Great morning on the shooting range. Still finding it as absorbing as I did in training camp- and I still have no idea why. But one of the things the army is teaching me is not to second-guess myself all the time. Mostly, what happens is out of my control. And while that used to drive me nuts and into doing stupid things, here I just can't do that.

So you tend to roll with it. Enjoy what's enjoyable and get through the rough stuff as quickly as possible.

Like costume fittings this afternoon. Really not what I wanted to be doing while they got the RPGs out on the range. We could hear the grenades going off from right across the base and I was dying to see what that looked like! But no. I was stuck indoors.

And talking of costumes… yeah, not going there right now. It's tricky to explain to a bunch of guys that we had little control over the kind of outfits they made us wear and make them understand how silly that could get. Just as little control as I have over red cloth and gold trim.