{"id":79,"date":"2008-07-27T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2008-07-27T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T08:23:35","slug":"another-week-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/another-week-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Another week down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-79 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/another-week-down\/dsci0337\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/dsci0337-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/another-week-down\/dsci0335\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/dsci0335-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Another week down and it seemed to go by pretty quick. The Soldiers at work surprised me with an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen for my birthday which was nice. We are a relatively small group and we all seem to get along rather well and that makes the deployment a little easier to handle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">I am studying up for my final exam in speech; I will be taking it tomorrow morning. As I have mentioned quite a bit now, this is my last class I need for my Associates degree in Information Technology. I won\u2019t receive my diploma until December because they only do them every 3 months and I missed the cutoff for September, which is all fine and well since I know I will be getting it. I have already finished my first class towards my Bachelors and have pretty much finished the second as well, 5 weeks early. I still have to take a mid-term and final for it but the class work itself is done. I will start one more class the first part of August; I decided to take one of my required sciences and selected Introduction to Astronomy. I choose this because it sounded interesting but mostly because Courtney has a telescope likes the stars and this may help me teach her a little bit about them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">I guess there was an article in the Clarksville paper and the headline read \u201c101 CAB to return early\u201d. After reading it, it all sounded pretty official but I don\u2019t think I or anyone else here are getting our hopes up just yet. We all know that things can change overnight in the Army so we will wait and see, and hope. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">I think today actually marks the first day of our 8<sup>th<\/sup> month here. It doesn\u2019t seem too bad but you sure do miss a lot in a year. I guess the new iPhone came out, Mary will turn 7 in November, Courtney turned 8 in April and summer has already come and gone. I look forward to getting back and I will try very hard not to miss much else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Take care everyone and talk to you next week.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another week down and it seemed to go by pretty quick. The Soldiers at work surprised me with an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen for my birthday which was nice. We are a relatively small group and we all seem to get along rather well and that makes the deployment a little easier to handle. I am studying up for my final exam in speech; I will be taking it tomorrow morning. As I have mentioned quite a bit now, this is my last class I need for my Associates degree in Information Technology. I won\u2019t receive my diploma until December because they only do them every 3 months and I missed the cutoff for September, which is all fine and well since I know I will be getting it. I have already finished my first class towards my Bachelors and have pretty much finished the second as well, 5 weeks early. I still have to take a mid-term and final for it but the class work itself is done. I will start one more class the first part of August; I decided to take one of my required sciences and selected Introduction to Astronomy. I choose this because it sounded interesting but mostly because Courtney has a telescope likes the stars and this may help me teach her a little bit about them. I guess there was an article in the Clarksville paper and the headline read \u201c101 CAB to return early\u201d. After reading it, it all sounded pretty official but I don\u2019t think I or anyone else here are getting our hopes up just yet. We all know that things can change overnight in the Army so we will wait and see, and hope. I think today actually marks the first day of our 8th month here. It doesn\u2019t seem too bad but you sure do miss a lot in a year. I guess the new iPhone came out, Mary will turn 7 in November, Courtney turned 8 in April and summer has already come and gone. I look forward to getting back and I will try very hard not to miss much else. Take care everyone and talk to you next week.","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-deployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}