Its been a while since I've dedicated a thought to this · 8:26pm Aug 3rd, 2017
Well howdy do. I'm here, I exist. Welp...
Soooo, quite a lot has happened from the last blog post to this one. Like in my army life.
I failed out of 68C school, went for a re-class, none of the jobs I wanted were available so they gave me 19D. Which is Calvary Scout. I went to basic training again. (kind-of) passed the course. Here at my unit, and three months or so have gone by here at my unit. Right now we're in Rear-Detachment mode. which is pretty much an admin-standby mode for the unit. The unit is kept operational while everyone else is deployed. For me and any new people coming in, that means that we pretty much chill and exist in army garrison life. We usually get off early, which is nice.
Man there's so many cool things I could have done in the those 3 months, had I been more productive. Or had I kept my habits in check. I've got a lot of ambitious plans and shit. I want to work on them. I've gotta do something for them or for myself every day, even if its something small. Even if its just a simple pleasure. (which by the way I suck at doing. I'm not usually a happy person. This is honestly my doing. I know that my misery comes from within. and its rather aggravating most of the time realizing this. I'm really good at self sabotage.
(Hell I don't know if I have any mental anomalies. Like anxiety or depression. This entire week I've been so worried because I'm afraid that my pass wouldn't get approved when I turn it in so I can go to bronycon. The real kicker to it is that I'm turning in the pass the week of bronycon. Which is the same week that everyone from my unit comes back. So the likely hood of me making it to bronycon (legally that is) is in the gray.
There's this 250 mile limit to how far someone can go beyond Ft Riley without a pass or leave. Beyond that, and you need to get paperwork approved. It usually takes a week for the paperwork to go through. That is for the platoon Sargent, the First Sargent and the commander to sign off on it. I already bought my plane tickets, which pretty much ate up an entire paycheck to do so.
Now the thing is, I can physically go to bronycon. There's nothing physical that impedes me. But if there's a mass recall then you're kinda boned if you're on the east coast and you have to make it back to Kansas within 6 hours and you don't have the leave papers for it.
How do you get screwed? I'm not entirely sure to be honest.
On another note. Since my bank account took a hit buying those tickets. (did I buy them out of desperation?) I'm considering making a commission sheet and offering commissions to get some money back. So that's a thing.
spoiler, i did make it to bc that one time
kek