Wednesday is not a TGI day

 
The crew we’re replacing is badly positioned right now: not around to help with the work, because they’re processing to depart, but not gone yet … which is to say, they’re using the team truck to take care of their business, which puts me and SSG V to a certain inconvenience. This will pass (they’re due to leave Friday), but is a small annoyance until it does.

I got tagged for a random search today at one of the entrance/exit points, during which I learned that the Leatherman multi-tool and the mini-Swiss pocket knife I kept with me through Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t allowed in the place where I’m working. They were confiscated, I was written a receipt, they’ll probably come back to me in a few days (and may be accompanied by a lecture, but probably not, it’s apparently a routine event); no big deal overall, but it took up half an hour of my time and now I have to wait for the return of my property. It reminds me of when my unit first mobilized for the Iraq invasion: two other units came on the same flight, and there were so many of us leaving at once that a civilian airliner was chartered to carry us all. (For Afghanistan, it was military transport all the way. Believe it or not, that’s actually more comfortable over the long haul.) We went aboard in full gear — helmets, body armor, pistols and M-16s and light machine guns — but were required to have all our knives packed away.

There’s actually good reason for the rule here; there, it was just silliness. But I’m still reminded of the incident.

Even though I just finished remix_redux, I shrugged and signed up for the new gen_remix. As one who’s gotten comprehensively tired of the seeming predominance of slash-and-’ship in fanfic, I can hardly ignore something that is all but tailored for my wishes. I probably won’t go at it as intensely as I did remix_redux (I suspect I went a bit overboard there), but it’s worth the attention. So consider this a pimp: anyone interested or even curious, wander over to gen_remix and take a quick look at what’s there.

I’m still waiting for remix_redux to open this round for public viewing. Understandable why it hasn’t happened yet, even today there are still stories being turned in, but I’m ready to start reading some of the stuff. Frustrating to have to wait.

Things are slowing down a bit, becoming routine. I find myself wishing for the weekend.

Quick meme, ’cause I said I would

 
Returning a favor from izhilzha:

Comment to this post and I will …

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something (a fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.)
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Associate you with a character/pairing.
6. Ask something I’ve always wanted to know about you.
7. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8. In return, you must post this in your LJ.