First off, seems Specialized has made my bike decision for me by cancelling the Pitch lineup for 2012. So Santa Cruz here I come.
Oh, and speaking of here I come, I just got orders to Atsugi, Japan! Who would have guessed in a million years that when putting in for those orders and North Island, CA, I’d pull Japan? I’ll be moving there in the summer, but going thru about 3 mo of school first, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I’m just transitioning to an older version of the helicopter I’m already working on. Literally, I’m going from digital to analog, so I’ll be spending a few months down in Jacksonville, FL, before I head out, bored to tears and anxious about making sure the move goes just right.
Now the question is, how much I can get for all my stuff that I won’t be taking with me. There’s no way my king size bedroom set is going to fit when I’ll be moving to a town 30 miles or so west of Tokyo, so there’s no point in keeping it. I’ll sleep in sleeping bags if I have to until I move, but essentially, everything is being liquidated. Including my Miata, but excluding my Buell.
But here’s the big thing to me. Some know I like anime, but not in the full blown geek way, and some know I studied a bit of the Nobunaga thru Meiji era history, so you’d assume I’d be really excited about moving to Japan. However, I’m simply stoked about finally getting an overseas permanent duty station again. My first set of orders were supposed to be permanent duty Italy, but due to that command performing a special mission and finally decomming, I was only able to spend 7 months in Sicily, followed by 7 months in Kuwait. I haven’t been out of the country since 2007, and as travel was one of my biggest reasons for joining, you can understand my generally disgruntled feelings towards the Navy, but this…. THIS MORE THAN MAKES UP FOR ALL THE BULL I’VE PUT UP WITH SINCE THEN!!! I feel a renewed fervor for this job because it surprised me with something I’d never thought it’d let me do again. Thank you detailler for this brilliant set of orders.
