Short Circuiting

Damn it. The dogs were caged for almost ten hours today, which is no bueno. While they were accident free (I snuck home at lunch to let them pee), they amassed much energy without an outlet. Well, except for Dexter tossing stuff around the living room and tearing up some paper while I was gone. But anyway. Now we're trying to go to bed. I'm exhausted, and they're wide awake. Hell, Dex even just hopped up on the bed. Maybe he's willing to sleep if it's near me. Of course I pushed him off. He popped up here earlier, and I let him lay for a minute, which is probably why he's now confused. (Our bed is off limits.) That was after he came up on his back legs on my side, which since he's fairly leggy, was the equivalent of just him leaning on the bed. He put his front paws on me, though, while I lay here, and essentially pinned me down and licked me. I have to admit; it made me laugh and appreciate him. I think he misses me when I'm gone. Lu, though, not so much. I gave them each a hoof tonight, and she didn't give a damn about me after that.

Work wasn't bad today. Just some long training, and then I helped in Admissions for an hour afterward. Got home around 7pm and was nearly having a breakdown. A couple letters came from Joe today, which was cool at first. It's been a minute since I got any from him, but of course there wasn't any real good news from him. He didn't pass patrol on his first field training exercise, so he must pass it in the second FTX in order to pass Mountains. The second one is happening as we speak, so please will the hearts of the RIs to grow like the grinch's and allow those who have earned it to actually pass. My stomach was in knots earlier, but if you play enough tetris, you can replace obsessive thoughts about the Army with obsessive thoughts about shapes fitting together.

So here I am. Joe's tentative graduation is July 16, but if he doesn't pass Mountains, it will be moved to August 27. A whole extra 6 weeks, and that wouldn't even include if he recycled in Florida phase. Then, it'd be Sept. 24. Yeah, I'll go ahead and try to schedule a breakdown. Ya know - so I can go ahead and get it over with since it's imminent.