My Adventures

So yesterday was one of the more action packed days in my life. This entry is going to be a long one so grab a box of frosted mini wheats, some gatorade and a comfortable chair. I am quite tired so please ignore all of the grammatical errors, because I am sure there will be many.

The day started out exactly how the day before it ended... lots of thunder, torrential downpours, and lightning multiple times per minute. how is this possible? did I only sleep for 15 minutes? Nay, I got nearly 7 hours of sleep...it was just that big of a storm. Supposedly mobile got around 8-12 inches of rain in parts... thats a lot. I was hoping to run that morning if it wasn't raining, but it was so I decided to just get everything packed up and take a little time to go over some notes for the day.

I go down to the hotel lobby for the free breakfast at around 6:03. I start grabbing food to eat and the lady brings out the bisquits so I grab one of those. Then from the corner of my eye I see the lady staring at me all pissed off. I look up and she says something like "well I guess I was ready to start serving breakfast". Keep in mind this was continental/buffet type breakfast where there really isn't any "serving" going on. So I know the day is going to be a bad one if it starts out with me being scolded by the breakfast woman. I apologize and say sarcastically something like "ohh sorry, let me put this back", then she says, "no its fine". then I say, "then why did you say anything in the first place" and by say, I mean think to myself 24 hours after the fact.

I hop in the rental, a pontiac sunfire, and I start making the trip to the work site. As I pull out of the service road from the hotel there is a big lake that I have to drive through. I could still see the bottom so no big deal. Meanwhile on the radio, the DJs are saying how that it is a bad idea to drive through any of the big puddles and that peoples cars are getting stuck and floating a way. The trip goes smoothly until I am about a mile from my destination, where I come upon a large lake that has taken over the roadway. Keep in mind I have no clue of a secondary path to get to my destination, so if I can't make it through this way, I am hosed.

A couple trucks give it a go and make it through, but I am still skeptical of the sunfires ability to ford a river (just like in oregon trail), but I see a maxima make it through and I am like ahh, what the hell. so I give it a go. i hear the water sloshing around on the body and I am thinking to myself, I am going to start floating away soon or my car is going to stall. sadly, I didn't install the snorkel on the sunfire before I left so I was a little concerned. I slowly made it through and made the boat to the ship with no problems.

After on board, I prepared for my moment to rub elbows with the powerful. Today, the chief of naval research, an admiral, was coming on the ship to look at some of the work we were doing. Nobody else from my company (or my project for that matter) was there so I had to give a brief (maybe on 3 minutes) overview of the work we have been doing. So here I am standing here having one on one face time with probably the most powerful man I have ever met. I give my little spiel and he says some stuff about it is good to see this work being implemented, good job, and pats me on the shoulder. I know it sounds pretty gay, but I thought it was an impressive gesture from the dude.

my fingers are tired and I am only halfway through the story... maybe I will write more later on today or tomorrow.