well.....today is my birthday. i'm a whole whopping 28 years old. feels like last year, although i'm kinda just spending today watching all of season one of Game of Thrones alone in my apartment. in some small sense its kinda nice. on the other hand, i'm starting to feel like i have no more youth in me anymore, and that sucks. are there any ladies lined up at my door tonight? nope. its gonna be a delivery pizza and Sam Adams kind of night. i have duty tomorrow. it actually snowed a little bit out here in Virginia Beach. i did, however, get some new ink last night. i took the pics on my phone so i should be able to upload them here shortly without the same problems i had with my new camera. badass camera technology is awesome until you try to upload shit with a size limit! anyway, i'm sleeving out my right arm with some more Japanese artwork. last night was 3 hours worth of linework, with more to come on Feb 9th. we deploy about a week and a half later, for another 6 fucking months. i guess i signed up for this, but how is it that some ships have been deployed 5 times in their 40 years of being built, and my ship has deployed 5 times in the last 6 years? that's right, because life sucks, and then you die anyway, back to tv. i'll be uploading those pics! later y'all

well.....today is my birthday. i'm a whole whopping 28 years old. feels like last year, although i'm kinda just spending today watching all of season one of Game of Thrones alone in my apartment. in some small sense its kinda nice. on the other hand, i'm starting to feel like i have no more youth in me anymore, and that sucks. are there any ladies lined up at my door tonight? nope. its gonna be a delivery pizza and Sam Adams kind of night. i have duty tomorrow. it actually snowed a little bit out here in Virginia Beach. i did, however, get some new ink last night. i took the pics on my phone so i should be able to upload them here shortly without the same problems i had with my new camera. badass camera technology is awesome until you try to upload shit with a size limit! anyway, i'm sleeving out my right arm with some more Japanese artwork. last night was 3 hours worth of linework, with more to come on Feb 9th. we deploy about a week and a half later, for another 6 fucking months. i guess i signed up for this, but how is it that some ships have been deployed 5 times in their 40 years of being built, and my ship has deployed 5 times in the last 6 years? that's right, because life sucks, and then you die anyway, back to tv. i'll be uploading those pics! later y'all