All right. So I am working... again. The midnight shift... again. I tell ya, this gets old after a while. It is now 2:24am on Wed. July 30th, 2003 (1:24pm, Tue. July 29th, 2003 EST). This is sucking!!!! I would rather be at in bed with my wife right now! This sucks!!!!!!! I am so ready to get out of the Navy. This is definitely NOT for me. I would NEVER wish this kind of life on anyone. That would just be horrible.

Speaking of Kendra, she's leaving tomorrow :(. I am not looking forward to that. It's going to be really hard this time because we've been together for about 2 1/2 months now and I'm not going to be able to see here off at the airport. It sucks! My freakin' ship is going out to sea the morning that she leaves. It's so horrible!!!! I am so depressed right now. Is wanting to be with my wife, lay next to her EVERY night, to never have to say good-bye to her for months at a time, too much to ask?! I don't think so! Apparently the government does think so. I was putting up a fight to try to get Thursday off because my ship is not even going out for one day. We'll leave on Thursday and pull back in on Friday morning. You'd think they'd let me go. But NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Heaven forbid that I do that. My "superiors" were actually surprised that I put the request in to take the day off. They even asked, "Why do you want to take your wife to the airport?" I'm thinking, "Are you kidding me?" Please pray for my superiors... they need it.

Well, I'm done complaining now. I'll write again when I can. God bless!!

SOMETHING TO THNK ABOUT: NEVER JOIN THE NAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!