May 14, 2007

  • Can't recall if I've mentioned this before.

    Charles is leaving the Navy.  Did I say that earlier?

    Well, he is.  This morning he received his official separation date, which will be May 24th.  The primary concern at the moment is how he's going to get his Corvette home, seeing as how it won't get out of first gear.

    Hard to drive from Connecticut to Texas in first gear.

    Transporting it is very pricey indeed, and he's too young to rent a vehicle suitable for towing it.  This leaves either fixing it (which he's looking into today) or trying to sell it fast and eating the loss (he'd taken out a loan on it).

    BTW, for those who recall his trip to NYC last summer where he and Joseph were allowed onto the Spiderman 3 set, the scene they were present for was the one where the crane is out of control.  I've not seen the show, so that's all I know.  There's a crane, and it's misbehaving.  He has photos of the photographer filming it (odd thing to take a picture of, isn't it?) and the actress, whatever her name is.

    He says had he been wearing his dress blues instead of his dress whites, he'd have been able to actually be IN the scene as an extra, but there it is.  The blues are warm, so naturally he was in the cooler, more lightweight whites.  No film stardom for Charles.