Sephi Hakubi

Welp, I finally got the chance to implement a new sephihakubi.com website.  In case y’all been wondering why I haven’t updated my last site in months and why I am using CMS on this site, here’s my explanation.  After my move to San Antonio, my OS X decided to crash for no reason.  I got what I call the “rotating asshole of death”, it’s when you start your Mac and will never boot past the Apple boot screen.  I’ve had this problem before when I ended up having to rebuild my website from scratch because it’s impossible to reimport iWeb websites, so before wiping and reloading, I booted to my Windows partition to back up my website.  However even after reimaging my Mac, I got some garbage message saying that iWeb could not read domain.sites2 or whatever garbage so I said FsCK it and gave up.  I thought about doing what I did with Sushicrowd and installing a CMS but could not find a good theme and had a lot of time overhead getting this done.  I decided to make some lifestyle sacrifices over the weekend and finally got this off the ground.

So yes, I’m in San Antonio, stationed at Lackland AFB and I’ve got to say it’s been spectacular working at my new squadron versus where I was at beforehand.

EDIT: Content removed.  People B MAD.  Will tell all in autobio.

There was a wise saying that came up when I was seeking therapeutic advice about the worst 3 years of my life, “It’s better that you have not won a medal that you rightfully earned, than to have smoked pole to get one”.  The only other takeaway is that I probably developed some kind of saiyan regenerative properties as I developed a whole lot of endurance coming into Lackland.  Still wish I haven’t gone through it as I probably would have a more wholier (as in fulfilling) soul but glad that I’ve become a lot stronger and wiser, I dare say stronger than the people I used to work for.  I probably should not have posted this here as I’m very sure they very folks I’m talking about will find a way to hack my blog, twist my words, and use it against me and it probably isn’t too appropriate to talk about something like this on the anniversary of 9/11 but this suffering and injustice has been eating my soul after the fact and I only feel that being upfront and honest about what happened at a global audience will set my soul free and able to heal.

Lackland AFB is a unique spot even though I’ve been here before; then again, I was confined to the Basic Training Annex at the time.  As much as I can say, my job here is a complete turn around from the previous deadly situation.  I’m receiving a lot of training, technical, and managerial opportunities and my leadership is very willing to go to bat for me and everyone else rather than use us for their own gain.  I forgot what it’s like to respect the hell out of my boss but awesome that I feel like I can confide in my leadership.  Regardless, the job is challenging and can wear me out still but I’m glad to know that anything I do affects the mission and that my squadron appreciates my work.  I’ve been put up for Sr. Tech of the Quarter my first quarter I was there so let’s see how this goes once the time comes, but I am very thankful to be assigned with my fellow cyber warriors.

Besides the Air Force, I’ve been keeping myself busy finishing the uploads to all of my Kawaii Kon 2011 videos and been going to school at Trident University International online.  I wish that I’ve finished my degree already but still got to hang in there for 10 more classes.  On top of school, I worked on my Security+ certification and passed, now currently working on Certified Ethical Hacker and need to find time to complete Network+ and Adobe Premiere CS5 training so yes I’m getting beat with academics.  Also, I attended my first anime convention in San Antonio, San Japan 4TW.  San Japan happened to be the biggest convention I have attended in my past 23 or so conventions.  6,891 people, that’s more than Kawaii Kon’s 5,203.  It was also the hardest con I’ve worked at as I did not have Rin to help me, got hungry and the shakes a lot, and batteries kept running out.  Despite all that, it was a really fun convention and the staff has been the most helpful, the best staff of a con where I have not been invited as a guest.  I just uploaded my 10th video today on Sushicrowd and I’ve got a lot more to go.  Adding more to the list music wise, I have been taking singing lessons at Alamo Music with JC Edwards.  Definitely a great instructor and interesting how I’m made to think abstract at times to sing but it’s working out pretty good.  At San Japan I got invited to DJ at a charity anime event called Cosplay Cares Coalition Helps The Walk For Women.  I’m working on my setlist this week for that as well as my Sukoshi Con Mobile show and my Fandom Con show.  I got my pool of music but the challenge is selecting what I should play for the hour I’m allowed as CCC and Fandom are tentatively only giving me an hour.  Finally, I’m working on getting staff support for Sushicrowd.  Most of the time since I came up with the group, I have been doing all the work and have been the star of the show, which was a goal that was made only for myself and NOT through Sushicrowd.  My goal with Sushicrowd was to provide support and give other artists opportunities.  There are folks that have come and successfully done that, and then there were some that I had to “wish best of luck on their future endeavors”.  So far I’ve got a good group going along and I am looking forward to working with more, but understand, we aren’t taking slackers.  Well now I have to tend to dry-cleaning my blues and work on my setlist for CCC.

One more thing I have to talk about before I close is today is the 10th anniversary of 9/11.  10 years ago today, I was just coming out of sophomore year World History Class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, I think it ended at 9:05 or something like that.  Just as I was walking to Spanish, I’ve been hearing a lot of chaotic talk from other students saying that Washington DC was getting bombed and other stuff but I dismissed it as kids trolling as the general talk was kids bombing the school.  I got to Spanish and a different group of kids were talking just as chaotic and I asked what was going on.  All I remembered after that was plane crash, twin towers, and pentagon.  My mind blown, I still somehow put that together.  All day I watched the news and saw how the world changed, how it wasn’t going to be the same again.  It seemed that I’ve thought about that day every day as long as I lived.  It’s probably why I’m in the Air Force now.  Honestly I don’t know why I joined, but I do know that part of it was that I wanted to join my brothers and sisters in the battle in war, and the protection of peace.  We lost a lot of innocent lives during the tragedy 10 years ago, we lost a lot of brave souls protecting the freedoms of citizens, but we are still proud to be American and I honor the hell out of those who made the ultimate sacrifice to do so, some of them I knew personally.

May tomorrow be a brighter one, may the next day be even brighter, but let us not forget the past as those that forget are doomed to repeat it.  May almighty God Bless his children, the United States of America, and the world, in Jesus’s name, Amen!