What to do?

So I was all ready to say how I explored my inner-geek today by going to Comic Con here in San Diego. I could foresee myself posting pics of seth green, that other robot chicken creator, and me giving the thumbs up, people dressed in various stages of anakin/vader (which of those buttons calls your mom to pick you up?), as well as other monstrosities. I'm sorry to say that no geekdom was had. Apparently, the entire city of San Diego wanted to do the same. The line was massive. It wrapped around the entire convention center a couple times and then went down the marina path all the way to Seaport Village. So what was there to do? It was around noon and I already made my way downtown and that says something when you don't have a car! Instead of saturday being geek day, I shifted gears and made it field trip day. I visited my childhood and went to the zoo. A choice made by the sheer fact that I get in free with my military id. I walked around and explored. The San Diego Zoo, by the way, is very nice, but I spent most of my time with the orangs. Sure, they are always fun to watch, but I'm intrigued by who is watching who. It has to be a great show from the other side of the glass and the orangs watch like they know this already.

After walking around the zoo and Balboa Park, I decided to check out a dive bar that I've heard about. I must say, Little Italy is one hellava nice place. Expensive, but nice. Nestled in the middle of recently built, million-dollar condos is The Waterfront. Back in the day, this place was the spot for all the tuna fisherman who wanted breakfast at the crack ass of dawn and a few beers when they came back in. Since then, it's turned into a tavern slash hipster bar with all the rich kids moving into town, but it still maintains that old spirit and dive bar status. It has a dude in yellow foul weather gear on the roof for jimminey sake! That is frickin' sweet, which reminds me of something....

Our ship is going to need some SAR swimmers and a VBSS team. I want to do one of them, but I don't know which. SAR is search and rescue, so if someone goes overboard I go play fetch from a RHIB (boat) or a helo. I also get some extra money by doing that. VBSS stands for visit, board, search, and seizure, aka the ship's boarding team. A bunch of guys play special forces boarding a commerical vessel, check the ship's manifest, and look for naughty stuff. Both have their dangers, but they also have their kickass-ness about them. In the very least, it'll make life a little more interesting once and awhile. Leave a comment and tell me what you think I should do....

ok i couldn't resist...here's something that ties in geek, childhood, and robot chicken.