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I've been trying to get into my blog for a couple of days now, but I've been having technical difficulties. You'll have to forgive me for not posting sooner, but I do the best I can ;)

We started hard and heavy today into our TAO stuff. We finished up our Intermediate Officer Leadership Course (IOLC), and then started, headfirst, into TAO stuff. The only problem is we dove in head first and forgot to check to see if there was any water in the pool. In this case, there isn't, and we'll be getting that water forcefed from a firehouse for the next little while as we learn TAO stuff. Yippee!

I'm sitting at home tonight without anything to really do. There is no one here I can call to ask if they want to go do something and I don't really want to go out to dinner by myself. You can only do that so many times before you get sick of it...trust me on this one. So, I'm sitting here thankful that I finally got into my blog, whether or not it will take this post is a different story, entirely.

I'm going to help Eric with his boat again tomorrow. We are going to start working on the car track on the port side, at least that's my plan. I made 2 new mooring lines yesterday (i.e. I took the 3/4" line, cut it into 2 38' long pieces, and then spliced an eye into either end. It took me about 2 hours to do it all together, and then I took it down to the boat and added them to the port side. Now, he has spring lines on both sides of the boat. I nearly fell in the water putting those lines on--I didn't have anyone to help me, so I was doing it myself. That meant I had to be creative in getting them on the boat, so I was--and I nearly took a dip in the drink for it. Fortunately, I didn't.

Other than that, there isn't really too much going on. I'm just trudging along day to day waiting for this all to be over so I can go back home. That's about all I have for now....