So here I am, sitting at the computer in the place I work (Engineering Hydraulics shop) on the USS Peleliu LHA-5, about fifty notical miles out from San Diego. It's our fith day underway and I'm currently on watch, though I don't do much during this watch except go down to Aft Steering once an hour to take readings on the starboard side steering gear because port side is about 50 different kinds of fucked up. It's about four thirty in the morning and we've been out to sea for about five days now, I'm wide awake because I went to bed at like 10 and I'll be on watch til 8am. But it's sunday which means holiday routine which means it's basically a day off underway.

But the whole reason we're out here is because we had to offload all the ammo that was in our cargo hold which took four days. That was four days of 21hr work days for me. And god it feels so good to be done with that stuff, I can actually get a decent amount of sleep again. But we still got another five days out because we have Harrier Operations to do. That's nothing compared to the ammo offload which consisted of us running the aircraft elevator about a hundred to two hundred times a day. Now it'll only be three or four times a day, which is an awesome relief. The operation went smoothly with little issues happening with the cargo weapons elevators and so most of our time spent was in down time if we weren't running the aircraft elevator (which only takes one person to man).

But there's some bad things that happened. First, my computer decided to die and delete its operating system...oh noes! But on the brighter side of that situation, my buddy McKeeman is selling me is Asus for about four hundred bucks, which is CHEAP for an Asus computer.

On an even brighter side. I'M NO LONGER SINGLE! Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!

I've also taken to listening to a lot of Vienne Teng lately...given how my mood has been shitty the last few days it helps me relax. But my mood is much betterz nao, and I am feeling very very good about the rest of this underway. Course when we get back I have some things to take care of, such as finalizing the payment on my car, going to actually get my lisence and I still have to get the damned thing registered in my name. Yeah, I bought an Accura RsX. Wonderful car, great handling, the gas is a little touchy but I can deal with that. Rice burners are so wonderful because they get AMAZING gas mileage! Hooray forty bucks for a full tank xD.

On an even BRIGHTER side...I'm no longer an alcoholic bastard! HAHAHA! The last few times someone has asked me to go drinking with them they got a big fat NO! I vill not drink with joo! </poorly written out german accent>.

Also, my buddy Flickinger and I have taken to creating a new internet show called "The Flickwhit Show," featuring some very hopeless shinanigans such as smoking Spice (which is a legal drug might I add) and walking through San Diego high as a kite while playing guitar with our buddy Vic's crutches while he sits his gimp ass down on some stone steps. Sport with the russian whose favorite line is "Don't make me go Russian badass on you," talking about stupid things such as losing socks and talking about outdated politics while high on Spice...holy hell what we have is hilarious. Episode one is still in progress because we keep getting new ideas and we don't know what and what not to put in the first episode. It's gotta be mild because we don't know how it's going to turn out, but we're hoping for the best. At most it's a side project, but someday we hope to make it bigger.

I'm sure that things will start looking up more and more and life is getting so much better. I don't go on another deployment until 2010 and even then, I'm told I can put in an early out chit as far as six months in advance. That means I can get out of the Navy SIX MONTHS EARLY! Oh praise man who created that policy, if he's dead I'm gonna dig him up and give him a big hug, then bury him again out of feeling bad about digging him up int he first place xD.

Rawr! XD

Anywayz, til next time.

~Brandon.


Last minute note...

Thanks for referring me to Vienna Teng! Must buy more musix by herz...

Psy fan club...join nao! >(