Tuesday, September 13, 2005

New Recruits

This war is going badly. Not really of course but when the new people arrived and if they have to start asking me questions about things then the war is in big trouble. It is strange to me that I am the old guy here. Even the General has two months less time than me. I get a kick out of how guys are trying to figure out their ritual in the showers and that aren't quite getting it right just yet. The way they mess up the ritual and kind of look around to see if anybody noticed their foulup. Like watching someone try and figure out how to do the feet ritual. Like how to go from taking off your shoes and socks without touching the wet and icky floor to putting on your shower shoes and taking a shower without the icky shower curtain hitting you....well anywhere. Then to watch them try to brush their teeth without using sink water is funny because how else do you get rid of the foam from the toothpaste. Ahh the new beans..seems like yesterday when I was going thru those hurdles. But being the old pro now, I'm in and out of the showers and walking back to my hooch in less than 8 minutes. The best part of the new guys and gals is that .... you aren't gonna believe this..... they are asking me how to do Powerpoint. That is a crack up. I was presented with a patch yesterday by one of my buddies that left, it was a patch I can wear on my uniform that has "1000 hours Powerpoint" on it. I got a little bit teary. Ha. I can make a briefing in less than 14 hours now.

Not much activity from the bad guys lately...guess we did some good work last week. The new guy haven't seen an attack yet. That is that.

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