So as I said before, my next class start date got pushed back from 8 March to the 14th. Normally, I wouldn't care. It would give me a few extra days to study the new Boldface and Ops limits for the T-6 (see earlier posts if that last sentence didn't make any sense to you)...BUT...the later start date usually means a later finish date, and my family had already planned a Vegas vacation to coincide with my next break between classes (19-22 May). The new projected finish date is 23 May (My cynical thought: of course it is! why wouldn't it be?) Hotel rooms are booked, plane tickets are bought, plans have been made...then a week before our class is supposed to start I get a text message from one of my classmates telling me the date's been pushed back...for construction. Are you serious?!? I get to have my plans all jacked up, $600 in plane tickets and the fact my dad had planned his 2 weeks of R&R from Balad (he's been working in Iraq since before Thanksgiving) all because some contractor can't keep a project on schedule!?!? I was on leave in Omaha when I found this out, so I couldn't do a whole lot about it. So I took my girlfriend to the local gun range and shot some rounds. I had to vent somewhere.
Exactly as I found it, with the glovebox and center console opened
Luckily I didn't have anything valuable in my car that night, which is a lesson I learned from the first time this happened (about 2 years ago in Omaha, but it was the driver's side window). In my life, I have now had my vehicle broken into 4 times, one of those times they didn't even take anything! People are scumbags. It's stuff like this that makes me want to go get a concealed carry permit and hope that I catch one of these bastards in the act. Hey, I'm in Texas now, I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to shoot first and ask questions later, right? Anyways, I will credit the San Antonio Police for doing as much as they could. They even brought out a forensics guy who dusted for fingerprints. He found two, but they're most likely mine. The effort was appreciated, though. Now I have to shell out $215 for a new window (my insurance's comprehensive deductible is more than that, so I would pay regardless).
Oh, and to top it all off, my Boilermakers played the most horrendous game of basketball I've seen them play in the last four years. I was so angry while watching it, my fingers were shaking. Losing to the last place team in the Big Ten on the last regular season game of the year. Way to finish! But I shouldn't be too surprised, that's how Purdue rolls. We get right on the brink of absolute success and then just choke. After 9 years of experiencing this, you'd think I would be used to it...
Awesome finish to the week, can't wait to start another one!
