June 14, 2009

There was a post 5k race today. Lately I have been working out twice a day with tons of cardio so I wanted to run it in 24 minutes. I didn't go 24 flat but I was very pleased with a time of 24:33. I decorated the back of a tan t-shirt and wore it for the race. It said "HAPPY 234th BIRHTDAY". (Possible pictures later on). I always try and celebrate the Army's Birthday somehow. I also allowed myself to have some chocolate chip cookies after dinner in honor of the day. I was going to have cake but in the end I went with cookies.

We had some company softball games today. I wasn't going to play but one of the teams were a few players short so I ended playing. Earlier in the deployment my wife had sent my glove but I hadn't used it yet. WHen they had the softball league it seemed like all that happened was people wanted to argue about the rules and lineups so that it didn't seem fun to me. I thought this would be low key and fun. And it was. I started off as third base but we had to make some adjustments and I ended up playing second most of the games. We played two games and lost both but we hadn't ever practiced as a team and one or two of the teams practice three or four times a week.

Ended the evening with church. I read a long section out of the lesson book which is unusual for me to volunteer to do anything like that but when there are only 8 people there I guess we all need to participate.

A real good day overall.