On a somber note

Over the weekend I went north to visit some family. My aunt has been battling cancer for quite some time and has been in the hospital for a little more than a month. I was hoping to talk to my aunt while I was there but it wasn’t meant to be. Earlier last week [...]

The new normal

Last Thursday I went under the laser and got my vision corrected. Most people that get corrective surgery get LASIK and notice immediate results. Due to the thickness of my cornea and the military’s restrictions on LASIK I got PRK, a surgery that requires much longer recovery times. At the moment, I am sitting [...]

Two weeks until I go under the knife

I finally got a chance to head to the naval hospital in Bremerton for a pre-op consult. I’d been up for almost twenty hours by the time they started some of my tests so it took a few times to get the results right. If I had been working on dayshift, I wouldn’t have [...]

The Obligatory Christmas Letter

“Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzche

    This past year has been a roller coaster ride of events for our family. None of us could have foreseen what was in store for us this year.

    and Becky didn’t get the chance to [...]