Back in RI

After two weeks of leave at home (two MUCH needed weeks of leave), I've returned to RI. Not to happy to be here, but as Deb keeps telling me, there's a reason that I am here, I just don't know what it is yet.

BTW -- Thanks, Deb, for the great lunch the other day while I was home! It's always good to hook up with friends. It's even better when you're only 10 minutes down the street!

Nevertheless, we've started our next subject: Expeditionary warfare...and what fun it is! I don't know if it was because of the break we had, or if it is just the topic, but I am having one helluva time staying awake for this stuff. The worst part of it is that we started it on Monday and we have a test on Thursday! I don't think I'm quite ready for jumping in head first on this one, but they didn't really give us much of a choice. So, I'm going to study my butt off to make sure I do well. The problem is that tomorrow we have the afternoon off to study, but I have a dental appointment to get a chipped tooth fixed. Ugh! It seems like there's always something going on.

I haven't really done much since I've been back. Mostly getting everything back in order after being gone for two weeks. For the two weeks at home, I mostly took care of stuff around the house and just tried to enjoy my time off. It felt good to not have to worry about going to class and studying for two weeks. I needed the break becuase my brain was starting to hurt. Poor Greg has been working his butt of, too, and worked the two weeks I was home. I feel sorry for him, but he'll reap huge benefits from it. He is one of the smartest and most talented people I know. If we could bottle his drive and enthusiasm and free-thinking (outside the box thinking) and give it to our junior sailors as an elixir, the potential of our navy would be limitless!

Well, I mostly just wanted to get on here and post so people wouldn't think that I'd forgotten them. Hope everyone is doing well, and hope you've all started the new year off right!