Back to Church

With the holidays in our rear-view mirror, the mail loads have dwindled down to nearly 1-2 pallets per day. With all the hustle and bustle of our holiday mail, I found myself working through church on Sundays. Now those days are a thing of the past and I finally made it back to church today. Usually I am up at the altar serving as the acolyte, but since I hadn't been there in a while, I figured I'd just sit where everyone else does. They had found a replacement anyway, since I had been gone for about 1 1/2 months. I noticed a few newer faces among the church-goers. A lot of them wore the "Corn-cob Patch". As I was walking out, I ran into 2LT Kane, with the 734th Trans. I about addressed him as Chaplain, but noticed he wasn't wearing the Chaplain's Cross on his uniform. The last time I saw him, he was an E-5 chaplain's assistant. He said he had gone to OCS a couple years ago and is now a transportation officer for the 734th. So we had a chance to catch up, and along came CPT Benak. CPT Benak served with my dad back in '04-'05. I guess it's a small world, especially in the military.
I know I haven't posted in a while, but as usual, there is a lack of exciting things going on. The weather is still pretty cool. Hopefully it won't last too much longer. As hot as it gets in the summer, you'd think it would be warming up by now. I'd much rather be out in the 118 degree heat than the 20-30 degree lows we have been having. The only good I see in the cool weather is the decrease of indirect fire attacks. I think the insurgents are too lazy to attack us when it's cold out. Well, college football is almost over and that means basketball season is upon us. The men's Husker basketball team got off to a good start. I think they are around 11-4 right now, plus they beat 20th ranked Creighton, which is always good. Right now our team is 8-3. We had a game on Friday against one of the toughest teams we've seen so far. We were down by 2 at the half. During the second half, we looked like we were scared to be out there. We finished the game losing by 20 or so.
The softball team, on the other hand, is looking really good. After the first inning, we found ourselves down 12-2, but we fought back and beat our opponents 15-13. It was a good game, but we need to get more players to show up. Right now we are 8-1. We hope to be playing for the Mayor's Championship sometime in the next 3-4 weeks.