now. The only good thing I've done is learned kickflip manuals on my box. Some dick head came up to me and Logan today when we were skating at the basketball court and just pissed me off. I was doin a decent sized grass gap and I was havin a tough time with it because I was bein a pussy and not commiting. I did it when I first moved here and it was perfect but today it took like 20 tries and it was a crappy landing. Anyway, this airman walks by to go to the post office next to the court and he says for me to relax my feet, which was cool because he just trying to help. When he comes back out I land the gap and he comes over and starts droppin shit on us. He said to Logan, "Man you don't even skate look at your board. How long have you had that, a month?" Logan's only had his board for about three days. The guy thinks just because you have a new lookin board that you don't skate. What a fuckin retard. Then he talks to me and says, "What are you doin man? You can't skate with that shit, maybe if you start doin big stuff you wouldn't have to worry about ridin that thing." Now he's sayin that if you ride a super thrashed board you suck. For one the gap was pretty big. Probably about a two feet longer than gap 66 and about three feet high. In process of talkin he kicks my board and it rolls away from me, so I have to walk over to it and get it. I just wanted to fuckin rip his face off. He's basicly sayin that we suck because we're skating with a new skateboard and an old skateboard. If I find this guy again and he starts talkin I'm gonna chew the shit out of him because he doesn't have a fuckin clue what the hell is goin on. You had to be there and be me to fully understand just how fuckin retarded this shit-head airman was. But yea, that's it really. I miss you guys! Mainly Sage, David, Kevin, Phil, and Ashley. You guys are the best.
Keep it alive.
Mon. Sept. 20, 2004- Can you believe that almost six weeks of school have gone by. Holy Macarole! That's just to crazy. Well if you didn't know, I got grounded on Saturday for one week. But it's not so bad really. It could have been a lot worse, a whole lot worse. I can still skate in front of my house on the box and such, which is kinda what I wanna do right now anyways. Skating by yourself feels pretty good. No presure from anyone else, it's just you and the board, and you skate for yourself the whole time. Your not skating for anyone else or for any real reason but to just make yourself feel good. At least that's how feel when I skate by myself. Only everyonce in a while though, because skating alone is kinda boring if it's too often. Well that's it for now. I love you guys, you're the best.
Fri. Sept. 17, 2004- Hey I'm talkin to Sage on the phone right now! Yes it's great!
Well that was a good chat, I love you babe! This Friday was super crappy. Not the way a Friday should be. I had four tests and one project due. It sucked! I made it through the day though and now I can rest, except for the fact that I have an English project due when we go back, AHHHHHHH!
Nothin has really been goin. I've just been skating and not really learning anything new. Skater's block I guess. I'm borrowing Pascal's electric guitar now, it's pretty tight. I've been recording a lot of songs too so if you want any tell me and if I want to I'll send them to you somehow. Well thats actually all that's been goin on so.... this is Jason Manning signing off.
Tues. September 7, 2004- So how was everyone's three day weekend? For some of us it didn't matter how long the weekened because we weren't in school yet now were we. School started in Germany on today. I'm sure the first day of school there was a lot cooler than ours. Because ours meant the begining of hell.
But yea my weekened was pretty cool I guess. The highlights being the little skating I did (because that's always good), watching the movie Big Fish (very good movie in my opinion), Sage called me (yay!), and Kristyn's Birthday party. The party could have been a lot better for me if Ashley could have come and if it was a dead fish kinda party, but you can't have it all. I did get to see Ashley though which was awsome. We had a scavenger hunt and Ashley's signature was one of the things on the list. So we had to go to her house to get it and this made it so I got to see her. Krystin's parents got the idea, so thanks a lot you guys for putting that together. I really missed her a lot and it was so good to see her again. We only got to see each other for about ten minutes. She was gettin all freaked out because her parents could have come outside at any moment and seen us, most likely resulting in an extended punishment. But it was really good anyways. She get's ungrounded in October so that's to far away. I can't wait. Then the other cool part of Kristyn's party was watching the breakfast club which I though was a great movie. I'm searchin for a copy of my own now.
I got to talk to Sage to which was really cool. it's so great to talk to her. Lyndsey and Martie, her brother, called her and told her some great news. It's so awsome. So Sage is real excited about visiting back in New Mexico to see them. I had to get off the phone early though because I had to take Derrick to drum lessons. That's about all that happened this weekend.
Peace
Thurs. September 2, 2004- Sorry about all the complaining in the last entry. But thanks a lot for all the uplifting comments in the guestbook, it means a lot to me. So I'm in a good mood, and a sad mood, at the same time. More on that later.
Today was a better day than most. Though it wasn't great, it was okay. I missed the first two periods of school because I had to get my cyst drained from my wrist. There's still a bump but it's smaller and they said if it doesn't start to fill up again it'll go away. I don't know what the chances of it goining away are but oh well, let it happen. School was the same as usual. I couldn't wait to get out though because I just wanted to skate so bad.
The bus ride home was a mental trip for me. I just started to think a lot. I thought about the times I used to just sit at the food court with Kevin, David, Phil, James, Sean, Mike, Chris and whoever else happened to be there, and we would just talk about the funniest stuff. Throwing out jokes, tellin crazy stories that happened to us, figuring out length equations (David you know), eating, mooching food, drawing dead fish graphics, and just havin a good time. We even had serious conversations a lot of the time. I miss it so much. Then I though about the thing David told me when he called me. When he went to the food court with everyone and he noticed there was a key member missing in the group. Sage noticed it too from where she was working. There was even an empty chair where he was suposed to be sitting. That chair would definetly have been occupied by me if I could be there to do it. Just thinkin about all of my best friends, the best friends I could ever have, sitting there with that one empty chair, just laughin it up and havin a good time. I just wish I could be a part of that again. I pictured myself sittin there laughin and being truely happy again, a feeling I haven't felt in so long. I almost started to cry on the bus in front of everyone, but luckly none of the tears spilled over so no one noticed. And it takes a real man to cry, quoted from someone very close to me, so I ain't no panzee. So yea, that's my 10 minute bus ride in under 240 words.
The rest of the day I went skating on logans new box/rail. The box is about as tall as deck on it's wheels so that's a waste of time, and the rail is really cool. It's slanted so you can go down it or up it, and it's round. I skated the rail a bunch and landed an inch long bluntslide goin down (crap) and a 50-50 goin up. I haven't 50-50 a round rail in ages and never one this thin or high and definetly never goin upwards. So that was good for me. Look out for feebles and smiths next. So I'd say skating was cool for me. Afterwords, I felt good and hot and drenched from my own sweat.
I went home and started my homework and listened to my brother play his new drum set. He's getting pretty good, especially for only having a set for a few days. He's been taking lessons for about a month and a half but that's only a half hours a week on a set of drums. So he's doin real good for the amount of time he's actually been behind a set. Go Derrick.
This weekend is the party, but no it's not gonna be a Dead Fish kinda party. I wish it could be but you can't have it all, which I've learned but have a hard time accepting sometimes. Ashley is hopefully gonna go so that'll be really awsome if I get to see her again. Sage I'll be lookin forward to your call tomorrow. Sorry the last one had to be so short, LBJ wasn't that much fun anyway.
Alright well I'd better get back to my homework. Keep it alive, skate or die, thank you, let it happen, and waste away to magaritta-ville.
Tues. August 31, 2004- Does anything good happen here. Nothing of great importance ever happens. At least for the past two weeks nothing has been.
Well I went to Logan's house and tried to help him and his dad build a box. Hopefully it will all work out. It seems kinda sketchy but it'll work if we get enough of the right materials. I just don't want it to break after two minutes of skating or anything.
Tomorrow we're hopefully gonna go to LBJ and skate it up a bit. I'm just worried there's gonna be alot of people and there will be no room. Whatever though.
Kristyn is having her birthday party soon. Either this weekend or the 30th or something like that. Ashley might be able to go too which is gonna be so awsome if she does. She would just make things so much better if I got to see her. I really hope her parents let her go.
It seems like there's so much stuff i have to be worried about because of school and shit. I hate it. I just procrastinate to fuckin much and so I have all this shit on my back I keep thinkin about. I'm just a lazy bum that's never gonna get anything right. In the end it'll all come crashing down on me and I'll get smashed underneath it like a helpless little ant.
Sat. August 28, 2004- Today was pretty cool. I finally got to skate again. It was so awsome. I skated alright considering my foot still hurt a bit. Just the fact that I got to skate was so awsome. I felt so much better and I was in a better mood. I lnaded like everything first try and it's been like two weeks. Of course I didn't land everything every try but that's ok. Logan had a crazy nose bleed goin on. He said it hapens when he overheats but I've never seen it happen to him before. It was the most disgusting nose bleed in the world. It was pouring out of his nose so fast. He stuffed some toilet paper in his nose and it stoped the bleeding for a while. When he took it out it was like i fuckin alien fell out of his nose. The thing was wider than his nostril when it fell out. It was like four inches long and and inch wide of bloody boogers. It looked like a piece of his brain fell out. IT WAS SICK!!! uuuugggggghhhhh it makes me sick to think about. Well that was crazy. It started raining so we went inside pascals house and had a head bagin contest which was really hard to judge. I was the judge. I'd have to say that Pascal won if anybody, just because he looked so funny, and they were head bangin to that "I like the way you move" song. It was great. WEll that's it, peace!
Fri. August 27, 2004- Well I actually didn't finish the last entry because I had to do something important I guess. Anyway, Ashley is still grounded and it seems like it gonna be a long time before she gets ungrounded but I can wait for her. She makes the days go faster and just makes everything better for me. I'm just so happy when I'm with her, and I hope that I get to see her soon.
School started last week on Monday and it's super gay. I hate school. Maybe it's just this school that I hate. I loved Ramstien, especially when I got to hang with all my friends. Skating and hanging out at Lunch, before school and after school was the best. None of thoose things are very fun here. Nothing at my school is fun. It's gay and I hate it. The only cool class I have is art and the teacher in there is a bitch sometimes, but it's cooler than all my other classes.
My ankle is nearly done healing, sometime this weekend I should be able to skate again. I skated a bit yesterday when my mom went to the hospital to pick up her perscription. I only skated for about ten minutes but it felt so good. I went back in side and felt so much better than I had been feeling. School, parents, and my ankle have been making my last two weeks hell, and not being able to get that out by skating makes it even worse.
Sorry for the lack of pictures lately. It seems like all the worst shit has been happening lately and one of thoose things is my computer with all the pictures I've been taking. My computer in my room had internet but now it doesn't. It just stopped workin after I updated my computer with windows. Fuckin gay! Hopefully I can get that fixed soon.
Well that's it for now. Thanks so much for callin me this week Sage. I'm so glad I got to hear your voice again. It always puts a smile on my face. New pictures with be up soon and keep it alive.
August 18, 2004- Well I'll tell ya, things aren't anywhere near as good as the last enrty. For one, my ankle is all fucked up. I rolled it like a bitch on Saturday so I haven't skated since then. I was up at lackland skatepark and decided to waste my time on this tiny rail goin down the funbox. There was about three feet of flat on top of the fun box so I had no time to setup for the front board I went for, and the rail was less than a foot tall. Dumb decision by me. So I rolled left ankle worse than I've rolled any of my ankles I've rolled before. So that sucks. There's a picture of it in Anything. So that's one thing. That day I rolled my ankle I got home and Ashley, Krystine, and Pascal came over. We all went inside and up to mu room and Pascal Amazed us with his guitar skills. I played a bit but I feel all embaresed when I play guitar around Pascal because he's Way better than me. But that was real fun. But she wasn't suposed to be on base and her parents found out. They said for her not to go but she did anyway and so she got in huge trouble. It's like the biggest trouble she's ever been in. She said she's grounded for nine weeks, but she also said her parents will probably not keep her grounded for that long.
August 14, 2004- Wow! Tonight was great. I feel so great now. I got to hang out with Ashley today. It was awsome. We hadn't seen each other for a week and a day. So today was a lot of fun. We went to the pool with Kristyn and Pascal and hung out there for a while. Just goofed off and talked. Lance, Nick, and Justin came later and we skated outside the pool. I couldn't land this stupid three stair curb gap because of the turn right before the gap. That was super gay. Then Lance and Nick had a soda fight and drenched each other in Coke and Sprite. Fun stuff. Then Ashley and Kristyn went home to eat and we're gonna come back later for a movie. So we all went and skated my box. A good healthy session. Logan, Dirty, and Joe met up with us when we were there. So it was the biggest crowd of people in front of my house ever. I landed a switch noseslide first try ever, kickflip 50-50 first try, and almost a back tail. Damn it was cool. But everything else I tried I sucked at. Then everyone else went in and I showered and ran to the movie theater where Ashley, Pascal, and Kristyn were all sittin inside waiting. We watched The Notebook and it was pretty good. Then we walked over to the youth center and had a lot of fun walkin there. Crusty Dusty! When we got there it was about 10:00 and Ashley and Kristyn had to go. I didn't want to let Ashley go but I had to unfortunetly. After that I went home and was very happy for the rest of the night. Tune in next time for more on the life of Jason Manning. Later.
August 8, 2004- Well, I've been really tired for these last few days. Maybe it because I was on the phone with Ashley til 2 in the morning. It was a lot of fun. I stayed at Pascal's house last night with Justin and Logan. That was pretty cool. Pascal and Justin had an air freshener fight. That was sick. Being soaked in flower scent looked pretty weird and it made the room smell insane. Well g2g. later
August 4, 2004- What's goin on? Well nothin is really different. Do you guys even look at this thing? Oh well, I've been skating, writting, playing guitar, and staying out of the house as much as possible. I got a call from Sage today. That was really cool. I really miss her a lot. She's always been there for me. I love you baby. It was really good to hear from her again.
Ashley and me have been hangin out a bit. Actually we just hung out yesterday. We talked a lot about the places we lived before. It was really cool. I'm glad I have someone to talk to finially. Well g2g, later.
July 31, 2004- Well shit's goin a lot better now. I guess I'm just getting used to it here. My box is awsome. I've learned a few new tricks on it. Kickflip manual, nose manual, shove-it 50-50(first try) and that's it so far I guess. I'll get pictures soon. I met a girl too. Her name's Ashley. She's super cool. We're not goin out or anything but I can see it happening. We went to the movies tonight and it was so weird. I was all nervous about making any moves. It was fuckin weird as hell cuz I'm usually not like that. Her parents were at the movie too though so that made it hard to go past holding hands. Oh well, man I feel kinda weird puttin all that semi personal stuff on here. Well If you would like to hear more and you think I would tell you anymore then I guess contact me some how. Whatever, yea well I need to sleep. Miss you guys. Later
July 28, 2004- I BUILT A BOX AND IT IS SWEET!!! That's it. Man we got kicked out of three spots. Two of the spots we were at we got kicked out by the same person. They were like stalking us or something. It's gay. But the third spot we were at we were just dickin around and rollin down these long stairs. The guy that cracked down on the gay sesh was pretty cool though. Lance, Logan, Justin, and I all talked to him about building a skatepark on base. He said he was really gonna try to get somethin started. It was cool because I was all gettin into it and giving ideas and said we should get a meeting together where the skaters on base help plan out the skatepark. So if this all goes over good we'll have a skatepark soon. I think it's so awsome. I really felt like I was doin some good and giving the guy a better veiw on how us skaters think. If skaters were a race people would be Klu Klux Klan over here. Well not all of them but a lot of them. Well tomorrow I'm gonna get to skate my box and it's gonna be so awsome. I haven't skated a box since I left Germany. None of the parks I've been to have them, accept Florida but that doesn't count. Good stuff. I miss all my homies back in Germany, no one here is as dedicated as you guys were. Dedicated to having a good time and always being up for skating. Hopefully I can change that over here though. Catch ya later.
July 26, 2004- Life isn't fair, you're never taken anywhere. It seems like you progress, when things are looking good. It's really just a fucked up mess. Believe that you should.
Sorry I can't help but wish I was in germany. I went to this lock in the other night, hoping it would be fun. It's sucked, it was so gay. I wa so bored and we were locked in so I oculdn't leave. It had it's moments but over all it's was a waste of time. I got to hang with Pascal, Lance, and Logan which was fun at points but most of the time we were bored as hell. Well that's pretty much it. Oh and I got some wood and copping to build a box to skate on which is gonna be awsome. Dead Fish for life.
July 23, 2004- Well not whole lot of stuff has happened. I've been skating around the base with pascal and co. a lot recently. It's really cool to have people to skate with, at least for me. I just skate better. Recently I've been skating pretty good too. Nothin to crazy. I've been doin gaps a lot which is weird for me. Just big ollies. Once we get some of the footy from our extremly huge camera I'll get pictures on this site. I also landed a fakie big spin heel yesterday. That was tight, and I did it twice so it counts. Hopefully we're goin to LBJ skatepark today. They have a site if you wanna see how crappy it is. The bowl is really cool but the rest is stupid. Well I'm about to skate it up with Pascal and Chase so Peace homies. I miss you guys. Thanks for calling Sage. I love you.
July 17, 2004- Well, if you didn't alredy know I'm in Texas. I live on Randolf Air Force Base where the houses are as old as the retired officers. Our house is hella old. It was an old Spanish house that I'm sure was very nice at one time but now, it's a big pile of doo-doo. Peopl have been coming in here to fix it up everyday. I think there almost done though. Anyway, I've made a few friends here. That makes this state just a little more bareable. It's so crazy, when I used to live in Hawaii I had a friend named Pascal. He was my best friend in fifth grade, and he was the funniest kid ever. Well I was hangin out at the youth center like the loosers do when they move to a new base, when this red headed kid that resembled an older version of Pascal came prancing into the room. He sounded like him, laughed like him and moved like him. I was bedazled by his presence. Sure enough, when I asked his name it was still Pascal, and we flipped out when we realized we lived on the same base. He was my first skate buddy ever but back then we were just screwin around. Now we see each other five six years later and "HOLY SHIT DUDE! You still skate?" comes out of both ours mouths. He's okay at skating. He thinks I'm amazing and says that I'm the best skater on the base by far. It kinda sucks because now I don't have anyone to learn from, but I guess I'll have to just push myself. We started an extension of the Dead Fish. I'm gonna get a digital camera soon and try to edit a part for myself in the next Dead Fish video. I'll send it to you Kevin when it's done. Even though I found my long lost friend and made a few new ones, skating here still doesn't compare to the lovely red cobblestone I used bailed on in Germany. It's not nearly as fun hangin out here as it was with the original gangstas. I fuckin miss you guys so much. I'm gonna see if I can get a few hops to take me down there every now and then. Hops are suposed to be really cheap if not free. I hope you guys are doin good. I miss you all so much especially you Sage. I love you. Don't ever forget it. I'll try to update this page fairly often. Later