Kyle’s Blog

and it’s about time.

We’re about ready to leave again for another patrol and I’ve spent all of one day off the ship. Tomorrow I plan to sleep in nice and late, go for a bike ride perhaps, at least workout, and then stand some duty. I had quite a long day today taking on all kinds of ammunition for all different types of weaponry, which ultimantely leads to a lot of heavy lifting. Between shlepping ammo from here to there, figuring out the numbers, and working out on top of all of that… I’m fried. I always feel satisfied with hard work, but the day in day out is wearing on me pretty quickly. It feels like on my best days that I’m operating on 75% of my mental capacity, and I feel frustrated, but continue to put my body and mind on a semi reliable auto pilot if you will.

I’m beginning to assemble a nice gift package for my dear friend Ashley. She has been kind enough to send me all kinds of stuff, from cds, to tasty treats, and it’s about time I reciprocated her actions. The whole process is going a lot slower than I’d like, but I suppose that gives me all the time I need to make the gift special and meaningful.

I hopped into bed last night and even though I’m going to bed around 10 to 10:30 nearly every night I said to myself, “I don’t spend enough time in here.” Of course I refer to my bed, and I certainly plan to address this issue tomorrow by sleeping in as best I can.