it's been a few weeks, but even then its been longer in my head. i just got back from sailing another 2 week inserve... a lot of hard work. driving a 870 ft. long ship is a challenge, especially when we're only going 3 fucking knots the whole time... anyway, enough of the bitching. i love what im doing. even thought its apart of the military, it ( Read more... )

what an interesting month may has been. full of sadness really. i'll elaborate. so around the beginning of the month, i was getting my whites ready for DRB. i came back up from the pressing shop to eat lunch for a whole 10 minutes.. and i hav this second class come up to me and tell me i have a phone call in the food service office.. who the fuck ( Read more... )

What a beautiful saturday. I'm sitting here at my apartment, getting ready to try out mission beach. These past 2 weeks have been kicking my ass. I've been working in the gally, and I have to do so for 90 days. Once I'm done though, I get to come back to ohio for my sisters wedding. Everyone has to work in the galley atleast once. Its all apart of ( Read more... )

This is great. Drinking beer and smoking cigarettes on pacific beach. Its a beautiful day out.. But when is it not out here? We just got done with a huge inspection on our ship when we were out at sea. Somewhere near guam. We steamed back into san diego last night. Put the brow ramp down and left for the weekend to do some more exploring. Navy tax ( Read more... )

well... im loving it. san diego is just beautiful. its febuary, about to be march and its a nice 70 degrees with no wind and green grass. it's wonderful. my ship.. well, its a lot better then living in chicago for sure. it's so chill here on the ship. i just do my work, be where im suppose to be, and everythings good. i go on deployment this monday ( Read more... )

IM LEAVING! finally. heres my new home for the next 5 and a half years.


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it's been 4 days since i came back to chicago. i thought it would be a little hard getting back into the ole routine again but it wasn't really. we got a whole bunch of new people in our ship so it's kinda fun fuckin around with them. what was really hard was coming back to this god awful weather. the cold bites really hard and the wind is even ( Read more... )

the flight was horrible.. but im back home. till the 4th of january that is. im gonna bask in as much of the music scene as i can handle here for now, spend the whole 2 days of christmas with my family, figure something out for new years, then go back to chicago and resume the military life. this leave is ruining what i have learned over the past 6 ( Read more... )

things have gone ok.. the only thing that sucks is that im 25, and the whole base acts like their in high school. i only have a handful of people i can actually hang out with and make it worth it. i leave the 5th of dec, and come home for 14 days. hopfully that will be cool. then i have to report to the uss bonhomme richard on dec 20th in san diego ( Read more... )

this shit is getting old.. it's like.. the muster capitol of the world here.. Great Lakes.. Great Mistakes.. yeah i gotta follow rules but come on! we're all human beings here, some of the stuff we muster for is just down right retarded. i class up for my final classes on the 27th and im on holds for now.. which sucks.. i get no time to eat at all ( Read more... )