If you haven’t read the post directly preceding this one, read that first.  This is a continuation.
Jeremy emailed me some pictures.  He said to mention he’s been stationed on the USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81).  It is the only ship in the US Navy to have a British officer permanently stationed aboard.  He adds [...]

I am pleased to announce that Jeremy is now Surface Warfare qualified. 
Yay, Jeremy!  (Insert huge round of applause here.)
You may remember from my earlier post about it that he had a whole series of things he had to do to get this qualification:

He had to complete some books
And then take a test.  The test was [...]

Today is going to be a little update on what I’ve been up to lately.
Saturday I went to the BSPCA or the Bahrain Animal Shelter.  No, I was not looking for a pet, although I wanted to take a bunch of them home with me.  I went with a friend to volunteer there.  The first [...]

Today is Nathan’s birthday.
I didn’t forget, Nathan, aren’t you proud of me?  Nathan, my youngest brother, is twenty-five today.
I think that’s a nice age to be.  But it’s also an age that you tend to get your first “mid-life crisis.”  I think it’d be more accurate to say “quarter-life crisis” since I hope Nathan lives [...]

Sorry I’ve been away so long.  I haven’t been literally away.  I just got busy doing other things and so didn’t blog.
So here’s an update on the news in my life:
In early February Jeremy came home for a couple of days.  That was a surprise.  He literally didn’t know until the day he came home [...]

Groundhogs Day is also the official birthday of Jeremy’s sister, Jessica.  I know she got born on that day just to make it easier for me to remember when her birthday is.  And it works.
And Jessica likes sunflowers too, and everybody knows that the groundhog is looking for his shadow (meaning the sun’s out) so [...]

Today is my brother Jeff’s birthday.   Today he is the big 3-0.  (Three-oh)  Welcome to the club, Jeff!  Now I’m not the only one (of us siblings).  How does it feel to be 30?  Do you still feel it is the new 20?  Or do you feel older, say in your bones?  Slowing down any?  [...]