learningcurve

Knee surgery next week. Not looking forward to it, but maybe it will fix the problem(s). Going to kind of suck spending most of my first Alaskan summer on crutches, though.

For those with an eye to learning from others' mistakes, allow me to advocate never smashing up the meniscus and rupturing bursa in your knee. I'm going on six weeks since I tweaked my knee pretty good, and I've still got fluid on the knee and, while I mostly have good days, I'm one or two bad movements (lunges, squats, that sort of thing) away...
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Made it to Alaska in one piece, thoroughly enjoyed the drive up (again) -- though doing the whole trip (over 4000 miles) in five and half days was a bit grueling. Only really sporty day was 17 hours of driving from Ft. Nelson (Yukon Territory, I think) all the way to the border and on to Tok, Alaska. Weather wasn't too bad -- there was...
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Sooooooo . . . issue one: got new job.

Issue two: New job means a modest relocation from Alabama to the blessed and holy land of Alaska, where summer temperatures never rise above the sixties and the money is good. Looks like I'll be headed back to Alaska again (fourth trip this year, counting job interviews and such) in about 30 days. Can't wait.

So my current enlistment was all set to run out in August, and I was all set to roll directly into a better paying and presumably less irritating job (can any job outside of the fast food industry be more irritating than the military?), but there were a couple hiccups in that plan.

Looks like I'll be on the gov't payroll until the end of...
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ETS Countdown: 87 days. Damn.

ETS Countdown: 212 days.

Be inside six months pretty soon. Liberating feeling to say the least. Re-enlistment still seems extremely unlikely.

ETS Countdown: 277 days.

Re-enlistment Prognosis: Dim.