Okay, I’m off the grid until the 26th or 27th. So here’s the gameplan.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. So here are links to check out while I’m gone. And yes, a music video from YouTube is my new sign off I guess. I like it. I’m gonna keep it. It either is the mood of me or my blog. Maybe a tribute. Who care’s. It’s new. I like it.

So in the next 9 days without me, here’s a checklist!

Give up a vice and donate it to RAINN on Wed. April 29th. Check out the post here—–>http://sixteenpercent.com/2009/04/11/vice-for-rainn/

I highly encourage everyone to check out Survivor’s Revolution and you can also find her RSS feed in column 3. She never disappoints. Great read. I’ll be reading her while I’m gone!

Behind the Couch also has an RSS feed in column 3 and has great perspective on mental health awareness.

Also in column 3, I have added a new Abuse Resource which I like a lot. It’s called Take Back the Night. You can find them at www.takebackthenight.org. So check them out.

1in6.org, malesurvivor.org and www.amsosa.com (Adult Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse) are great sites with information on male survivors like myself and also answers to questions family and friends of male survivors might have. So please take a peek.

And of course the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network at www.rainn.org.

Yes, a lot of  links, but a lot of information. Information for all of us. Survivor’s and secondary survivor’s. I’m still running through all of those sites and I find useful information every time I go.

So on vacation I go. After 7 years, 4 months and 22 days in the Army and a 30th birthday all within the last month, I deserve a vacation of my choosing. For some reason, I think I’m going to enjoy Baja Mexico more than Iraq, Jordan or Leesville, LA. Thank you Army for great birthday vacations?

It’s also the 10 year anniversary for me and someone in my circle of 4 close friends whom I going with on the cruise, so I’m excited. On April 15th, 1999, we went to a Sacramento Kings/Seattle Supersonics game. Great game, went into double overtime. Saw my hero Gary Payton. And after the game, we went to the Delta King, a old ship in Old Town Sacramento, and we snuck (not a real word) on board and sat on the top deck looking at the Tower Bridge, and we talked for hours. Almost went to San Francisco that night just because. But we shared a lot of personal stuff, stuff I write about, and we became close friends that night. She was one of the first I ever felt comfortable enough sharing my story with. I was 20 years old. A bond was formed we share to this day and I’m so proud to have this person in my life, even if she’s not an avid reader of my blog (sad face). This trip is gonna be special.

So there you go, links galore. Enjoy while I enjoy the Believer Never Die Part Deux Tour w/50 Cent in H-Town. I’ll try to hug Pete Wentz or get a “holla” from Fiddy Cent.

And then I’ll try to eat the worm in Ensenada while I’m on the beach! Or gamble my life savings away on the boat! Maybe eat at Koi or Ketchup on our nights in LA and make it on TMZ. I’ll punch Wee-Man or somethin!

Hasta en Fuego my friends!

Update: It’s 3:01 AM, I wrote this earlier, much earlier. I uh. Well, there’s 2 running diaryesqe blogs when I get back regarding the tattoo’s I got on back to back Thursday’s. I promise they’ll be good. Well the stories. You might not be in the “I like ink” group, but you’ll like the story.