DUTY ULK!!!

You in the Military know EXACTLY what I am talking about.

24 hour post. On a weekend no less. On the night I should be packing for Arizona!

Duty goes like this. You show up 0715 to relieve the off-going duty. then you sit around and pray that nothing bad happens, because then YOU have to do paperwork, until 0715 the next morning. Between the two of us we split the eight hours of sleep in half but sadly 4 hours of sleep on a cot is about equivilent to 1/2 hour of real rest. In the past duty has always been 24 hours of thumb twiddling for me but this time I have chosen to be productive.

So instead it went like this.

0715 show up and change over. do a max set of wide grip pull ups (24 today!!! 20 is perfect on my fitness test so you can imagine my excitement)

0720 begin a light run

0735 catch my second wind, switch to a medium run

0750 feeling great, sun is shining, bump it up to heavy run

0805 turn around, do a "triple threat" ( leg lifts, flutter kicks, and Hello Dolly's, 30 of each without resting your feet on the ground)

0850 finish run(thats right hour and a half, a little under 11 miles)

0855 stretch out, do a pyrimid of 6 pull ups(1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1) 36 all together with ten pushups in between each set for an even 100

0900 get cleaned up, do my security checks, eat my breakfast of champions(slim fast)

0915-1000 start and finish two MCI's (Marine Corps Institute) which helps towards my promotion score

1000-1200 search for a semi-affordable plane ticket

1200-1400(noon-2) start a new novel

1400 eat a "good meal" and when I say good I mean "is good" not "tastes good"

1415 -1600(2:15-4) continue novel(its really good!)

1600-1800(4-6) go to gym to lift weights. Arms today which consists of three different lifts for biceps and triceps, 3 sets of ten each, followed by some curls and finally some dips. Finish off with two triple threats, 20 each set.

1815 1900(6:15-7) start reading blogs and posting and the rest is, as they say, history.

Actually I guess it would be the future...Whatever!!!

pretty regular day minus going to the office and playing on Laser(which makes me a little sad)

remember the sun shining this morning...well now its snowing. And to think I joined My Beloved Corps to get away from this weather. HA! Joke's on me I guess.

Good news is that I am so wiped out that those four hours of sleep will be actual slumber!