I've been a long time lurker for... wow about six years now. Ironically a friend got me into this and its so entertaining I always come back for more. Even more so since I've joined the Coast Guard and being underway you need a lot of reading material. (Especially since you run out of movies about a month into the patrol). So with Eyrie stories I get quality entertainment, and a high volume of material (and I don't have to watch talledega nights for the third night running).

I probably won't post much because:
1) Somebody has already posted something similar to what I was going to say and simply stating 'dude that story was awesome' simply to do so is kind of a waste of space.
2) Internet connectivity on this boat underway is worst than dialup. (at least they blocked MySpace from the server...)
3) If the waves get any bigger Gravity will win and I'm going to fly out this seat and become a human projectile and that won't be fun (or maybe it will... boredom and losing to a force of nature is usually the start of something that will invariably become a really funny sea-story).

All I do want to say is that Eyrie stories have helped pass a lot of long boring hours while cutting holes in the Bering Sea. You and your crew are very talented.

All the best to you and yours,
Manny
'Who has now sucessfully convinced his new FNG, who just reported aboard and is a heartbeat away from showing me what he ate for dinner, that the ginormus crash he just heard was not a 25' wave crashing over the bow but us plowing into an orca.'

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~If you want my input the red explosions are really pretty and if you did enough you might live for a few more excrutiating seconds

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