Officer's Training and My Absence

[kith_koby]

"Ered en echoriath, ered embar nin!" - Voronwe Aranwion.

Thank the Lord, after three weeks in Officer’s Training far from home, I have finally returned. Apropos of the opening quote, I arrived just in time to receive Winter in my face - it had started earlier, but we had naught of it in the Negev where Officer’s Training takes place. It was sad to

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[cmcmck]

Busy is good, but I'm sorry you missed the family celebration.

[kith_koby]

Thanks. That's life. To be honest, it was the best time I could have had Officer's Training - I won't be missing any other holiday, and otherwise I might have been missing both Purim and Passover or the High Holy Days.

[sartorias]

Happy Channukah belatedly (so astonishingly early this year!) and be well!

[kith_koby]

Thank you! I was also surprised by it - I'm used to Hanukkah (which is also my birthday) falling around the Winter Solstice (which is my Gregorian birth-date). Other than the sheer cold, everything is going excellently.

[sartorias]

Talk about a significant birthday! (And I hope it was a good one.)

[kith_koby]

Yes, it does have a tendency to be an easy date to remember. It was... well, as well as can be accepted for being in the army, knowing there is still a week and a half until I return home. It was my various friends wishing me happy birthday that really made it happy.