Sailor Dad

Yeah, so I’m on duty again, this time it’s the Fourth of July. I had yesterday and most of Thursday off but I find that I accomplished nothing of importance. I was planning to get a post of some sort each day on the ol’ blog so I can have a proper chronicle of the upcoming deployment, but family time won out. I suppose that’s a better thing to be spending my time on than a stupid blog, but I don’t want to let the small goals that I’ve set fall by the wayside. Then again I have six months with which to occupy myself with writing blog entries. 

I took my daughter to the movies on Friday morning to see Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. While not expecting much of the movie, I was pleasantly surprised as to the quality of the story. It’s not always that the 3^rd movie in a trilogy can pan out, but this installment was on par with the previous ones. There were a few scenes that I wouldn’t quite recommend for my daughter due to their semi-adult content, mostly because she’s 6 and I don’t need to explain why those parts are funny. We’ll just let those slide for now and years from now she’ll look back at that movie and perhaps see the adult humor in it all.

I have the day off tomorrow and provided I get around to making a to-do list for me to complete, I’m going to try my damnedest to get stuff done and prepare for the upcoming deployment.

Here I sit, on duty on the ship, at an hour significantly past my normal bedtime and my mind is brimming with things I want to accomplish. I know I should be going to bed, but I don’t want to waste the time that I have right now with sleep. I know I’ll regret it tomorrow morning, and as soon as I post this I’ll be headed off to bed, but right now I wanted to accomplish at least one additional thing this evening before I retire for some sleep.

With deployment looming on the horizon, I am trying to set up a routine of tasks that I will accomplish each day for the ~180 days of deployment. It matters not where I’m headed, but more how I accept the journey and my reactions to the events that occur during that time. I carry a small notebook in my pocket to write down those occasional stray thoughts that pop into my head, but I find that when I carry it, nothing occurs to me to capture it on paper. I know deep down inside that it is the singular cause of my mind trying to wrestle everything at the same time, while accomplishing nothing.