Filed under: Life
The routine of getting up, watching movies, and going to gym is getting really old really fast. It’s time to start looking up things to visit, like all these forts I hear about. Apparently we have a tour of the Grand Mosque coming up, but I haven’t heard anything about that in awhile. It’s pretty hard to motivate oneself when it’s as hot as it is, oh and humid too like you wouldn’t believe.
My XO called me the other day after he asked everyone on board to send him our concerns about our next unit. I told him that my only real concern is getting into the dive program, but if I couldn’t get that I’d like to see if the MSRT (maritime safety and response team) on the west coast was fact or fiction. The MSRT is a more “high speed” version of what I used to do at the MSST, but it’s all gravy to me without being able to get into the dive program. My other options are not what I want from afloat units to armories. The only thing I’d ever consider would be the armory in Portland, OR which would be open by the time I transfer out of here. The thought of sitting in one place, albeit Portland, would kill me though. I need a job that offers travel, excitement, and adventure, all of which an armory does not. I looked at the picks currently available on the list and I wasn’t really all that thrilled about what I had, but the XO ensured that the picks on there now are not the final product. As for the dive program and a west coast MSRT… he’d ask around.
I can’t seem to snap myself out of this mental funk I’m in. I have a ladyfriend who wants me to spend my time online talking to her, a boss who gets up my ass about everything, a future with the Coast Guard that is unstable at best, disgusting weather, zero job satisfaction, and all around irritability.
