Who is scribdog?
“Scribdog” is a nickname I received when I was in the army. My real name is Isaac Scribner. Obviously Scribdog is a play off my last name. Of the nicknames a person can receive in the army, I found that Scribdog wasn’t as embarrassing as other possibilities. I haven’t been called by that nickname for quite some time, but when your trying to find your place on the Internet a name is needed. I suppose I could have gone with “IsaacScribner.com” but that just doesn’t have mush of a ring to it.
This web site is just a place to write about my adventures in life so I can share them with the few people I know. The idea was also to have a writing play ground to hone my writing. There is also the possibility that somebody, other than the 3-4 people that read this site now, might offer me a new door to walk through.
I’m a bit of a hermit, and often find that over the weekend I haven’t spoken more than 5 words. I attribute most of those tendencies to the fact I find most people to be cliff-jumping lemmings not worthy of any prolonged association, but are fun to watch from a distance. Don’t get me wrong I don’t see my self as better than the general public, as I have my own lemming tendencies that I will admit to, after all I am a member of the human race. I enjoy the company of Frizbe my Border Collie K9 friend. I create projects for myself like Duvet covers, home made cold process soap (like your grandma used to make), various wood projects (from bookshelves to organizers), and Wii remote controlled computer interface. During the summer The Friz and I will find adventures in hiking (like Mt. Ellinor, and Tiger Mountain).
Currently I live in Lakewood Washington. My tenure here started in September 2006. When my wife and I separated, we thought a new start would be a good idea. As it turned out it wasn’t a good idea and we separated for the last time. But maybe I should start at the beginning….
I consider the beginning of my life to start when I joined the army after high school. The army offered me several opportunities. First was getting out of the house. I looked forward to striking out on my own. Second was that I wanted to continue my education. The third stemmed from the second. Even if I knew what I wanted to study I had no way of paying for it. So the camouflage was put on and off I went to Ft. Knox for basic training. Once that interesting experience was over I was shipped off to Germany. The rest of my military career was spent in German in a town called Baumholder. While I’m proud of the solders that serve our country, I still retain an indirect connection to the army, it was not for me. The army was way too much of a “dog and pony show”, among other things for my taste, but it did bring some wonderful experiences and people into my life that I still retain contact with.
I loved Germany so much that once the enlistment was over I decided to stay there. I lived with a German girlfriend for about a year in Bad Sobernheim. Her parents had a little bed and breakfast, where I rented one of the rooms. I learned so much about German culture and enough of the language that if trouble found its way to me the ability to get out of said trouble was possible, fortunately I stayed out of trouble. Latter I moved to a bigger neighboring town, Bad Kreuznach, with a US military presence. I worked at the PX in the warehouse, and got to drive many of the roads and towns. I still hold to that employment as the best job I have ever had. The 5 total years that was spent in Germany allowed me to visit the top of the Eiffel tower where it took me a good 15 min to bring myself to look over the top. The girlfriend I went to the Eiffel tower with was also involved with a local playhouse, which brought me to being involved in acting. I’m still immortalized with an award I won for 2nd place best actor at: http://www.roadsidetheater.com/act/act99_1.htm
As the year 2000 drew to a close I married Amber. There were rumors that the military presents in Bad Kreuznach would be ending soon. Also we wanted to have a family and it seemed best if we headed back to the States and restart our lives there. Moving across continents is not easy when there is little money to do so with. Our thinned down belongings were sent to my parents via the USPS in Creswell Oregon. It was decided that I would leave first and Amber would follow a month later to give me time to get things all set up for our new life. I bought a 32 foot travel trailer and had it set on a piece of the 3 acres that my parents owned. In that time I also managed to get a job at an auto parts store.
During the first year after the move I learned that I had an affinity for computers. My dad, not liking me playing around on his computer, gave me am old laptop that ran Windows 95. At the end of the first year I decided that I finally knew what I wanted to goto school for. I enrolled at Lane Community Collage for the “Computer User Support” associates degree. Three and a half years later I graduated and our savings account grew so Amber and I could get a house.
In the year after graduating we saved $10,000 and found a place in Lorane Oregon. It was a small town with a population of about 300. It was such a great place and away from everything. The drive to our jobs in Eugene was mostly beautiful back roads. The place its self was peaceful. Unfortunately it was not to last. As with all new lives and new starts money was tight. The future was bright though. I knew my job would gain momentum and life would get a little easier. Amber didn’t see it that way. A little over a year after we moved into the new house Amber and I separated. She wanted to be closer to her family in Missouri. So we sold the house as we made plans to make the move and in July of 2006 we headed out.
Life in Missouri was not at all good. We moved in with Amber’s parents who lived in a town smaller than Lorane. There wasn’t any sizable towns nearby that I could get a job at, unless I wanted to work an auto parts store again. Even then we had to rely on Amber’s parents for transportation. They didn’t see the point in me working at a minimum wage job where most of the pay check would be used to pay for the gas to get there. They also didn’t want the large amount of miles added to there new truck that I would need to drive. I was under there roof and had to follow there wishes. Amber and I did have a vehicle but it had been spending it’s time in the repair shop for transmission trouble. Just before vehicle was fixed, Amber got a job and needed it to get back and forth to work. Meanwhile Amber spent her time and meals up with her mom, while I spent my time in front of my computer trying to find a job. The fresh start was turning our marriage sour. Amber and I had a talk one night discussing our relationship. It ended in an impasse, and we agreed to continue the conversation later. Later never came. I realized that our marriage was over. In September of 2006, 3 months after the move, I took what was left in our savings and bought a truck, packed all my belongings into it a headed back to the northwest. A family friend lived in Lakewood Washington and invited me to stay with her so I could get my life back on track. My marriage with Amber didn’t produce any children, but it did give me one heck of an education.
….So here I am, in Lakewood Washington working for the Clover Park School district as a fixer of issues the teachers have with there computers.