Today the last Christmas email note goes out, and it will end with 0001, and officially the idea of giving my family, friends (all two of them) and especially my mother a note a day to share my thoughts and holiday with. I know some of them were busy enough they never looked at email, and some of their addresses are work related so they only get them if they had to work, and some are away from their home computer station and aren't packing - but the internet is eternal as long as electricity throws current and EMP doesn't rule your area of the universe. They can catch it on DVD (no! just kidding those people that miss television shows and then have to buy the series in DVD - think of the commercials they miss - aren't they blest?).
I wake from long military dreams of getting back into sleeping on the floor or bunks shoved into hallways, issued uniforms, able assistance from civilian support staff to get it right. Of course, I am surprised the uniforms weren't blue or gray (I am so old) but they were OD and NATO camo - that still does date me, sigh. If there were any younger guns reading this I know y'all will be doing it right and for all the best reasons and that you don't need more than my support, and you always have that. I could jump out of aircraft, but what I would do upon landing is no longer up to the standards of a combat drop zone. Guess I will work on sharing my love of shooting and some basic skill transference to those starting out.
End of the year and I had best get a calendar out and plan a bit of the next. My Program Manager at work has our training days laid out, I think I might have to miss one of them - but don't really know yet. In June, the 19th thru 21st, the Dungey Reunion is planned in Green Bay, Wisconsin. And in May, the NRA Annual meet is in Phoenix, Arizona, then Camp Perry National Matches run five weeks starting in June 13 through August 19, should stop and watch some of that. I need to get out to see my mother in West Virginia, the neice in South Dakota, my son and his wife in Hawaii (have trouble imagining my riding the Trusty Triumph that way). My wife has a trip to Korea planned for 2009, but her brother hasn't come up with a date and plan yet so it isn't locked in either. There will be some motorcycle runs on some weekends, just because and if you don't know the because then I can't explain. There are some weekend Appleseeds they may want my help with (more opportunity to ride the Triumph and sleep on the ground, hurrah!)
So I expect my coming year to be busy, I expect to need a long vacations a couple of times this year, I have about 90 hours now and get 11.33 hours a month - so I will have to hold it close and schedule medical visits to clinics in Rochester Minnesota or Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - do you think? I have over five hundred hours of sick leave, if only motorcycle riding were a treatment for my condition I would be so out of touch... with reality.
About the coming year, my wife brought the turkey wishbone over to break with me - and it split exactly in half - don't tell me that is anything more than our luck will be shared, our blessings always have been. Take care out there.
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Sounds like your planning is on track :-) Must be nice...sigh... I can't even get through January without changes...
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