Switch
Today is my last full day on day shift, tomorrow I start back on nights. It doesn’t really matter to me what shift I work cause 16 hours is 16 hours no matter how you slice it and when you never leave your workspace you don’t really know if its day or night anyway. The good thing about nights is that it is generally slower then days but in this part of the world there is a lot of exercises at night so it might be picking up a little bit. I like days because there is a lot of stuff going on and the time goes by pretty quick but doesn’t leave much time to do anything else. Nights will allow me time to work on my ESWS as well as some other in rate training.
Today is kind of a crazy day because we are switching all our communication services from one part of the world to another. It’s pretty stressful because nobody wants to drop out and it’s always difficult when trying to deal with multiple people in multiple places trying to get your services transferred over. Things are looking good now but that tends to change minute to minute.
I am supposed to take my Basic DC test today and I feel surprisingly confident and for me that usually means I will bomb it. I am usually so nervous about a test I can barely hold the pencil but usually end up doing ok and with this test I am not feeling anything so I guess I will know how I did in a couple hours. I really do hope that I pass it because if I do it eliminates like 7 PQS’s that I would normally have to do otherwise.
I need coffee this morning.
It’s been a little over a month since we took off and I haven’t done much other than work and sleep. I have a whole hard drive full of TV shows and movies and I haven’t really even touched them. I started watching a BBC show called Beautiful People this week which my best friend Jose introduced me and it’s LOL funny. I was cracking up watching it in my rack this week. I got through a couple episodes and have a couple more left of the 1st season but other than that I haven’t watched anything. I have read a couple books and just started a new one but usually by the end of the workday my brain is so fried I don’t want to do anything that requires concentration. The one thing I really do miss is sports. We get nothing on board and I mean nothing. I have to read about everything which is a fine supplement if you see the game but it’s not the same as actually seeing the action. My Dolphins beat the J-E-T-S this week on MNF and I didn’t get to see even a highlight from it. Apparently we have the capability but we can’t seem to figure out how to get it working unless we are in port. It’s really making me crazy. No MLB playoffs, No NFL or NCAACF and missing most of the NBA season.
We just got the 10 week notice about our twice annual Physical Readiness Test. I have only worked out a handful of times since checking on board and when I ran a few days ago it felt like my heart was gonna explode! It’s a unique challenge trying to run on a treadmill on a ship that is rocking back and forth because half of the time you are running right up against the front bar and the rest of the time you are struggling to not fall off the back of it. I have 10 weeks to master the treadmill and get my ass in shape for the test. Not looking forward to it. Maybe my weight will start to move. I have been stuck on 174lbs the entire time I have been on the boat even though I have been eating less and less. It’s gotten to the point now that during most meals, I will pick at my food and have a few bites and that is it but no matter how little I eat my weight does not move.
Well I am getting the shakes from lack of caffeine so I need to get my morning fix.
