Well, it looks like I'm back in NC for the time being. For at least 3 more months anyways.
Travelling was great, though I'm glad I came back from Korea when I did, as I probably spent a little too much money there on cabs, hotel rooms, partying with old friends, etc.
Right now, the number 2 most frustrating thing is not having a USB cable to download my 100+ travel photos from my camera.
The Number 1 most frustrating thing right now is not having a car.
I've spent, oh, probably over 24 hours checking out cars online, talking to dealers on the phone, etc., etc. I know what I want...
...but I think I'll wait until my next deployment, when I can throw a few thousand dollars away as a down payment.
Until then, I guess I'll buy a semi-fashionable beater that'll get me from point A to point B.
I'm so tempted to just go get it over with now, though, and just re-finance when I get back from the next trip...
Anyways, what else? Once everything's settled at work (a month or so from now), I'll take my happy ass to buy a nice bicycle and start some triathlon training. I guess some more volunteer work will be in order. I don't know... I'm just not really adjusted to the fact that I'm back in the States again, I guess. Part of me just wants to go into hermit mode until the next deployment comes.
Catch you guys on the flip side.
Travelling was great, though I'm glad I came back from Korea when I did, as I probably spent a little too much money there on cabs, hotel rooms, partying with old friends, etc.
Right now, the number 2 most frustrating thing is not having a USB cable to download my 100+ travel photos from my camera.
The Number 1 most frustrating thing right now is not having a car.
I've spent, oh, probably over 24 hours checking out cars online, talking to dealers on the phone, etc., etc. I know what I want...
...but I think I'll wait until my next deployment, when I can throw a few thousand dollars away as a down payment.
Until then, I guess I'll buy a semi-fashionable beater that'll get me from point A to point B.
I'm so tempted to just go get it over with now, though, and just re-finance when I get back from the next trip...
Anyways, what else? Once everything's settled at work (a month or so from now), I'll take my happy ass to buy a nice bicycle and start some triathlon training. I guess some more volunteer work will be in order. I don't know... I'm just not really adjusted to the fact that I'm back in the States again, I guess. Part of me just wants to go into hermit mode until the next deployment comes.
Catch you guys on the flip side.
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"Anabasis"...the march up-country....
An amazing work by a military historian (and friend of
Socrates) about a mercenary expidition he and 10,000
greeks took into the midsts of Persia....
Curiously enough, it is a story placed in what is now
Iraq.
Strange.
Get a Loeb classics edition...it has Ancient Greek on the
left page, and an English translation on the right....
It also contains a description of all the gory details, strategic
decisions, and tactical moves they made.
I think you might like it...I did.