Still sick...

To my one or two loyal fans, I apologize. I have been sick all this week. This has precluded me from doing much of anything besides working and sleeping. Heck, I haven't even been to the gym in ten days, I feel like such a fatbody.

Well, I'm flooring two people tomorrow: one to join, one to re-phys so we can put together her OCS packet. That should make things a little better when I get to talk to the panel of senior recruiters about why my production sucks so bad. No, I'm sure it has nothing to with people saying "no". I am inferior because I cannot convince people to join as well as they can. It's a different environment now than it was when I joined. Hell, when I joined, I didn't even realize I was joining until I'd raised my right hand and left MEPS. Nowadays, we can't do that. We have to convince the individual, then we have to convince their family, then their friends, then their friggen' cat! And if that doesn't work, we have to pester, woo, and otherwise stalk the individual until they either join, or get a restraining order. We want people to want to join the Army. I can't see myself doing anything else at this point in my life. If I take the Army out of my life, I really don't know what I'd be doing. It's so frustrating when I meet a young person with no clue what he/she is going to do his/her life, and he/she isn't willing to give up three to five years to accomplish something and become somebody; it drives me nuts. Let me clue you in out there: THERE IS NOTHING IN THE GOD-AWFUL STATE OF NEW YORK WORTH LIVING WITH MOM UNTIL YOU ARE 40 Y/O FOR. There really is a much larger world out there, if you only had the courage to reach out and grab it, you could do anything. The Army could be a means to that end; for many it could be more than just a stepping-stone. If the Army were so bad, there would not be so many people who want to make a career of it. Chew on that for a while.