My alarm wakes up me up at 0530, which I promptly snooze about 3 times. I have the intention to ride my bike for exercise this morning but I see that it is still very dark outside so I wait until the dawn breaks to start moving. I get dressed and walk down to my car (A white Ford Escape, nothing special.) to pull my bike from the inside. It's a 2017 Trek Marlin 7, which is a pretty beginner front shock mountain bike with 29er tires. It's a large frame when I am most certainly a medium at best. However, beggars cannot be choosers. I tactically acquired this bike by keeping my eye on it and a housing complex. After almost 9 months of watching the bike begin to rust under a stairway from lack of use. I decided it was time to liberate it from it's lack of use. I left a note where the bike was to text my number should anyone want it back. Which I most certainly will return should I receive a text.
The ride is pleasant enough, no rain and nobody ran me over. I did however make a solder mad because I rode past them down a hill. That's his problem though for not having such a cool bike! I visited the cadet land where my wife has done many summer training's for ROTC. It was an empty complex of old dark red brick buildings; normally by this time of year it's teeming with college cadets. I ride all around my barracks to build a mental map and help orient myself to the immediate area. I determine that I need a softer saddle for this bike.
Breakfast consists of a mass gainer shake and minimal DFAC food. I later regret this as the mass gainer shake gave me enough gas to power a hot air balloon for a few hours. I went to the main exchange to get a new laptop after my old one, and I mean like over 7yrs old, poops out one final time on my desk. I get a nice mid range HP laptop. 8Ggb ram, 256gb SSD, touchscreen, i7 processor and hp's own version of a graphics card. I don't plan on doing anything beyond school work and watching YouTube so I should be okay. It set me back several hundred bones but a personal laptop was stressed to be successful for the course. I just do as I'm told ya know.
I set up my laptop and have the second microwave meal as a snack. After piddling around on the new laptop I go to lunch. Lunch was, coincidentally, korean beef and noodles. This in combination with the other korean beef noodles and the mass gainer was not good for my gut.
I lay around in my room until the 1400 formation outside the barracks. We are all gaggled outside and take role from one of the instructors. subsequently, we are marched across the street to the classrooms on the first floor of a 3 story brick building. The building does look like a normal college building but it's as if the rest of the campus disappeared. Due to the pandemic (COVID-19) we all have to wear our masks inside the building. All Day. Thankfully we are in and out of there after about two hours. The entire time I was either fighting to breathe in/out of my mask, adjusting the mask to not fog up my glasses or holding back the pressurized methane building up in my colon that was putting up a pretty good fight to get out. I eventually gave up and released some pressure but if anyone else was aware they didn't say anything. Thanks battle buddies.
I went back to my room to change quickly and head to the PX for some small items. I end up walking around the PX way longer than I should have. To my credit, they were remodeling and I had to deduce that because of this, the kitchen aisle was now located between the baby girl clothes and the women's underwear section across from the men's dress wear.
I talk with my wife and kids while I eat some chow to go from the DFAC. I can't remember the food because it wasn't satisfying in the least as my gut was still aching from the days gastrointestinal events. I go to bed with an aching belly, unhappy about the 0430 wake up in the morning and a feeling that I should have taken a shower. But the day 0 was done and only 40 to go. Not the worst thing in the world, but I wish I could have done it online.