So far, Korea ain’t a bad place to be, other than the rain that’s been hammering us for the past few days (we had a typhoon in the neighborhood… missed the peninsula, but Shanghai got hit by it pretty hard). My only gripe with Camp Hovey is that the main PX is over on Camp Casey, requiring a shuttlebus to get to. What-the-hey… if that’s my worst complaint, I think I’m doing okay.

I had CQ yesterday (24 hours, from 09:00 to 09:00 this morning), and managed to make it until about 04:00 this morning before the ZZZ-monster started biting me. Another what-the-hey… if I’m going to lose a Friday night, at least it was early in my tour, while I’m still restricted to post (newbies in Korea aren’t allowed off-post until after 30 days… helps keep them from getting into trouble, here).

Time being, today’s festivities are another trip to the PX and Commissary, to pick up sundries for the room. For now, at least, I have the room to myself… one of the few perks of being a senior SPC, and being as old as I am. I’ve already gotten a nickname within the Medic platoon, here… they’re calling me “Scrooge,” thanks to SGT Ashlock who misreported my last name as ‘Ebenezer’. I’m still not used to responding to ‘Scrooge’ yet, but it could be worse… there’s a guy in the platoon who’s nickname is “Bambi”.

Bah, Humbug, y’all!