Well, I'm in Texas. Got here on the 28th. Signed in, took my free "time-off" to find a place to live and to go get furniture from my house in Arkansas.
I found a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom duplex with a garage. It's about 1300 square foot, in a quiet new subdivision. The house is only a couple of years old, and well, it's safe. I looked at a bunch of places before deciding on this one, and even continued to look before deciding, and some of them closer to base scared me.
Then I signed into the replacement detachment for some inprocessing. That is nothing new. Same old same old. I am SO danged glad I do not have to live in the barracks. They are having formations at 10 PM everyday, and on the weekend 10 AM. The weekend formations include this weekend which is a 4 day weekend.
I went by my unit on Thursday to say hi and let them know I'll be there probably Tuesday because I'm a Senior (E-5 and above is considered senior NCOs, and E-6s are almost treated GREAT!) and Seniors only inprocess the replacement detachment for 3 days, Juniors do it for 4.
I walked into the personnel section, and was greated warmly by a fellow NCO. Then another NCO looked up and her face lit up. I looked at her face, and her nametape, and thought that the face did not match her name. She told me what her name was supposed to have been, she and I were in the same unit in Okinawa. Then she told me who she married, and he was in my unit then too. I went over to their house last night and watched a couple of movies, and am liking this place more and more.
I am slowing working on getting furniture and stuff I need. I'm hitting garage sales today and tomorrow. I need more pots and pans, a microwave, and a few other things. I just can't bring myself to pay some of the outrageous prices they want for some new stuff around here.
I've met a few people, and am constantly on the lookout for some friends.
