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Verbals!
After finally passing Radar Systems with an 83% (the final mod in the course) I went to the PLR and just happened to get “verbals” in! According to the verbals I got: USS Klakring (FFG-42) stationed in Mayport, Florida; NEC’s: 1678 and 9612. All I can say is that I’m not only ecstatic about passing the test, but I’m absolutely thrilled I got east-coast and a small ship. Its definitely an amazing feeling to know I’m finally leaving this command and moving on to some where they respect and actually treat you like a human being and an individual.
Sight-seeing!
I’m currently testing out how well wordpress works with on opera mini for my blackberry, thanks to the hour and thirty minute train-ride back to Waukegan. My pops and step-ma came out for a day of sight-seeing and a weekend of non-ohio scenary. We went downtown and saw quite a few of the sights, as well as the raggae bands at the music festival at millenium park. They finally got a taste of some authentic chicago deep-dish at Luke’s, a street down from the Sears Tower (get the signature pizza if you ever stop by the place). I’ll have some pictures up (provided by my new camera!) sometime tonight.
A lot of bullshit has happened over the past few months regarding my marriage. In case of anyone that’s been in the dark, Jessica had and accident and miscarried then proceeded to inform me that she’s been miserable with me for a while and now wants a divorce. Apparently my humor and demeanor has changed (deteriorated according to her) so much over the past few months that she can’t handle it anymore. Three months, that’s got to be a fucking record! Pleading and begging was to no avail, and I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that maybe its a sign from some asshole of a god, and that the whole thing was just a joke in his eyes, and something she wasn’t aware of the workings, but also that after as much I’ve tried to play things over that I might just be better off dealing with my ships than with her and realize what’s important and what’s erroneous in life. It really pains me to think of this whole situation as something I’ve wanted nothing of and tried to avoid during my whole relationship with her and it happened regardless, but I find it increasingly hard every single day to realize that this is by far my greatest folly in life.
I’ve come to accept my lack of understanding as something that will turn into a true lesson learned and hopefully someday I’ll benefit from this at least to an amount equal to what I’ve lost.
Another boring weekend
Coming at you live from NAVSTA Great Lakes: boredom. I’d like to thank my fellow Sailors who are joining me this weekend in Duty Section 3’s duty weekend for this month, as well as everyone else who has done absolutely nothing remotely stupid in which keeping this weekend completely dull. I guess you can consider a boring weekend a weekend much better off than a weekend with people coming back with ARI’s (alcohol related incidences) and the likes. I’ve been chosen by some good-grace to come under the influence of a horrible flu-like virus started right after Sick Call hours were over so I’ve been left with some Arizona tea and tylenol sinus & allergy. Oh, and I have chow-relief 1000-1100 & 1600-1700 Sunday :/
Onto a more happy topic, I did manage to get my weekend steak (something I’ve tried to do instead of going out every weekend downtown Chicago and getting fucked up), I actually managed to get about $4 worth of beef tip steak (steak is steak man) and I ran into a few guys out on the smoke deck that had some left-over mesquite wood chips that they were happy to get rid of. According to Jessica, the visit to the GYN went well, she made a follow-up so that her lucky little butt can go and see the ultrasound, hear the baby’s heartbeat AND get a date for our child’s birth. I couldn’t be anymore jealous/excited/tripped-out than I am now, and it’ll probably only get even more overwhelming when she gets a hold of me Friday and tells me what she’s heard and shows me the ultrasounds. I know I still have to get the pictures up, and I’ll be doing that tomorrow (I finally un-fubar’d the phone this week), so watch out for those.