YARD UPDATE: well things seem to be going well. at least on the operations side; new equipment being installed and old ones taken out. engineering, however is uncertain. rumors have it they're not sure if they can fix the shaft bearings or something. we might even get extended an extra month because of it. but thats purely speculation.

yesterday was a day off. a bunch of the OS's, and me, went to a baseball game; Orieols and Nationals. it was good. great food, plenty of drinks. all free. nice day too, however a little hot. and sunny. so most of us, including me, left around the 5th inning. it was fun.

now i have duty today. and thats not so fun...

finally started getting my Petty Officer Third Class (E-4) pay!!!

thats an extra 100 bucks for me!!


pretty cool. on top of that, im on duty. not so cool. though i dont have a watch today. that IS cool. i am duty driver. semi cool...

oh, and im bringing back my " Hammer Driver " thoughts like i started back in '03....

so;
Hammer Driver: i am REALLY hungry....too much alcohol last night...Burger King here i come!

okay. well. take a look.

whats new? everything!!

i changed the look once again. i was getting bored of the last layout. granted it was a work of art, all made beautiful with pure HTML (and some CSS...), and entirley done by me, buuuut times change.
this time i went with a pre-made template. and with the new blogger you can do a lot more editing than the older version. so it works out. and im sure ill be tweaking here and there until its perfect!

thats that.

FRIDAY!

today we had our monthly "deglam" day. which means no work. which is good.
it was nice today. upper 70's. so what better way to spend it than having a cook out?
well thats what we did. a bunch of the division guys and i got together and had us a cook out. we had hamburgers and hotdogs and salads, and i even made a bad ass fruit salad! we played tennis and sat around talked. so far it has been really cool.

anyway, thursday morning something bad happened. one of the shipyard workers died on our flight deck. he simply collapsed. someone gave him cpr, but with no luck. the coroner came and all the yard supervisers, the fire department and EMS showed up and took the body away after a long investigation. they secured the quarter deck for a few hours. apparently the guy had a heart attack; he was on the hefty side too. its kindda scary to have that happen right on the ship...
goes to show how short life can be....

me and Steve are forming a paintball team for Batavia...calling it The MOB...

got the forum up and running!

http://themobpaintball.proboards43.com

also got the teams website up and running....its very basic, but i am planning to aquire a couple programs to make it better...

so for now: http://themobpaintballteam.tripod.com


...

had a gun shoot today. shot the 9 mm on some private range the ship rented out for the week.

its suppossed to be so we can get our gun quals to stand watches on the ship. and since there is a short of people who are qualified, they are trying to get as many as they can...qualed.

and of course, i didnt make the qualifying points necessary to...qualify.

tomarrow i go again. maybe ill make it.


whatever....

HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!!

weeeeell things arent good at home again.

Dave is in the hospital. again.

he admitted to the incident last week as intensional. took an overdose of his meds and some Benadryl. he told someone at school wednesday about it.

so the school called my parents and they picked him up and took him to the hospital. they put him in their care and said they'd keep him there for a week and evaluate him. after that he attends a couple days of a suicide prevention seminar.

there was a lot he said to the doc this time im not going into here, but things are making sense, although more questions are coming up. hopefully things will get all figured out and he gets the help he needs.

i just wish i was home to help....

everythings good with David now. he was let out of the hospital saturday. the conclusion was it was his medication that caused everything. he just had a high amount in his blood stream.
he goes to the doctor sometime this week to see about getting a lower dose, or a different type.

anyway, i went up to New York this weekend. visited with rob's family. it was cool, second time ive seen snow this year! we saw 300, that was excellent.

soooo now im just chillaxing at Rob's place. work tomarrow. fun fun....

i got some disturbing news today.

Last night, David was flown to the hospital. Apparently he ODed on something, and was hallucinating and having seizers.
Him and mom got into an aurgument last night, and he went for a walk to McDonalds.
sometime around 10pm (on Wednsday) he was found in the back on the floor. they called 911.

i talked to mom this morning, and she said he was slipping in and out of conscience, and had stopped breathing a few times. she said she would call me if anything changed; so far i havent heard from her. but things werent looking too good.

the doctors did a bunch of drug tests, but they came back negative. they're not sure if what he took will just pass through him, or if there will be more permanent effects.


i just pray nothing bad more will happen to him.


more to follow up...

Monday.

story time:

after work, i decide to drive out to the hardware store to pick up some duct tape, electrical tape, safety glasses, two heavy duty push brooms, and an orange safety vest. i head out on the highway, and soon realize im heading the wrong direction from my destination. so i come up with a plan to pull into the parking lot of a drug store to commence my three-point turn around.
i complete the 'round, and i am momentarily stopped at the exit to wait for an 18 wheeler to pass by. he does so, and as i pull out and make my approach into the other lane, some freakin' moron runs a stop sign on a 'one way' street and almost plows into me.

thanks to my superb driving skills and jack-rabbit quickness, i swerved and slammed on the brakes, inches before he had the chance to hit me. i threw a quick 'WTF' glance at him, to which he replyed with an 'oh shit, that could have been my ASS' look back at me. i soon realized i was in the oncoming path of cars, so i stepped on the gas and jerked my truck back onto the original course. i got situated onto the right path and, disgruntled, reached my destination.

the end!

this weekend has been nice. watching the UFC championship at Lee's right now. been drinking since 3pm....good times. good fights going on.

still looking to go home in April. hopign that goes through!

talked to Steve online today; been some time since i have. he seems to be doing good.
cant wait to see and drink with him again!