| Tuesday, January
25th, 2000
2237 ICQ: Jen F. Yup, yet another snow day. Last night circa 2100 the snwo started come with a vengeance...tantamount to a blizzard for this californian boy. Wind and such...we've got about four inches standing now. Today's jump was, obviously, canceled and base has been closed through tomorrow. My guess is that it'll be closed at least through Thursday afternoon...snow is likely again tomorrow and while it'll warm up on Thursday, dunno if it'll be enough heat or time to melt it away. Hell, it could be all week. So I pulled my first 3 hour shift from 1800 to 2100...finished reading most of Tropic of Tancer by Henry Miller...will finish it off and most of that 01-01-00 book too next shift from 0600 to 0900...let the radio belt out rock tunes. Today ain't been much for excitement then...slept till about 1030. Got up and caleld staff duty because I still hadn't gotten official word about work...with SSG Wade at home on convalescent leave getting alert roster chain to function correctly has been rough...not that *anyone* around here has really been kept up to date...if it weren't for the private network of us barraks soldiers only one or two ppl would know what was going on...as it is we mostly subside on he said she said....that's why i called staff duty to make sure--they get the call to initiate the alert so... After i jumped into the shower and was about to get out, the phone rang, as I knew it would...I didn't rush out and be cold and dripping wet because i knew what the call would out--base was closed...funny but the only msg in my voice mail box was one from 0204 1SG saying no work till 1200...i think there was another msg left on this newer call but it never appeared and the old one showed up in it's stead..i swear the voice mail here is so flunky... Perez bandied herself about morning coming in and talking the guard duty and this and that...I never even bothered to roll over and look at her...mumbling the occasional OK as she talked...thinking that if it came down to it, I could always get out of everything by insisting that I was sleep and never heard a word about anything...no-one woke me up to tell me... But I didn't; good soldier I am I do my duty... As I said though not a whole lot excitement going on but my time at the arms room safe type door did have me thinking thinkign about my life in general -- reading miller had a great hand in that wondering about wherI go from here, from this time in the army -- do I re-enlist (if neccesary) to go to europe? DO i got back to school then re-enlist, do I kiss it all goodbye? Do I apply for RIP and ranger battalion and all that HOAAAHHHH stuff I dreamed sorta about enlisted this first time? If I go to RIP, I lead a better exciting life for a couple of years. If I re-enlist, I see Europe with a job locked in and a place to stay paid for...If I get out of the army any trip to the old world is on my dime and I can't stay as long...with the army, I could see myself taking a months worth of leave (or longer) to see england, paris, spain, italy, russia, etc...Plus it would only be another couple years of my life and despite the gripes, it's been a good, easy life here. Much easier to say on days like this... But I see myself as a cultured person...maybe not *quite* as smart as I might have been w/o the rampant drug use or laziness, but i still have a voracious appetite for real literature and art when it hits me right...I'm a traveler, w/o a doubt... And think my father has gotten to realize my zest for the moment and new experience--reference our last ICQ talk where I told him I will probably go to Korea on my next assignment if I can't get to Germany...he said that it *would* be new and interesting and one of a kind fresh opportunity my exact reasons for wanting to go. I'm goeing because my computer has gotten kind of strange
lately not giving me ellipses and making the cursor highlight text instead
of just moving with a mouse click
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