Strange turnabout
I show up for my duty bright and early at 8:50am. One of the higher-ups on Rear D (rear detachment, aka the guys who stayed here the whole time my unit was deployed) is in charge and I voice my opinion on being on the duty roster. He listens and gives me valid reasons why though I still don't agree with him. I resign to my duty and we're watching a bootleg of The Da Vinci Code when someone else on another duty fucks up. Long story short, I get let go for the guy and the idiot who screwed up gets to sit behind a desk on his Saturday.
This is common practice. When joe screws up (and given enough freedom and enough joes, one will screw up sooner or later) those in charge will usually stick him behind the desk and let whoever else is on duty off the hook, sometimes even when the guy behind the desk is the last guy who screwed something up. It's a punishment because sitting there all day, especially on the weekends, is boring and painfully restrictive. It's also a good way to keep the screw up occupied and a way for the people in charge to keep an eye on him. So here's hoping someone does something stupid next weekend too, if I can't find a way out of that shift either.
So with my Saturday returned to me more or less unharmed I went back to sleep. Katie wakes me up around 3pm and she wants to go downtown. We get there and there's some kind of craft fair. I'm horrified and start accusing Katie of setting me up but either she loves me or she didn't see anything that interested her because we didn't stop at any of the booths and only spent a small amount of time in an antique store. We did some more wandering around downtown Clarksville to discover that downtown Clarksville pretty much closes on the weekend. I had a pricey sandwich at a sandwich and coffee shop and Katie took any number of pictures of me eating and looking awkward in front of a shutdown fountain.
I'm stuck again. I can't play anything for more than 10 minutes. I'm going to try Descent 3. See if I can make it through the whole thing without the last level crashing on me.