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Home (in 34 hours)
Haven't posted in a couple years, not sure if I'm going to continue or if I'll find an easier medium. Just finished an 8 month deployment, got to fly off a few days early so in exchange I've got duty for a couple days, then I'm off on leave until the 9th. -
Interwebs!
I finally have a room here on base with internet, so I can post much more frequently.
Engineering school continues, neither good nor bad, I'm still in the running for top grad and advancement.
Haven't been doing too much interesting, although Tom and I had a good day in Chicago last weekend, checked out Chinatown and Shedd Aquarium. Mid-month we're ( Read more... ) -
Updates, updates, updates
So, after two weeks of school I'm almosted completed with module 2 of 8. Plenty of delays. I was ahead of the game, now I'm just par after spending two days Sick in Quarters (SIQ) with some horrible upper respiratory infection making its rounds through the base. We actually had a snow day, in the military! Once I complete module two I'll be ( Read more... ) -
Well
I hate this place. In my "ship" (BEQ, bachelor enlisted quarters) the USS Essex, about to get phase 2, nice and comfortable with my non-shitbag roomates and poof! Moved to the USS Enterprise for night school, a terrible world filled with shithead teenagers and a former RDC (Recruit Division Commanders) as staff. I've spent the last week and a half ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye Jim...
...hello Seaman Recruit Crossman, who completed boot camp at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, IL! After an interesting 8 weeks, I'm done, completed, graduated, and officially a United States Sailor. "Interesting" is the best description for it. It both failed and exceeded my expectations. Much less PT than I expected and what I might even ( Read more... ) -
Finally, an update
Long time since I've posted everything, or anything, but reasonably so. Life moves quickly, and I just haven't kept up with myspace or LJ. Here's a synopsis:
1. Early July: My wife and I have returned to a conventional marriage.
2. Mid July: I began the process of inquiring about an application in to the United States Navy
3. Early August: My work is ( Read more... ) -
Victory is Mine
I win! No GERD. Clean bill of digestive health. Ironically, the radiology technnician was a formerly rejeced Navy applicant once upon a time, and the Dr himself was a former medical officer. From the conversation we had, he said the medical rejection reason was the most absurd thing he'd ever heard of, and under no uncertain terms that he was ( Read more... ) -
One Down...
And two more appointments to go. Everything is falling in to place perfectly. I started calling around doctors on Monday to see who was available to take me the soonest, managed to get the appointment I went to today, a one-day wait! It gets better: after my appointment this morning I went home with the order for the Upper GI, called the place, ( Read more... ) -
...time for cake and sodomy...
I got to pull a crazed meth-addict off fo my wife Saturday. How did your weekend go? Don't worry, I wasn't on the bad side of this cop encounter. While out of town, my wife and I went to go see a movie in Pinetop, then we stopped into a Safeway on our way back to Heber to get some Starbucks inside. On our way through the parking lot, this black ( Read more... ) -
Personal Hell
It all began last Thursday. I woke up at 0600 to be at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS): I had a date with the ASVAB. My previous testing in 2000 left me with a score of 98, an excellent score since the highest possible percentile is 99. I began testing at 7, finished at 8 two hours early and again scored a 98. Excellent, so I ( Read more... )