im back! since yesterday evening!

we ended up pulling in yesterday. we did pretty good with ATG and all the drills. it was ruthless. lost a lot of sleep. but its over now.

anyway, Operation: Homecoming Of Best Friends is upon us. in fact, i added a few days onto it! so instead of leave the 6th, im heading out on the 3rd! i got my full 12 days of greatness, thats all i care about. im throwing a 69 Customs BBQ sometime on the weekend, dont know when though. ill figure it out. im just excited im able to participate in this awesome operation.

anywho back to duty.

MONDAY. marks the first day ATG come aboard. later this afternoon we send out a couple boats to pick up the assessors made up of master chiefs, senior chiefs and a few high ranking officers. and for the next three days its non-stop drill after drill after drill...
its going to be rough.

probably not going to get a lot of sleep. missed meals. and assortment of ass chewing. and plenty of frustration on the side.

but Friday we pull in early, though i have duty that day i will be looking forward to the weekend.

we leave for our scheduled underway time tomorrow morning, 9 o'clock.

fun.

saw two movies for the price of one today.
Ocean's 13 ... very very good, recommend it.
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer ... never saw the first one, but it wasnt bad.

now: im going to bed.

a story!

. . .

so im sitting quietly in my workspace glued to the tele, when theres an abrupt announcement over the 1MC about pizzas available on the pier.
well shasta, now im hungry!!
so i waltz down to the gate, slide up to the pizza guy in his gray Honda, and score a medium pepp. 11 bucks. i hand 'im a 20.
i get the change back. i sift through the green of George, when i come across something red printed on one of 'em.
i pull out this 1 dollar bill, read the message:
"track me! visit www.wheresgeorge.com now!"
okay....

i skip back to the ship, clamber up to my workspace, and grab a couple slices outta the box as i swoop onto the computer.
i gain access to the net, intensely punch the letter and punctuation combination into the address bar, and hit the ENTER button....

i am sucked into a virtual world of money, green, and thousands of these "registered" bills.
what...is this? i manage to say to myself, while still in awe...

i read hundreds of pages, profiles, faq's and stories.
i consequently decide, eh; ill give this a shot.

i register my name and adjoining info, get my bill i got with the stamp registered as well, and
BOOM.
im into the groove.

i found out my first George bill has been registered before by some chick in VA Beach...
that was ten days ago she put it in the system.
score one, i think.

i quickly yank out the rest of my loot,
and like a little school boy attending a Sex Ed class, excitedly punch in the numbers for all my bills.
im now up to 8 registered bills.
pretty nifty.

soon i will begin the circulation of these bills, and hope to see when and when they will show up in the hands of other inquiring minds such as mine...

the day is done. victory is all mine.


. . .

END.

this weekend is a relaxing one. except for duty all day tomarrow, im sitting around surfing the net or watching movies or sleeping. im putting my leave chit for Operation: Homecoming Of Best Friends! in on monday. hoping it gets approved. we are suppossed to be underway july 16-19, but my chief said he would talk to the upper chain of command and see if i can get let go instead. which would be the shit. two weeks of vacation is what i really need...

weeeell im back from Boston. and i must say, it was a complete BLAST!

saturday me and Jeff and Lee went and did some bar hoping out in town. there are so many damn bars!
we went to this restaurant called Dick's Last Resort. ive heard about it, but never been there. it was my first time, and it rocked! the staff there are rude and make fun of you. you can be rude back too ha its awesome. anyway, we left after we ate, but came back an hour later; man there were so many bachlarette parties there! at one point in time there had to be at least 8 parties, and we were the main attraction. all the girls wanted pics with us and of us! most had this scavenger hunt list and we had to do some of the things on them; like show a body part, or get a "blowjob" or dance on the bar. ha it was so much fun, there were sooo many hotties! afterwards we left and met Tim and his cousin Cassie at a bar her boyfriend works at. that was fun too, we played pool until the bar closed. Sunday me and Tim went to another little bar and met up with some of the crew. just talked and drank a little and watched various sports games. Boston, man, the people there are extremely nice and friendly. most anywhere we went to we got something for free; a meal, drinks, admittence fees...people would buy us drinks or the bar would give us some on the house. theres a lot to do and see, and a lot of history. i saw the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy. the crew was in the towns Bunker Hill parade and we got many kudos. man i didnt want to leave! its so much better than Florida, were we normally go. i think after the success and welcoming people, we'll be going back more often.

score one!

anyway, today im heading to Collin's place. his wife is making bacon cheeseburgers and invited me.

score two!

friday.

three days until we leave for Boston. sweet!

i am planning a BBQ BASH for when im home on leave in (hopefully) July. its going to be awesome. ima invite everyone.
well most everyone anyway.
either way theres going to be tons of food, drinks, music and games. ill bust dad's grill out and the fire pit later that night. awesome eh?

by the way, Steve came back to the states last Saturday!! he called me when i was in D.C. we talked. hes chillin' now for a few months. got a sweet barracks room he said. glad hes back safe and sound.

cant wait to get back to partying!