Today is the Fifth Day of Christmas.  I’m going to do a short post because I just got home from work, it’s 2127 (9:27 p.m. for you civilians), and I have to get up at 0400 (4:00 a.m.), so I can be at work at 0500 (5:00 a.m.).  In other words it’s late, the night [...]

The Sunday before last, November 23, I was able to attend Jeremy’s frocking ceremony at his command.  He got promoted today from Petty Officer Second Class to Petty Officer First Class.  That means he went up one pay grade, from E-5 to E-6. In the Navy every March and September sailors take advancement exams.  Out [...]

Today I was presented with my first ever Letter of Commendation (LOC)! It was to commemmorate that I was selected as the third quarter’s Junior Sailor of the Quarter.  I received the LOC and a nice plaque.  My OIC (Officer in Charge) told me it was to go on my “I Love Me Wall” and [...]

Happy Veteran’s Day, everyone! I didn’t have to work today, so I’m taking it easy at home.  It sure is tempting to take a lot of naps.  But I did manage to straighten up around the apartment; I cleaned off a counter that’s become the junk pile counter; and I’m doing laundry.  Other than that [...]

I’ve been thinking about this lately.  This is something I’ve thought about off and on for a long time (thinking about stuff is one of my hobbies).  And recently Betsy’s post about patriotism has provided fodder for this thought topic as has some religious observations I’ve made since coming here and musings about the devotional [...]

Jeremy is hard at work on his ship studying and completing PQSs for ESWS qualification.  What that means is he has a spiral book called Personnel Qualification Standard which has in it a bunch of topics on what he’s trying to qualify for and a bunch of signature lines for someone to sign once he’s demonstrated [...]

The President of the United States of America visited the Kingdom of Bahrain!  Isn’t that way cool?  And I never even got to see him either.  That’s way NOT cool. I’ve known about it for days, but I’ve delayes saying anything until it was over.  Yes, it’s public knowledge and has been in the papers [...]

I was really surprised Tuesday when my phone rang during training.  I didn’t recognize the number so I thought I’d better answer it.  Guess what?  It was Jeremy.  I said, “Where are you?” thinking he must not be on his ship since he was calling my cell phone.  He said, “I’m on the pier.” So [...]