This week the Coast Guard politely informed me that I would not be promoted. This was not a complete surprise. I had been warned that spending the last 4 years in locked rooms doing intelligence work had not left me as "politically aligned" as some of my peers.
After 20 years of the best Pavlovian conditioning that your tax dollars can buy, I was rather surprised with my apathy. I've spent the last 6 weeks chasing down reserve units in Germany to work at. It's a bit of a relief to cross that task off my list.
How to fill those weekends. I think that I'll now plan to spend them dragging the kids off to tour European castles. Possibly we can do that until they complain at having to see yet another cool, thousand year old building.
There's not enough time to do all the nothing I want.
--Calvin and Hobbes
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