Army Post Road

     So the reason that some of you know I was in bed by 10 last night (who can remember the last time that happened?) was because we told we were going to go for a task force-wide esprit-de-corp run this morning and we had to meet at the office at the airfield at 0600.  Not that had ever made much sense to me (when do they really ever say loddy-doddy-everybody must come to a battalion fun run two days before a pt test? that was the fishiest thing and should've set off even more alarm bells) but I didn't question it much and yes indeed, we ended up having to give a sample for urinalysis this morning (and now you understand my subject line…).   Only about 50% of the task force was 'randomly' selected but of course all of us who had just arrived in the past two weeks were selected, imagine that.  I don't have anything to hide, atleast in terms of what they'd find on any sort of drug test, so I'm not concerned.  It's always just a pain when they do these things because you have to stand around, drinking lots of water to accelerate the process, and then suddenly you have to pee and because you've been drinking plenty of water (or coffee as I had) you have a strong urge to pee but you're in line and it takes a while and by the time you get to the front of the line you've got 3-4 soldiers, full-grown men, doing the pee-pee dance and just like “ya ya ya, the cup is empty, that's my social now shut up before I whip it out and pee on your table and fill everybody's specimen cups.”
     I will be getting a new phone number once I receive my new phone from my parents.  Dad said he was going to FedEx it to me overnight (whether he meant overnight tonight or tomorrow night I'm not clear on) so I expect that it will be here tomorrow or Friday. 
     I do hope that I'll get some sort of pleasant surprise soon where I'll be able to go home before the 14th of April so I'll be able to retrieve my TV because, to paraphrase Homer, “No beer and no TV make Mikey go something-something-something.”  The no beer part is really a result of me choosing not to buy any but nonetheless, no beer is no beer.  
     So I'm still in this mental tug-of-war on whether my next purchase goal should be a new(er) car or some new electronics.  As I say that, it occurred to me that buying new electronic toys in dabbles here and there over the past 2-3 years is about half of what has prevented me from keeping up with/paying back my bills.  The other half largely being beer.  A nicer, more reliable car I think would serve me much better (and do more to keep my blood pressure down) than an XM Radio or an iPod would.  I think I negated a desire for an iPod because the new phone I'm getting plays mp3s and has a CompactFlash memory slot so I'll get my mobile music fix that way.  
     I must be productive before bed, goodnight.