Life of Poordom

So, I am getting ready, well, at the end of this week, beginning of the next, to resign up. I definitely don't want to do this. It is quite possibly the worst case scenario for me. I know it sounds dumb, but I may only do one assignment. I know, I know, retirement, blah, blah, blah..but if you have been in, I believe you might understand a little. I could be doing so much better on the outside if only that new GI Bill would kick in today instead of maybe August. So, I get out at 10 years and go back to college at lik 33. Who cares. I look younger than I am so I shouldn't be considered the old guy too much, right?

I just received my first unemployment payment today after getting out on December 19th. Apparently they lost my DD214 and couldn't process the unemployment. The funny thing about that is the fact that noone was planning on calling me and telling me. They were just waiting till I wasted away from starvation or something. It wouldn't be so bad, but I do have a wife I have to take care of too. I went day after day hearing all about the money and where it was. After their waiting perioud of up to four weeks, that is what the website told me, I was fed up and called in. They said I never turned in my DD214, which I know I did. So I resent it in and recieved a letter of financial determination shortly thereafter. I thought this was great. Then again I still didn't revieve any money still. So I called in again and they were like, Oh my! Let me get that started right away. That was Friday. Another weekend of being flat broke. This morning was more or less like Christmas. We got a huge check, well, not really, but it was back payment from the last week in December. Cha-Ching. Who knew half of what I used to make would feel this good. The other sad part to all of this is that it is all pretty much accounted for.

I am hoping to get back to Augusta. Yeah, wild, wonderful, Augusta. Why? You may ask. Because it is so cheap to live down there it is incredible. It is even cheaper than Pittsburgh. I am looking to save some money, so Hawaii, Maryland, and Colorado are out of the question, no matter how much my wife loved Colorado. It was an Air Force Base too, so it was real nice. I know my wife would not appreciate Texas, Germany, or Korea either, hell, neither would I. That leaves like Georgia and Alaska, unless I can find a cushy AFB somewhere else that isn't in the middle of nowhere. Bottom line is, this sucks. I just moved into my shitty apartment and got comfortable. Well, not really comfortable. We are hijacking poor internet from one of my neighbors and have no cable to watch, except for what they provide with an antennae. I do get to watch some shows that they now put on the internet.

The moral of this story is, even if you have your ducks in a row, you probably started the idea when they were ducklings. They looked all cute and nice at the beginning, but then they grew up and screwed you.