As human beings we change to adapt to different situations. New styles, new friends, new places, new attitudes. Sometimes we are put in situations where we are forced to change and adapt quickly, and this brings on radical transformations within our persona. Why do we do it? Because as much as we are forced to change, it is something we desire, something we crave as human beings. Change comes about and it's exciting, something to break the usual monotony and introduce us to something new, something that maybe years ago we would never had thought we could be capable of and yet we no longer have the fear to go through with it, because even if the risks are high, the rewards are much better. Mondays will no longer feel the way they used to, neither will we, and that's what we live for. Nearly two years ago, if you told me I would have been living in Washington, working in the military on weapons systems and that I would possess the knowledge to cause so much destruction, that I would have a tattoo spanning my chest, back, and the majority of my arm and shoulder, that I finally got out of a relationship for good that was destroying my self esteem and my outlook on life, that I would have my septum pierced, and that I am an avid kayaker, had you of told me that today I would be jumping out of a plane at 13,000+  feet in the morning and then heading to Seattle for a party.....I would not have believed you.

So yea, been real busy lately, many sleepless nights aboard the USS Maine (SSBN 741). I leave soon and I would like to bid farewell to those of you who mean alot to me, you know who you are....most of you. Anyway, please leave me your email addresses via email (venomuh@gmail.com) or via Message on my Myspace Account so that I can email the brains out of you all while I am somewhere in the middle of the ocean......several hundred feet under it that is. On a side note, I read something somewhere that made me want to read the book Cyrano de Bergerac again, it's a light read and I've always liked the story. Also, he is one of my favortie characters for two reasons:

                          1) Many times have I played the role of Cyrano in real life, and many times does it seem like a tragic end to a story that could have been but was not, I ignored it however thinking it wasn't meant to be. Looking back on it now I understand how much of a loser I was. Just something I need to work on.

                        and 2) We both have big noses.


Anyway, I'll probably post more on here before I leave but hopefully I will be e-mailing many of you while I am away. I'll be back in the summer sometime though, and I hear Washington is a beautiful place in the summer so I'm very excited about that. Thanks again to those that matter and to those whom I matter to.

-Ricardo