Some Other People From Work

I went through my blog and realized I had posted pictures of people from work but I managed to miss a few. So here are some other people I work with.

Here is Air Force Staff Sergeant Early who does a radio program at night on the weekends.














Here is Staff Sergeant Rachael "RachH" Herrmann who does the morning radio program.














Marine Corporal Todd Hunter who does a afternoon show but you can usually find him cohosting with RachH.














Staff Sergeant Ripple who is deploying soon. He's been in 12 years so far as a maintainer. He fixes our computer equipment and already I can tell his knowledge will really be missed.

Address and Phone Number

Anyone who wants my address or my phone number e-mail me. I finally have both set up.

My Arms Feel Like Jello

Weightlifting. It's something I'm definitely not good at and I've put it off for a long time. I can run. Running is my thing. The last time I ran 3 miles I did it in 20 minutes. I need to lose weight. Today Corporal Hunter was talking to Malta about weightlifting. He invited me along to weight lift at 7pm. He wants to tone up a little, I guess. He is muscular. Well tonight when I got to the gym Malta wanted to do his own thing so it was Corporal Hunter and I doing all the weightlifting. He is stronger than me and he knows what he is doing. That helps when you haven't been weightlifting for awhile. We plan on going every day Monday through Friday. We want to do arms Monday, Wednesday and Friday and legs and back on Tuesday and Thursday.

Tonight we started on the bench and I was did three sets starting with 135 pounds (45 pounds on each side of the bar) but I was arching my back so it meant I should do less weight. The next sets were 115. I have a ways to go until I reach my weight (about 180 right now)

We also did the incline and the decline benches, the butterfly machine, some forearm exercises and I personally jumped on the pull up bar and did a set on the rowing machine. I had a girlfriend back in like 10th grade named Abby who was a rower. She always said rowing was one of the hardest sports. She swam and I swam - that's how I met her. That was random but, oh well.

Corporal went for a run by himself (he doesn't have to run with us on Tuesday and Thursday mornings because of his radio show, I guess). Tomorrow I wake up at 5am to go do some exercises with Gunny and the gang. I've just recovered from the lunges we did last time. My hamstrings burned all weekend. Apparently, we're doing something called the "jungle run" which sounds like fun. It's like a 4 mile run and it's like the hardest course we have on base. Lance Corporal KC didn't run with us last time and he heard I came in first on the run on Thursday. He wants to compete against me. Oh boy. If I could lose a good 20 pounds I'd be golden. I'm just watching my potions and it helps that I have to buy my own food now. Run now I'm just eating frosted flakes and chicken wraps with lettuce and cheese.

I watched a video about how much sugar we eat a meal. It's like a cup a meal. Made me look at the sugar on all my food:
Ruffles chips - 0 grams of sugar
2 graham cracker sheets - 8 grams (usually I eat all 9 cracker sheets... wooooops)
Peanut butter - 3 grams for 2 tbsps
3/4 of a cup of frosted flakes - 12 grams of sugar
"Rain" 5 gum - 0 grams (heh it's sugarfree)
Strawberry jelly - 12 grams per tbsp
Orange juice - 2 grams per 8 fl oz.
Nonfat milk - 11 grams per 1 cup
Lettuce - 0 grams
Chicken breast meat - 0 grams
Tortilla - 1 gram
Mozzarella cheese - 0 grams per 1/4 cup

I just think back to the dentists office about how many grams are in a candy bar. A Snickers candy bar (I haven't had one in awhile actually) has 30 grams of sugar in it.

A cup of sugar is about 200 grams. It doesn't seem like it would take that long to eat a cup of sugar.

Then again some sugar is good for you. But everyone over does it. I'll see if I can cut back the next time I go and buy food.

American Village

Birk and I got together for a day trip to American Village which is pretty close to where I live (Kadena Air Base) and where she lives (Camp Foster). I went there Friday night with the whole snorkeling gang but it was dark and I couldn't see much.








Plus there was a huge ferris wheel I wanted to ride. The whole area is full of shops basically for tourists. I need to learn more about some of the spots I could go visit. I'd like to take some tours too. I talked to Lance Corporal Watson's Air Force roomate and she was telling me about how she just took a tour of the WWII battlefields. There's an awesome looking underground cave I'd like to visit too sometime.







I met Birk at Camp Foster and then we took a taxi to American Village. We walked around and went to a military surplus store. It really wasn't much. Just old military items that were all worn out. There were some cool fight pilot helmets but that was about it.










The ferris wheel is huge. It only cost about 6 bucks a person to ride. It's on top of a small shopping center. Three floors of little shops full of little trinkets, clothes and such. On the outside are small cafes and resturants. The views from the top are awesome.




























Birk is afraid of heights. She was terrified most of the ride. Haha. Silly Birk.

Some of the Little Things I Notice Part 1

Burger King drive thru's are opposite because of the steering wheel. Odd.
















Pictured is Staff Sgt. Woolston ordering lunch after we bought our snorkel gear.

First Time Snorkeling

On Friday after work I went snorkeling for the first time outside my bathtub. When I was younger I had a little mask and snorkel. I'd pretend I was exploring in the ocean. Staff Sgt. Woolston took myself and Lance Corporal Means to go buy the equipment. I bought some "booties", a small boot with felt bottoms to protect your feet from the coral. I also bought fins, a mask, and a snorkel. I already had a swim suit and some long sleeve Underarmor.

We all met up at Staff Sgt. Herrmann's house off base. There was Staff. Sgt. Woolston, his wife, Lance Corporal Means, Lance Corporal Candelaria, Corporal Hunter, and an Air Force maintainer (they make sure our stuff doesn't break) named Nate... Bock, I think. It's tough working with all the Air Force folks because everyone seems to go by their first names.





We went to the seawall that is located right by Staff Sgt. Herrmann's house. Nice house by the way.














By the way, all pictures were taken by Staff Sgt. Woolston.














There were schools of fish like this everywhere.














Here is a lionfish. It's poisonous. If it stabs you you'll get headaches, throw up and cause you a lot of pain. Staff Sgt. Woolston got a little too close we all thought. Well, he got a good picture, good on him.















A starfish Staff Sgt. Woolston found.














There was a lot of coral out there and this is just a taste of what I saw.














Once again, big thanks goes out to Staff. Sgt. Woolston for showing me what I needed to snorkel and for taking all of these great pictures.

My first day of work

The day finally came. The day of my first day of work. It wasn't really so much work as it was meeting and talking to new people and figuring out the building I'll be in for the next 2 years. Like I've said before. I'll be working with Lance Corporal Malta in television production making short commercials for the 8 Armed Forces Network channels. I have to go to work in a few minutes because we PTed this morning (I guess I'm the best runner out of the Marines... imagine if I could lose some weight and gain some muscle) so I'll just post a few pictures and edit this entry later. Here's a few pictures.
The AFN building, which is located on Camp Foster. Camp Foster is 15 minutes away from Kadena Air Base. Here are some of the Marines I'll be working with climbing the stairs to the front door.









The entrance to the AFN building.














Here is the room that is used for the radio shows we do. Sitting at the controls is Lance Corporal Amber G. Watson who hosts a show from 2-6pm. She is going to be moving to another show soon to make way for Corporal Todd Hunter (who all the Airmen seem to love) who just returned from leave.
Watson said the controls look complicated but you learn fast. Watson is under a lot of pressure though. A lot of people listen to her broadcasts and they hear every mistake she makes. Sometimes they'll even call in and complain. "I see it as constructive critism," said Watson. They'll say anything from she's not personable enough to it sounds as if she's just reading when she talks. She takes it all in and tries to make herself better. As a side note, I think she's very personable. She's really nice and easy to talk to. I didn't know her like I kinda knew some of the other Marines who left DINFOS a few weeks after I got there.

Lance Corporal Castillo at her work desk.











Lance Corporal "KC" Knapikchistensen whose desk is right across from Castillo's desk.














Air Force Staff Sgt. Joe M. Woolston. He is the news head and collects Matchbox-type cars and some action figures.














Staff Sgt. Woolston looking at a news story Lance Corporal "Candle" Candelaria was working on.














Just recently returned from leave, Corporal Todd Hunter. Corporal Hunter recently was on a tour to Afghanistan. He worked on the radio station there with one other Marine and a group of airmen. He hosts a radio show but the times he's on has been changing. I like it when he cohosts with Air Force Staff Sergeant "Rach H" Rachel Herrmann who currently hosts the morning show.












Malta working in his office where we create all of the "billboards" - free advertisements we do for businesses and events which basically consist of text, a moving background and a voice over.














Lance Corporal Means has been working in the news department trying to learn how to create the stories for television and how to edit them in a program she's not used to. She's chatting with Lance Corporal Malta on some down time.













Here is Lance Corporal Malta working in the "Bat Cave" where we control all of the programing for the 8 channels on AFN. I've picked up how to do this quick. Basically, I put the commercials we make in place of the commercials that are put in already. I have to go through the hours of 4pm to midnight and then 5am to the end of the list. We only do one day at a time.