So I'm getting pretty good at the helm. I have a few hours of practice steering the ship now. They say I'm getting the hang of it rather quickly. Even Chief has complemented me, and he's pretty stingy on those.

At least there's one thing I'm good at on this boat.

So my date with Stephanie went all right. No kiss or anything. I am interested in her, but I'm not in love. I hope that comes with time, though I'm not going to end my search for the perfect woman quite yet. Maybe in a week or two if she makes some good moves ( Read more... )

I was bored Saturday, with no plans as usual. I gave Carlos a call, but he wasn't there. I decided to go down to the University of Pennsylvania to explore camups. Let me tell you, UW is an order of magnitude more beautiful! Still, it made me feel back at home, walking through a campus, with nearly everybody being my age ( Read more... )

There is an admiral visiting our ship tomorrow. We did lots of cleaning over the past two days, because he's a frigin' admiral! On our ship ( Read more... )

I met someone intriguing at a bar a week ago. We started talking, and he gave me his phone number, so I called him back this weekend ( Read more... )

PeTA is the medieval church of vegetarianism.

As I mentioned in the post below, I got World of Warcraft for Christmas. I, of course had to buy myself a laptop with an air card, totaling almost $2000 with all the software and service added on ( Read more... )

Well, guess how my Christmas was? I had to stand watch on the ship. Boo! It wasn't too bad. The cook wasn't there, but he hooked us watchstanders up with steak and lobster tails for us to cook. Yummy ( Read more... )

Now that I'm all settled in in my new place, it hit me that I have no human contact. There is the crew on the Tate, and 2 girls stationed at the base that I went through boot camp with. I need to start meeting people badly ( Read more... )

So I had a weigh-in yesterday. Looks like I've lost 10 lbs since it all began back in September.

In unrelated news, the FS1 cooked us king crab legs for dinner today, and I stuffed myself half-silly. Hmm, no steak to go with them this time. He's spoiling us less than usual. Did we do something bad?