well here i am.
where might you ask?
still in Norfolk!!

apparently something in the engineering plant is all screwed up, so our boilers cant function correctly. and thats bad.

so now its DAY 2 of Cruise 2008 Boiler Mayhem! and the catch is everyone has to stay onboard. so its like we are at sea, when in reality we are still freakin tired up to the pier! and no one can escape.

they ordered some new parts for whatever needs fixing, so we shall see if the problem will prevail or be dominated.

the battle is ON!!

well three more days until i deploy!!

got a few things to get before we leave. but otherwsie im set to go!

rumors have it we may be back in July. but thats not confirmed.

tomarrow is a day off. so thats nice!

Operation: Final Farewell was not much of a huge success.

sure i had fun, and spent some quality time with the family. but that time felt way too short. also my laptop finally crapped out on me. total lose; all my music, pictures, videos, programs....all gone. forever. i was (and still am) royally PISSED.

anyway finally hung with Joe and Steph on Saturday. went to Meijer, caused mayhem as usual. played some Guitar Hero too.
also Saturday me and MB went to a couple bars. i pretty much got hammered! it was awesome. i felt a little woozy the next morning, but got over it.

it snowed hard friday, so me and Steven and Dave were outside building a snow fort. it looks pretty good! we never really finished it though; got too cold. sunday it snowed a little too so we were back out there in the snow. it was bitter cold later that evening. i thought my flight would be canceled! but it was only delayed 30 minutes. something like -10!

so now we leave for deployment the 20th. it might be cut down to a 4 monther, but thats just a rumor for now. we should know whats up by friday.

i got all my deployment shopping done. spent like 500 bucks total! but i needed all that stuff. got my tax return the 8th, so that covered all the expenses. just got to call the car insurance and get a deployment suspension on it. then its long-term parking for the truck, and im 100% ready to make some big bucks!!

its pouring rain right now. and that sucks.

day three.

went to a bar with Catherine last night. met up with Mitch and Joe. hung out there, drank, went back to her place when everyone else left; good times!

ive missed the snow for far too long!

something about a "winter snow warning" for my county.

perfect.

well i made it. just as we landed i huge overcast came rolling in, and i heard as i was walking out the airport that a bunch of flights got delayed or cancelled. haha. just in time.

got home, after liann got off work we did shots of Mountain Dew to celebrate her getting her license. we killed a 2 liter in 30 minutes! crazy. almost sickening. then we watched Robin Hood Men In Tights.
first day home catagorized as: SUCCESS!!

Operation: Final Farewell has been delayed.

the flight was suppossed to take off at 1:51pm. i got to the airport at noon. it wasnt till 10pm when they finally cancelled it. delay after delay.....10 hours at the freakin airport!!
the reason??

FOG. it was natures wrath of FOG at O'Hare that caused all this.
im still pissed.

so they put me down for the same flight, only for today. we'll try it again!!!

today is the day. in about an hour i head on over to the airport, and my trip begins.

Operation: Final Farewell is kicking off...

Operation: Final Farewell starts tommarrow! we have an awards ceramony in the morning, but im hoping to be off of work by noon. then its Batavia here i come!