So, I’m on mandatory vacation again today. No not the kind you get when you get in trouble, just the kind where your sergeant realizes that you have several weeks of vacation to burn and if it doesn’t get burned… Well, no one really knows what happens if it doesn’t get burned, but it’s bad.
I hate working half the day because the hard part is getting out of bed, and that’s already done.

Anyway, I did get to drive my / / /M3 to and fro without having to work all day, so I’m not too upset. I could wax philosophical about my commute being the high point of my day recently, but I guess I won’t. I will say that I’ve had a lot of cars that I enjoyed having, but this is the first one I’ve really enjoyed driving. Nugget invited me on a nice drive through the scenic hill country tomorrow, but he steadfastly refuses to get out of bed before noon. I, of course, will be hitting our one, and only, training day for the T.T.P.O.A SWAT Competition by that time. I know Dallas’ team of knuckle-dragging cash-cows has been training all year, and I know the Florida hand-picked all-star team will have been sweating it out, but I think we have this on our side: “Freshness”. (And a positive attitude helps too, right?)