Letter from Dan

As much as I want to start singing the Blue's Clues song about getting a letter, I'll refrain :)

The mailman (lady?) was nice today. Finally brought a package Dan sent me back on Jan 7th and a letter from him!

The letter was written Sunday night after I had talked to him earlier in the day. So not really much to report, but there are a few things worth mentioning.

I had mentioned on the phone to Dan that we have a countdown going. He said on the portals with all the class information is a countdown until the exact hour of graduation. There are computers in their room, but at the time not working, so he was looking forward to having them available to get more work done. He does have an e-mail address there, but is not yet allowed to use it for personal use. If anyone gets anything from OCSnew41@uscg.mil that is his e-mail there. But do NOT write to him unless you get something from him first or hear the a-ok from me. Their e-mail is monitored and would hate for anything to happen which would push back the date they'll be allowed to use it for personal reasons. There is a good chance that on Friday (tomorrow) they will be given this privilege.

He said their first big test was Monday and he was expecting it to be pretty easy. Things that the prior enlisted people should know in their sleep like rates, ranks, shipboard nomenclature, vessels, and aircraft.

Dan seems a little down about missing Logan's birthday and mentions how much he has changed over the past few months and how much more he will change by the time he seems us again. I've been trying to send him pictures to keep him up to speed on some of those things and write everyday with anything new that's happened.

Last Sunday when we talked he said he would try to call tomorrow (Fri) on Logan's birthday and if he was unable to then he was going to try to call during the party on Saturday. So hopefully if he calls on Sat he has a little bit of time and we can pass the phone around some.