Week In Review

It's been a bit of a wild one, especially with all the anticipation of going on leave and getting married this weekend. When I return near the end of the month, I'll only have 4 days of holds left... after being on hold for 4 months.

Monday, I had Quarterdeck duty in the morning and Shuttle driving in the afternoon. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, but that didn't work, since I had the 07-12 bag check watch at the turnstile in Bldg 11 that day instead.

Had nothing Monday morning, but a student came by my perch in Lib Hall asking if anyone wanted to go work for the Seabee's for two weeks; they were desperately in need of more people, and since there's no food provided, they give $70 a day. I told him I was going on leave, and couldn't. But he came back and said they'd take me for the next three days anyway. Just then the Quarterdeck called and said they needed me to escort the cleaning lady in Bldg 52... their duty section must have been really screwed up... that's an assigned watch station. So as she cleaned the 8 heads, I mulled over if I'd be able to work everything out in the hour and a half I'd have left before they wanted to leave. :)

When I found him, DC1 told me what I knew... it wouldn't be worth it. So I went about the rest of the day as usual. Four hours of Shuttle driving after I finished lunch.

Tuesday's watch went just fine. The 2nd class who supervised was talkative, and the minutes ticked by. And in the afternoon, I was a good sailor, and did a substantial workout. Lots of upper body stuff, including assisted dips and pull-ups, push-ups, free weights and crunches. And after the new muster at 1430 in PT gear (that I found out about while walking by morning muster), I went for a short run around the triangle a couple times.

Wednesday morning I was a little taken aback that I was scheduled for the same as Monday. The original schedule had given me the day off... possibly I was a little too unhappy about it in the office... but it worked out just fine. The truck was in the shop, so the only Quarterdeck vehicle was the CO's sedan. Dropped a 1st class off at Third Fleet when I went to get fuel, but other than that I was practically off. Of course, there was the four-hour shuttle in the afternoon, but that's not too bad.

Yesterday, Thursday, we suspended the Quarterdeck driver assignment. So it was only a half day! I had the shuttle for the first 5 hours... ended up driving 9 people around, so it was even needed. :)