Sunday Morning

Well, it's been a couple of days, those of you who can only read the public section, don't worry you aren't missing much, just some intense venting on my part. But thats over with for a while. We are about half way through the audit and seem to be doing just fine.

I had dinner with the cruise director's team last night in Portofino's, the italian restaurant onboard. It's nice to be invited out with other teams, since well, I don't have any team. I am a team of 1, luckily we all get along, LOL. Meanwhile Gordon and his team have bonded very well and very quickly, I like them, tehy are a good bunch.

I have been hitting the gym harder than ever before, i still have the momentum, compared to other contracts where I would have slowed down by this point, but I have been very consistent. My body likes that, a lot. Plus it now has been over a month since I gave up soda and I can see the changes are real. Far less mood swings, I can sleep at night, even less skin blemishs. Apparently coke is bad for you, who would have thought? So I am healthy to a certain point, I still love food and am eating healthy though, so no one go thinking I have turned into a health nut or anything.

I have no life other than that. Sounds lame, but in the grander scheme of things, its what's best for me right now. I got to go and run a chemial test, not very exciting, I am hoping for a nice and quiet day today. Of course that is probably the last thing that today will be.

OH OH OH, I forgot to mention I was able to get my environmental center up and running again. First I switched out the plasma screens, to no avail. Then I got the new video card, which only kind of helped. Finally one of my philipinos who I was working with suggested just reversing the feeds so that the right hand computer went into the left hand screen and the left hand computer went into the right hand screen. Now this should not work. There is no possible reason for this to work. But it did and the systems are up and running just fine. There is no plausible explanation. But I don't care, it works, so I am happy.

"It's a game, you are gonna lose, so just do it and get over it, you'll come out a better person in the end" my dad, just before sending me in to MMA for freshman indoctrination, aka cadet candidate training. It's kind of like something I am going through right now, there is no easy solution so I just need to dig my heels in and get it over with and try to survive the fallout. I find it kind of amazing that at times like this in my life I always ssem to fall abck to my dad. I have said this so many times already but the guy has had one of the most amaing lives, I can't even begin to describe how much respect I have for him. This year he has proven once again that he is my hero and I owe everything I have an everything I am to him. I have had my fights with him, but those are part of the natural development of a son and his father, him trying to make me the stronger man he knew I could become. I don't know what made me think of these things jsut now, just a strange mood I am in today I guess. I got heeps of work, so drop me a comment.

***(even though I have heeps of work, I still managed to blow off part of the afternoon and sit in my cabin and watch the latest incarnation of the Peter Pan story, which I think was released two years ago. Got to say, I think it's gonna be on my new favorites list, just ind of wish I had watched it with somoene. The moral has not changed, Peter must stay young forever yet miss the true emotions of life and teh adventures, everything comes at a cost greater than we know)