Recent Events

I promise I've not forgotten this thing (or you, dear readers); I've just been swamped over the last few weeks. Recent midterms, planning for the future, all that fun stuff. I just found out today that I'll be reporting to Pensacola on June 26, so I'll be spending the summer in the sunny Florida Panhandle. That won't be "official" until Thursday night when all us aviators pick our report dates, but I found out in advance so I can make plans for housing. At least I know Sally should be going at the same time; her wedding is at the end of May, but we're going to try and meet a few days before the report date to find an apartment after her honeymoon.

Graduation is May 22 this year, so I've got a good month of uncharged leave between those dates. In all probability I'll likely spend much of the time packing, but I do want to take a trip somewhere...maybe out to Wyoming again, since I'll be spending the next year or so in flat Florida; I won't be anywhere near mountains again unless I get P-3s and end up in Washington State or Hawaii, and that would be after Pensacola and a tour at the FRS in Jacksonville... What can I say? I love my mountains. Seriously though, spring break (post-Boston for the St. Patrick's Day Parade) will be spent starting to get things wrapped up and ready for moving out--I gotta figure out which portions of my library I can stand to be parted from and donate (probably to Bethesda Naval Hospital or some such), which means boxing up the last 20+ years of my life. That's going to prove an interesting exercise.

Anyway, this isn't going to be an overly long post--just letting you all know what's been going on lately! And to put up the spring schedule...it's going to be busy starting next weekend, running almost every weekend until the end of the semester:

February 28: Spring PRT (oh, it's going to be cold!)
March 5-8: Pipes & Drums trip to RMC (Kingston, Ontario)
March 14-16: Pipes & Drums trip to Boston (marching in the St. Patrick's Day Parade)
March 28-29: Protestant Choir trip to Busch Gardens/Newport News
April 3-5: Pipes & Drums trip to NYC (marching in the Tartan Day Parade)
April 10: Rolling Thunder washing of the Vietnam Wall and other Memorials
April 17: Pipes & Drums Spring Concert
April 25-26: Camping trip to Lake Anna (my first obligation-free weekend!)
May 22: Graduation
June 20ish: Move to Pensacola, find an apartment, get ready to leave childhood behind for good
June 26: Let the Real World commence!

Beyond June 26 the future is hazy, but one thing is for certain: it's not going to be boring. So long for now!

--Mr. NFO 2009