Counting Down for Service
In November 2006 I informed everyone about my incoming (it's not optional!) military service and said it will start on February 20, 2007. There are only 24 days remained to start. I'm counting down each second to see the end. With current rules end date is supposed to be October 22, 2008 (I must serve for 20 months).
Training can be two or four months but unfortunately I should (95%) pass four months of training. Other bad news is I can't take a good position in army to do anything related to mathematics or computer and they may pass me to police forces to serve as a traffic police or keep me as an officer in camps. Here many guys (with same degree as me) serve in related departments or at least in better places and only pass two months of training but my buddies know about my great chance! Always worst things happen to me! You can cross fingers and change my chance in this short while!!
Anyways, that's it and I must serve in worst time that I've seen in latest 10-12 years. Normally after training I can get back to home and keep some daily routines (such as reading books, blogging and of course, playing Xbox 360!) but it depends on future. I wrote a simple Console Application to count days and it shows that 634 days are remained!
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.Title = "Down with Dictator!";
Console.WriteLine("Enter date:");
DateTime date = DateTime.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
TimeSpan diff = date.Subtract(DateTime.Now);
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} days remained ...",
diff.Days.ToString()));
Console.ReadLine();
}
What I can think about to make this service easier is what I want to do after that! Then after 24 years I'll taste freedom and will escape (hopefully). Although there are different experiences to get during these 20 months (as many friends told me) but I personally think these months have a bad effect on my life forever. After university I could improve my life in these a few months but service will return me to zero point again! In comparison to other guys with same degree who start their services I'm younger (two years average) and this is a good point but I could spend these 20 months in a better way!
Having said all these things, I'm getting ready for service. There won't be much of things to care because I closed everything. Here is my short TO DO list before training:
- Working on new parts of my tutorials about WCF for ASP Alliance to finish them in next a few days.
- Writing new parts of my articles for Microsoft "The Panel" Program/UniveRSS (you'll read the first part very soon).
- Reading and finishing three books.
- Creating and deploying a new theme for Nayyeri.NET and Community Server 2007.
- Playing and finishing Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and Far Cry Instincts on Xbox 360.
- Answering to tons of unanswered emails in my mailbox (you know it's impossible so I'm joking!).
- Writing some blog posts to leave them for publishing when I'm off to training (if I can find some spare time).
- Anything that you shouldn't know!
In training they will release us on a regular basis (especially because my training has a conflict with our new year eve and some other holidays) so hopefully I'll have sometime to get back to home and spend it on my interests.
+ I don't want to bother you about personal stuff and just wanted to inform readers and friends about things that are related to my activity on community. I'll write more about service on my army blog.
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11 Comments : 01.26.07
#1
Lucky Keyvan
01.26.2007 @ 1:19 PM