Drill Weekend and Other Shenanigans

This weekend was my National Guard weekend. I guess I got a little accomplished there, but not really alot. Not sure if that even makes any sense, I guess the easiest way to explain it, is that I didn’t do as much sitting around as last month. Saturday, I got new uniforms so it felt more official being at drill in uniform and that was it. Sunday, I took the yearly physical fitness test and I passed. I also started working on putting together my packet for promotion to E-5/Sergeant and signed up WLC (Warrior Leadership Course). I do not need this to have my E-5, but it looks good for when my packet goes in front of the bored board (stupid Homophones). So WLC is a two week course that gets soldiers prepared to becoming Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs). The class is in South Carolina, I’m guessing Fort Jackson, and it will not be until late January 2008. Believe it or not that was the earliest opening available. Well they had one December, but it would be running really close to Christmas and that’s always busy time of the year for everyone. There was another one that began Jan. 2^nd, but my boss wouldn’t let me go to that one because it was birthday, so January 23^rd is the day as of now.

Found out last night that Skybus declared bankruptcy, which by the way Jen and I were scheduled to fly on in July. In the e-mail I received I was told I wouldn’t be getting a refund and would need to contact my credit card company. USAA did get us a refund which was cool, but now I am stuck trying to figure out how Jen and I are going to be getting to Ohio. Thanks to rising gas prices any means of travel is going to be ridiculous. I’m wondering how much higher gas is going get until I need to harvest my kidneys.

So I got pictures of the house finally, but now I need to take new ones because Jen has since decorated. So of course she wants the new ones posted.

Until next time folks.