Spouse and I returned from Haleakala Crater on Tuesday afternoon, and the healing is almost finished. I'll put up a blog post on Monday but overall it went much better with proper gear and time to prepare.
Our daughter, now a rising sophomore, finished her 10-day whirlwind Oahu victory tour of old high-school friends, ono local cuisine, and surfing. She's embarked now on NROTC summer training. She's supposed to spend a few days on an aircraft carrier, a destroyer, and a submarine as well as crawling in the mud with the Marines. She'll also get to try out the tactics simulators and the fire/flooding trainers. When she returns to NROTC this fall, if she wants three more years of scholarship then they'll ask her to sign the obligation to serve five years' active duty (plus another three inactive Reserve). It'll be interesting to see how confident she feels about a three-for-eight decision based on a few days of sea duty. She'll be home again in August for a couple weeks.
I just got caught up on 150+ e-mails (during the six days we were off the grid), loaded three blog posts up for next week, started some honey-dos, and got lots of recuperative sleep. No taekwondo for another week but I'll be ready to start working out again on Tuesday.
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And, oh yeah, "The Military Guide" is coming back from the printer's. (The 4"x5" pocket guide is still in press.) You can order the book now from Impact's website, although I haven't heard back yet on the shipping date.
Review copies have gone out to the print & broadcast media. I've noticed that my Twitter feed has been picked up by a magazine subsidiary of the Wall Street Journal. It's possible that there will be some press interest and maybe a new visitor or two on this site. I'll know more after I finish sorting through the 194 updated threads here from the last couple weeks.
As my author's copies arrive in the media mail I'll be sending out a complimentary copy to SamClem, Bob Clyatt, the Kaderlis, Tomcat98, FireUp2020, Deserat, REWahoo!, Arif, Gumby, Hawkeye, BigMoneyJim, CuteFuzzyBunny, Martha, and MickeyD. The word "free" is misleading-- these guys worked hard for it and I owe them far more than just a book for their contributions. Now they're going to be writing book reviews and creating the viral buzz!