Happy birthday

So today is my birthday! I am now the big 25. I can't believe it. I always have the problem of thinking I'm the same age as Jane and she just turned 23 so when I think I'm 25 it sound too old. This morning was nice. I woke up around 0500 can was able to lay in bed and text Jane. It was so nice to do that! We talked for a couple of hours! If I'm not able to be at home for my birthday at least I was able to start the day off right, by talking to the best woman on earth! Then I got to take a hot shower! Yesturday I woke up at 0430 and went to the shower thinking it would be empty. Well a group of about five guys walked out just as I walked in. So I had the shower house to myself but they had used all the hot water. My shower was freezing cold. So today I go to the shower just after 0700 and the shower was perfect! So I don't get it, maybe it was just a Sunday thing. We will see what happens tomorrow. Today was another chill day. We don't have any training scheduled until tomorrow morning. So I don't think I have descriped the chow hall yet. It is really nice. We walk in and the first thing we have to do is get our ID cards scanned so a computer can keep a head count. Then you walk into a room filled with some twenty or more individual sinks with hot running water and large mirrors to wash our hands. Then we walk into a caffiteria nicer than any school caffiteria I have ever been it. After walking though the serving line is a fountain taller than myself with running water and lights. Then there is a self serve line. So they serve pretty much school food in the main line but the self serve has fruit and salad bar. Both a pespi and coke dispencer, juice dispenser, milk and coolers with juice boxes and milk cartons. There is a three different capacino machines, several regular coffee makers donuts, pop tarts and more. Then there is a sandwich bar where a guy will make a sandwich for you, and a chillie, potato and nacho bar. Then in the back they have a dessert bar with several different types of cookies, pies and cheesecake plus a basken robbins icecream. Its a feast at every meal. Then there are several large flat wcreen tvs set to CNN and ESPN. This is like the nicer chow hall I have ever seen. Plus army cooks don't even run it. It is all contracted out to civilians. It is so nice. So what is the point of all this, as I was exiting the chow hall some privates were saying how crapy the chow hall was! Well the other staff sergeant I after we walked out were saying how bad we wanted to turn around and effectively remind these new soldiers what life was like a couple of years ago with no chow hall and eating meals-ready-to-eat or MREs and maybe getting a hot meal trucked in from kuwait city two hours out to the base for a luke warm dinner. Boy we both wanted to rip into that joker! We really should of. We just have gotten to nice as we get older.