ugh

Allow me to complain a little.
well since we are going overseas, we have to make sure that all out missile launchers are fully loaded and ready to fire. Who loads the missiles into the launhcers you asK. Well, that's my division of course. We own all of the ships self defense systems. But i'm getting ahead of myself.
About a week ago, everyone had to be innoculated with the smallpox vaccine. It is a wonderfully painful series of about 15 consecutive punctures, much like a slow tattoo. It hurt, but wasn't all that bad. After about a week, a nice large smallpox blister appears on the skin, stays there for awhile, slowly dries and then falls off, leaving a permanent scar. Well it's been about a week now, and the lymph node in my armpit on that arm has swollen and hurts quite a bit. This is normal, but it really is quite an annoying place for pain, especially when combined with the large blister on my arm that itches like mad and can't be touched lest I spread smallpox all over my body. While dealing with that, yesterday I had to get my 2nd anthrax shot in a series of 3 on my other arm. That shot is really no big deal but it does burn brightly from time to time seemingly at random times. Also yesterday was the first day of missile loading on my system. I was handling missiles all day, and after we were finished, I stressed my back quite thoroughly. So, while lying in my rack last night, I was in complete misery let me tell you. A throbbing, itching smallpox blister on one shoulder with a swollen and painful armpit, a burning athrax wound on the other shoulder and muscle spasms deep in my back twisting pain through my spine everytime I moved even a little. My back still hurts a lot today. I love the NAVY!
well sheesh Wilson life sucks! ohhh not really there's good stuff too. It was a gorgeous day yesterday and it was good work on the flightdeck of this massive carrier cutting through the ocean and I got some great pictures of the day's work. I'll be sure to upload them here when I can. We are in more tropical waters now as the temp of the ocean here is close to 75degrees. It's really cool how the water changes colors dependsing on where we sail. The other day I saw a school of flying fish off my deck the other day. We were doing radar maintenance and one of my friends pointed them out. They were about the size of small cats, and there were about 30 of them. They all just come out of the water all at the same time and glide like one animal allong the surface of the water for a pretty good distance before all diving back in and repetaing. it was really cool.
That's all from Wilson for now, gotta get back to the deckplates. Love to all.