January 27, 2008
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I am a silly little bastard
I’m on TDY (temporary duty) some place warmer than my home station. Thank god. If you have any experience with TDY in the army, you know that ‘TDY’ is code for ‘eat until your tired, sleep until your hungry.’ For me, it’s more like ‘drink until your tired, sleep until you can drink.’ and somewhere in there, find an available and capable man and see where things go…
I could get used to this. 
Of course it did get me involved with someone who I probably shouldn’t be, but I’ll figure that out later. Hopefully it won’t be that big of a deal. ‘What happens on TDY stays on TDY.’ it’s a handy little code… And he’s gone now, so hopefully a little space and time will cool things off. I’ve also got a date lined up with a captain from another course for next week. Maybe he’ll be able to take my mind off the other. It would be a pleasant break.
The bummer of the trip was that I broke my PDA phone.
I ended up buying an iPhone to replace it. Sadly, it was the cheapest option that did everything I need. My old phone would have cost $600, the model that replaced it was $650, and the lower echelon model cost $500. So $399 seemed a deal… Getting the damn thing activated was a nightmare. I’d like to kill the fucking genius who decided that the one and only way to activate the damn thing should be through iTunes. All I’ve got is a goverent computer. I can’t download programs on it. Thus, I couldn’t activate my phone. I asked damn near every person I ran into if they had access to iTunes to no avail. Couldn’t freaking find a single person. Finally got a librarian to look the other way for an hour so I could download the program and run the activation sequence. Annoying as all hell. But at least I got it done. Overall, the iPhone isn’t too bad. I don’t think it’s as good as the hype would like you to believe. What really annoys me is that you can’t change the black/gray/white color scheme. It’s depressing. But I do like the visual voicemail and the text message interface. The keyboard is probably better at recognizing what you meant to type. Well, that’s my bitch session for now!
Later
