Hot days, getting ready to get underway

As I write this, I share my room with the cremains of 10 Sailors.  Not sure how that makes me feel, they had longish lives and died of natural causes.  It still seems odd that they are all stacked up in here with me.

 

Other than the odd feeling that I’m being watched, the day is going right on by, it’s hot and we’re getting ready to head back to sea.  Thankfully, we are on the last part of deployment!

Ahh, the good things!

Yummy Peanut Blaster smoothie with strawberries!

New fangled toys part deux

Don't worry, you didn't miss part one. It just didn't post...

Thanks to a dead, dead battery on my old cell phone and Verizon Wireless's outstanding customer service, I have a new toy!

I got a new-fangled touch screen phone (an LG Dare for those that follow these sorts of things) and so far, I really like it. The phone does web browsing and I got an unlimited Internet account with it just to make sure I don't go over my minutes. So far I really like it.

Having this new toy has inspired me to re-visit blogging. Before I always thought of things to blog about when I was sitting around somewhere without a computer. I tried writing the posts on my Palm but they wound up sitting there and never getting posted. Now I'll try this though and see how it goes.

This is the second time I tried this because although I could write it, I couldn't post it from my phone. I'll keep trying!

Old school

We went old school on the foc'sle with dress khaki. Check out the aviators in Top Gun form.

We do get to have some fun!

Pretty women, booze, dancing, I really can't say the
Navy is all bad! This was from Arica, Chile.

Sunrise underway

This serene picture was taken as we sailed through
the Chilean Inland Passage that runs up the southern coast of Chile.
The Chilean Inland Passage shields ships from the harsh seas and winds
of the southern Pacific. While we were here, the seas were 45 feet and
higher in the southern Pacific!

From the End of the World... almost

This picture was taken in May as we transited the Strait of Magellean.
The SOM is between South America and Tierra Del Fuego (the end of the
world). It was a very picturesque transit.