okay. so our captain decides he wants to deploy tomarrow, monday.
fine whatever. i still want to go.
after that, we come back for a little bit then its off to Fort Lauderdale, FL for...well, for the hell of it! cant wait for that...

then i dont know what after that trip. more port visits in good old Virginia.

.RocK.

my first deployment starts Tuesday. we're going out to do some testing, then coming back to port; all in all it should take about a week.

im really liking my ship. the crew is assome, and so far things are going pretty good. ive been walking around to get used to moving about the ship.

very cool stuff.

.RocK.

sweet. my ship came in last night.
i reported onboard this afternoon.

it rocks your socks. the berthing is small. and the racks are tiny a hell! not much storage either; just the room in your rack (which flips up) and a tiny ass locker. but i managed to smash everything and get it all to fit somewhere. but from what little i saw of the ship its assome.
tomarrow they will give me a tour. cant wait.

i think itll be some experience.

.RocK.

holy shitaki.
saw The Ring Two.

very good.
very suspensful.

the director is a mastermind.

i recommend you see it if you have not already.

go now.

.RocK.

damn the ladies here are fine. me and a couple buds went out to a club last night. met three chicks while there.
danced with them all night long. till 0200.
it was assome. i got like four hours of sleep, and i woke up this morning with aches and pains throughout me.
it was great.
cant wait for the next time its "dudes night out"...

(ive heard that somewhere but dont remember where.....fuck it.)

.RocK.

oh:

Jolly St.Patrick's Day mates!

.RocK.

woot.
Norfolk is MUCHO better than OS "A". a hell of a lot bigger too! its like a fuckin small city! assome.

okay, so i get here last night, and my buddy that came and picked me up and i are cruising by the piers to find my ship. well we drive past all the piers; twice, and couldnt find the USS Nashville. we're like Wiskey Tango Foxtrot.
So we stop and ask one of the gaurds for some direction, and he says he doesnt know. but he gets on his phone and calls some poeple, and when he returns he says:
well it seems the Nashville is already out to sea.
me: Wiskey Tango Foxtrot.

so we go to the barracks office, and tell the dude im reporting to the Nashville and its not in homeport. he says okay, and i fill out some paperwork and sign shit. he gives me a room key and says to go to building number L-KK.

so my bud and i are driving around for almost a half-hour looking for L-KK. its not anywhere. Wiskey Tango Foxtrot.
we stop at another office and ask the person there. they dont know where it is, but call someone instead. that someone responds with the building name; Constellation Hall; and tells us its behind the office we were just at.
so we drive to it and sure enough the building number we were givin and the number on the building itself dont even match!
Wiskey Tango Foxtrot.

so at any rate i check into my room and unpack and go to bed. then i woke up this morning, went to a brief and was told ill be here on land until my ship returns, which might not be for who knows how long, took a urinalisis, and now im here at a computer typing seeing this is long as hell and feeling very hungry.

its food time so thats all ive got.

.RocK.

THE END HAS ARRIVED; AND THE BEGINNING HAS STARTED!!!

i leave today. TODAY. ive been waiting and finally its here!
i had a semi-good time here at "A" school. it was easy to get used to, and now its time to move on.
in a way, NOW the real work starts. cant wait.
in just a few hours all my Navy knowledge will be put to the test. i just hope i can accomplish and carry out whatever i am told to do. as long as you do the work like you are told, five years in the Navy will fly. thats what i hope for. do what i am trained to do, and have fun when let loose to do so; that is what is driving me. hopfully itll be a good experience, and i can leave happier when my time is up.
i realize there will be many days im going to hate with a passion, but thats how it has always been. there really isnt any kind of hardship i havent yet endured, so i hope i am ready for more. the Navy has taught me alot in these past five months, so i think i can take it.
if shit does get so bad to deal with, i just think to myself, there is someone out there who is right now having it worse than me, and he or she is still going along. so deal with it. it works.

well, (again) im not sure how long or if at all i will be able to post here, but either way, if you are reading this (obviously you would be) enjoy your day; i will try to make the best out of mine, and until next time:

.RocK.

ONE MORE DAY.

HELL YES.
i was ready weeks ago but either way tomarrow is the day of reckoning!

.RocK.

woot. three more days. then im outta here.
im counting them down...

.RocK.

wow.
so i was bored today. and i updated my "profile" section.

not bad id say.

.RocK.

my best friend PFC Schroeder from the Army returned to his base in New York yesterday. he was out in Florida training in the feild. 50-cal mountee is what he's doing. he leaves for Iraq sometime in the near future.
so he called me at 2200 last night and we talked for a little bit. said it was hot in Florida, and then he comes back to New York and his car is buried under snow.
i laughed.
said there arent many hot chicks down there.
i laughed.
said he was bored way to often while there.
i laughed.
then he said he was going to kick my ass if i didnt stop laughing.
i paused. then i laughed.
then my phone ran out of juice and died.
i laughed and cursed at the phone.
but all in all it was cool to hear from him, for the short two minutes it was.
ill call back today sometime. maybe around 2400. mwaha!

.RocK.

VICTORY IS MINE!!

i have ONCE AGAIN changed the layout of my blog.

i like it. it took me forever to compose. well not really ive done shit like this before. but i did take a TON of breaks so thats probably why it felt like it took so long.

so here it is and here it stays. until i get tired of it.

.RocK.

okay, so i REALLY leave 16 March 2005. thats my TRANSFER date.
i have to REPORT to my ship no later than 25 March 2005.
which means i can take about a week-and-a-half of leave to go home if i so desire.
nice huh?

theres a catch. i have to have that amount of days in the books in order to take leave.
but i spent TWELVE days of it after boot camp. i had only earned FIVE days after boot camp, so i went "into the hole". which means i was -7 days when i arrived here. and i have to earn that ALL back. and by the end of this month, i will only have HALF-A-DAY of "positive" leave on the books.

so that means im spending my time in Virginia. oh boy.

.RocK.

haha! i got the rest of my orders today.
no later than 25 March 2005 is when i have to report.
im excited. cant wait. wanna get out of here.
now.


oh yeah, i painted a room at medical today. by myself.
i was suppossed to have two other shipmates come over and help me, but they never showed up. so HT2 (the guy i work for) called my RDO and complained. i doubt the RDO really cared though, as long as i got the work done.
dammit.


and i actually snowed today. blizzard style too. its bad ass! i love that kind of weather.

thats all.
.RocK.

woot! graduation came and went. it was cool. small and short but cool. so now i am OFFICIALLY done. and on hold. still. until my report date comes in.

in the mean time in going back to bed...

.RocK.

haha
the graduation ceremony is in two days Friday 04 MAR 2005.
finally.

.RocK.