I have duty today. Yuck. I always hate duty on Saturdays, for obvious reasons. (I totally miss the fam, I'm doing work stuff, I get cheated out of sleeping in ( Read more... )

Hello, friends. :-) I haven't journaled in a bit. I was underway for a couple of months, and I swear we have the equivalent of like a 300 baud modem underway (anyone remember those?). At least we have something, but it's unbearable to load webpages (although I tolerate loading my wife's journal, that's it though...)

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So sometimes I don't write as much as I should becuase my whole life revolves around my ship, and I am a bit hesitant to talk about my ship online becuase they tell us all the time that someone could get information from things like this and plan attacks, etc., etc., but I do want to write a few things that I've been thinking about ( Read more... )

So I haven't made a legitimate post in a while, but I couldn't resist a rant ( Read more... )

So, a few big things have happened lately ( Read more... )

"The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "Five Weird Habits of Yourself" and the people who get tagged need to then write a LJ entry about their five quirky little habits as well as state the rules of this game clearly. In the end, you need to list the next five people who you want to tag ( Read more... )

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My wife, always the coolest person ever, got me an iPod for Christmas. Yay! I've been wanting one, but I thought it was too expensive to buy for myself. It's the perfect gift for me, mr. music addict. I've been listening to it almost nonstop since I opened it up and ripped all my CDs ( Read more... )

...getting to play with all the toys before the kids look at them! A darth vader voice-changer helmet? I'm not going to be able to pry that away from my son for a while, so I got my time in with it tonight. If it wasn't so loud, I'd still have it on ( Read more... )

It's easy to fall out of the habit of journal-writing, I blame my lapse on a lot of things, from actually being busy on the ship, to having my wife's wonderfully thorough journal to chronicle our experience in Japan, to laziness, etc. But I decided to jot down a few thoughts ( Read more... )