Checksum Arcanius

Last night while eating dinner with two fine young ladies, I mentioned that I wished there was a good way to sign up for a single year of military service with no further commitment. I would like to server, but I really don’t want to put my life on hold for six or eight years. I have already been on hold too long for that. When asked why I would want to go to Iraq, I mentioned the fact that I supported the war, and felt that I should walk the walk and not just talk the talk. When asked if I still supported the war, I paused, and answered somewhat judiciously, “Knowing what I know now, I think it was a bad idea.”

It wasn’t a sudden revalation; rather I have been thinking about this for a long time. Also, as you might have guessed, and as if often the case, not everything I say is to be taken exactly straight. So what did I mean?
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The plan on Monday was for me to go to class, go to work, and then take the next three days off of both to attend a family reunion on Vashon Island. So instead, I worked all Sunday night on a roramming programming assignment, worked straight through class on Monday on the same, and didn’t make it in to work becuase family members kept showing up at my parent’s house (where I was due to my regular Sunday dinner the previous evening). Suddenly, the family reunion which was supposed to start on Tuesday just sort of spontaneously started. The food was good, though, and I managed to finish the part of the programming assignment I was working on.
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