Haven’t posted in awhile, figured I’d go ahead and update you all on what’s going on.
I think I’ve already complained about this, but I had a like, horrifically bad case of food poisoning a couple of weeks ago. I vomited more in one night than I had in probably all of 10 years up to that point. I also found out why doctors recommend that you drink tons and tons of water if you have diarrhea (as I have apparently never really had diarrhea). Suffice to say that it wasn’t a fun weekend when that happened.
I know what my next two duty stations are, and I’m not entirely thrilled with the first. The next one is Submarine Officer Basic Course (SOBC) in Groton, CT. The weather will be nice, but from what I understand we are going to be forced to stay in some absolutely abysmal housing arrangements, the Susse Chalet. It is a 1-star hotel (ranked 16th out of 17 hotels in the area). There is only Internet access in the lobby as well, so I will probably not be online much as of next month. At least the school itself is easy.
After that I get to go to my boat. I’m just hoping I don’t end up arriving like right before the boat deploys or something. When that happens I get to try and qualify again and basically repeat the prototype experience (just with hopefully less hours. =D)
On that note, my wife and I are going to investigate finding a house to live in at my next permanent duty station tomorrow. Hopefully we can find someplace that’s not too expensive (and not too far away from the base). We’d also like to avoid living in an area where cars are prone to disappearing (referring to my wife’s car). And we don’t get a lot of time to do the search either. :-(
I also then need to get all the paperwork setup to get moved, get this place cleaned up, and try to decide if I want to move the computer hosting this weblog before I leave in July or leave it operational and have my wife move it.
On that note I should probably migrate this weblog to a real hosting provider at some point. Only catch is that either I would have to maintain the software so that I always have backups of my data, or if I go the route of just using something like www.blogger.com, making sure that it’s possible to remotely backup my data. And then I’d have to somehow migrate over without destroying all the hyperlinks already in use on the site. :-)