Got my hands on these, scans a patient (88 and fought in WW2) of my dads gave to him, uploaded the PDF for all to enjoy! My German sucks, but I’m pretty sure what they’re saying is sinister!
Note this full quality scan is 53MB! If you want to view a lesser quality version, click here
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Meet up in the Flying Enterprise Bar, Barrick Street for a few pints and a bit of chat. Afterwards we can go for a walk around Cork City, and pick up a few of the city caches (If you wish!)
Meeting from 8:30pm
Parking is available on the street outside the pub, and along the riverside. Taxis etc are also available.
More info to follow in due course.
Can finally find that freakin’ St.Finbarrs cache….
Today was’nt particularly eventful, just full of surprise (its 23:32, Ive only had 3 hours sleep, leave me off if its an oxymoron). I want to blog about today because its everyday things that go on around us that we normally ignore or don’t do, but today I saw extremely goodness in people, which I too received and gave (yeah, yeah Im sounding like a priest).
Probably the biggest event today was when I was walking past a crowd of people on patrick’s street, I looked over to see a man on the floor having an epileptic fit, with two women and a man trying to help him. I hear one of them shout “he’s shallowed his tongue”, a woman ran out of the shop behind the where all this was taking place and said the ambulance was on its way. Now despite being trained in first aid 2 weeks ago, I froze, as many people do. I blending into the crowd of onlookers, I hover in there for a moment, I could go try and find a whey free protein and assume they’d look after him, or I could help (though not getting up my own ass, Im sure he woulda been grand without my help), When he started to suffocate and move out of the recovery position, without thinking I grabbed his legs and placed him back into it, I joined the 3 other randomers, non knew him, it affected non of us, but I live by the idea do onto others as you wish others do onto you (sounding like FR.Whelton again I know). When the ambulance finally got there (fucking things take forever), I let the paramedics take over, then helped get the trolley and get him on his way and moved onto Mahers Sports looking for a new protein. The idea is when we don’t have to help or do something, when it does’nt affect our existence, most people just pass by or stand idle, if you’re one of these, go screw yourself.
I was running to the bus stop today with a coffee in my hand (needed a boost from my 3 hours of sleep), fecking thing spilt and I had coffee on the front of my jacket and looked like spanner getting the bus, I tried to joke to the bus driver “They teach ye not to run with scissors, yet not to run with coffee”, to which I received the biggest “get the fuck away” look.
To highlight another case of how people can do small things that make a big difference, I was getting tshirts made up, and had my files on my memorystick, they could’nt read the memorytick because it was formatted to Mac Os Journaled (htfs) and it was an anal-retentive windows xp. After my boss giving me a black cd, Ger, the manager at Compub Cork, burn the files from the Mac formatted usb key to the cd, now its one thing selling products, but simple stuff like that makes a big difference, as a result Im plugging CompuB, Opera Lane, Cork as the best Apple retailer in Ireland!
The last thing on this theme of random acts of helping, me, Ian and Ronan were walking back to the School were the two of them are supervising exams, when some random guy, well dressed, came up to us and asked for a second of time. Now at this point Ian loads his ‘crazy religious fanatics’ gun and I shrug, but he surprised both of us. He simply said “Don’t do drugs or any of that stuff and get violence out of your head” and then said goodbye, we need more people like that.
Hav’nt written a blog post on the team before so heres the time to enlighten ye all! The Cork Mayhem is a paintball team Colm, Darren and myself started. The early stages of it are another post’s story. Loads of interest from different age groups, With sponsorship from a major uk shop and in final talks with a paintball site, Ill update ye in due time!
So I headed to KartWorld today with Darren and a few of the lads to review and play on their paintball site. Got a few nice shots including nailing some kid in the head shooting through grass and lighting up guys like a christmas tree who went near our flag and a nice crotch shot on one of the guys! Heres the review I wrote on PaintBaller.ie:
KartWorld has gotten it right. Today I visited the site and played with the punters to get a good Idea of the site, I was blown away. Kartworld presents unique game types that makes it a refreshing break away from the linear environments of paintball. With entrance fee including all gear, 300 paintballs and 8euro for an extra 100, you can’t go wrong, Ages 12+ can play here. 3 sites, each with well suited game types, with points given for winning and time, and breaks inbetween to wipe the paint from yourself (depending on the kind of player you are) and a chance to a can of coke and a snickers, the 3-4 hour sessions are extremely fun.
So lets start off with the rental gear you get. Equipped with a Inferno marker, that unlike a lot of site markers, this one is actually accurate and fires far, crono’d to around 280, each tank is replaced after every game so no crying that you ran outta air. Camo overalls, protective gloves, 4 pod pack, hair net and pads (if yer scared). The masks are handled with more love than I was as a kid, with anti-fog lenses, washed after every session and placed in a dehumidified room, they’re clearer than the gulf of Mexico’s water, before BP Oil got to it of course…
After you’re given all the gear, you walk to the main area kitted out with picnic tables and a shop, where you recieve your paintballs and hoppers. Now whats good about KartWorld is instead of being given a awkward arm band, your hopper is coloured red or blue depending on which team you’re on. You return to this area inbetween games, instead of being stuck inside a safety area, where you can buy more paint, drinks or food or talk about how I shot Sam in the crotch (sorry Sam).
Now for the three game sites: The Bridge, Ground Assault and Chemical Alley.
The bridge is a large area with stacked tires and barrels for cover. Theres a big shaky bridge in the centre with two flags, when red is pulled up, blue goes down and vice-versa. The idea of this game is at the end of the time that whoses ever flag is higher wins points. The Bridge is a savage idea, essentially yer out in the open like a target running across it, suffice to say the adrenaline is pumping like crazy. The area below the bridge is perfect for picking off people who go near it! With a ‘go back and touch base’ unlimited life idea is brilliant, means you can go all out for it or rambo it up, I counted 16 bruises on my upper body after going for the flag a few times!
After a quick break we moved to Ground Assault aka the Beach. Its basically a recreation of the Normday Landing beaches with mad bunkers, mounds and even sandbags. Another flag based game, one team starts one end, sprinting up, diving, sliding and rolling for cover, the other team is up at the other end, confined to a base and two bunkers at either side spraying a wall of paint at thoses who have enough balls to try grab one of the three flags. Teams starting out at the end who have to run have unlimited lives and those at the base have a single life. In the case both teams get all three flags in each turn, the team who did it the fastest wins. Irishoutlaw27 and Milsim fans eat your hearts out.
Finally we move to Chemical Alley. Its a varied terrain are with grass, stone, a stream with mini bridges and mountains, scattered around are stacked containers with crates inbetween (perfect for pot shots through)! Idea is to grab the other teams flag and get it back to base, however the marshals mix it up by placing 8 yellow pod yokes randomly around, if you find one, grab it and run back to base like hell coz its worth points! I found 2 by pure fluke! I found it class because at the start I sprinted like hell and secured the area to the left, with my team securing 2/3s of the area! For the first 8 minutes, when you were hit, you moved back, when the fog horn sounded, it meant sudden death. In our game when it sounded, basically all firing stopped and everyone legged it for cover!
At the end, they bought back the pods we didnt use instead of making us waste them which was pretty sound! A nice little final touch was awarding a medal to the most badly bruised! With game types being mixed around for a new experience each time with good and fair marshals, I suggest anyone in the muster area visit kartworld paintball at least once, its a fantastic and colourful (depending on how bad a player you are) experience!
From talking with the guys there, it seems they’re really into having events, wars and skirmishes there and are open to the idea of SpeedBall too! So keep an eye on KartWorlds site for future stuff to come!
Trauma board inside, Halo speed loader with a virtue soft crown, fires at 30bps at a speed of 300fps, fuck yeah…
So its been something I’ve always wanted to do, take skimboarding from the sea to the streets, tho I need had an opportunity to. On Thursday the 19th of November, the Dam in Cork released water at approximately 6pm, unfortunalty that was also high tide and then again that was increased with the massive rainfall we had. So ultimately Cork become flooded.
I had woken up at 7am per usual for school, within 10 minutes we recieved a text saying school was canceled due to flooding, after ringing Ian, we decided to head into town to photograph the damage and also maybe skimboard. I did’nt expect there to be so much water, my first encouter was seeing or rather not being able to see the restaurant in the UCC Glucksman simply because water had covered it!
I spent a portion of the motion helping people with various things, like moving stuff around, it helped as I was wearing my wetsuit (felt like an idiot walking into town in it). After a while we decided to give skimboarding a lash, heres the video of it:
After uploading the vid to YouTube, within 24 hours it had been viewed over 10,000 times! It started spreading across the net, to even a point where my cousins friend who lives in England, who only met me one saw it and emailed me about it! I was also mentioned in the news paper as a “Young student attempting to surf the streets”, as I flew past the chief excutive of the Mercy Hospital during an interview.
I’ll post more as it comes, meanwhile:
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