1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!

"This is it! This is the answer. It says here... that a bolt of lightning is going to strike the clock tower at precisely 10:04pm, next Saturday night! If... If we could somehow... *harness* this lightning... *channel* it... into the flux capacitor... it just might work. Next Saturday night, we're sending you back to the future!"

It's like the plane to Cambodia was packed w/ plutonium, a flux capacitor and 1.21 gigawats. Man - what a trip.

The ranks, the faces, the routines, the locations, the phrases, the uniforms, the mannerisms, the attitudes and demeanors, stresses and things we enjoy here - some things are so wonderfully familiar and comforting while at the same time aggravating. It's the Navy.

Imagine you could just time warp back to high school and be the person you once were. Well it's not possible to do it, but you could easily find yourself at a high-school reunion where you're in the same location w/ the same people or type of people you used to be around every day.

You'd probably immediately notice your change in perspective since that was your everyday life. And you'd probably notice just how much you've changed by reinserting yourself in that environment after a lot of personal evolution. Well that's pretty much what's going on w/ the Navy right now.

I've grown and changed a lot in the last six years. So putting on this uniform and going to work every day again is odd. It's almost like not knowing how to act in your own skin. The Navy changed a lot w/out me too. Now there's this readjustment period where I'm finding out who I am now in the Navy.

Good news is that I'm much better than I was - being more mature, educated and capable. But that doesn't stop me from sliding into an oddly familiar head space w/ oddly familiar habits and experiencing something so familiar with new senses.

My reflection of this time will be very interesting.