I had a wonderful time in Bahrain, at least better than last time we were here. I didn't get any pictures so you be able to appreciate the changes they made here. It use to be a transient port, but I think this will be the central hub of operation. They now have more Marine and C.B.'s than you could shake a stick at. I did laundry on the first day and it was they only time I've done laundry that I wasn't sweating my ball off because of the heat from the dryers. I think it's because the AC untis they were using were too big for the room it was installed in, and 3 of them on top of that. coupled with the heat normally generated from a laundry room, and the outside heat radiating off the windows I would think that the temp kind of broke even. I only hit the beach once this time through, the first night my regular babysitter, Walsh, had duty. The third night I had duty, and the last night Walsh had duty again and the alternate left without me. Duty was a little rough. I had the 0300-0800 M-14 rover, I slept from 2030-2400 because I wanted to try my hand at the sewing machine. I only have one utility shirt with a 1st class crew, the one from the pinning ceremony. Since the pinners only put a pin through the patch and sew anything I needed to put the rest through. Short story would be that the sewing machine kicked my ass. I ended up sewing a little with machine and got so fed up that ended the rest by hand. I didn't feel the lack of sleep until about two hours into the watch. My title was Forward Rover but me and the other rover were checking in at the Quater deck on the fan tail and the Pilot house. Beats me who thought those titles up but it was probably from the wardroom since reality tends to run a bit loose up there. I paced myself by going to one spot and hanging there for a couple of minutes then heading to another spot closer to where I had to check in next. After the fourth check in I would stop at one spot and my eyes would take a little longer to blink than normal. If weren't so hot here I would have had a cup of coffee in stand by but since was also sweating like a race horse I utilized my camelback instead.