Every month the base does a “fun run.”  Usually it’s around a holiday, but April doesn’t have a holiday, at least not at this time of the month, so they called this one the Fitness Fun Run.  It is 5K.  That is five kilometers or a little over three miles.  It is four laps around [...]

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, April 1, is April Fool’s Day.  It is also the Chief Petty Officers of the Navy’s birthday, and no, that’s not April Fool’s joke.  It really is.  At my command they celebrated by wearing khakis (they usually wear DCU–desert camouflage uniform) and eating cookies that our OIC (Officer in Charge) bought them.  So Happy [...]

I’ve been really stressed at work lately.  Everyone at work has been stressed lately.  Late hours, extra work.  We’re undermanned–about 70% manning just at a guess and have been that way for awhile, so this stress has just been building up.  I’ve found myself being really grumpy the last two days and snapping at people.  [...]

Saturday was an historic day for my former ship, the former USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), and I didn’t even know about it until today. So that is why I am posting about this today and not Saturday.  I have pictures of my own, which I will attempt to post soon.
Saturday the John F. Kennedy [...]

It’s Christmas Day. Hurrah! (That’s pronounced Hur-ay, not Hur-ah, by the way. We’re American here, not British.)
But speaking of British, I just finished reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. That would be the complete and unabridged version, which is really quite interesting. And I found a part I’d like [...]