Happy Choseuk, everybody!

It’s kinda’ like Thanksgiving for Koreans… return to ye olde homesteade, and pay homage to your ancestors (both living and deceased). Important stuff in a society that has a strong basis in Confucianism. What it means to most of us, though, is that all the Korean nationals who work on post, along with nearly all the KATUSAs, have the day off, so we get tomorrow off as well. Nice deal, for us.

So, I’m pretty-well settled in, here, and my only real complaint for today is that I’ve got this annoying, red, itchy sore on my shoulder that I’m not allowed to touch (smallpox vaccination… yippie ). Aside from that, I’m doing alright.

Additional news: Looks like I’ll be staying here in Korea for the full year (meaning, no deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan in that time). 2nd ID is already considered to be Forward Deployed here in Korea, and thus we aren’t in the rotation to do time in the sandbox.