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Thank you to Lissa silverladyS9SF for letting me post this, since she surprised me by coming out to visit over Christmas, my week is pretty much covered by what she wrote! So, read on, keeping in mind this was written from her point of view, not mine, and I'm not a lazy bastard so much as pressed for time! I love you all, and I hope soon I'll be able to get a ( Read more... )

Today has been the definition of an easy day. Spent the whole day working with SeaBees, which are basically Navy constuctionworkers... and yeah, we did nothing but bullshit for the first four or five hours. Outstanding. we got to check out this machine that works like a laser printer, only it burns into almost anything, wood, metal, brick, glass ( Read more... )

We're having a major suck inspection today - our Captain is going to inspect the entire ship (our barracks). We've been cleaning like it's cool. Over, and over, and over. I scrubbed a mop bucket today, just to be doing something useful. Now we're at another building, working as guinea pigs on computers. They are changing all the classes we will ( Read more... )

NOW HEAR THIS! NOW HEAR THIS!

I get my cell phone back sometime tomorrow! I got it from Lissa today, but I have to go to the post office tomorrow to pick it up. SOOooo, I will be able to call people more, and actually recieve calls, when I'm not working anyway. So, happy news abound!

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WRITE ME BITCHES!!

FR Shaffer Jesse P.
BEQ 635 RM J-202
SSC/NTC
320 Dewey Avenue
Great Lakes, IL 60088

Jesse's succesfully graduated from boot camp. He'll be moving to "A" School sometime this week, and his classes start next Monday. Soon he will be able to make phonecalls and, no doubt, access the internet.