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Countdown
This was a drill weekend for my unit. Relatively light - two days at home station, completing paperwork and checking the boxes on required briefings - but we’re coming down to the wire. Only two more drills remain before we go on mobilization orders: a four-day field exercise with as many things as they can throw at us, and a one-day drill to relax ( Read more... ) -
Coming off duty
I just got back from a three-day drill weekend, almost the entirety of which we spent out in the field. I was slightly surprised to discover at my age that spending a couple of nights sleeping in the ground 1) not only is something I can still do, but 2) doesn’t even leave me really the worse for wear. I’m badly out of shape - though I’m about to ( Read more... ) -
Drawing near departure time
Quite a bit of today’s post is devoted to matters in the military side of my life, so I’m putting it in a cut.
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Yes, back on active duty (soon)
It’s official now: I’ve been approved for the six-month tour for which I volunteered. I still don’t know much about it; I know where I’ll be, down to a fairly small geographical area, but not who I’ll be working with, what precisely I’ll be doing, what rules will apply and what privileges will accompany the duty. I don’t even know precisely when it ( Read more... ) -
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Different things to think about and talk about. I’ll tackle them a few at a time over the next several days.
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Well, okay. Time passed, and miscellaneous events, and now me catching up ( Read more... )
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I was serious when I set myself the goal of finishing “God Save the Queen” in November, and I seriously devoted myself to the task. All the same, I didn’t quite make it. I put the last word in before going to bed on December 2nd ( Read more... )
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I got caught up in events, some of them significant but all time-consuming, and then I look up and find it’s been nearly two weeks since I made a post. So, bringing things up to date:
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Yesterday, like the day before, I spent the entire day writing. And, like the day before, none of it was for NaNoWriMo.
This is getting comical. Who would have thought the impetus of a deadline would have so powerfully motivated me to do other stuff? But that’s what happened; I started off with a little “God Save the Queen” revision ( Read more... ) -
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The revision of sroni2004’s “God Save the Queen” continues. Yesterday I finished the second chapter … almost all of which was new copy, added scenes and dialogue, with the majority of the original text left for later use. I’m nearly to the 6,000-word mark (two-thirds of the former total), with two chapters remaining to do. As a result, what was ( Read more... )