to me...Happy Birthday to me...Happy Birthday to meeeeee....Happy Birthday to me! Yippeee....yahoooo. Theres my party. Yeah safe to say this one was a pretty uneventful birthday. We got underway two days ago...and I spent the day doing my usual 'underway tasks'...well---my ‘usual’ tasks aren’t ever usual. I am in charge of the entire radio shack so it changes daily. I have to ensure training gets done, cleaning, maintenance, preservation, ALL The admin stuff, make sure comms are up and running, have to make sure the network guys are doing what they gotta do, etc etc. The inspection is a freakin nightmare-------never ending lists of discrepancies, then we have to take care of correcting them, everything from doing the work ourselves, to ordering parts, to following up with other divisions if they have to do the job, etc. It seems all we are doing is making the spreadsheets look pretty...the UPPER chain of command is constantly wanting UPDATES....status', dates of completion, etc. Well if you would just let us do our job and quit having us present you with neverending POA&Ms we'd get the work done like YESTERDAY. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol Then we have this huge training inspection too……..so allll that admin stuff has to be straight….then I have to conduct tons of drills and training for my guys….it just goes on and on and on---Butttt..contrary to all that ventin' I just did, things are actually really good. I am being challenged every single day and have learned so much about the big scheme of things. Things that will one day make me a BETTER CHIEF. Speaking of Chief..I have to go now. I have to go study....FOR CHIEF!!!