Ups and Downs

It seems that life is bound to continue as a roller coaster. Take Tuesday for example, we got the excellent news that USMA '04 will pin on CPT July 1st, so less than 3 weeks of having to respond to LT. And then, within a few hours of finding out, I was stuck trying to scramble to arrange training for my platoon because the land we were supposed to have for training fell through. And of course it was impossible to get a straight answer on why everything fell through.
I wasn't even going to be at work this week, but with all of the ridiculous changes that occurred in such a short time I'm glad that I did. Of course it makes for a lot of travelling this week, since I drove all the way from home back out to NY last Sunday, and I'm sitting at the airport in Syracuse waiting to fly home tonight so that I'll be there for Mom's surgery tomorrow. I've been home more in the last month since she found out about the cancer than I have in the last 3 years.