October 27, 2007
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Eh
I’m feeling blah today. Had drill with the unit I deployed to Iraq with. It was kind of a good/bad thing. I saw some people that I had actually missed and was happy to see again, and then had to put up with a whole shit load of people I wished I never had to see again… *sigh* It was kind of a day of disappointments, too. We had a “Freedom Salute” ceremony, which I was actually kind of looking forward to. Packages are given out to returning deployed Soldiers, including an American flag in a case with a plaque. I really kind of wanted one. But there were about a dozen of us who didn’t get one. Don’t know why, they just didn’t have enough. The supply sergeant said they’d get more and get them to us, but I somewhat doubt that. It was a bummer. And then my transfer orders out of the unit came, but there was a total screw up. It put me into a Signal Officer slot, which I was totally not all about. No way in hell am I transferring branches out of Intel!!! I was pissed. I talked to the J1 (Personnel Dept) about it, and he said it was a typo, or that they just pushed me there because I’m still on Title 10 orders and wanted to get me out of a slot for someone else. Whatever. As long as I don’t have to do a branch transfer and I have a MI slot, I don’t care. I am seriously thinking about transferring to the Reserves. There’s a lot of pluses in the column right now… Definitely an option at this point.
The other bummer was that I was supposed to meet some friends I deployed with for dinner. They said they called, which I believe, but my phone didn’t register a missed call and I didn’t hear it ring. I called them 45 minutes after he was supposed to call me to see what was up, and he said they’d already finished and were headed out to the movie.
They’re seeing Saw 4, which I’m not so keen on, so I passed. ‘Nother disappointment for the day. 
later
