Pat Neal is a Phoenix

More than a few of us out here felt that when my close friend Pat left us for the .mil, we had watched one of our best and brightest drop off the grid. Boot camp took forever, and when he came home for the holidays it was fantastic but short-lived, before Georgia swallowed him back for Officer Candidate School.

So imagine my shock and joy at waking up this morning and seeing his ridiculous buddy icon on my display! From the sound of things, OCS will allow him a bit more contact with the outside world.

His mentioning a previous post of mine about new summer threads, it makes me rest a bit easier about the likelyhood of him coming out of this close to the same old flavor of awesome we all know. Thanks man, you're rising from the ashes slowly but surely (hence the whole Phoenix thing).