It’s Thursday…BLAH…!
Well readers, it has been a few days since I wrote anything to get posted so I figured I would try to hack something out for you since I dont have much going on here. One thing that has been going on for me though is that they stuff that I wanted from my housing unit should now be safely tucked away in a storage locker up in El Cajon. It took the movers THREE days to get that house done. I got an e-mail from the guy working for housing that has been there to let the movers in, and watch, or whatever he is doing. But he told me that in some places, there was up to 2 feet of trash in the rooms. He said most of it was 6 to 12 inches deep threw out the hole house ! I feel sorry for the movers for having to deal with that kind of a mess, but as Mark told me (he is the housing guy) the movers are going threw everything that is on the floor and making sure it is important enough to keep so that is a good thing to know. Who knows what kind of information I will be getting once I start going threw the boxes myself ! Ill need to bring some gloves though Im not sure I want to touch much of it the stuff packed away. The clothes I guess are really dirty. But who knows how long my washer and drier have been gone from the unit. So of course without those, no clean clothes and I am sure the people that were there really didnt care about going somewhere to wash them. I just hope I have some of my clothes packed away that is going to be my main goal in that stuff in storage finding my clothes. Of course I want to know what all was left in the unit, but I am going to need more that what clothes I have here on the ship. I dont have but limited amount here on the ship. No room to store them on a deployment, and not really a huge need for normal clothes when your underway for 30 plus days at a time. Im just thankful that my mom is willing to help pay the movers for this work. I will pay her back of course but I dont have any credit cards, and since it was pointless to send a wire transfer to the moving people I didnt have much of a choice. Housing wouldnt have been so nice to me had they done the packing they would have come in, picked up everything and packed it trash and all ! Then it would have been to storage if I was lucky, or to the dump. I would have gotten charged out the ass had housing done more than what they are going to do already. I am very sure the carpet will have to be replaced that will cost me a 1000 dollars. The yard is going to be cut, 80 dollars. Not sure what needs to be fixed in the unit, but that will cost me, as well as the clean the unit. So yeah Im still looking at a nasty bill down the road from housing. But who knows how much cleaning the unit will cost me Im just glad Im not going to get hit with a painting bill too ! Cleaning should be about 250 or so the e-mail I got told me when it was made aware to me that I needed to do something about my unit. The thing about housing they charge 80 dollars a load, plus gas, and labor. The movers, they charge just labor, since they are doing their job. But I dont know how all that works out so Im not really going to worry about it right now.
We are getting closer and closer to getting the hell out of here finally. We have one more stop in Bahrain come next week. We will be there for three days, and after that we go back down into the southern part of the gulf hang around there for about a week, and then start to make a turn for San Diego. Of course we wont know the hole plan for going back until most likely after we leave Bahrain. So Im not holding my breath or anything I am just glad to know that we could be within three weeks of leaving here. The three days we are in port will go by very quickly though I have the first two days off though, so thats a good thing. I need to get off this ship and get some things from the store there on the base. Try to find out how much a plane ticket could cost me. Im still trying to figure out if I want to fly from Hawaii, or from Guam. I would have to pay for the ticket either way but if I fly from Guam I will be in San Diego for like 12 days, maybe even 2 weeks before the ship gets back. I would have to figure out where to stay as well and a lot of other things to boot. That is why I am just thinking about holding out until Hawaii. Save a little bit more money on the plane ticket, renting a car and hotel rooms. I would of course try my best to get into a space saved room on the base. That is just a room in the barracks that isnt being used, and I pay like this really cheap rate to rent it. Now I dont know how much leave I am going to get once I get back to San Diego either. I do know that if what I am hearing happens, Im not going to be part of it what I have been hearing is that those people that take leave from Hawaii will have to come stand duty the first day the ship is in port. Well I am still going to be VERY busy, and no way in hell will I want to come in and stand duty, even if I am able to leave the next day. Its bad enough I am going to have to stay on this thing for a while once she gets back into port. The last thing I want to do is stay here any longer than I have to. And heck I dont even know how long its going to take to get my kids back but I know I dont want to start renting a place and then in like 4 months I would get them back, or they would be able to sleep over and come to find out the place I am in isnt big enough for the kids to stay over. It is hard to believe but 7 months ago my kids were taken from me. I wont see them for nine months ! Even if I am able to see the kids I am sure I wont be able to stay over with the in laws. Not that I would want to do that. Its bad enough having to put up with her on the phone I wouldnt want to put up with her if I were to stay over night. But thats just me. Who really knows what will happen though still far to early to tell.
I have come to find out I have no more survey to do. But yeah Ill just leave it at that and wrap this up and get it sent off to get posted. Everyone take care and come back to read again when you have the time. Laters