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Introduction.

Howdy folks. I am Robin. I am crazy. That's a given. For all that find my website on thier own and like it congrats. For those of you that know me. Enjoy the site. I will be posting more stuff with the other page if I can, but I may have to start another website just to keep this one in continuity with the other. Anywho have fun and take care.

And before I forget I am a writer, artist, musician. I am multitalented and I can do alot. I do write alot of violent post apocalyptic/scifi so deal with it. Thank God for Paul Verhoeven and his ability for mindless Hollywood violence.

PEACEOUT!!!


Trash, Garbage and Refuse Month 12.

 
Trash, Garbage and Refuse: Part Something

12/14/07

    Hello the name is Dirk Richards. I am a garbage man. I have always been one since Nineteen Seventy-Six and now it's Two Thousand Seven. Those early years were the good old days when. Been living in Waco since I moved from Dallas in 1983. And yes, I am still a garbage man here been driving my trash collector since before it started. Now I know I am narrating to no one important but I still gotta find something to do in my downtime. You know, while I ain't taking out the trash.

    Of course you’re probably asking, "Well why is he talking about cleaning up garbage?" I'll tell you. I use live people to lure the undead into the back of my trash truck the, "El Clunker." By no means do those people die to kill a measly Thirty shitbags a truck load. See I put an escape hatch on the top of my truck so that they can get out quickly. Now I bet your probably wondering, "How do you lure them into the truck?" As I said I use live people. I drive around with the back of the truck open with a man inside the garbage hold on a bullhorn making all sorts of noise to get them to climb in the back after a fresh meal. Usually the noise the truck makes itself is more than enough to draw a few hundred of the fuckers. Normally with that many surrounding my truck I would be fucked but since I have about Five others in riot gear with shotguns on or walking along side of the El Clunker. It makes it a bit easier to get the fuck out of dodge when we have a full load. Every once in a while one of my guards gets bit and we all know that one bite or scratch is more than enough to be a death sentence. And in that case we leave him in the garbage hold either tied up or laying there. Usually the smell of the blood is enough to draw those shitbags out and into the truck.

    After we load up we kill a few of them, clamp the door down on the dumb bastards, and take them to pit. Which is a 30 foot deep by 60 feet wide, dug out pit that has concrete walls so that those bastards can't climb and claw their way out after we dump them in there. When we arrive there are anywhere between thirty to forty guards that kill any of the shit bags that are following me and my boys. Occasionally we get a female to accompany us but that is rare because there are less of them than us guys. After clean up is complete I back the truck up to the pit and dump the fuckers down into the pit. The sounds of them hitting them bottom of the pit will always be with me because it sticks just like the stench of corpses. I can never get used to the sound of breaking bones. That's why I use ear plugs. Sometimes they don't always work. Those shit bags like to moan and scream whenever they are near live people like me. So back to the pit. After the first load we usually get about Ten more truckloads before sun down. After I dump that tenth load, my part in taking out the garbage is done.

    Then it is up to the purifiers. Those guys are pyros but then again they have to be especially for the job that they do in our little survivor community that is East Waco. Their job is to go out scavenging for non-fuel flammable materials that are capable of dousing and igniting targets. We have a huge surplus of fuel but aren't about to use it on something that can be solved with bullets and bladed objects. The purifiers usually use various chemicals mixed with additives so that it stick to them just as good as napalm. After all of the people in the pit are drenched in flammables. They light them and it's WHOOSH! Those shitbags go up quicker than the Hindenburg in hell. The only problems with burning them is that if you don't have a hazmat suit then you can get really sick off of the fumes and smoke. And that is almost as severe as getting bit because it is almost pure disease going into your lungs. It's worse than smoking if you ask me because I will take a slow painful death over a quick immolated one any day. Since we live at the Lipsitz compound and the pit and disposal sites are five miles away in Bellmead. We don't have to worry about the fumes too much unless the wind is blowing our way then it's time to pull out the masks but that doesn't really happen too much.

    Who knew that telling your life story to no one could be soothing? I don't feel nearly as tight wound...well never mind I have to tell those damned kids to pipe down. I'll see you guys later for now. So take care and have fun.

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Trash, Garbage and Refuse: A Brisk Walk

12/19/07

    So I am back my faithful audience. The past two days have been fairly boring. Yeah today is Friday and it's creeping up on Christmas. If things weren't the way they are right now then I would be out searching for gifts for my wife and son. They're dead and I'm here and I don't really know how to freaking feel about it. Then again I really can't afford to be blubbering like some California faggot because if I were, I'd be dead. And I prefer living to not living. Hell damnit it wasn't even my fault for what happened on Tuesday. It was their own god dammed stupidity that got them killed.

    Ok so let me be honest things aren't going well and I have been taken off trash collection because of the report Sgt.C. gave to Boss Eastland. So I have been restricted to sitting here in my Hoover Hotel and waiting for something to happen...anything would be great. I worked out and even gave myself a haircut with my switchblade. I am being investigated for supposed reckless actions in a situation of danger. This means a whole bunch of nothing. It is just an excuse to keep me off of the streets with El Clunker. Damn fairies can't handle the fact that they need me out there cleaning the streets up. I have had the best record for dumps at the pit and men lost and I am getting scape-goated for two deaths that were those own idiots faults.

    Alright I need to calm down because writing ain't gonna solve anything. I need to go for a walk. I need to leave the compound for a while before I do something I will regret. I think I will go across the river and maybe do some scavenging or maybe even some looting if anyone has any objections to me taking things that are free reign. I got six or so hours of sun. That's more than enough time to do something besides gabbing like an old hen. I will see you folks later.

12/20/07

    I know I went out yesterday but I haven't really had time to talk to you people since yesterday. I left the compound and went across the bridge and up Austin Avenue. I passed up some store front that we had looted to get furniture when we set up the Lipsitz compound.

    I checked out some smaller antique shops for anything of use but I didn't anything worth shit. I crossed over to Franklin, then to North 23rd and Waco Dr. I found a pawn shop the gates were still down and there was some fire damage to the outside of it. A few corpses were laying around the parking lot some in cars other not but none of them shitbags in sight. So I made a quick around of the building and found a back door that happened to be blown off its hinges. I drew my pistol and flashlight and went in cop style. Upon entering two of those shitbags were just shuffling around the place like they owned. And I and my .45 took them down clean with two loud shots. I went into the main part of the store and I was hit by the rankest odor that I have ever smelled. There must've been like twenty of the shitbags in there. So I turned tail and ran back outside. The sound of my gun must've attracted a dozen or so from the surrounding neighbor hoods. I know the golden rule to encountering shit bags and it is if you see one that means that there is Four THAT YOU ARE NOT SEEING. And seeing is how there was a dozen of them that means that were easily Forty eight that I wasn't seeing excluding the ones that were in the store.

    I got the fuck out of dodge and in doing so I must've wasted like four clips. Not all my shots were head shots either. Most of them were glancing hits. I got several blocks away before I realized that I had no idea where the fuck I was going. The street sign that I was near was in the fucked condition. By my guess it must've been buck shot that made it unreadable.

    So I went up a few more blocks and realized that I was on Morrow and 19th. I crossed over to Colcord and found a nice open are to take a breather at the now burnt down St.Catherine's. I could see a few shitbags shambling in the distance but they were out of range. So I didn't bother dispatching them as it would be a waste of precious ammo. I ate lunch, drank a half of liter of bottled water and checked my bullet supply.

    I managed to burn twenty-eight rounds. This in turn leaves me with fourteen. That means I have thirteen rounds that I can fire at them shitbags and one for myself should things get too bad. I am Catholic god damnit! I will not commit suicide! I rather die from thirst or starvation than be eaten by those fuckers. I don't even know why I am talking about suicide because I still have a means to run.

    For the rest of yesterday, I spent a majority of my day taking back alleys and side streets all the way back to the compound. And by the time I made it to the gates I had two bullets left in my .45. I am glad I made it back before sundown. Now I am here a day later and I am more than happy I have nothing to do rather than being dead. My feet and back hurt and I am old go figure. Well there folks it's time I get some shut eye so it's lights out for me.

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Trash, Garbage and Refuse: Boredom's End

12/23/07

    Well folks I am back for you, the audience, to look into my life. The past few days have been shitty and I am hoping that if things go as planned I will be leaving this fucking junk town for an actual military base. Let me explain. Since I got put on forced leave, I haven't been able to collect the garbage which means I don't get money and that means that I can't support myself. Boss Easland has had it out for me ever since his brother bit the dust. So not only am I not getting paid but I have gotten death threats. I don't like being threatened; last man to threaten me was last year. I pulled some strings and he woke up tied to the hood of a car for a Thanksgiving meal for some lucky shitbags that wound up getting burned in the pit. So the lesson here is don't threaten me and expect to wake up in your bed the next morning.

    So back to my explanation of the wanting to leave: I have a better chance of survival. I used to be a marine. Semper Fidelis! I was gung ho. Anyways I got a dishonorable discharge for getting caught with a little weed. Everyone smoked the grass during the Seventies. I stopped right before my son Daniel was born. That was Nineteen Eighty-One. God rest his soul...in fact he is lucky to be one of the dead that didn't return. He was killed in the bombing raids the government did on all cities with populations greater than a hundred thousand. It was completely useless as it killed more people hiding in buildings and houses than it killed shitbags.

    Back on topic now, on Tuesday a battle group of Marines in their hummers came blazing into town on I-35 from Dallas I guess. There was about twenty of them each in full BDU carrying the latest in hot shit M-4's with that fancy fucking grenade launcher on the bottom. They found our little compound and knocked aside our carefully placed barricades with their high falutin' Humvee's. We all scrambled to the gates with our hunting rifles, pistols and shotguns to see what the fuck was going on out in front. They stopped their vehicles still running and their NCO came walking up to the gate. Our boys just stared at them in awe. It was as if they were seeing angles. Boss Eastland came out of his fancy fucking mansion and told him to let the stranger inside the compound. They both talked for a few minutes then Boss Eastland went back to his shack.

    Obviously their little conversation made the Boss unhappy. The Sergeant went back to his troops. He ordered his men to kill the engines and get inside the compound. The Sergeant took his helmet off and pulled out a bullhorn. He said and I quote, "Hello I am Master Sergeant Gankin, we are the 72nd Brigade out of Hillsboro. And we are in need of your services and abilities. This is call to duty for you to serve our great country and defend her from the threat of being taken over by enemies both foreign and domestic." Ok now let me translate what he just said, "Hi I am major hardass and our platoon doesn't have the man power to fight the shitbags so now we are desperately looking to draft you nicely or kill you if you say no." Is that starting to make sense? I hope so because that is a reality right when that bastard turn the bull horn off. So being that our community is roughly three hundred miserable souls who are looking to have a better life. I'd say about fifty right off of the bat stepped forward with little hesitation. When that happened I put my hand on my forehead and shook my head in disbelief. Those stupid fuckers don't realize that they are signing their own death warrant.

    I knew that even though that Sergeant had the face of a brick wall and he wasn't smiling. He on the inside was giddy like a fag who found a bag of dicks. The marine were at our little fortress for about two more hours. They took with them twenty of the fifty. And they said they would be back for the rest who had volunteered. So I go back to my Hoover Hotel and start packing my shit. I know that I may be fucked if I go with them but I am fucked if I stay here. I can guarantee you that the Boss is planning to have a tragic accident with me involved on the receiving end. So staying here is not a wise health decision if you know what I mean.

    That brings you all up to date and its tomorrow right now and I am waiting here in my house with my back pack and my .45 automatic with two bullets left in it still from the other day. I haven't really had a chance to buy more ammo as I am fucking broke right now. The Boss said that since I got put on forced leave that he could have one of his lackeys break into my house and steal my shit. The joke is on him though because the second I leave they will realize how badly they need me when the shit hits the fan. Even though I am Fifty-Three I am in the best shape of my life and I have more training and experience than any of those other recruits. I bet you when I get there they are gonna confiscate my shit and take my smokes away. I guess that the military though regardless of how gay they are they do know how to take care of their own.

    Well son of a bitch! Those military bastards are here. I guess I will be going for a while but while I am at I think I am gonna pull my truck around to the front because that is the only thing worthwhile that I own besides the clothes on my back. Thanks for letting me share my life with you there audience. I will try to keep ya'll posted on how shitty things are going in my life whenever I can. Actually if I can especially since I bet my shit is gonna get taken up when I get there.


Trash, Garbage and Refuse. Month 1

Trash, Garbage and Refuse: Let Freedom Ring

1/16/08

    Well son of bitch! You folks are still here and as am I. I got through the US Militaries god damned boot camp with flying colors. It wasn't real boot camp in the fact that they streamlined it to an ass load of PT and Training on how to deal with the infected. Who the fuck calls them infected. They are fucking dead and every sense of the word except for the fact the shitbags mostly about trying to put the bite on our asses. They obviously think we're all stupid here in Ol' Hickboro. For the most part I am enjoying my rank as private. I go from having the most important job as a Garbage Man to being at the bottom of the totem pole in the military. Yeah it feels good to rant and rave again. They decided to give my gear back along with some new toys, like an M-16 with the seal of Mattel on the stock and some night vision goggles along with some new boots that are capable of withstanding the impact of a bite from a shitbag. Trust me I don't plan on getting bit anytime soon.

    Yeah I missed Christmas and New Years but I got a brick of bullets for the AR they gave as a Christmas gift. They are gonna start sending us out on patrols on the outskirts of the camp. Speaking of which this isn't really a camp it's a city twith about six-thousand living breathing people in it. One thing I ain't got back, that I wanna drive around for old time sake is my El Clunker. They said that I will receive the training on how to operate vehicles in a combat situation soon enough. Do they not understand that every time that I go out and collect the garbage it's a combat situation. I must have killed thousands of those shitbags and they still keep coming. Got to love the intelligence of the military sometimes though because it's fucking stupid as shit.

    I am sitting here in the barracks right now and I am the oldest person in the room. The fucking ironic thing is that I am in better shape than all these fucking kids. I can out work them any day because I don't give up like a little fucking Sierra Club pansy! I got a chance to spar against Drill Sergeant P. Scooter. I whooped his ass like a sissy girl. I had him on the ground in an instant. Turns out that punching a man in the Adams Apple is more than enough to bring him down. I didn't get sent to the brig and I got treated all special and like for a week. Then because of my godamn attitude I kept getting in trouble turns out they don't like lip. I ain't a sheep godammit!

    So far all I do same thing now as I did in Waco except with more exercise and more food. Occasionally if you’re good then you get to go to a place where they set up as a movie theatre with all the latest movies circa 2005. So I am just dying to see The Ring Two or maybe even Hitch. I fucking hate movies. Nowadays it is always about some jock and a whore he is love with because they slept together once at a party. Or it's the stereotypical big budget balls to walls shoot out with the same fucking jock and a different whore. Or it's a pussy ass teary eyed drama comedy about a family that can't get along and out of nowhere it turns into a comedy with Robert Fucking Deniro as the asshole dad. Whatever happened to the years where westerns and mobster movies ruled the day? What happened to Charles Bronson, Charleton Heston, Clint Eastwood or The Duke? I'll tell you what happened they grew old and died. When they bit the dust the movie industry went to hell  and the faggots turned California into the queer capitol of the world. Now because of that we turned soft and weak. The shitbags came and so many fucking people needlessly died because they were too frail and incapable of defending themselves. I've seen too many people die because of their weaknesses. That is why I have to be an asshole.

    How I got to this point I don't know, that's your guess. I used to be a little bit nicer in the days of old. But you folks need to understand that nice goes out the window real quick when the world decides it's time for it to end. I am an old bitter asshole and that's they way I like it. It keeps me on my toes. When the shit hits the fan I am always doing something before it even registers in anyone else's mind. I am the freaking best of the best and I am better than the godamn rest!

    All this ranting has got me hungry. I think I'm off to the mess hall for some good old grub. I'll talk to you folks later. Probably when something of interest happens. So happy trails to you, till we meet again.

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Trash, Garbage and Refuse: The Longest Day

1/20/08

    Well howdy folks, I'm back and I am glad to be alive for a change. I seem to have this ability to attract unwanted attention whenever comes to saying, "It's boring as hell." See when I last ranted you ya'll, I thought I was sitting high and mighty like I was on top of a mountain looking down at everyone else. I was wrong. On the Sixteenth I went into the mess hall and got me some rehydrated mash potatoes and salisbury steak. I had just sat down enjoy my mell and then I here the unmistakable sound of machine gun fire from some M-16's. I ignored it at first and continued eating for about another thirty seconds. I got lost in the act of eating. Then a much louder sound. The sound of artillery from our artillery emplacements. Shit was hitting the fan. I got up walked casually back over to then tent got my M-16 out, checked my ammo and made sure it was locked and loaded. Left the barracks and met up with a few privates who were running to the north side of the camp. I saw them. Thousand of faces. There must have easily been about forty thousand of those shit bags coming down the interstate at us from Dallas. They were still several miles down the road but at number that great it's always good to thin out the heard if you know what I mean. The entire camp was in arms with in minutes. Several dozen civilians that were either too young or too weak to fight, were loading ammo into clips and carrying various gear to our emplacements scattered along the north of our base in jolly old Hillsboro.

    I wish I had been thinking past the, "Oh joy I get to kill fuckers." That mentality gets people fucked. I along with Five thousand nine hundred and ninety nine others were fucked. Or so I thought, I am here talking to ya'll aren't I? For about the better part of seven and a half hours, I and my platoon fired from our positions into the mob of shitbags. I scored one headshot for each bullet fired. Now grant I am over exaggerating, it really doesn't matter because we were cutting the fuckers to ribbons. Lieutenant Hennings, our O-1, was panicking. I could see it. I have been alive long enough to know that look of desperation. He didn't deserve his rank or the ability to command us. I could tell he was going to get us all killed. And when the first wave of shitbags came within melee range it was bayonet time. I must've killed ten before I realized that he blew his godamn brains out with his piece, an M-1911 browning .45. I pried it from his cold dead hands began to kill the bastards coming at me before they came into grappling range. I took our O-1's bandolier of ammo and reloaded the .45 so that way I had a back up weapon. I saw both of our NCO's go down in a sea of people when they went to go rescue a fallen private. There were six of us and I didn't know their names it didn't matter.

    The rest of the base was in complete bedlam. Entire positions abandoned and the shit bags were overrunning us. I had to do something. So I went over to the communications tent to see what the hell was going. I killed closed to thirty of those shitbags getting there. I reloaded as I got into the tent. An officer confronted me upon entering the tent. He was disheveled and covered with blood and he had his piece in his hands. He raised his gun at me and said, "Survival of the fittest." I blew his fucking brains out the back of his godamn skull. Survival of the fittest my ass. I will be surviving, while he's food for the shitbags. The operators were all shot dead. Some had drawn their weapons only to be killed by a traitor. I threw one of the bodies to the floor and attempted to use the equipment. I tried each channel and frequency on the radio until I got someone. The voice was old and calm. His name was General Turner. I explained the situation and calmly he said we have bombers in bound, they will be there at 0245. I checked my watch that was seventeen minutes.

    I sat there for a moment, and milled over my options. I could run into the mob and get ripped apart like a gut filled piñata, I could blow my brains out or I could go back out into the fray and keep fighting. I choose choice number three. I collected ammo from the fallen CO and slung my M-16 on my shoulder. I had two .45's and fifteen clips with which to have fun. Actually it wasn't really fun but I had a blast. Yeah I know, bad pun but what are you gonna do about it? Nothing because you people aren't actually there. I ran back into my platoon. They were fucking shitbags and I put them down each with one bullet to the head. Then I had an epiphany, if I could get some loud speakers on my garbage truck then I could use loud noise to draw the fuckers away from the base. I ran faster than I had ever run before in my life. I ran passed everyone to the supply house and took a bullhorn. I grabbed a private and dragged him along to the motorcade. Now grant it they had my keys for the truck, I had a spare that I kept hidden in uncomfortable places should a situation like this arise. I got to the motorcade to see it mostly abandoned. El Clunker was still there in the same spot I had left it when they told me to park it. I did a quick tutorial for Private Williams on how to play the luring game. And then it was go time with eight minutes to spare.

    I started my truck up and gave it gas. It smashed throw the garage doors. I ran down a few dozen of those fuckers and the private got on the horn. It was working the noise had those fuckers interested in something new. Not the denizens of the military base but the garbage truck and the noise of damnation attracting them like rats to the tune of fast food. I had become the The Pied Piper of Hamelin leading the rats off to river to go die. Instead of rats they were the undead and there was a river a fire coming for them. I drove through the mob and up I-35 with legions of the shitbags following me. All of them moaning. I could feel my trucks tires getting gummed up with bodies I had crushed. It was starting to slow down. Then I heard the unmistakable sounds of bombers F-16's, Harrier's and Stealth bombers. Then I heard the explosions and the fires came. All around me fire spread like waves of a red tide. Just frying those shitbags like a batch of chicken from KFC. The private was scorched instantly when the bombs hit nears us. The paint on my truck flecked off from the intense heat and the metal became like a boiler for me. The lack of oxygen would have killed me but I was smart enough to keep my respirator on while everything became cleansed. I blacked out though, it must've been hours.

    I had passed out from lack of oxygen. Some of our reinforcements found me unconscious at the wheel of my truck. I couldn't see because my eyes were swollen shut and I was deaf because the bombs made me lose my hearing. They poured water on head and in my eyes and that helped me to see. There were thousands of ashened corpses lying across the Interstate and Country Side. And for nine miles of road leading back up to the base there was destruction. The bombs are shattered the pavement like fine china broken. I was taken back to what was left of our base. The entire northern side was pounded to ruins. There was a makeshift infirmary set up for all the over flow. And that's where I am at now. I would get back to the barrack but there is nothing to go back to because a Five hundred pound bomb flattened it.

    I was unconscious in my truck for a little over a day and a half. And since then I am thankful for my life. I wish I could thank the people who found but I was too fucked up to remember their faces. I have first degree burns on my hands, back and legs. Also I am regaining my hearing but so far it is more lip reading than anything else. We lost half of our command we those shit bags came to chow down on us. Total we lost Three thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Two with an additional Six hundred missing. Our numbers have been cut down severely and I have a feeling we will be returning to Waco for mass drafting soon, REAL SOON.

    Well guys I am off to the land of rest. I am exhausted from that little escapade and I need as much rest as I can get before I attempt my next bold adventure in life. This will probably be getting El Clunker off of the road and into a garage so that I can repair it. See ya'll later on maybe when I got something interesting to talk about instead of the rather drab same old, same old.

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Trash, Garbage and Refuse: Respite

1/29/08

    Howdy again there folks! I'm back and this time my El Clunker is back and better than it's ever been before it got damaged. Actually I am being a bit facetious because the El Clunker is still being worked on as I speak to you, my faithful audience. The past few days have been hell as we repair, rebuild and reinforce our base against invaders of the undead and unwelcomed kind. I got rolled into another platoon. Alot of older people here this time around and no fucking kids! When I mean older, I mean people capable of recognizing a threat and not losing their shit when the threat is only a few feet away from them. It never ceases to amaze me how many fucking people die everytime a horde of undead strolls into town like they own the place. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD THE SHITBAGS ARE FUCKING DEAD! Get used to it and quit your bitching because it's only gonna get you killed especially if your going up shit creek with those fuckers waiting to put the bite on your ass at the end of the stream.

    I know I sound mean right now but hell I don't care. Actually I never care unless it involves me and my survival. I has to be this way so that at least I make it out alive. Now grant it there are alot of cuties here in this platoon I ain't gonna be stupid enough to fall for any of them. No, I was not talking about the dudes. You sick fucks. Then again who the fuck am I talking to anyways? It's just me, the pen and the paper having a merry old time. Just jotting down whatever shit I've been through the past few days.

    That's another thing I keep forgeting to mention. Remember when I said, "We're going to Waco REAL soon." Yeah well Waco came to us. Alot of people got sick of Boss Easters rule and decided it would be in their best interests to come here to Jolly Old Hillsboro. They arrived in garbage trucks, Suv's, trucks, motor cycle's, etc, etc. You get me. If it could be driven it came here. Almost everyone from the Lipsitz compound and The Pit came. They brought the fuel trucks that were our life blood back when I used to live in Waco. Well moving on, Boss Easter tried to step up garbage days and started pissing people off with demands that were endangering the survival of the people. So Sgt.C, remember him? Let me get on with this, he decided that a .44 to the cranium was a fine way to end business relations with Boss Easter. Sgt.C rallied everyone to the beat of the military drum and now he and about Nine Hundred and Forty Three people have come here to Hillsboro. He's both a bastard and a smart man. Way too smart if you ask me. His minds as sharp as a steel trap along with his will being as tough as a shit brick house. Yeah he's bastard and I hate him in the fact that he is a better survivor than me type of way. At least he isn't a loner like me.

    Enough of that sappy shit. I am moving on and day by day my hearing is getting better. Damn bombs and the noise that comes with explosions. Well at least those good for nothing pilots saved my ass and the asses of everyone else at the base. Even though I did lead those bastards away in the nick of time. I don't care, I don't need their praise knowing that I kept others alive is good enough for me. For now.

    Well I think I am off to the mess hall again. My stomach a rumbling and that means I should get a warm meal, something to drink besides stale canteen of water and maybe a movie. I heard they found a copy of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. In case you folks were wondering that is one of my all time favorite movies. Actually I think that pretty much that is my only favorite movie. I think for all of it's historical inaccuracies it is one of the better spaghetti westerns out there. I will talk to you folks later if I happen to do anything monumental with my life. Ya'll come back soon now.




Trash, Garbage and Refuse. Month 2

Trash, Garbage and Refuse: Joyride

2/5/08

    Well folks I have come crawling back like a junky to their habit. It seems that the more I write in here the more shit in my life changes. Sometimes for the better. Sometimes for the worst. Right now my life is neutral which is weird. Lately there has been more shit to do concerning survival. Not just my survival but the survival of everyone on the entire base. Our food and water supplies are ample and can sustain us for months if not years. Our munitions on the other hand aren't doing so well. After that little skirmish we had with thos shitbags we depleted our stock of ammunition by Seventy-Five percent which is staggering. The next time a horde of them comes, they can just come up and knock because that's how bad it's gonna be if a sizeable force of shitbags comes a calling.

    I have enough bullets to kill about Three Hundred and Sixty of them dumb mother fuckers. Knowing my luck I will wind up wasting bullets like I always do on account that the pus faced fuckers don't always die in the first shot to the face. Remember and I stress this majorly because I saw alot of this the other day. It it falls down and get up with half it's face then obviously it's not dead for the second time. Your shot has to go into the head causing the brain to liquify upon entry into the cranial cavity. In Laymens terms be sure you blow the mother fuckers head clean off when you shoot or learn not lose your shit if the fucker you shoot get back like you gave it a lead laced kiss. Here's a hint, use .45 or higher caliber hollow points if your using a hand gun, Double .00-00 buckshot if your using a shotgun and .30-06 if your using a rifle. If you use anything smaller than I mentioned than I suggest you bend over and touch your toes because your fucked until further notice.

    In case your wondering just what it is I have been doing the past few days. It's trying to get on a team into Waco because there are still munitions reserves at a few unlooted pawn shops. Namely the one I tried to go into a month or two ago. I know of a few other reserves that Boss Easter set up in case the Lipsitz compound became unlivable. Nice of him to think that far ahead for himself. The only reason I know is because of Sgt.C and he knows because he was Boss Easter's most trusted man. Anyways Sgt.C shows up the other day and gets a promotion to Gunnery Sergeant. How fucking stupid is that? I mean he isn't even here for five minutes and BAMN promotion. Just like that. I am in the fucking service for a month and I am still sitting at a private with an accomodation for bravery. Bravery? Bah! Fuck it. I didn't want to die, so I lead those dumb fucks away from the base so that not everyone would die. My one good deed for the year.


    Well on the First of this wonderful month, I got to pull some Long-Ranged Vehicular Recon with my platoon on the surrounding towns outside of the Dallas/Ft.Worth area. Mainly it was a whole bunch of scenic driving around Waxahachie, Oak Leaf, Pecan Hill, Ferris, Ovilla, Glenn Heights, Lancaster, DeSoto, Wilmer and Hutchins. I saw so many nice houses that were either abandoned or destroyed. Some of them have been sitting that way since the shit hit the fan back in '05. I think it just fucking hilarious that all those yuppy fucks thought they could buy their way to safety by fleeing the US of A to Europe or Asia only to find out those shitbags were there waiting for them in a country that doesn't and never will have as many guns as America.

    For the most part our trip was pretty uneventful. I mean we saw shitbags but they were pretty few and far in between which was a good thing. Our sniper had a silcened rifle so when he fired his little shit rifle, it put the fucker down with hardly any sound past the equivalent of a thump.
I think our sniper had about Thirty Eight confirmed kills. He was fucking amazing, I mean anyone able to get a drive-by scoped shot is a hardass in my book! I never took anytime to learn anyones name in my platoon but hell when ever I get around to it, I might just ask. We got back just in time for dinner and debriefing. I have a crazy notion that we will be doing some more missions in that region. I am not happy about it because it is not an area I wanna go to especially right next to FUCKING Dallas! That place is crawling with millions of those damn shitbags.

    As opposed to then, the last few days have been a waiting game for the next mission. I have been bugging the mechanics in the motor pool about the repair status of my El Clunker. So far it's coming along nicely but it will be a while. Maybe a few more weeks tops, on account that it isn't of utmost importance to them or the Marines. I'll be waiting like an anxious kid saving his allowance for a mail order pellet gun. I am as giddy as freaking school except the not being giddy or the school girl. So yeah don't you dare call me a fairy unless you like .45 caliber kisses.

    Well I think I am off to go shoot some dice with some nice gentlemen behind the Mess Hall. I have some MRE's and extra bullets I feel like gambling off to the gambling demon. Man I wish Las Vegas hadn't been nuked, oh well ho hum and life goes on, right? So that means you'll just have to wait till I feel like talking to ya'll again. See you later there journal people.

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Trash, Garbage and Refuse: A Beautiful World

2/7/08

    Well folks I am rich man right now. I think gambling can be become a lucrative business for me, if the world wasn't in the deep condition of fucked that it is right now. So I went to the little place they set up behind the Mess Hall for Craps and some other card games. I got to meeting some of the boys and girls around base that set up this little operation. The man running the dice was Doug,  a nerd with alot of time on his hands. The chick running the cards was Darlene, quite a nice looking cutie but way out of my range considering the whole being old enough to be her grandfather. Let me get back on point, I made off like a Mongolian Raider. I went to go play some Texas Hold'em with three clips of ammo for the .45, One bottle of Jack Daniels and four packs of cigarettes. I left that gambling ring with two fifty round boxes of .45 ammo, two bottles of Jim Bean, one box of condoms, three hand grenades, four packs of Dentine Ice chewing gum in assorted mint and cinnamon flavors and a .22 Derringer, which happens to be a party ender for when you get cornered by shitbags.
   
    Yup I am force to be reckoned with kind of like Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Sans the whole having a .44 magnum or a job as a detective. As I said I am a garbage man and I take out the trash depending on what it is that I am dealing with at the moment. Speaking of trash and taking out the garbage the assholes at the motor pool still haven't gotten around to fixing El Clunker. And that ain't too cool in my book. I actually decided to learn the name of the head mechanic, his name is Brian. I don't bother learning last names because I don't want to get too attached to potential zombie fodder. Trust me, it helps when you have to put them down if they turn. Yeah turns out Brian ain't such a bad guy especially after he lost his Derringer to me at the gambling ring on the Fifth.

    Enough of my ramblings on gambling. Yesterday, 6th, we had supplies dropped to us from our brothers in arms from the Navy. The must have drop closed TWO HUNDRED crates loaded with ammunition and guns. Our munition deficit is now in surplus and we're back in business for now. Sgt.C lead four squads worth of men to Waco where he knew supplies were stored. He came back loaded with munitions, guns, food and fuel. Lots of fuel. I am talking two tankers loaded with fuel. So now we won't be out of gasoline for the cars and diesal for the trucks. Granted that I am peon in the grand scheme of things, I have a strong feeling the shit has already hit the fan and it hasn't blown on us yet. Note the keyword here is yet. Whatever the man upstairs has planned is going to be some sort of mean ass idea of a sick joke. This time, I am not kidding.

    I know I may be a Negative Fucking Nancy right now. Get used to it, in order to survive these days you have to push hope back and keep negativity on the forefront of your mind. So that way you won't be surprised when the shit hits the fan. On the account of assuming that things are safe and dandy. Meanwhile Mr. Shitbag and his cohorts are gonna have themselves a cannible barbeque with your blood as the sauce. Just because your happy go lucky ass assumed that it was safe to camp up in a building that you thought was safe. Never assume that anything is safe. Right now I am not safe as I am under constant threat from enemies both foreign and domestic. This isn't fear that I am speaking out of it's paranoia and the fact that I am always right. 

    I hate not being able to go out and explore past the boundaries of our base. For the most part we are on lock down kind of like a prison except where everyone has guns. I can't wait till we do some more vehicular reconnaissance. I can never get enough of our platoon's sniper and his never failing, never faltering accuracy. I bet he could hit could hit a shitbag at one thousand yards with just plain iron sights from a BB gun. That doesn't mean I am gonna put him up to the test. He has a dead aim and that's gift that's basically only given by God Almighty. He uses it everytime he can though. I never talk to him because he is always reading a book, doing push-ups or cleaning his rifle. I think I his name is T., Bendlemen or that's at least what his patch says on his uniform.    

    Well I think I am gonna go for kick back for a few maybe head on over to the range and get some practice with my .45, in for old times sake. Then after that maybe I will go talk to my CO and speculate what the brass wants us to go do in terms of riskings our lives and wasting precious time that can be spent bullshitting. And I after I am done chatting like a hen, I might go see what I can't make off with a the ring this time. I'm gonna mosy I will see you folks later.

2/9/08

    Bad news folks. You know the whole bit with the chatting with my CO? I found out what the brass have been planning. It turns out that there is Ten Thousand people trapped in Dallas. They have been communicating with us for a period close to a few weeks now. Did the higher up's choose to tell us sooner? NO! Instead they spill the beans at the most inconvenient time when those people in Dallas are besieged by a few million of those shitbags. They are almost out of food, ammo and fresh drinking water. And within the next few days they will be dead or dying from either the shitbags, dehydration and starvation. So General Turner in all of his infinite wisdom has decided to use us along with airstrikes to cut a path throught the mass of shitbags, so that we can ride into Dallas like the Godamned Calvary. Seems like a good plan but mind you airstrikes aren't quite effective unless you can lure the enemy into on concentrated area for mass saturation bombing. Now my question is how are we going to move Ten Thousand people? We barely have Five Thousand troops and barely a hundred vehicles right now. I hope that somehow, in someway my questions will be answered because I am not going to let my life be used like a leaf of toilet paper in the grand scheme of things wiping their ass.

    Now all I hear is alot of the other platoon's speculating that Turner is going some how bring in more soldiers. But how many more? We would need close to a quarter of million troops and vehicles to even think about approaching Dallas with a thirty nine and a half foot long pole. I think everyone is full of shit. If push comes to shove I will have to pay Sgt.C a visit because he always seems to know what to do in times like this.

    This kind of reminds me of June 6,1944 but instead of Germans firing machine guns and mortars at us. We are gonna be overwhelmed by close to a few million shitbags. This is Normandy Beach, Texas Style. Actually when you think about it, the situation is more like the Alamo except Santa Anna is in the form of the Undead. Either way I don't know what's going to happen or if anyone is going to survive this mess that our surperiors have brilliantly planned. I doubt they do, but hell let's just give it a shot. Maybe they might but chances are that they won't and we will all wind up dying horribly. Aww fuck it. I think I am gonna go get as drunk as I possibly can right now. So that way when I hear their godamn plan I'll laugh.    
   
    See you folks later I am off to go get boozed off my ass. Have till next time. I'll keep ya'll posted if I am alive.

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Trash, Garbage and Refuse: Convoy

2/13/08

    I'm alive folks! I managed to make it back from the Dallas mission and it was hell in a hand basket. I am injured again this time I took shrapnel in the thigh. It hurts like hell still on account of the fact that some godamn private went nuts shooting at us. I will explain that in a bit. Other than that little mishap with the ape shit private, the mission went alot better than I previously expected when the mission was announced on the Ninth. Here's a good word of advice. Never go to a battlefield intoxicated, EVER!!! It was a bitch trying to drive my transport One Hundred miles to send my fellow troops to death.

    Speaking of death, destruction and the like, General Turner's big plan was calling in close to Five Hundred of Special Forces. Green Berrets, Rangers, Navy Seals, Delta Force and Marine Force Recon. These guys had been in every engagement since the rise of the undead. These guys have killed thousands and not even broke a sweat. Many of their compatriots perished for each one that died however the survivors became forged in the hell that is battle. I only saw a few of them. During the entire battle but for the most part their presence was seen, felt and heard. Before they were dropped in Turner bombarded the outskirts of Dallas with bombs to just a little short of actually nuking the city to rubble. Hundreds of thousands of those shitbags were vaporized upon the bombs impact. Others trapped in shitboxes were crushed by crumbling and exploding buildings. A shitbox is a building or structure that has been overrun by living dead. The building is usually contaminated and the shitbags are rarely smart enough to get out of it. Especially if it involve the use of doors with handles that require turning or pulling.

    So while Dallas was getting bombed back into the stoneage, we were driving up I-35 in a modified Troop transport truck with the appropiate modifications to make it so that we can knock broken down, abandoned vehicles and barricades out of the way. From about forty miles away we could feel the rumblings of the explosions, from twenty miles aways we could hear the bombs going off and within ten miles we could see plumes of black smoke and fires rising from Dallas. It was hell on earth. Far worse than any carnage that I have seen so far in my Fifty Three years of existance.

    Our convoy pushed in through a field of smoldering corpses, luckily I had my respirator/air filter mask on or else the smell would have seriously got to me. We were on I-35 East near Duncanville when we hit some congestion in the streets which was about Eight Thousand shitbags all moving on us as if we were an all you can eat buffet. My vehicle was in the middle and the four transports behind me deployed troops. Each soldier had M203 grenade launchers attached to the bottom of their M-16's, M-4's and CAR-15's. For about twenty minutes all I saw was body parts and tracers flying through the air as the shitbags were mowed down like blades of overgrown grass.

    After punching a hole in the mob of undead we mounted back up and continued up I-35 East and turned onto the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway and up I-20 towards our objective. All in all there were Twelve troop transports in our convoy. Riding bitch right next to me was Bendlemen. He had sniped about sixty of those shitbags in our little tangle with the fuckers. I-20 was more trashed and we wound up having to take an exit on to North Cockrell Hill Rd. We headed Northbound entering major opposition from road blocks and more of those undead fuckers. It was so packed out in the streets that we became stopped by a mass of thousands of bodies. So each transport switched out their Fifty for a flamer thrower and went to town torching the fuckers. The screams of the undead were bad but the smell that permeated the air was worse. I was wearing a respirator/ airfilter mask and I could still smell it. Withing thirty minutes the mob of undead had burned away enough that we could advance further.

    Within an hour of traveling by street, I saw some of the special forces engaging the enemy. They were outnumbered but yet as quickly as the shitbags came they were dispatched. I only got to see them operation for a moment as we drove by them. Boy they were really something . Our job was to escort the civilians out of Garland. They somehow managed to create a giant barricade to keep the fuckers out of their little encampment. Which is a good thing but in doing so they got themselves trapped and besieged by a few million shitbags. Smart move I guess but a damning one at that.

    Block by block, we fought our way passet hundreds of thousands of those shit bags. For everyone that fell at least a dozen would take it's place. We spent all of our flamethrowers fuel, then we ran out of bullets in our Fifty. Each transport was running out of ammo. And we were so overwhelmed that we couldn't even open the transport up to fire in the crowds. I got on the horn and radioed base. At first there was no response. Then about five minutes later the radio came to life. We were getting air support . I just hoped that they will be more discriminative in their targets or you'll have Christmas hams roasting in these transports. And no one likes human flavored Christmas ham like the shitbags. Within twenty minutes two AC-130 gunships came and put several thousand rounds into the mob surrounding our convoy. Within an hour the mob was chunky bit of flesh that mewled and moaned as we drove over the remains of the crowd.

    Our Convoy wasn't the only one in the city. There was roughly Fifteen other convoys taking different routes into the city to Garland. So that we wouldn't all be overwhelmed in the event that all the shitbags converged on us upon entering the city. I think that had we all went in at the same time at the same place then we could have had the mission done sooner. Instead our resources were getting stretched thin and we still had to worry about a million or more of those shitbags coming to hold up the convoy in the event that we got lost. And we were lost. Somewhere along the way we had taken a wrong turn and we were about four miles off course. In Carroliton near Hebron which was closer to Stewart Peninsula Golf Course. So I decided to radio the other trucks in the convoy. I told them to make some room so I could get ahead of them. And they got the hell out of my way.

    I was in charge. I led convoy along the streets till it lead us to the President George Bush Turn Pike. We followed it west towards North Central Expressway and headed Southbound on Highway 75 towards Richardson. We were making good time until we hit some serious wreckage. So troops were deployed to set charges and clear the road block. All was going fine till one of the soldiers in charge of demolition set the charges off and caused some serious bullshit. He exploded along with the barricade. When that happened flames erupted from the inside the transport two behind me. Which then set off all of the munitions and other devices that could cook off in the event of a high heat explosion. The convoy was down one transport and twelve men. All of the other troops piled out of the other transports and set up a defensive formation. Then it happened, some private with an M-203 "Boomstick" freaked and started shooting at us. He killed six total and tried to blow my truck and me away. Instead he caused part of my door to splinter and send shrapnel all in my left leg. At first I didn't feel it on account of the being drunk. I pulled my .45 out just in time to see Bendlemen put two between the privates eyes.

    After about another hour of clearing debris we cleared the road and continued on our path. Towards our goal. We hit Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway again and took I-635 and turned off of the interstate and onto Restland Rd. We continued westward till we hit one of the barricades put up by the people besieged in Garland. The barricade on Audelia Rd and Walnut St. was almost completely impassible by our transports. So we turned around and hit Abrams Rd. where we hung a left on Centennial Blvd. and made our way to North Juniper Rd. We hit another barricade and we plowed throught it. After about thirty minutes it dawned on me. Where the fuck are the shitbags? Where the fuck are the people we are supposed to escort? Where the fuck are the other troops? They must've finished the mission and got the fuck out of dodge.

    Nope they were Three miles away in the thick of a intensive battle. Fifteen thousand Four Hundred people versus close to Six Hundred Thousand shitbags right where Garland and Mesquite border each other. That I didn't figure out on my own. The radio was full of paniced request for assistance and supplies. I turned the radio to a channel Four Frequency One Four Three. And began making plans with the others in the convoy I was in so we could be figure out how to best support our troops. After about thirty minutes of deliberation, we all came to the conclusion that it would be suicide to enter the fray. So we figured the best way to provide assistance to our fellow soldiers by sniping the enemy with rockets, grenades and long-ranged full metal jacket kisses.

    We turned around and headed South bound on the LBJ Freeway.To try to find a secure place to begin our assault and a place suitable for a contingency plan, so that we could get the fuck out of Dallas in case things go horribly wrong. Although I am not a team player, I under stand the importance of it especially when it comes to surviving impossible odds. Eventually we hit LBJ FWay and Highway 65. We got out and cleared the area of the immediate threat posed by the undead. By then my injury had clotted shut. So I wasn't bleeding like a stuffed pig. The Corpsman had to take a look at my leg anyways. He removed a Three inch piece of shrapnel from my leg, stopped the bleeding, sutured the cut and bandaged my leg. I still stayed at the wheel. For about Seven Hours the troops rained hell on the untold thousands of shitbags that were keeping my fellow marines from exiting. Then the sound of angels can flying overhead. This time an attack group of Twenty Apache Helicopter's came to our rescue. For four hours straight it rained bullets, bombs and napalm on the hordes of undead. The fires spread for miles as the fuckers tried to get away from each other on account of the fire and the fact the contagion reanimating them was smart enough to let the pusface's that fire is not their friend. The most unsettling things about it though is the fact that the mass of corpses was moving so it was a sea of flame and plumes smoke billowing into the night sky.

    After another four hours of combat we cleared enough of the fuckers out of the convoy's way to escape. We turned around and took LBJ Fway to Dallas North Tollway. We slammed straight through the toll booths and continued driving like a bat of hell towards I-35 East and Highway 77. We hit the straight away out of Dallas and away from that infernal godamn city. We connected with the rest of the convoy further on down I-35. And with that blessing all of the trucks in our convoy ran out of fuel right next to Waxahachie. So there was about a four hour wait for a refueling truck.

    There were carloads of scared, tired and hungry survivors that were fortunate enough not to get killed by the millions of undead that nearly stopped all of us from getting away from Dallas. My guess is that out of Ten Thousand people only about Five Thousand made it out of the city alive. I could be wrong. Out of the Two Thousand Two-Hundred and Twenty Eight Men sent into Dallas we lost Six Hundred. It was a smooth operation for the most part and it appears that General Turner knows his tactics. I will admit that I was wrong to doubt him. And that's about it.

    That's about a wrap for me kiddies. My leg is still giving me shit. Those damn surgeons removed all the shrapnel from my leg and gave me a shitload of medication to numb the pain. I don't need the medication. I can manage this on the own. Yeah I know this is alot of writing and I am running out of paper in this here, journal but I will keep on sharing my tales with ya'll. My faithful audience until this here pad runs out of paper. I am off to now to go get me some sleep and maybe if you folks are good enough I'll share my reflections. Remember now same bat time, same bat channel. Whenever I godamn feel like it!

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Trash, Garbage and Refuse: The Gamble

2/21/08

    Alright folks I am back. My leg is still in a lesser state of fucked up right now. Since I stopped taking the pains med a week ago, I have learned to ignore pain better. No need to be doped up in case the shit hits the fan. Shit! When it did hit the fan I wonder how many of them fucking dopers got eaten while they were tripping out on whatever drug they were doing before they died? Hell, I guess it doens't matter that much. I suppose it's just my twisted sense of humor getting the better of me.

    On an off topic, about three days ago on the Eighth, Two Hundred and Thirteen soldiers marched into camp. They were the special forces from the Dallas mission. They marched close to a hundred miles from Dallas through shitbag infested territory to base where a shower, a warm meal and some ammo. Instead the superior officers had them quarantined at gun point. Then checked for infection among the men. Any of the infected were then shot execution style. Close to Fifty of our compatriots in arms were murdered. The other special forces were then washed of via water hose before they could venture further into the base. They were cleaned up and rearmed.

    Besides watching them getting embarassed infront of everyone. I got to watch them in the mess hall while I was eating some biscuits and gravy. They didn't speak instead they sat in their secluded corner and ate in silence. I know what they went through and I knew speaking to them would be a retarded idea. Bendlemen sat with them. One of the other Privates following him was told to fuck off politely by Sgt.C. I think that Bendlemen might have been special forces at some point before becoming our company sniper. That explains the calmness in the middle of a shit storm. Oh well, I suppose I am too old to be part of the cool crowd nowadays.

    Yesterday I went to the gambling ring. They know who I am and fear me. I am a gambling champ. The only people dumb enough to play with me now are the idiot privates who are new to the ring. I went in with eight hand grenades, five boxes of condoms and three packs of cigarettes. I left the ring with a weeks worth of rations, five rolls of toilet paper, two unopened Hustlers and a sawed off shotgun with six shots worth of buck shot. I am on a roll. Let's pray no one get's the idea of trying to steal from me because I just don't feeling like making an example of anyone right now. Actually hell no, I wanna test my shotgun on someone dumb enough to try me. I don't think I will get in that much trouble.

    Well folks me and Sgt.C are getting along better. I suppose that is a good thing. He kept his men from getting killed in the Dallas mission. That is something worthy of getting some sort of medal and promotion. Too bad medals don't really mean shit nowadays. They are just a piece of metal with a design that looks pretty. Shit I kept the men in my truck alive but chances are I will get a slap on the ass and a grin next time evaluation comes around in a few weeks.

    General Turner is supposed to be coming to our base tomorrow. He is going to be bringing more supplies for us. I imagine the reason for his visit is simply for morale boosting. My morale doesn't need boosting. I need my El Clunker fixed. That's what I need and that's what I want. Knowing my luck it will be another godamn month before they get around to fixing it. Assholes. Godammit I sure could go for some Jim Bean right now. If only I hadn't drank it all before that mission. Just my fucking luck. Always coming around to let me know that I ain't ahead of the game by much.

    Hell I think I am done for now there folks. Not much paper left in this here journal. If only I could have had real toilet paper sooner. That comes with playing the game of life. Sometimes you have to use that which is most precious as a means to wipe your ass. This journal here is just my outlet. My way of getting more juice out of life. Thank God it ain't shocked me yet. Well folks I am off to the Mess Hall. I think we're having Chili tonight. Grant it that the food prepared in the mess hall isn't the best tasting it surely kicks ass in comparison to C rations. I'll catch you folks on later. And to all a good night.





Trash, Garbage and Refuse. Month 3.

Trash, Garbage and Refuse: The Shit Fan

3/13/08

    Sorry folks, it's been a damn long time since I last talked to ya'll in this here journal. I got good news and bads news. And since I like my desserts first, I'll share the good news first. My El Clunker is fixed and better than ever with a .50 mount on top and modifications to the front and sides. So that I can plow right on through the masses of shitbags when I have to punch it on the accelerator. It got a new engine that makes my truck for about Ten Miles more an hour but it guzzles gas like a son of a bitch. Well that's it for the good news.

    Time for the bad news, according to the eggheads in General Turner's fleet out in Houston Harbor, the shitbags will take forever to decompose. Supposedly the shit that makes a shitbag tick has mutated and in that happening the chance of the decomposition process of a corpse turning to walking mulch is pretty much going to be a longer wait. Meaning that if I try to wait the fuckers out inside a fortified position there is chance that the shitbags will be outside the doors until the cows come home. So our new orders and training for dealing with them is to burn the bodies of any we kill.

    I ain't done with the bad news yet, so just sit tight. That being said we are going to be getting foreign assistance from countries who have their shit together right now. Like Australia, Brittain, Canada  and Japan. What a fucking surprise. So now I bet ya'll are wondering, "But Dirk why does that matter?" Well it matters in the fact that our current leaders in all their infinite wisdom have decided to give them some of our turf and resources they find when they begin reclaiming regions fallen to shitbags. The exception to this rule is if the region in question maintains a population of 20% or more, then they aren't allowed to touch shit. It belongs to the people of that region. Since most of the states here have less than 20% of their original population circa 2008, that means those bastards will be hogging up all of our resources that we have worked hard to hoard over the years.

    Right now supplies are rather scarce and we need all we can get. So coming up after we finish training, the first batch of recruits we are going to be hitting military areas for food, munitions, oil and other various supply storage areas in sorrounding states. Meaning the following ROAD TRIP! They took the back off of my trust and replaced with an area for storing goods. That means that I will be driving again. The first state that we plan to hit is Oklahoma. Then Arkansas. Following behind AK is Lousiana. And after that trek we get to go all the way to New Mexico. Which means going through heavily infested territory to get materials that will ensure our survival provided we don't end up like an all you can eat buffet. I can picture it now, "The Golden Colon." And the tag will be, "All the assholes you can eat."

    When General Turner visited he brought us supplies and a few new toys by the boat load. He arrived in a air convoy that comprised of Two C-130 cargo planes and Eight fancy hot shit planes that looked like F/A-18 Hornets. They were carrying about a half weapons load. I bet they toasted a few crowds of shitbags on their way here. Some of new toys brought to us by Turner, included some M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tanks. Man up close those things are fucking huge. They had the main gun and a mounted .50 cal/40MM Automatic Grenade Launcher. Which means if shit hits the fan, they have a strong chance to clear a mob out, like a plumber cleaning a clogged pipe with a nuke. I mean it could be some serious overkill. Damn I have penis envy of those damn tanks and their operator's. Bastards got it luckier than me.

    The Gambling Ring got shut down. So no more gambling for me until we find a way to get past the MP's watchful eye. Assholes don't know what a good thing is until it bites them in the ass. Pun intended of course. Yeah that nerd, Doug got himself in some deep shit after trying to steal from the Quarter Master. Anyways they confiscated all goods at the Ring and made numerous arrest when it got shut down last week. I am glad I wasn't there when it got raided. Then again the ring was in the back room of the Mess Hall. Yeah some of the new recruits found a damaged Ms.Pacman arcade machine. They fixed it up, got it working and right now I see them having a blast playing it over in the Rec Center. Damn idiot kids, I will never understand why they can't take a situation seriously or take responsibility for the shit that happen when it hit's the fan.

    Not all the new recruits in our platoon are fucking idiots. There is this one kid who keeps to himself. He has some paper that he draws on and is constantly in the gym beating up on the punching bag. If I am correct he was one of the Dallas survivors. He looks like he could knock the head clean off a shitbag, if it got too close for comfort. The only thing that bothers me about him is the fact he drums on anything. It gets annoying whenever I am trying to get some shuteye or whenever I have free time and I'm not trying to sleep or write in this here journal.

    Yeah I hope all this shit we have planned goes off without too much of a hitch. I don't the idea of being chow. I don't think anyone does but me especially. Dying is not on my to do list right now. So yeah fuck dying, it's overrated. Trust me when I say that it is when you have seen thousands die because of stupid injuries and needless sacrifice. In this happening I have learned to appreciate my life regardless of how shitty my life is at the moment. Right now things are good. I have clothes on my back, two meals a day and guns and ammo to boot.

    Well folks I am getting hungry and tired like people my age do when it's the end of the world. I think I am gonna eat some rations and hit the hay for a bit. If anything of importance happens I will keep ya'll updated. So have a Yabadabado! time and good night.



Trash, Garbage and Refuse. Month 4. Month 5. Month 6.

Trash, Garbage and Refuse: Lost And Found

4/15/08

    Howdy Folks! I actually have time to talk to ya'll again. I have been in a whole heap of shit since we started our Supplies Reclaimation Campaign. At the start we hit a few supply bases in Oklahoma and Louisianna with no trouble. Quick clearing of opposition of the undead persuasion. In and Out like a robot. No trouble, no hassle and no bullshit. Just the way I like it. Of course if you experience a good thing then there is always bad to come. That is an unwritten law of life. Go fucking figure.
    
    So we were nearing Lubbock on our way to New Mexico. Just putting along at convoy speed with scouts out in front, Supplie truck in middle, Troop transports and tanks in back. Then out of the fucking blue a truck explodes right in front of the truck in front of me. Body parts and metal flew everywhere. I sighed. It was raiders. You know the bad kind of survivors that like to be cock suckers. Mainly the smarter of the criminal types that survived by taking to the roads. Then survived by rape, killing and looting all that comes through their pissing grounds. I heard about them and frankly, I am not terribly impressed by their antics.

    The Scouts in front of the convoy take off leaving us, the troop transport trucks and the tanks behind. I readied my .45. As did Bendlemen next to me riding shotgun. I could hear the distinct sound of motorcycles coming from our flanks. Then in the rear view mirror, I saw that they were carrying Submachine guns and machettes for cutting people down if they were outside of the vehicles. Judging by the amount of organization these raiders had some soldiers on their side. If they had that sort command chain, that means commanding them were the cowards that went AWOL when the shit hit the fan. And in that case, killing them was a job requirement. Not to say that I like killing but I don't like traitors. In any way, shape form or fashion.

    Bendlemen was at it sniping their snipers. He has an eye for that sort of thing. He must've killed Seven of them before they took notice that the sniper fire was coming from my El Clunker. Then they came on their dirtbikes. Each bike had a driver and a passenger that hopped off the back. The Passenger then tried to take the truck over. The fucker opened the door and I blew his godamned head off. Bendlemen didn't see the one on his side. But he was lucky. That kid I was talking about in my last journal entry killed the guy before he could shoot into the cab. The kid broke the dickheads neck. One solid twist and the head nearly made a full revolution. I couldn't hear the snap because of all the gunfire.

    The other guard on my truck got sniped trying to hop out of the back. Bendlemen shot the fucker before he could get a bead on the the rest of us. The kid got on the .50 and started rocking and rolling. He was unstoppable. We managed to push past the two wrecked trucks in front of us. And we were getting the fuck out of dodge. Combat was real heavy towards the back of the Convoy. The tanks were dropping armor on their artillery emplacements. We knew what we were doing despite getting ambushed. About a mile on down the road we hit were the scouts had been taken out. My guess was land mines or RPG's. So I take it into reverse and heard some dude screaming. When I finished backing up I saw one of them raider fuckers splattered. My two ton El Clunker crushed him like Florida fresh squeezed orange juice.

    I had to take it off road which meant taking the chance that we could hit IED's. For those of you that don't know and IED is an Improvised Explosive Device. Like remote bombs and such. Shit that can be made in a garage or a bathroom in any country that has a 1st world economy grocery store. So I was bumbling it along then I felt El Clunker kind rattle and die. I didn't hear anything because my ears were ringing. I was right, we hit a mine. The rear axle was fucked up beyond recognition. Me, Bendlemen and the kid were miraculously spared. I guess we hit a limp mine. For a moment I sat their cursing to myself, the steering wheel and God. It was one of those sick pranks that bastard in the clouds likes to pull whenever shit ain't going good. Especially then at that moment in the middle of a shit storm.

    Bendlemen finally herded me out of the truck. We gathered as much supplies as we could carry. Set a detonator charge on our supplies. Don't want anyone pulling a salvage on Uncle Sams dollar. And made a Beeline for the convoy. Combat was still going on hardcore. One of the tank had been taken out by the last artillery barrage from the raiders. There were bodies everywhere and the smell of burnt flesh was in the air. Which meant that if there were shit bags nearby that they would be moving in to help themselves to a snack of survivors and the injured. We were maybe five minutes away from the last truck in our convoy when the order was given to retreat. They took off when were just mere steps from the back of one of the transport trucks.

    We each had radios and from all the shit that happened. We hurt those raiders in a real bad way. Kind of like what happens when the dude who drops the soap in a prison shower winds up doing the loving on some would be sodomizers. We ducked out for a second behind one of our wrecked trucks. There were bodies and weapons laying everywhere around us. Bendlemen picked up some ammo for his sniper. And got a secondary from one of the dead. The Kid on the other hand collected an HK MP-5 from one of the dead raiders. His weapon had been lost in combat. For a moment we could hear sporadic gunfire. Then after that all that was left was wind and fire.

    I could hear people moaning for help. Turns out we had some injured among all the dead. Nearest injured person from me was a raider. He had taken a belly full of 5.56 and was in the process of dying. He was still capable of speech. So I dragged him over to where we were posted at and began interrogating him. He spilt the beans real quick the second I put my .45 to the side of his head. Turns out they were Hells Angel. Could have fooled me. He was full of shit. So I cocked the hammer and put it right under his jaw. Then he started telling the truth. Turns out they were the Texas Liberation Union. Strike two. I didn't care to hear what else he had to say. I dispatched him real quietlike with my knife.

    We moved on stealthily to the south east. We weren't on the road anymore. No need to be found and killed by angry raiders. None of us spoke. Until we hit another stretch of highway. Turns out we were heading in the exact opposite direction of where we were intending to go. We were on North Bound Highway 84. Which meant we were in a territory with no intelligence. The situation wasn't good. At least it wasn't at it's worse. After about Six hours of humping across hills we came across a Texaco. It was relatively intact. There was a car parked at the pumps. It was dirty and the drivers side door was open. The store itself had no power but it hadn't been looted or touched by anyone for at least a year if not more.

    We moved in and took a well needed rest. After a more thorough search car at the pumps was dead. It was stained with dried blood and smelt badly of mildew and rot. There were supplies in the back seat. Who ever had this car was killed here. And they had been dead for quite sometime. The inside of the store was clear. I took the time to permanently borrow a Texas Road Map. After a brief search the nearest town to us was Anton. It was a long shot at the time but it would be smartest for us to make our way over there. Possibly find a sturdy vehicle maybe some working long range radio equipment.

    After about six hours of rest. We were back on the road again. It was before dawn. Dark enough so that we could see with the night vision goggles. So were at a tactical advantage. So far me and my team were moving without opposition. We hadn't encountered any of the raiders or other survivors from our convoy. So it was safe for us to assume we were alone for at least a Twenty Five mile radius. It took us close to Eight hours to make it to Anton. Upon reaching it we noticed that there were signs of civilization. A barricade of wrecked cars and barbed wire was at the entrance facing us. For about half the day we watched through our binoculars. They looked to be relatively friendly survivors. So I moved in on Anton first. I hatched a plan and The Kid and Bendlemen would stay back just in case the shit hit the fan.

    Like clockwork I was ordered at the barricade to stand down. I did and two men in guille suits came from my flanks. They took my ammo and let me keep my weapon. Then I was questioned. They asked if I was alone and I shook my head yes. Bendlemen and The Kid were still in the sniper spot. Unseen and Unheard. If shit happened then they would be able to bail me out of trouble.

    Upon entering Anton, I noticed that there was power. And if there is power then there's electricity which meant that these people have been living a life of luxury out hear in west Texas. Lucky fuckers. Kids were playing out in the streets. Old people were sitting in front of their houses. And civilization was undisturbed here. I was escorted to their security office. It was the sheriff's office of Anton.

    It was a Twenty minute wait. Then their head came into town. He was Sheriff John Henderson. By my guess he was my age except a fatass. Age had molded him into a position of lazyness. He smelt of stetson man cologne and wore a car salemen grin on his face when he saw me. He was too polite, I knew he was up to something even before he spoke. Which meant that he was all butt buddy with those raiders. You know, the ones we fought the day before I waltzed into Anton. Then my suspicions were confirmed. His little militia men pulled their guns on me.

    The Sheriff told me to sit back, relax and kick our feet up. He said I would have friends coming to get me. He sold me out to those fucking raiders. Which meant he was a traitor. Sheriff John was a dead man.

    An hour passed while I was in the Sheriff's office, I heard the rumbling of bikes of all types.
I was right again. Sheriff John was grinning at me like I was some sort of meal ticket. I was stripped of the gear that I had carried with us into town. And the biker's went to town knocking me around for a little bit. I took it. I knew Bendlemen and The Kid were working their way into the town. He probably had to kill their to two guards in the guille suits before they could advance.

    If guessing right was a game show then I would be a millionaire right now. Too bad money doesn't mean shit. They were all sorts of working together. They knew we were moving into west Texas to hit supply depots. So they set an ambush for us. They openly shared that info as if it were going to be the last thing I was going to hear. The biker's were exmilitary. Some were deserters others were veterans. Either way they were traitor's to humanity. Bastards. At least we killed well over half of them before the convoy pulled out.

    They tied me up in the center of town and let the populace spit on me and throw rocks. I was hanging there for well over three hours. I was fucked up. After the people of Anton had fun with me. I was taken back to the sheriff's office. The cleaned my wounds and handuffed me to my bed in the jail cell. Still where the fuck was Bendlemen and The Kid?

    I was interrogated for about Five hours. I answered with half truths and bullshit. The dumb fuckers hung on every word I said. Then I was allowed to sleep. At around Three A.M. The explosions started. Then the gunfire. The calvary had finally came to back me up. They moved into the Sheriff's office killed the guards. Rearmed me and I got my gear out of storage. It was completely dark outside. Bendlemen and The Kid weren't alone there were others with them. They must've retreated and gotten picked up by the Convoy.

    Well finally I was wrong, they ran into the Army and the Airforce. Turns out a force from Cannon Air Force Base had plans to hit Anton. They too had been assaulted by the raiders. After we kicked their ass they then had the opportunity to move in and finish the raiders off. Which is what happened. They massacred any person with a gun that wasn't on the friendly list. By the time I was extracted, there were bodies and burning buildings everywhere.

    We were taken back to Cannon, AFB. I got some medical attention for my bruised ribs. And now I sit here in their barracks writting in this here journal. It seems everytime something happens to me I usually get injured from kicking ass. I guess it's a fair trade. I get to live and a whole bunch of despicable assholes get to die. A good trade indeed.

    In the next couple of days me and my compatriots will be meeting up with the Convoy. Lucky for us, that we got help from our brothers in arms. I think it will be easier for us to move around West Texas now. I am not 100% certain of the geography here but I can learn fast. I just pray that all this combat hasn't gotten the shit bags riled.

    Now that things are in perspective again. I can go get some grub at the mess hall and get some much deserved rest. I need it. Have a good night folks, I'll catch ya'll later.

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Trash, Garbage and Refuse: Out of Paper

4/29/08

    Well folks I have been too fucking busy as of late. The whole survival job is one you can't joke with especially when you got everything trying to kill you. Those nice military folks I was working with for such a long time are almost all dead. You see thing is that we ran into close to million of those shitbags on the New Mexico/ Texas border. And for miles and miles all you could see was a sea of people. Grant it that we had close to a Thousand troops and ammo to boot. Bullets and bombs don't do you any good whenever your comrades in arms die from fatigue. We surrounded for the better part of two weeks. How we got circled is anyone's guess but we were besieged. The commander being the genius he was decided that it would be best to stand and fight. We circled the wagons so to speak and let the shitbags know what a last stand is like first hand.

    Seeing is that I said last stand, I mean that is what happened to everyone who tried to stay for reinforcements from our big brave leader General Turner. I tried to stick around but once I saw that after Eight days of no water, food and ammo running low. I did the only thing I could do, I left.    I wasn't alone. I had Bendlemen and the Kid were by my side along with a few other marines. But the unamed generally die. I never did take the time to learn their names because we never had time to talk. It was a constant fight as we made our way out past that circled convoy. We killed thousands of them shitbags. We made are way to the outer ring of them fuckers and ran out of ammo. So we booked it as fast as we could north west. There wasn't much of a choice, because those shitbag fuckers were following us.

    We were on are feet for about four days straight without sleep. I didn't even get a chance to take a piss break. I wound up relieving myself on the march. We found a small town in New Mexico called Portales. We came marching in on I-70. Were exhausted. The skin on my feet on was tender and when I finally got to change socks I wound having to bandage them. Don't me wrong that shit fucking hurt like a mother fucker. The Kid and Bendlemen collapsed, in an abandoned furniture store. I hadn't been looted, but weather tore into it pretty bad. The city was dead. Some of the buildings had been looted. There were some smashed police cars up the street on S Main Ave and W 1st Street. After a four hour respite I was on my feet. Bendlemen had me covered with his sniper. He had three bullets left. I suppose it was his logic that if we ran out of luck he would have a means to end it all for us. When I got their there was blood stained into the pavement. Inside one of the cars was a shotgun locked into the dash board. I broke it off of the latches, then I pried to trunk open. There was some Kevlar vests and some boxes. A roadside assistance kit, a first aid kit, a twelve pack of Coca Cola and some boxes containing some shotgun shells and another first aid kit. So it was like a Five Finger Discount Christmas.

    I checked the other car and found a baton, a Twelve Gauge shotgun and the shit in the trunk had been smashed completely in by what I assume was an 18-wheeler. Of course there wasn't an 18-wheeler in sight but I assume thats what smashed in the back ends of these cars. This entire town, could be covered to from one side to the other in a matter of a few hours. So it was podunk, and that's good. That means that we don't have to worry about any other massive mobs of shitbags other than the ones that were on our asses.

    After we assessed our current situation we made plans to go back to the convoy to see if anything was salvagable. It was a long shot that our comrades would still be alive but if they were then we could possibly provide some form of back up. All we needed to do was rest then find a suitable means of transportation. Then if the police station had a sizable armory then we would load up all the gun and ammo. If there was Pawn Shop/ Walmart then we would hit there so that way we could stock up on more weapons and more ammo. Then head back to the convoy and take a larger vehicle all the way back to Hillsboro Base.

    We got about another Eight hours of rest before the search for a faster means of escaping our pursuers. Now at first we were looking for fast, then something moderate that didn't guzzle gas. Then we thought of something heavy. We found a whole bunch of abandoned cars with dead batteries. So we continued searching and found another fucking garbage truck. I know a little bit about mechanics for garbage trucks. So after checking it out, I realized that once we slap a new battery in it, change the spark plugs and the oil. We would have the most badass means of zombie evasion. So we mosied over to the autozone took what we needed to fix it up and get it running again and got to work. After four hours we got everything in the green. Dumped the garbabe out and stole some diesal from an abandoned Fina.

    After the transportation issue was resolved, we checked the police station out and loaded up on ammo and guns we could find. Then we hit the Wal Mart for guns and ammo. Put the newly procured in the in bin in the back. Due to the fact that since I have joined the military, I have started caring about my fellow soldier. Me and my crew were in the process of suicide running ourselves back to the convoy. Bendlemen rode up top and kept watch just in case there were shitbags nearby. We hit the road and with luck we were hoping that our brothers and sisters in arms weren't all dead yet. We gunned it back to them. After Six hours of driving we got to the besiegement and saw the convoy. They were holding tight. The shitbags were still coming. I heard Bendlemen poping shots off at the ones he could hit. Then we plowed straight through the mob. I didn't worry about my wheels getting gummed up from all the bodies my truck was crushing. I swung the truck around to back in and wedged in so that way when I hit the cargo release they could see the goodies we had for them.

    They were rather happy, to see us. There were dead bodies everywhere. Most of them were shitbags but alot of them were soldiers who had died from dehydration and starvation. The commander in charge of our convoy had disappeared. But I bet that piece of shit went AWOL. I hope the bastard got ripped to shreds. So as if by clockwork Turner's help came, Planes came and dropped bombs and pulverized the hills surrounding us. Plumes of smoke and flame barreled into the sky and the screaming got louder. Everyone, including myself still inside the convoy wall were too fucking tired to enjoy the light show presented to us by the US government. The best use of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ever. Once the mobs of undead had a path cut through them those remaining loaded up in to the still functioning vehicles and hit the road. I followed. We gunned it back as fast as we could back to Cannon, AFB. I was in ruins. It had been bombed. There were charred corpses everywhere. They too had been besieged by the undead and were rather unfortunate to have been bombed back into the stonage. But I suspected something was wrong. The bodies were melted to their weapons, some were melted to AA guns. There was something up. Then as if like a wildfire the rumors started and right now we have a strong feeling that our allies were behind it. I have my suspicions that it was the Japanese that did it, maybe even the Australians. The British are too far up north right now to be too close to us. So it must be one of those two. Either way the situation couldn't be helped. So we collected what we could and pushed back to Hillsboro with our heads down. This mission in it's Third Act was a failure. Sixty-five percent casualities and the loss of over Thirty percent of our vehicles.

    Upon arriving back at Hillsbor outpost we found it abandoned. There were shitbags milling about but none of them were in uniforms. They were dispatched. We scrounged together what supplies we could and got moving again. We had a working communications center in one of our transports. We are One Hundred-fifty soldiers right now. And we need to find the rest of our comrades. It doesn't help that I am running out of paper in this godamn journal right now. I have maybe a fourth of a page left. So folks until I get a new journal I will have to go. Until something important happens. It was a nice run there audience and someday when this shit gets undercontrol I will make a movie of this. Goodbye until then.

5/5/08

    I just wanted to say happy Cinco De Mayo there folks. Everything is ok for the moment. We have found a temporary outpost back in Waco. We had to clear out alot shitbags. The Lip Sitz compound is ours again. Good bye.

5/23/08

    Sgt.C returned with Thirty men. Turns out that the Japanese are behind this. Damn dishonorable bastards. We are moving further south towards Mexico. Right now we are on the out skirt of Austin. Yeah we will be meeting up with Turner for some reinforcements and supplies. He is leaving the Gulf of Mexico and going to meet up with Britain. They are going to launch an offensive against the Japanese while they have the homefield advantage still.

6/4/08

    We are in Loredo right now. Fully stocked, armed and awaiting orders to hit a Japanese listening post. Something seems wrong though and I can't explain. I am out of paper. Wish me luck folks.

6/7/08

    Mission success. We are at war with shitbags and the Japanese. Damn communist bastards.



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