Chris' Updates

Oh gosh, it's been a while. Really sorry to ignore this for so long, but you can beleive I've been busy. School ended smoothly with the presentation of our project in Components, and the very next day I was on the road to New Mexico. I drove to Albuquerque to see Zach's track final, and I was rewarded to see him get 2nd place in both shotput and discus, both directly behind his good friend and team mate. I was also there for Mother's Day, so Mom, Dad, and I went geocaching and found a great little path. While I was gone, Ashley had surgery on a cyst, and I came back to Colorado to find her very much in pain still. The weeks that followed were pretty quiet. I started thinking about Annual Training coming up in June, but mostly I was catching up on some good old computer gaming. One day, Marcy and I installed a new bedroom window, so hopefully it will be more energy efficent and more bearable in the heat. I also had a few bus runs, shuttling a conference from their hotel ...

My pride, my Army promotion, and my grades are all being decided this week, and so far I'm not doing well. The drill this weekend was fairly normal, nothing too bad except for the company PT test. I started on the push-up event, something I thought I had locked up. But about 10 push-ups in, I started lowering my head and looking at the ground. Almost instantaneously I had 3 NCO's standing around me and telling me to keep my head up and go down lower. With all of the commotion around me, I did a pitiful job, probably one of my worst performances on the push-ups. I didn't even come close to passing there. Disheartened, I wouldn't have even bothered going on, but SGT Murray encouraged me to at least finish all three events. I barely eked out enough sit-ups, and really took it easy on the run. All that preparation on the run with Pritchett, and I ignored my push-ups and failed before the run even started. This morning was the Arabic written final. I don't think I did a ...

Last night I had a fairly bad bus run. I was moving a conference from their hotel to Folsom Field for a relaxing evening of fun, gambling and socializing. I was driving an articulated bus, which forced me to park awkwardly for picking up the group. I had several ladies in high heels trying to walk down a short, grassy slope to board. However, no harm done, we continued on our way. I dropped the group off, then went back to base and post-tripped the bus and ate dinner. I came back to the bus and drove back to the pick-up point, where I was slated to shuttle for a couple of hours. Very few people came out during the shuttle period. When 10:30 rolled around and I had still only shuttled a fraction of the group back, I began to get a little nervous. However, my trip ticket said I ended at 10:30. Maybe the party went later? They were probably still partying and would find alternate transportation back to the hotel. So a few minutes afterward, I drove out, fueled up, and went back to base. A...