So, the leave and trip to China went well, though I don’t think I’ve ever seen a city as large as Beijing be quite as dirty as Beijing. The Chinese have a long way to go if they want to impress anyone during the Olympics.

We got safely back to Japan on Thursday, but a two-day Internet outage stood in the way of getting caught up around here. I had plenty of work on the ship, though, so it was probably all for the best. I did have a nice note in my e-mail from the editor at Military.com telling my I will be writing for them regularly in the future, though the first column won’t go up for a few days.

I was also contacted by my detailer the day I got back to tell me I will be leaving this ship next month to go and serve as the executive officer on a destroyer. While it’s great news, it means I have to get the family and myself packed out of Japan in just four weeks – and my orders won’t be in for a week or two – so it’s work piled upon work. I’ll do what I can to keep up around here, though.

[Update] Looks like my page at Military.com has gone live.

Trackposted to Perri Nelson’s Website, The Virtuous Republic, Is It Jus Me?, Rosemary’s Thoughts, The Random Yak, Adam’s Blog, RightTruth, ThePopulist, TheUncooperative Radio Show, Nuke’s News & Views, Shadowscope Stuck on Stupid, Webloggin, Phastidio.net, Cao’s Blog, The Amboy Times, Jo’s Cafe, Conservative Cat, third world country, Faultline USA, The World According to Carl, Pirate’s Cove, Blue Star Chronicles, The Pink Flamingo, Right Voices, and OTB Sports, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 and is filed under Blogging, Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.