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Cas

Agile as a cinder block, and the IQ of a shoelace... heeeeeere's Cas!!!

About Me

Hi! I'm Mike. Some call me "Cas", "Big Cas", "Mikey", or if you're a Marine, you can call me "Hannibal".
It doesn't take much to be friends with me, as long as you're honest and you don't hide the real you. I like people who don't hold back how they feel.
I'm you're typical jack-of-all-trades I guess. I'm into cars, planes, and music. I've kinda gotten into songwriting alot over the last year and a half, I play piano, bass guitar, and trumpet, I work on military planes every day, and as far as cars go, I do all of my own repair work, no matter how in-depth. The Navy really taught me that the more difficult something is, the more you'll learn from it.
I started this myspace cause people bugged me enough to start one as a 2006 New Year's resolution, even though I didn't want to. I'm glad I did though. It's been great for keeping in touch with my military friends as we travel to different corners of the planet, and my friends back home while I'm away from them. I don't check it nearly as much as I should, but I've been able to come on more often now with my job change in the Navy. Bug me enough, and maybe I'll update it more.
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Should I leave the Navy in 2009 or extend to 2010?

Read my blog titled "Navy College... a curse and a blessing:" for more info on this poll.
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My Interests

Anything reguarding Aviation, Sports Cars, Paintball, Skiing, Soccer, or Baseball.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can magically make me good at something other than fixing electronic equipment... like play bass guitar well, or be good at welding, that sorta thing.

THIS GUY IS A FLAT OUT GENIUS!!!

I laughed my, um, buns off when I saw this. This is hilarious!

Music:

Everything, except country. I can only take about 10 minutes of country before going nuts. My all time favorite is Jazz/Swing/Big Band, with Alternative Rock in a very close second place, and Techno in third.So basically, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Filter, Army of Anyone, 311, Chimaira, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, Paul Van Dyk, Moby, Flyleaf, Dave Matthews Band, Godsmack...

Movies:

Top Gun is the all time greatest movie (and the most quoted one too). But I also like Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy, Tears of the Sun, Boondock Saints, Anchorman, and the usual other guy movies, etc.

Television:

That 70's Show, House M.D., Mythbusters, Arrested Development, Man vs. Wild, and Dirty Jobs... but I miss shows like Junkyard Wars and Battlebots. You can't beat a bunch of metal being torn to shreads, with no one getting hurt in the process.

Books:

Well, I'm back on tech pubs duty at work, so I guess tech manuals. I was reading "The Things They Carry," but it got too detailed with the "injuries"... not my style.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, My Dad, Howard Hughes, whoever invented air conditioning, and whoever can get cold fusion to work effectively.

My Blog

Two birds... one stone

My mind on paper... or pixels rather: We've got the economy issues, and the energy issues.  We're putting money into one, but not the other. Why isn't anyone thinking of doing both at once? ...
Posted by Cas on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:04:00 PST

Why doesnt anyone trust me?

Did I stab someone in the back recently and completely forget about it? All of a sudden, no one seems to trust me anymore.  What the hell did I do wrong?  Is there someone I stole something ...
Posted by Cas on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:32:00 PST

A revelation...

It's completely impossible for me to meet single women without help from friends. On an upside... I'm loved by mothers everywhere.
Posted by Cas on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:22:00 PST

9 minute PRT!!!

I'm not sure how... but I mananged to pull a 1.5 mile run in 9 minutes and 51 seconds, beating my old record of 9:55 back in July just before screwing up my leg, hip, liver, neck, and back. Most of th...
Posted by Cas on Thu, 15 May 2008 09:56:00 PST

My mind is so weird

Pointless blog number 12,563 So back when I went to school in Jacksonville for a month back in 2005, I randomly woke up at 2AM and suddenly came up with about 6 different aircraft designs, one of whic...
Posted by Cas on Tue, 13 May 2008 08:57:00 PST

Just one more...

YAY!!! Thanks to the school I'm in Florida for right now, plus my passing of the math competency test, I only need one more class for my Associates Degree in Electronics Technology: I simply need an E...
Posted by Cas on Wed, 07 May 2008 09:52:00 PST

Career decisions/The flood

Two blogs in one this time around: First thing is I've decided to be open to extention, thus I'll be requesting solder-tech school, and then extend my service time as long as they need up to 1 year. T...
Posted by Cas on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:05:00 PST

This is funny!

Everyone comes to me for PC advice, but I've never had a question this comedic before.  Someone really did ask this on a help forum: Gene: My computer is toast and I'm getting a new one...
Posted by Cas on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:18:00 PST

Navy College... a curse and a blessing:

Hey everyone!  The Navy just got a little less retarted, and decided to get rid of that stupid new rule where you can't apply for any Tuition Assistance if you're less than one year from getting ...
Posted by Cas on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:35:00 PST

April 28, 2010...

Nothing set in stone yet, but expect this to be my new date that I'll probabbly get out of the Navy.  It seems inevitable that I'll be LPO in about a year (which sucks), and solder-tech school se...
Posted by Cas on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:35:00 PST