Back in the Saddle??

Hi all. Wanted to see if the old place was still here, and gosh, it looks nice. Made me feel like posting again. So here goes.

Still waiting to find out what the magical list of assignments holds. When it comes out, I'll have to be pretty damn quick to make a decision and turn it around, because I will be leaving for the Academy soon thereafter.

Last week on nights this week, then a week of days. Really glad as me an Viv are going to a special Halloween event at Oxburgh Hall. Looking forward to it.

Take care.

Myron

Hi

Hello Doc and Margarette, how are you both?. Spring has finally arrived and we've been busy getting the garden tidied , sowing grass seed and putting rose bushes in. It's good to have John home although they have gone away for a few days so we're Molly sitting. We're going to Yorkshire on friday with Gus's brother and wife for a long weekend and to have a meal on the dining car of the old steam train. We hope to get to the caravan the week after that so it's all go at the moment. Hope you're both doing ok Love Mary and Gus

Still here, still bored

Its one day to go before we begin part two of the long journey. Right now we leave for the airport at 1200, in time for the flight at 1130 at night. Over 11 hours of fun filled waiting. Oh boy. Then we have to make it through customs and onto the flight to England, hoping that everyone is correct and we can take the weapons with us. That's if they don't screw us over and set up a military flight, which would mean we wouldn't get back home until around midnight on Saturday. Somehow, a 36 hour travel plan does not make me overly thrilled. Still, mustn't grumble, as I will be heading home and at some point this ordeal will end.

I am doing laundry and a few other bits and pieces, all of my luggage has been packed, and repacked, and I am ready, except for some small pieces, and the clothes in the laundry.

Myron

I'm bored

Hi all. Sitting in Qatar at the moment. Have to go to the USO area to get a computer. As the title says I'm bored. We are sardined into a 20 X 20 room (8 people + luggage), so its not alot of fun.

As I observed earlier, I am very much alone. The rest of the gang is all cliquish and buddy buddy with each other, so except for a relative few, there is no one to talk to. Its kind of funny, but a few of the guys back in Iraq who I was with made some) not favourable) observations about some members of the JAC crew that they had run into. To a letter I agree with them. I cannot wait to get back so I do not have to associate with them again.

Its extremely hot here, and there's not alot to do. I've spent a few days ploughing through a book, almost done with it, and have a couple more in the hopper. We are supposed to outprocess here on Tuesday, and then depart on Friday. Fingers crossed.

Thank you to Mum and Nick for texting me. Viv says it feels good to be able to phone me when she wants.

Take care of yourselves and each other.

Myron

Almost there....

I have now officially finished my outprocessing. Just need to pick up the letter of release and I'm good to go. Will be out of here tomorrow, and back to the wonderful world of Qatar. A week of hanging around there with my twiddling my thumbs, and then a whirlwind of flights culminating in me landing back in Green and Pleasant Land. Don't know if it would be quite appropriate to kiss the ground when I land, but I just might for the shock value.

I would like to take this moment to address a concern that Viv threw at me a couple of weeks ago. While talking on the phone with her one evening, she said it seemed like I wasn't thrilled with coming home. Seems she took it as a personal slight, that I didn't want to be married to her anymore or something.

Let me make this perfectly clear: I do want to come home.

However, coming home is going to be one of the hardest things I've ever done.

Normally, the military deploys in units, you go to war with the people you normally work with. In my case, despite the best attempts of the JAC to keep us together, I am the only member of the JAC here.

So when I leave I am going to be very much alone. With a few exceptions, the JAC guys were together. They have had common experiences to share, and inside jokes that you had to be there to get.

I have those too, but all the people I have common experiences with are staying here. None of the JAC people will know why Adam's nickname is "Snuggles", what Spanky's Secret Clubhouse is, who the B-17 gunner is, and why he is called that, and why you never, ever, under any circumstances, refer to someone you like as a "Great Guy". So when I'm back with the JAC people, I'm going to be very lonely.

My attitude is not stemming from not wanting to come home.

It's because I want to bring the rest of the guys with me.

Take care of yourselves and each other.

Myron

Prezzies!

I got a really special "Thanks for playing, here's your parting gift" prezzie yesterday...a 10th Group coin! Means alot, as these are the guys who cemented the idea of unit coins in to firm reality, those many years ago. Not a bad haul, two coins in one trip! The other one, in case I never mentioned it was a Chief of Staff of the Army coin that I got when he breezed through around New Years.

Mom and Dad apparently made it down south, and the funeral is today. Here's hoping the have a safe trip back. Viv was exceptionally worried about them, as they hadn't called.

I've packed nearly everything, except some bed stuff, and the clothes I'm wearing the next few days, so I'm pretty ready to go, just have to do up my sleeping bag tonight, and then I have clothes, and my mosquito net and screen the following night, and clothes.

Not long now!!

Take care of yourselves and each other.

Myron

Thank you

I had been complaining because I would miss nests this year, so thank you for thinking of me. I've got outprocessing to do today and tomorrow, and am also doing my last load of laundry here tomorrow. Then I can pack most of my clothes. Will break my bed stuff down tomorrow as well. Supposedly, we may have an early morning flight, so I have to be ready to go. Also have to try and get a haircut, tried yesterday, but had just missed the guy going to lunch; waited two hours for him, and he never showed again.

I'm not really looking forward to going down to Qatar for eight days, I will be very bored, and waiting for Friday to roll around will be more stressful than if I was here doing actual work. But it will be good to get back home again.

Take care of yourselves and each other.

Myron