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So much for sleeping today
Sometimes my hatred of the military outscores any possible good that comes out of being in the military. I haven't gone to group PT yet this week and I have to work tonight, so I decided to go to the 0700 session today. I leave my house at 0635 - which has always been PLENTY of time to make it to the gym. Yeah, well, at 0655 I was still stuck in traffic two lights back from the gate to base. I was never going to make it, so I pulled off onto a side street and headed home. I'll have to stay awake to go to the 1100 session. Ever since they started physically (instead of visually) inspecting each ID card as we enter the base, traffic has been a fucking nightmare.
8 weeks left in Misawa, folks. I'm all a-twitch. You know what I'm going to miss hard, though? Driving around at night. Last night, on my way home from getting ramen and paying my electric bill, I passed the road to my house and kept on driving. I started on 45 heading south to Hachinohe, then I ended up on 4 and went through Towada and halfway to Aomori. I hooked onto 8, which took me back to 4 for a bit, then hopped on 10 home to Misawa the other way. It was one of the best solitary, late-night drives I've had. After I got through Towada I flew headlong into this crazy thick fog. It was amazing - I was just zooming down these curvy roads, completely inable to see anything more than 10 feet away. I felt so light and calm. You know what's more important than being able to drive fast? Not having any other cars in front of me. If there's a car in front of me, I can be doing 80 mph and still feel like it's too slow. When the road is open, whatever speed I'm going feels like the perfect speed to me.
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