duty today. yay. had some bullshit m14 watch. 4pm-8pm. boring.

my friend Brandon got his car back today. he lent it out about a month ago to his then girlfreind. she ended up not returning it, so he declared it stolen. it was crazy. the police were trying to catch her but they always seemed to be one step behind. she turned out to be a con artist of a sort; had a list of warrents in many states, the whole shebang. brandon's dad worked for the fbi so he started his own investigation and found out all the in depth info on her, and helped the local police out. so finally after a month someone set her up; told her to meet them at a certain place, then turned around and tipped off the police were they caught her in Suffolk, VA at 8:00 this morning. the police wanted brandon to come out there and identify her, so he did, and later him and a few police officers stopped by her house where he found his car. a couple dents and scratches, but it was still intact. he has court coming up sometime soon to convict her, but no worrys. theres tons of evidence to support his side, and she has nothing.
its kindda funny really, how she thought shed get away with all this.

but time eventually catches up to you.

anywho, i did nothing today. and now im going to bed. bordem can wear you out...

.RocK.

oh ya. today is also the 2nd anniversary of my journal. two years of rambling and bitching. and still going strong.

...

okay back to bordem.

.RocK.

damn. going back in time here....
so saturday was busy. not really but okay. woke up, had breakfast at my place, ashley came by and brought us a box of doughnuts. it was good. then me and steve went to go look for a car for me; unsuccessful however. so we went back to my house and chilled there. perry came by a little afterwards. we talked, joked, beat eachother up and whatnot. kyle came home during his break and said laura and kelly wanted to stop by. so he went and picked them up and brought them back and we all hung around outside, causing ruckus as usual. laura was trying on steves gear. we were all being loud as hell and running around in the street and probably freaking out all the passing drivers. good times. dinner came around and we all had dinner at my place. afterwards we hung around some more, i showed everyone the pictures from overseas and stuff, then laura and kelly went home, and me, steve, and perry went to johns place. we all went to fridays. went back to his place and chilled there. slept there. woke up there. said my good byes. headed home and went to mass with the fam. went out to apple villa. then we all drove to the airport. said my good byes to the family. checked in. got on my plane. flew. landed in norfolk. brandan picked me up. went to hooters. ate. drove back to base. now im here typing. after this im going to bed.

and thats it. it was great to come home for a couple days i needed it. now i have to wait a month till my next visit.....

.RocK.

wooooooooo okay so here i am at home, and boy so far im glad i came.

last night myself, my brother kyle, steve, and his friend perry went to johns place for some....um....koolaid. we covertly got them down to the basement and busted them open and were mixin' and swiggin'. we were doing good. then the cd player some how found its way down to the basement, and for some odd reason music started playing. now were mixin' and swiggin' and singin' and dancin'. this goes for a few hours, it gets more rambucious...

and now the cool part.

in the wee hours of the morning, a someone (i wont mention a name for securities sake) came down and sat us on the couch and yelled at us; indirectly kicked us out; for the...koolaid...and our loudness and whatnot. but first we had to clean our messes up and tidy up the house. we did. then we packed all our stuff and went back to my house and crashed. slept hard..

all in all, it was worth it, each of us had a freakin badass time, and although it didnt turn out quite like we may have hoped, twas still fun.
i wonder what tonight holds for us.

thank you god for koolaid.....

.RocK.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY

although i will be on base today, i might eat at the ship...guess they having this big turkey dinner. good food for once...

so it looks like i wILL be coming home for a couple days!
my friends Cat bought a ticket for tomarrow morning, and i said i would find a way back. probably look for a car while im down there, then drive back. or fly. whatever comes first. so ya, ill get to hang out with friends and visit the family afterall, and not have to spend the four days off on base. niiiice.

kindda bored now. no one is around. pretty vacant...music time.

.RocK.

Thanksgiving weekend as come.

and i have duty today.

havent done much these past few days; worked, hung around on base...worked.

me and my buddy Brandon visited someone he knew from 'A' school the other day. that was cool. we bowled, drove around, stopped by his parents house. fun.

looked for a car yesterday. found a nice one on autotrader.com, got to the dealership where he told me he sold it five days ago.
well what the hell, then take it down from the list online!! that always pisses me off...

so ya, i didnt get a car before this long weekend like i had hoped, so now i cant drive home like i had hoped. BUT suppossedly someone is on their way down to pick me up...just waiting for the call that says they have arrived. we'll see

otherwise nothing else.

although me and Brandon came across some FUCKED up video on ebaumsworld.com......
youve got to check it out so CLICK OVER HERE.

.RocK.

last day of the long awaited three-day weekend.

events that took place:

friday i slept most the day. one of my buddies got the computer game Rainbow Six 3...played that after my nap....till 5 am...holy shit that game is tight.

saturday i slept most the day, again. played Rainbow Six 3 afterwards, again. bought some cd's too.

today i didnt sleep most the day. did play the game for an hour or so. and now im here and looking at cars online...hopefully i can find one before thursday so i can drive home for the holiday weekend...Steve is up on leave; want to hang out with him before he leaves for his deployment next year.

other than that tomarrow holds whatever might happen. so until then im going to finish drinking my Koolaid Burst.

.RocK.

another work day gone by.

wait. no i have duty today. so the work day continues.

its been an easy day so far; painted a few things, sweapt some dirt up...chilled the other times.

tomarrow is a deglam day...no work. nice.

got the 8pm - 11pm, M-14 watch. hope that changes though...

otherwise nothing to do.

as usual.


.RocK.

school began. and ended.

last day was today. ran some sea and anchor scenerios, discussed how we did, took a written test, and then we were outta there! never again will i have to go back....until we're schedualed for our qualifications.
whenever that will be i do not know.
and at this point in time i do not care.

all that matters is we were done by 11am, and i dont have to see the ship until tomarrow morning.

ah yes, the day is starting to look better already...



last night me and some friends went to Golden Corral; it was their annual "free food for all veterans and active duty military" night. it was freakin awesome! a drink with unlimited refills and full dinner buffet; ALL FREE!
it was nice to see $0.00 on my reciept. scrumpcious food not to mention.

very well spent was the hour and a half wait to be seated. line was out the door and halfway down the parking lot!
but how could you NOT pass up free food?

i definetly took full advantage of it....

.RocK.

school again today.

radar navigation school. basically a refresher that covers all the stations we man up for sea and anchor. its retarded and pointless, but for some odd reason all us OS's have to attend it.

its a two day thing, but still, the fact that i have to travel out to Dam Neck to the OS "A" school for this ticks me off. its not exactly a speedy trip, and i dread going on the base i just came from and hated not too long ago.

BUT it beats painting and cleaning the ship.
so i guess its not as bad as it sounds.

and the class is easy. so i presume i have no room to complain.

but i will anyway because i can. and i dont want to erase all this and start over.

ahh the comfort of laziness.....

.RocK.

weekends.

yesterday i didnt do anything.
today i didnt do anything.

its great. i did buy some cd's yesterday actually. good cd's. i needed some new stuff. still slowly rebuilding the collection. have a lot more to go....

otherwise thats the only exciting thing i did this entire freakin weekend.
monday i start school for some more training. this shit just never ends.

last night my mother called me. she told me they bought a 42" plasma tv the other day.
what the hell they didnt buy one while i was still home? damn...but thats cool ill have something to look forward to when im back home on leave next. still.....

oh well back to................nothing.

.RocK.

veterans day. and i have duty. this sucks. but i havent a watch so thats alright. still...

yesterday was my best friend Steve's birthday. he is 20. ive known him for 9. too bad he had to spend it at Ft Drum...

i was (and still am) very bored. so i updated my Myspace stuff. after that i went to Google.com and searched up official band websites. after looking through those i searched up random shit. after a few minutes of that i lost interest and decided to update here.

now i am left with a dilema. what to do next?

thus i leave to continue my crusade to stop world bordem.

.RocK.

fianlly back from Florida. it was boring. as expected.

the trip back was long. and annoying. and boring.

the last day, though was intersting. here goes:
el capitain wanted to do a man overboard drill. but instead of telling us it was a drill, he played it off like it was the real thing. and when the real thing happens, CIC (were i work) gets all chaotic; radio transmissions go out, plotting on charts and calculations go on...crazy. so we're doing all that and as we are turning the ship around to retrieve the "man" in the water, one of the water feeds for one of the two boilers in the engine room stopped sucking in water. so the boiler lost its fire and stopped providing juice for the generator, and the entire ship had a power loss for a few seconds. well that fucked everything up, and since CIC is 99% electronics (very important electronics mind you) we lost all radars, communications, indentificators; EVERYTHING was down.

ha holy shit it was funny as hell!!

so now its even more chaos as we try to get everything back up and running, while maintaining the man overboard proceedures. man it was crazy.

anywho after a few minutes we got our radars going and comms up and whatnot and all was eventually calm. the captain later came over the loudspeaker and indirecty appoligized for the causulty.

boy that was a thrill. pretty cool with all the yelling and running around and me just sitting there laughing inside.


but ya other than that, tomarrow is a day off for everyone else but me. why?

DUTY.

figures...

.RocK.

today was long.

woke up this morning for duty section turnover. didnt plan on doing much of anything. an announcment was made there were three extra tickets for the Jaguars vs. Texans football game.

i thought, eh what the hell. so i bout one. cheap; only $8.

got on the bus, spent too long of a ride on it, and finally clawed my way through the crowd and clammered up the stairs to my seat. a few buddies of mine came along so i sat with them.
twas pretty cool; my first football game. except it was hotter than all hell, and i only had $2 and the card swipper things at all the concession stands werent working, so i was thirsty as all hell, and there were those really annoying fans behind me screaming in my ears like all hell; otherwise it was cool. Jaguars won 21 to 14.

after the game and after we got back on base me and the guys that came with went bowling. i bombed horribly. played some arcade games too. i was pretty good at that.

we had to be back on the ship by 10pm, and by then it was almost that time. we walked back, came aboard, and now im here typing falling asleep...

we head back to Norfolk tomarrow afternoon. good.

and now the day is done.

.RocK.

i ended up going out in town with Beach last night. drove around. stopped by the mall and walked around in there. bought an ICP hat. then we left and drove some more. we went out to where all the big ass beach houses and such where. holy shit they were huge! insane.

later we came back to base and i went to bed. woke up today to a duty day. had the 4pm - 8pm m-14 roving watch. boring as usual.

went to Mcdonalds and got a huge sack of food. i was starving. it was good.

still no plans for tomarrow. guess ill just play it by ear like i normally do.

now im bored and tired and full of food.

bedtime id say.


.RocK.

in Mayport, Florida. its sunny. and hot. and theres not much to do thats close by.

its great. tons of fun.
and i have duty tomarrow. whats cool is we are here for three days. then we leave monday and dont return to Norfolk until thursday. i love it.

sense the sarcasm..?

the only good thing is a buddy of mine from boot camp and "A" school is stationed here. walked past his ship actually to get to the internet oasis. might have to give him a call. hopefully he can help me out in finding whats good to do.

until then i must suffer.


.RocK.

today is the day. Florida trip.

12pm is the time of departure. and im not looking forward to it. our cheif has been pretty edgey, and on deployments its worse. oh boy.

cant wait till were back...

.RocK.