Well, things look to be going reasonably well. I’ve got a nice desk setup that locks my computer in fully assembled, so I minimize work putting it together and taking it apart. There’s a nice plug inside the locking desk connected to the desk fluorescent light in it, so I just plug in a power strip and run everything I want in locked security, safe from the probing eyes of inspecting officers. It is totally 133t for my electronics.
Call for fire test got done today; I got a 90%, which is plenty good. Combat Water Survival Test has been rescheduled to sometime in the future, which is awesome because its really freaking cold water and the temperature here has been in the 40s recently for highs. I’ve also developed a disturbing resistance to cold temperatures, inured from standing around in them all the time.
Looks like we’ll get most of the weekend off! On post, in uniform, but still. No one looking over your shoulder bugging you. With regard to branching, it appears I’ll be out of the running for MI, although I’m not giving up on it totally. In more interesting news, this time we’re doing special preference for Engineering branch applications, meaning they’ll consider you just on the basis of you having a hard science degree that Engineers can use, like my Geomatics degree. I figure I’ll be a shoe in with them, and after that if they somehow misuse my degree and put me in a Brigade Combat Team in a Bradley unit, then so be it. I just want to graduate and escape this place now.
I hope I get to see my buddies from the old Basic training company tomorrow. It’s the last time I’ll be able to see Boone for a while, as he’s shipping out to BOLC II at Ft. Sill, and his assignment takes him to Ft. Lewis near Seattle. I’ll have to find an excuse to see him after he gets there. 
Anyhow, life is going reasonably well. Internet is good, and so are finances, and so is the platoon and Charlie Company. Ankle still hurts a bit sometimes, but what can you do, I think it’s still healing as I discovered a tender spot on it after all this time. Maybe there won’t be any long term aftereffects after a year, who knows? 10 weeks to go.