To answer the question

People have been asking me what it is that I have been doing with my free time. Having the summer off while still getting a paycheck is sort of... well it doesn't happen very often. It does help that I do not have to pay rent at the place that I live, but there is a fair amount of yard work that I must do while staying there. So what becides yard work am I doing this summer? Well every now and again I go to my parents' property to chop some wood when I get bored. Other times I sit outside on the beach and read my book. I have my parents' boat out here so wakeboarding has occured. Actually just bought a new wakeboard to help me ease into summer. Had a few parties out here for other people's birthday.

And last weekend I played paintball with my roommate and some of the people that work at Paladin. It was pretty fun. This is a picture of my roommate Dave (We met playing ice hockey in college together) and I loading up for the first battle. Which we won handily. The second battle we switched teams and we still won really easily. I will admit that one time when we were on opposing sides he did shoot me, once, in the elbow, because I was not hugging my cover close enough. But that was the only time when someone actually hit me.

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This was a picture from a two on two game that we played. By far the favorite picture of both mine and Dave's.

Dave: "I am going in, cover me."

Brandon: "Got em. Move."

We won that game but for some reason Dave got bored and decided to run the length of the field. He got shot from about five feet away. He said that it seemed like a good idea at the time, and it was one of those ideas that was either going to make him look like the supreme warrior or... a Russian surf at Stalingrad when it failed feeding him to the meat grinder. I then proceded to shoot one of them right between the eyes and the other I snuck around behind him and shot him in the thigh.

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In this picture I believe that someone was shooting at me because I seem to be moving somewhat quickly. I do remember quite a few of those times though, where someone was shooting around me and I dived behind cover. All in all it was an awesome day. There was Dave and I in ripped jeans and t-shirts and then everyone else had the jerseys, guns, belts, everything you would need we were just better.

So what am I doing with my time off? Enjoying it as much as I possibly can. Uh yeah... good summer.