I just finished making a few updates to my gallery. I finally completed the Boston Gallery and created my Mountain Bike Gallery. I also categorized all my videos and added several recent biking videos here. Dad, I finally posted my woodwork pictures under my miscellaneous gallery. They can be viewed here: Woodworking projects
In addition to gallery changes, I will be updating my contact and project pages.
I spoke with my Nephew Cody yesterday about my upcoming assignments and he had several questions about what we will be doing and where. Basically we have been tasked with training the Afghani army in several technical disciplines. I purchase several informative books about the region and am even attempting to pick up Dari, one of the more commonly used local languages. We will be stationed in a relatively cold environment so I am looking forward to the change in weather. The whole experience should be quite an adventure to say the least. I think I will fair quite well compared to most people since I have always considered myself an outdoorsy person and have boasted several times that I could be content living out of a tent. I think this is my chance to test the waters on the sincerity of that statement.
We recently underwent several missile evolutions on our ship prior to me going on leave. I have to admit it was rewarding to witness all the 5 inch, torpedo and missile shots. One of our VLA shots is posted in our gallery under videos. You can check it out here…Cody: 
Missile Launch
I am afraid that the torpedo and 5 inch shot videos did not come out near as well.
In the last several months my friends and I have become increasingly interested in several of our tattoo designs. 
Unfortunately for me I went on an impulse in Panama partly due to my loose Spanish and partly due to a descent amount of National (their favorite beer). Nonetheless I felt it was time to post tattoo pictures and ideas. Check out the gallery below. Laura, Alan and I were all able to get ink’ed yesterday. Unfortunately I will not be able to get my wysiwyg cover-up until I return to the states.