Man, I totally forgot about this blog! How’s everyone? Things are certainly different since last April. How about an update –
We bought a house!
Never thought this would happen. Houses are crazy expensive in my area. My wife and I have been looking for a house since December of 2015. Went through a lot of drama with our first agent, which I might blog about later. Learned that people are not too kind towards buyers with VA loans. We finally found a house in a great area and moved in late August of last year.
Took more classes –
The Post 9-11 GI Bill is awesome. They paid for 70% of my tuition fees. It’s 70% for me based off my active duty time in service. Guess 11 years of reserve time doesn’t add up to much but whatever. I took 3 programming classes which were pretty challenging. I’m nowhere near the level of a programmer that can make things and get paid, but it has helped me understand my job better. Even helped me get a pretty good bump in pay. So go back to school if you can! You can never stop learning.
Anyways, I have been seeing a lot of craziness on my Facebook lately. Most of my Army buddies have vastly different views of the current political environment than most of my “civilian” friends. It’s sad to see people attacking each other over the littlest of things these days. What happened to civil debates? Seems like extremes on both sides are getting the better of us. Mushy wishful thing on my part, but I would like to think we can all at least be cool to the people around us and work towards making each day a little better than the next.
Soft-top Soldier 