Under two weeks and over three hundred pages of notes.  This is a new level of ridiculousness.  Especially after having a four hour exam over it all yesterday.  We even took notes on things after the exam that were on the exam.  I guess it's safe to say that we're getting pretty used to it though ( Read more... )

Hey I'm updating this to update it.  I had a great time this weekend at the beach, bbq, and pasta party.  I'm glad I'm actually doing something with my time off.  I'm still on 12 hour work days for now.  Hopefully that will change after this here 4 hour exam on Thursday.  Radcon and chemistry make for a very dry combination ( Read more... )

Leave was amazing.  But now I'm back at work.  First day feels like I'm not going to have a life for the next couple months and that I'm going to miss out on things that I was hoping to make room for.  I'm supposed to return to my old crew in 5 weeks and the scheduling may just be coincidence, but I seem to be getting the worst possible deal for ( Read more... )

I have yet another graduation coming up on Friday.  This one is kinda bullshit though.  It's not a school.  It's work.  It's the same thing I'll be doing at sea.  I'm gonna have to qualify and learn a new plant.  Except when I qualify on a commissioned boat they're just gonna be like, "It's about damn time, you can now support the watchbill ( Read more... )

I've been in the navy 21 months.  I am now nuclear qualified.  When they said two years, they weren't kidding.  And I just had to go put in a package for Engineering Laboratory Technician too.  That'll be another three months ( Read more... )

So, high pressure steam hurts.  Good to know ( Read more... )

Natalie Portman, Audrey Hepburn, Elinor Blake, Victoria Bergsman, Amber Webber... All women I want to marry, but probably will never even meet ( Read more... )

I just found this.  Kanye West did before me and ripped them off, or so I hear.
Heed their advice and watch it in HD.  Preferably fullscreen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LG39Wp7OzQ
Seriously, right when you click the link pause it and hit the HD button on the right below the video.

 I clicked the link to a post a new entry and it asked if I wanted to restore from a saved draft.  I wondered what I had felt was worth writing but had not posted.  Nothing came up.  So the answer to my query is nothing ( Read more... )

I have a new hobby.  At work we have these Skilcraft spiral-bound memorandum notebooks that have written on the bottom, "Created with pride by Americans who are blind."  Every time I see one sitting idle I one line "blind" and write "zombies."