new day.

school was longer. had to review for the test tomarrow. fun.

bought some SHOES today! been so long since ive worn shoes; ive always worn boots for the past three years now. comfy shoes they are...man ive missed out!

duty tomarrow. should be a short one, due to this school. we'll see.

i start "cranking" friday; working for the CS's. thatll be a fun 4 months...not really. but i got to do it.

monday we head out for a week. doing b.s. drills and such. great. schedualed to pull back in on valentines day. wow thats nice. figures they do something like that. oh well.

music time.

hahaaa. Cathrine and i totally just planned a trip to SWITZERLAND!!

we're planning to go to Zurich. they got a ton of outdoors stuff and city stuff to do. i looked online today and compared airline prices. about $700 round-trip for a 1.5 week stay, and i found a hotel in the country side for $90 a night for a room. sweeeeeet. not sure how long we'll be staying, so it might end up being cheaper. in May, when im on leave, is our schedualed OUTTA-COUNTRY-DATE!!

anyway, tomarrow im going to try and find out the exact dates for my leave so i can scheduale appropriatly. then its off to SWITZ!!

this will be awesome!

well boat control school started again today. boring last time, boring this time.
but it gets me off of working on the ship. nice.

no plans for today. probably chill with friends.

kyles birthday is today. 18 he is. cool stuff. almost 21 ha.

bought another Bloodhound Gang cd today. good stuff.

worked on brandons car audio. his system keeps cutting in and out. theres loose wires somewhere in the car, just have to find where. didnt succeed at that though. oh well.

boat control school starts again tomarrow. oh boy. fun.

rob told me a sad event that happened the other night.
a couple crew members were on their way back to base,and were on some contry road when the driver fell asleep at the wheel. the car started to drift. the passenger noticed it and tryed to correct it, but ended up over compensating. the details rob got arent clear, but it sounds like the car lost control, spun around and flew into a small ditch, which flipped the car and ejected it into the air where it hit a couple trees and crashed onto the ground upside down. needless to say whatever happened, the driver was ejected out the car and died instantly. the passenger walked away from it all.

they think alcohol was involved, but when we talked to the MA on our ship, he said alcohol was not. a freak accident of a sort.

pretty screwed up though, one day your talking to these two guys on the ship, and before you know it one is dead and the other in critical condition.

makes you appreciate life a whole lot more.


well, back to music.

had to reboot WindowsXP on my computer the other day. some glitches were annoying me.
so today was spent ripping and downloading all the music i had on it. 500 some songs. painfully long. but its done.

played counterstrike against steve. won a few times. still getting the hang of it.

thats about all. saw Underworld:Evolution yesterday with rob and phil. that was pretty good,i recommend it. might see another movie tonight.
if i decide to get off my ass.

i need some motivation.......like not having anything to eat in my room.

good enough for me..

.RocK.

duty yesterday. pretty easy. 12pm-4pm rover watch. thing that sucked was the fact that it was cold as hell. windy too.

deglam day today. no work; three day weekend. sweet.

steve called me yesterday. said he finally made Specialist. bout time! thats cool though.
he leaves very soon for afganistan. be there for a year. so good luck to him, i know he will come back safe.

sooo now im bored. and tired. nap time sounds good...

.RocK.

headache.

just finished doing my taxes. god i hate them. with a passion.
so many numbers, so confusing instructions, so precise and stressfull.

thanks to TurboTax, though, it was easier.

still not fun. no state taxes though. thanks military!

AND i get a quadruple diget refund from the feds!
niiice.

and now all that mental work has made me quite hungry. starving really...


.RocK.

holy cow.
if this wasnt done by boredom himself, i must be insane.


wait, i DID make it.

'CRUDE' : the mini


.RocK.

found this cool website thats hosts videos for free.
figure id try it out.

enjoy.



From my port visit in Bulgaria.


From john and chia's basement while on leave for new years.


.RocK.

just played Counterstrike for the very first time.

HOLY SHIET! it kicks. its sick. it knocks your grandmas panties off!

okay back to gaming..

.RocK.

another day.

duty yesterday. had two barracks watches. in the morning and in the evening. fun.

today im updating my Counterstrike game. gunna battle with some fellow OS's later on. should be fun cant wait.

mom told me they got 6 inches of snow. dammit. i have nothing here but rain. dammit.


.RocK.

another day ended.

work was long. ran some drills. and training. it was pretty boring.

got back to the room, continued customizing my laptop.
downloaded and ripped some songs onto it. got quite a massive collection.
its great.

tomarrow (er, technically today) is a duty day.
i think i only have one watch; pier sentry 4am-8am.
also the duty driver. yippee.


.RocK.

so i bought some stuff for the laptop today.

a list:

-wireless mouse
-blank cds
-Counterstrike: Source

yes yes im moving up in the world.


.RocK.

wow. that was crazy.

to start off. Saturday was my duty day. it was easy. a barracks watch in the morning, and duty driver the rest of the day. no big deal. what made it freakin awesome was it SNOWED that night! and just a little powder flurry, a freakin horizontal white out snow storm!! it kicked ass!!
so i finally saw snow. i was happy.

so sunday we were suppossed to go out eraly that morning. well the seas were real rough, so our time got pushed back not once, but three times. finally around dinner we sailed away, seas still rough, but a little calmer.

monday was a day in the history books for my ship, the mighty USS Nashville. the navy is buying these unmanned aircrafts called UAV's. there're still in testing, and up until monday were NEVER tested on a ship underway. but that all changed, because that day we successfully landed this UAV (this particular prototype was a helocpter, about the size of a vw) onboard our flight deck while moving. it was really cool! there were news cameras everywhere and photographers. it was neat to be the VERY FIRST SHIP in history to have a UAV land on it while underwy. im famous now!

anyway, tuesday was more testing, and we were suppossed to stay out until friday. but the seas were getting worse, and so bad that one of the big deck amphibious ships had some damage done to her. a couple communication antennas broke, some hull damage, and a major radar module broke off from its mount. some serious, not to mention expensive damage. so the commadore recalled all the ships that were in the area affected by this storm, and one of those ships was us. so we got to pull back into port three days early! hell i didnt complain one bit!

so here i am happy and telling the story. and now its done.
time to enjoy my new laptop more.


.RocK.

we finally pull in yesterday morning from a week and a half out at sea.
intersting i guess.

did a ton of drills, a ton of amphibious operations, and a ton of crap.
pretty eventless off the coaust of south carolina. warm weather though.

anyway yesterday friday the 13th was my 20th birthday. finally. no more teen junk. the big two zero. spent the day out with some friends,went to a bar and grill, then off to see Hostel. it was a good movie. could have been better, but still good.

so i bought myself a birthday present for...me. a Gateway notebook! pretty pimp too, and for under a grand it was worth it. setting it up as we speak. customizing as you will.

one less thing i have to lust over. because now i have it.


off to customize.

.RocK.

today was slow.

did a "mock underway" on the ship today. general quarters, abandon ship, sea and anchor drills...sucked.
finally got off of work, then me and brandon went to visit an old OS from the ship at the naval air base. talked with him. pretty cool. came back, listened to my new classical cds, now im bored.

got to get up early tomarrow. beginning of the 2 week cruise. got to be at work at 6am. dont come back until the 13th. on my birthday of course. fun stuff.

bed time.



.RocK.

leave came and went by fast. left yesterday around 4pm, later than anticipated.
got back to the ship at 7:30am; half hour late for work. oops. they didnt care though.

so now im relaxing from a very uneventful trip through rain, snow, fog, and more rain.
and it sucks to be back. we head out to sea for two weeks strating the 6th. crud.

but i did have fun at home, enjoyed it well, got some neat presents, and looking
forward to the next time i have leave.

now: movie time.

.RocK.

well the paintball game didnt go as planned. so we all hung out at my house. watched a movie. good movie it was. i bought a new phone the other day too. a nextel. cool phone, much better than the other one i had.

so today is the day i return. this afternoon josh is coming up to pick me up and were will head down south to "home". and be ready for work the next day. awesome.

now its time to pack.

.RocK.

so its the second to last day.

events that have happened:
steve and i went car shopping for all of about an hour. no luck. i decied i will wait until after our six month deployment to buy a car. more money, newer cars; better.
came back to my house and chillaxed.

plans for the rest of the day:
paintball this evening with the mob and laura and kelly.
partying later tonight.


.RocK.

new years eve was freakin awesome! there was music. there was tv. there was dancing there was singing there was ruckus and of course there was alcohol. my and kyle spent the time with the mob. good times. too much to discuss. lets just say it was well worth the sleep lost.

today me and kyle went driving around everywhere to find a certain jacket. a couple hours later we got it. then we spent time with the mob. now im home and going to watch a movie. kick ass.

popcorn time...

.RocK.