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Friday, May 28th

Joy


So, instead of getting to do my pt test the next day, thereby skipping out on the Commandant's run, we ended up having to do our pt test that evening. I did good on my pushups and situps, not so good on my run, but I still passed it.

Then we got to do the Commandant's run in the morning. I had cleared with my SGL (Small Group Leader - the NCO in charge of my class) to wear a Camelbak since I'm a prior heat casualty, but I still had a bunch of other SGLs asking me what was going on with that. *sigh*

And we didn't know how far we would be running. And the Commandant didn't show up until about 20 minutes after we were supposed to have started... We ended up running a bit over 5 miles, which wouldn't have been too bad for me if it had been about 20 degrees cooler... And because we were running a bit late, we didn't really have time to eat breakfast before going to class (lucky for me I had some milk and cereal in my room) so the entire class was sucking all day. And that was our first day where we had to deal with PowerPoint-style instruction. Not good.

Yesterday started off with a couple of hours of safety classes (in a nice gym with no air flow) since this weekend is the realistic start of summer, and a lot of people are going home over the 4-day weekend.

Me? I've only been here a week and I'm already sick of having to bum rides in order to even just get something to eat. So I won't be going very far.

Joy.
Amanda on 05.28.10 @ 04:36 AM AKDT [link]


Tuesday, May 25th

And class begins


Yesterday was our first day of actual class, which was reviewing some things that we should hypothetically already know, and just need a refresher on. I was pretty OK, but half the class was completely lost.

It doesn't help that this particular thing was generally considered the hardest thing to learn when I first was trained: Subnetting. Basically, breaking down an address space into more useable chunks. It involves actual math.

Today should be continuing the review, and then we should start learning some new stuff on networking. I'm looking forward to it.

This morning we were supposed to take a PT test, but just as we were about to start it started pouring, so we get to take it tomorrow. Which doesn't hurt my feelings any seeing as we were supposed to do a unit run of indeterminate length. I don't like unit runs.
Amanda on 05.25.10 @ 03:06 AM AKDT [link]


Saturday, May 22nd

Settling in


Some notes from the past couple days:

So, my first flight reminded me of military pilots, with how steep the takeoff was. Rather disorienting. Next flight was a bit better takeoff, but we had a rough landing, thought a couple of times that it was about to be a combat drop. Next flight rattled excessively on takeoff, and was rather late. I would have Been late for my last flight except for the fact that it is currently lacking a plane, so I am now waiting an indeterminate amount of time for them to find a plane. Joy. 


Eventually got on the plane. Grabbed taxi to post, and felt pretty lucky when I found out another guy got his bags lost.
Got into my room and got most of my stuff put up, just in time to take about a two hour nap. Woke up to find the bathroom door locked from the other side, had to call the staff duty and get them to get ahold of the person living in the other room to unlock it. Not cool. 
Other than that, today has just been orientation / inprocessing.


I almost had to do some deatil today (Saturday) but got spared. So I've pretty much just been catching up on sleep.  

Amanda on 05.22.10 @ 02:21 PM AKDT [link]


Thursday, May 20th

And so begins another journey


Sittin in the airport in Fairbanks, waiting on my flight. I've got a long And convoluted route to get there, but it gets me there.

I'm headed down there for a class, and I'm going to be there all summer. After I vet dome with that I will be headed home for some leave. I am not lookong forward to the heat.

If my typing is a tad out of whack please forgive me cuz I'm using my new iPod and i'm not quite used to typing on a small screen with my thumbs. At least this airport has free wireless tho. :)
Amanda on 05.20.10 @ 04:37 AM AKDT [link]


Saturday, May 15th

You know ... when ....


You know that your website has been thoroughly crawled by all of the various engines out there when you start receiving spam posts.

*sigh*

Right now I'm making sure that all of my stuff is ready to head off to sunny Georgia. bleh. I've been checking the weather and their low temps are about what I'm getting for high temps.

I hate heat.
Amanda on 05.15.10 @ 04:59 PM AKDT [link]


Wednesday, May 5th

Happy Cinco de Mayo!


Aaaaand.... its snowing.

Mind you, I realize that I'm a bit farther north than usual, and snow later than I am used to is to be expected but... last week it was hitting almost 60.



The sad part is that it managed to get up to about 45 *before* it really started snowing today. I mean, we had some almost flurry stuff happening while we were doing PT, but its okay for it to be around freezing at 630AM... but it doesn't usually warm up, then get colder again by noon.

And, its been snowing hard enough that even with it being well above freezing earlier today, the snow has managed to stick. Just look towards the bottom of this picture:



Goofy weather.
Amanda on 05.05.10 @ 06:42 PM AKDT [link]