I've been back for about a week now, YES! It turned out ok for us after all. SO, yesterday I had the day off and so I went to Akihabara, the electronics city. I had visited the city several times before. This is probably the biggest electronic hub in Japan. Stores all over the place selling everthing electronic known to man. Well, I had always kept to one side of the train tracks, yesterday however I decided to visit the other side. Man I am happy I did that! I found the BEST FUCKING STORE IN THE WORLD! Let me give you an idea. Take a Best Buy I(if you know what a Best Buy is, google it if you don't) and make it a little bit bigger than a Wal-mart. THEN, make it about 8 stories high. After that, take all the items you can find in one and give them their own dedicated level. THATS this store. I found the photography section and practically got a boner from it xDD I was seriously to the point of drooling. They had EVERYTHING, you name it they probably had it. They even sold BIKES! In the photography section they even sold studio equipment! I really need my own room here So I can buy some of this stuff! Welp, any requests from this store tell me! xDD A small fee is of course to be expected, just send the money via paypal and I'd be happy to be of service xD (kidding, but you do want me to...)

Ok, its been a week (HAH! a week he says..oh, oops ssry) well, nore like 2 to 3 weeks but oh well. I did NOT get any GOOD night shots, the ones I got from the aft missle deck were blurry as I feared they would be, its floating and as such will move up, down, and around, which will wreack havoc with a 30 second shutter speed. So I didn't get the shots oh well, but what DOES urk me is where I am NOT at this moment.

K' heres the deal, I've been on this stinking tub for nearly a month now, and the projected return time has been ditched a picked up more times than I care to count (welcome to foreward deployment), what was to be a fairly short deployment is looking to be extented for an unknown amount of time. Meanwhile I'm slowly loosing my sanity with mess cranking. Each day is a new stress, before you know it I just may stuff my head into the dishwasher and slam the door a few times before turning it on.

Nah, that would take to long (not suicidal, just sound it). Well, I can't load any of the shots I took while in Hong Kong, but I can load stories. I'm working on possible lyrics, may or may not make them (or say that they are) lyrics, could just be a non rhyming poem. Still, I can add more stuff to my gallery, but nothing spectacular.

Welp, thats all for now, pray I get to go home soon, I need the break And I want to see land again, seriously. Its all fine and dandy and cool to look out and see nothing but water over the horizen, but that gets kinda dull and even a bit depressing as time goes on.

OOh, before I forget, saw something cool this morning. I was up on deck for reasons of my own and was looking at the sea, it was neat looking. It was still, and flat as glass, reflecting the clouds which were over cast to the point you couldn't see the horizen. The sea is never very flat, but it was that morning and again flat as cool. Cool thing number two, I saw fish! Not just any fish mind you, flying fish! 'Twas cool, they jumped from the water and literally flew (or glided) like 50ft before hitting the watter again. They left these cool trails in the water as they glided too. The stillness of the water allowed for these trails to be fairly long. It was never just one either, but rather like 5 or 10 each time. But alas, I didn't have my camera on me. And couldnt go back in to it. Oh well, I'll be here for 3 years so thats plenty of time to see this again, thats it, see yah!
(I still hate these things)

Stop one Hong Kong. Pray that I get some night shots before I leave would you? The city scape at night is fantastic

Well, being in the Navy means that at least two times a year I have to take the PFA. In a nutshell I have to run 1.5 miles in a prescribed amount of time, be able to complete x amount of push ups and pull ups. It has been more than 2 months since the last time I have worked out so I wasn't in the best of shape today, however, I was able to pass! Now I only have to worry about it in 6 months.

For the first time EVER I felt out of place in a book store D:> Everything was in Japanese! I couldn't read a damn thing I can tell you, it was extreamly annoying!