Saturday, March 26, 2011

Well, it almost 2300 and we are underway due to the radiation fall-out in Japan. This isn't even funny. I am supposed to be transferring in about 7-8 days, and now it looks like we may not be in port for me to leave. I'm starting to lose my mind with all of this crap. We're doing absolutely nothing out here, just doing circles. Absolutely no point.

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Well, it's been a while since I've been on here. Guess things got really boring....Well an update on everything that has went down since the last post. We were underway all the way up until late November and then we pulled back into Yokosuka and went into a holiday stand-down. There were 4 leave periods, and I chose the 2nd out of them. I was on leave from December 27th until early January. I didn't leave Japan because I didn't want to spend the money on a plane ticket to go home when I would be transferring in a couple of months. I would go out and roam around the first few days, and in order to save money on hotel rooms, I would just go to the internet cafe to sleep and shower in my friends barracks room. After January 1st, my really good friend who is a civilian offered for me to stay at her apartment because she didn't like me staying at the internet cafe everynight lol. Well, I agreed and went to stay with her for the remainder of my leave. She's always been such a good friend to me. I had a good time and got to spend time with two of my best friends for a little more than a week. It was a great time. Other than that, it is now March 7th and I transfer in almost exactly 30 days. I'm looking forward to finally going home and having some freedom!!!! Well, Everyone, have a great day!!

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Well, today was a pretty smooth day. We had our normal cleaning stations from 0730-0830, and then we had a General Quarters drill right after cleaning stations. After GQ secured I started on my maintenance and work for this week. After dinner, my Chief, IC1, and myself went down to Port Steering to take readings on the Disconnect Unit again trying to find out what is wrong with it. After that I went and washed my Dress Whites for inspection tomorrow. I just finished ironing, and now I'm gonna go to bed lol. Hope everyone is doing ok.

Monday, August 30, 2010

So I was watching Toy Story this morning while I was on shop watch, and I noticed something in the movie that I've never noticed before. It's kind of disturbing in a way to know that this was actually in a movie meant to be seen by little kids. While in Sid's house when Sid is looking for Woody to strap to the "Big One" Rocket, he lifts up a plastic crate where Woody is hiding propped up inside the crate. He slams the crate down on his dest causing Woody to fall to the desk where he then hides under a book...this all seems very innocent if you don't know what you are looking at, but I just happened to recognize the title on the book. The book is labeled "TM 31-210" In the movie I think it's titled as "Improvised Interrogation Techniques", but in actuality, "TM 31-210" is the primary source of terrorist activity. It's titled "Improvised Munitions Handbook" created for the U.S. Army A.K.A.: Improvised Explosive Devices or IED's. This book teaches you how to make any kind of explosive or propellant out of normal everyday ingredients. Kind of disturbing isn't it?

Friday, August 27, 2010

Well, it's been a few days since I posted anything due to the internet being down for security reasons. Nothing has really happened, just the same ole crap everyday. Wake up, do maintenance, go to sleep. Nothing interesting has happened. We had a GQ drill yesterday, and supposedly we are having an abandon ship drill tomorrow. Other than that nothing new. Well, I'm signing off for now. Hope everyone else's week is more interesting.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Well, today I woke up and did cleaning stations. After Cleaning stations I had to do the man hour tracker for my workcenter and send it to my chief. After that, I cleaned up the lockers in our shop a little bit and then printed off the EGLs for everyones Maintenance this week. After that I went to lunch and after lunch we had a loss of ship's power drill where I had to man up Load Center 68A & B to bring it back up once power was restored. After that I started getting everything together for my maintenance this week and then the 1MC went down and I had to run down and fix that. After that we had our routine shop meeting at 1900. So today was just another routine day as is most lol. Well, I hope everyone elses day was more eventful than mine.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Well, today I got to sleep in until 1230 and then I had to help the rest of the shop re-arrange the shelves, desks, chairs, and toolboxes to make the shop a little nicer. Still looks like shit though. I went on watch at 1630-2130 and now I off. The watch bill finally changed, so I don't have watch for a while (Thank God). Other than that, it was a pretty uneventful day. Well, I am taking my butt to bed, I will talk to y'all later. Hope everyone is well.