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I haven't been on for a long time. I managed to pass the EOD course. The final exam was a beast, I got four cases of unexploded ordnance, and managed to clear three of them without a hitch, which is enough to get me through. I even managed to clear a nasty IED Now I've taken my place as a EOD team leader, with my team still in training So basically all I do now is gym and errands for my superiors. Been spending a lot of time behind the wheel of a Defender for sure Now that I'm basically expendable for a while, I get to spend my plentiful stock of holidays I think I'm finally close to getting rid of my braces.
We got this specialization patch on our uniforms from the course.
I have been steadily spending money to upgrade my photo kit. I bought the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX lens. I like it for portraiture and because of the speed. I also bought a remote trigger to get those steady long exposures, a battery grip for my D7000 to make it more stable and increase performance (plus the thing looks like a beast now ), a full glass Hoya ND400 filter and one of those tripods with bendy legs for close-up. Last but not least my Cokin filter kit with various ND, ND grad, polarizer and UV filters is being shipped to me as I write. I'm still looking for a ringflash, some reflectors and most likely I'll be picking up the Photoshop Elements 12 sometime.That gets us to another thing. My laptop's hard drive got fried last weekend and it can't even boot. And you'll probably guess that I haven't had time to do backups of my files... So I lost all the photos on that drive. Well, wasn't that much of a loss as I haven't had time to shoot much because of the army. Still lost the photos of last summer drifting events and such :/ Well I'm glad I have something on our home desktop which I'm on right now. Today I took the poor thing to the store for diagnostics and repairs. Warranty will hopefully still be in place to cover it
I'm skipping the site manager studies I planned for; I'm going to be a photographer I applied for a few nice places around the country. Let's hope I make it in As a backup I applied for a machinery engineer study, which also sounds interesting, so ain't bad for a backup
"The explosive only needs to work once. The technician needs to achieve 100% guaranteed succeess. Every single time."
Ten thousand flat
The pageview ticker has reached 10.000. Thanks a ton. No, ten tons. :D
A lot been going on lately. I'm now living in Jurva on my own. It's a bit secluded but I like it here. School's good to say the least. We're making a newspaper and I'm writing two articles.
I've really been getting into PC gaming lately, I've bought CS:GO, Skyrim, and Mirror's edge off Steam for basically nickles. Still kinda crap with the keyboard. GO is a great team based game to run with friends and Skyrim is addictive when alone. Mirror's edge is just something I've been wanting to play for a while, and it hasn't disappointed. I'm amazed how well my laptop runs these
Rock you like a hurricane
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I don't even know where to start.
Well, have to try something. Long long time since the last post. I managed to finish my service period in the army, unsurprisingly I miss the whole thing every now and then.
I've been kicking back the whole summer now, doing some cool sh*t like cottage weekends with friends, photographing, drifting events, swimming, stuff to make this the one summer to remember, living the life... Hell, I even spent a week in Austria, what's not to like? :D I'm at a turnpoint here. This'll probably be the last summer I get to run around like this before my retirement days.
That's right, I'm moving off to live on my
2014, 8000, 169
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New year's was good! I had some fireworks of my own, a ton to eat and I even got to spend the holiday home.
I also actually got to open my christmas presents, which I couldn't have opened before because I had to stay in the army over Christmas. It was actually pretty cool to be there, football and gym all day long 8-) the van I had in my use for the week had a broken battery charger so I had to jumpstart it all the time which was a pain.
Some of you have made the mistake of clicking on my page over 8000 times, which makes me happy :aww: :D
I've started using Spotify premium, and I just wanna say it's great if you have the money, bu
Completionist
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NCO course is over. Today, we had our promotional festivities and became corporals.
As I got back to the unit, I soon received word that I was one of the possible entrants to the renowned EOD-1 course. The thing in EOD-1 is that if you manage to blow something up, you've probably botched it, as the disposal techniques on that level aim for making the ordnance unable to function as it should. Hours later I received word that I was actually selected. I'm so happy right now, as only a very select few in the whole country get to study this level of ordnance disposal. Some of my leaders are already tipping me off about getting promoted to
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Äääh, toi koneen hajoaminen ja kuvien katoaminen on just se asia mitä kauhulla odotan joskus mullekkin tapahtuva D:
(liikaa tärkeitä kuvia tallennettuna koneelle, onneks osa on sentään pistetty talteen myös erilliselle kiintolevylle)
Mihin hait opiskeleen valokuvausta? : )
(liikaa tärkeitä kuvia tallennettuna koneelle, onneks osa on sentään pistetty talteen myös erilliselle kiintolevylle)
Mihin hait opiskeleen valokuvausta? : )