Enemy of Entropy

Sweet Saturday

2 August 2008, 12:55 am. 4 Comments. Filed under Family, Fun, Movies.

Sam took Katie up to Repub­li­can land to pick up her new glasses lenses today – she went to the eye doc­tor while she was with my par­ents, because they were out dri­ving and real­ized that she was squint­ing to read the road signs. Her eyes hadn’t changed much at her last few yearly check-​​ups, but they did this time. She says every­thing is very nice and clear. I need to go get my own checked, but glasses are so dan­ged expensive!

We had a nice date and a deli­cious steak din­ner. Sam’s been promis­ing that he’ll make chicken fet­tucine alfredo since last week­end, but the girl was gone, then he had a pretty tir­ing week. That’s quite a meal to cook after a day at work. So I’m hop­ing he’ll feel up to it tomor­row. The steak was really good, though!

Katie got a long let­ter from her friend Josh, who left for Air Force basic train­ing recently. Then she even got a phone call from him! Appar­ently his group1 is doing really well, so they got access to a sort of recre­ation area with vend­ing machines and pay phones after just two weeks of train­ing. Another friend of theirs who just got out of train­ing said they didn’t get that until after five weeks, which is appar­ently pretty standard.

I worry about Josh – this just isn’t a good time to be going into any branch of the mil­i­tary, as far as I’m con­cerned. But I’m sure he’ll be a good air­man, and it’s what he wanted to do.

Thanks to Eliz­a­beth Bear ([info]mato­ci­quala), I now know that, Ohs noes! Franz Kafka read pron! I can’t quite fig­ure out why it’s such a big deal to any­one, but I’m cer­tainly not a Kafka scholar. Is there any healthy adult in the world who, given the oppor­tu­nity, has not read/​viewed porn at some point in his or her life?

The girl saw Mamma Mia with my mother, and said she thinks we’ll enjoy watch­ing it together. I don’t pay much atten­tion to what’s in the the­aters, so other than think­ing it might have some con­nec­tion to Abba I was clue­less. Bear also posted a link to an inter­est­ing review that finally gave me a clue as to why Katie liked it so much.

1 It isn’t a pla­toon – what do they call them in the AF?

4 Comments »

  1. avatar Moondazed. 3 August 2008, 1:44 am

    I’m afraid I’m woe­fully igno­rant of mil­i­tary ter­mi­nol­ogy, sorry I can’t help with that, but my son was in JROTC and I was ter­ri­fied that he’d join the mil­i­tary, espe­cially when his girl­friend men­tioned that if they were mar­ried and she was preg­nant he’d get paid more(!!!). Luck­ily he hasn’t enlisted, he’s still work­ing at the gro­cery store and floun­der­ing around about enrolling in com­mu­nity col­lege, and his girl­friend is now on-​​again, off-​​again. Who knows where he’ll end up…

    I hope you get your chicken din­ner soon :)

  2. avatar Dwivian. 3 August 2008, 11:49 am

    In the Air Force, they are called wings, flight groups, flights, and squadrons. So, prob­a­bly this is about his flight or flight group.

    If they got food access at two weeks, they’re doing amaz­ingly well.

    AF duty over­seas is kinda dull — not a lot of direct con­flict, as the sup­port for air­craft role tends to be back from the lines, inside secu­rity perime­ters. Hope­fully he’ll be fine.

  3. avatar cyn. 3 August 2008, 9:45 pm

    Just enjoyed that din­ner, and it was great!

    Appar­ently he is in a “Flight,” Dwiv. Thank you.

    I dated an AF guy years and years ago, and he said he chose that branch because they send their offi­cers out to do the actual fight­ing. Hope­fully Josh will be safe. We’ve known him for a decade or so, though, so I can’t help but worry a bit.

  4. avatar Hope. 9 August 2008, 6:56 pm

    I sus­pect that “Healthy” is the key word in that question.

 

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