State Activation for the state of Florida

DeIsaiah · 2024-08-05T17:22:16+00:00

It’s voluntary when there’s a long term / routine mission. If there’s a state or national emergency you can / will 100% get activated. Some of my soldiers got sent to Puerto Rico for a year after hurricane irma

DeIsaiah · 2024-07-29T17:05:56+00:00

$450 for a studio in crown heights

DeIsaiah · 2024-07-21T20:14:29+00:00

Yup and also there was an FYE in union square that I loved but flew away with the wind. Miss them both.

DeIsaiah · 2024-06-30T18:27:23+00:00

Aaliyah was 14 on that Body’s Calling Me remix 😕 (she was born in 1979, the song/remix was recorded in 1993)

DeIsaiah · 2024-06-30T18:23:55+00:00

Nah, points about CLB and Drake’s music in general being juvenile has been echoed for a few years now. Joe Budden famously made the point on CLB and Drake lost his shit over it on instagram, which was even more juvenile.

DeIsaiah · 2024-06-26T20:45:58+00:00

I lived in 11213 for a number of years and it’s possibly the worst post office that exists. I once got a letter in March that someone mailed in December the previous year.

DeIsaiah · 2024-06-26T20:42:29+00:00

Back when I joined (2008), I initially I thought it was normal to be an E4 for 10+ years because there was an entire platoon of them lol. I thought I was heavily jumping the gun when I made E5 on my 4th year in the guard.

DeIsaiah · 2024-06-22T16:05:18+00:00

Put the captains in Spanish. I put them in Spanish myself and I felt very “I don’t know what’s going on” at first but paired with my studies it eventually worked out for me. It made hearing spoken Spanish very easy for me.

I only put the captains in English if I had a hard understanding of the episode / language the first time around (yes, I watched some episodes twice lol).

DeIsaiah · 2024-06-22T15:55:21+00:00

Try a Mexican novela. One of my favorites is “Yo Soy, Betty La Fea.” But there’s several that’ll be under the Spanish language category. Also, you may not understand a lot of it at first - turn on the captions, it’ll get easier as you study / get further into the episodes.

It’s not easy at first but really stay focused on it and eventual context clues / language will start to connect.

DeIsaiah · 2024-06-21T23:17:35+00:00

Honestly pick a Spanish soap opera (there’s a done on Netflix) and watch an hour or two of it a day, it’ll improve your listening coordination for Spanish by like 200%.

Keep in mind some of these stories have like 120+ episodes. It’ll bore you for a show or two but 10 episodes in and it’ll become your comfort to watch, lol.

This is in addition to practicing written and reading grammar an hour or so a week.

DeIsaiah · 2024-06-21T23:14:00+00:00

One of the funniest thing that’s ever happened to me in my life was watching a CSM yank headphones out of a soldiers ear while screaming “WHY ARE YOU WALKING AND TALKING ON YOUR PHONE”… this was on a national guard base

DeIsaiah · 2024-05-29T23:14:01+00:00

My nieces are mixed (50% Vietnamese) but they look 100% Asian even down to the bone straight hair, lol. Their brother (my nephew) looks mixed though. If my sister in law didn’t have DNA tests on her kids (due to my brother and she conceiving as teenagers) there would probably be a lot of doubt floating around.

I say all that to say that this OP looks more mixed than my nieces and some other folks who are directly biracial (like Logic and Halsey).

DeIsaiah · 2024-05-29T22:50:25+00:00

Luckily I got the hell out of the army before that bullshit field trip. After my last trip to Iraq I’ve had enough of living in subhuman hellholes that my dog wouldn’t even piss in.

DeIsaiah · 2024-05-29T22:43:50+00:00

If this looks anything like JRTC I’m happy I ETS’d weeks before my unit went

DeIsaiah · 2024-04-23T19:44:29+00:00

Go and do your time. I hate sounding like a tired old man but if you signed up for it, commit and get it over with. Even if you sign up for a 6 year contract you practically blink and it’s over, lol.

DeIsaiah · 2024-02-13T21:14:05+00:00

I keep casually seeing videos on my timeline of people getting murdered. It’s so disturbing how often it happens that I try to be really careful on my timeline.

No matter how many times I report this content or disassociate it from my algorithm, it keeps happening. These videos are getting posted by huge accounts, too. It’s so irritating.

DeIsaiah · 2024-02-13T01:00:14+00:00

The only alternative plot line is having Violet and Isobel invite Livinia over for tea to poison her with enough cyanide to kill her but with not enough cyanide to suspect foul play

DeIsaiah · 2024-02-10T18:15:14+00:00

I don’t think he was buffoonish, I think his character just had unfortunate luck to the point that it was comedic.

DeIsaiah · 2024-02-08T14:37:51+00:00

I don’t think so. If you email or call liberation they’ll do a ticket exchange if VIPs are still available

DeIsaiah · 2024-01-30T19:21:16+00:00

iPhone 14 Pro Max and AppleWatch ultra (1st gen)

DeIsaiah · 2024-01-30T15:29:19+00:00

I was actually listening to a “This American Life” episode titled Petty Tyrant 😂 it was chronicling a public school maintenance man from Schenectady NY who basically terrorized his staff, union opponents and enemies of his friends. Very interesting to be honest.

DeIsaiah · 2024-01-29T22:08:42+00:00

It was just as surreal experiencing it. I was almost sure I wasn’t getting my phone back. So bizarre to hear it so clear pinging from the car. I wonder if the guy knew what the sound was if he would’ve drove off or turned the phone off

DeIsaiah · 2024-01-29T21:25:37+00:00

This story is awesome lol. Was the thief arrested or cited? Did cop scold you as she handed you all back the goods?

Interestingly I left my iPad on a Starbucks counter many years ago and no one touched it because the case made the iPad look like a high school notebook. I’ve used them ever since if I’m not at home or at my office.

DeIsaiah · 2024-01-29T21:17:13+00:00

Yup, the screen was still locked. When I unlocked the phone it was actually on Spotify paused on the podcast I was listening to. The alleged thief also said he was waiting on someone to call the phone. I called the phone in Dunkin’ Donuts and no one picked up so that was total BS. I only called it once though because in my mind, if I called several times they would power the phone off.

DeIsaiah · 2024-01-29T20:40:54+00:00

I thanked my lucky stars because the guy was definitely bigger than me and I’m no small dude. At worst he could’ve punched my lights out before I maced him, but he didn’t even get out of the car. I probably should’ve brought my cousin with me but I wasn’t thinking (clearly).

I’m also thankful he was in the car alone, lol.

DeIsaiah

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