T-mobile must be letting me down

I can't imagine that the "suddenly stop calling-itis" has struck yet another of my beaus, so T-mobile must be to blame... perhaps I should call customer service and unleash all of my anger on some dude in Indian that I can't understand anyway. I'm sure they'd appreciate my woes... ugh boys!

Back to reality... thank jeeebus!!

The last three weeks nearly stripped me of my will to continue breathing... ah, good old Army training. But as I'm sitting here I feel like I have bitched about the experience so much in real life that I hardly want to run through the laundry list of gripes that I have again. So just believe me when I say that Camp Atterbury is no freaking bueno.

Anyway, I actually have no idea what I'm writing about right now... I just wanted to update the old blog since I didn't keep up with it during all this training. I'll be leaving for Iraq again in a couple of weeks but I still have no idea what day exactly. That's one of the things that I love about the Air Force. I try to do the right thing and find out what date range it's acceptable to take leave and this is how the conversation goes:

Me: So I have a month window between training and the date that I have to be in country, when should I expect to be traveling so I can take leave and visit family?

AF Dumb Asses: You know that you could leave at any time.

Me: Of course I understand that concept, but when might I possibly expect that you'll put me on a plane?

AF Dumb Asses: Again, you could leave at any time.

Me: So when might I know something about this departure?

AF Dumb Asses: Well the tickets won't be released until the 17th.

Me: Oh, so can I assume that I probably won't be leaving until the 17th?

AF Dumb Asses: No, you could leave at any moment.

Me: Right... are you saying that if I haven't left by the 17th, that you'll be able to tell me something concrete on the 17th?

AF Dumb Asses: No, that's only when your tickets are available for booking.

Me: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

So I leave without any explanation but the sense that I probably shouldn't leave the base for the next 5 weeks, because who knows... at any second I could be expected to be packed and on the plane. Stupid AF.

OK, but it hasn't been all grumpy stuff, I promise :) Randy came to visit during the week between GATOR and CST which was really cool. We did the classic Pikes Peak hike. Everytime I climb that dang thing, I seem to forget how challenging it is within 24 hours... but as soon as I'm back on that mountain the memories come flooding back of what a pain in the butt it is. I think we both kind of wanted to quit at the halfway point, but we made it all the way to the top. It actually even snowed up there. It really was beautiful as always. Here we are at the top together:

He's also been teaching me to rock climb which is a petty humorous adventure. It's great fun and quite the little workout. These are some pics from playing around at Garden of the Gods:

Fun times!! :)