Swimmin' and textin'

Today was interesting...

My wife started processing today at Fort Benning.  Her first PT test at Fort Benning is tomorrow, so she's a little nervous about it.  Here's hoping she does well.  I'm quite confident she will.  She passed her last PT test with flying colors, and that was only about a week ago.  I'm sure she can do it again.

Officer's rooms in barracks are very different from enlisted soldiers.  They have four wall rooms with only one bunk in each room.  It's utilitarian in style, but definitely has the look of a college dorm room.  My wife got roomed with a friend of hers, so that should make the time go by well too.

Along with other things, she got three bags of gear at Fort Benning today!  Here's a picture she provided...

Sounds like training will be every bit as intense as they claim it will.

In other news, I finally donated a full black garbage bag of clothing to Goodwill.  I hope to have at least two more loads in the very near future.  The less around the house, the better.

Learning moment for me...if you can't turn your key in your car ignition, turning the steering wheel or pulling the steering wheel away from the ignition allows one to turn the key freely.  Maybe my Mazda was just too nice of a car, but I've never heard of this until now...when I have problems with it and suddenly everyone else has heard of it too.  Is this just a recent development in car making?  Is this possibly related to the introduction of telescopic steering wheels?

Finally, at work, I taught myself the basics of database generation.  While it would come very handy at work to implement, I can also use the knowledge for my genealogy project.  I've been trying to figure out the best means of executing this on a database, and I got a really good start today.  I just need more time with it.  I initially started with Microsoft Access 2003, but decided on OpenOffice 3 because it's freeware, they have tutorials online, it handles a little easier, and it would be much easier to distribute the information to other interested parties without having to ask them to spend tons on money.

I got a good amount of swimming in, so I'm feeling pretty good.  The next book I'm going to read is Game of Thrones by George R R Martin.  Really liked the HBO series, so I'm expecting the book to be even better.