Kolja's next chapter

[kolja]

Notifying her that she wasn't a dependent anymore (ie, no benefits) wasn't ACTUALLY as bad as I thought it was. I texted just to let her know after I got home the day I did it, and the next day she simply replied "K"

While I feel like it might be a long time before I hear from her again, at least it wasn't a big blow up.

Today I went into personnel to change my dependent data and emergency information (who gets notified and who gets the money if anything happens to me), which wasn't the most pleasant thing in the world but could have been worse. The one downside is that, since the decree was actually dated 25 May, I was getting too much housing allowance for June and July (the military gives you more housing money if you have dependents). So, in addition to getting $400 less income a month starting in a couple paydays, I now also owe the government $780. They won't take it out of my pay for a couple months and they'll spread it out over a couple paydays so it's actually not that big of a deal.

On the way out of the building, I happened to witness a car back into a parked motorcycle in the parking lot and tip it over. I stayed to give a witness statement. Only cosmetic damage to the bike, but a rough day for both involved. It served to keep things in perspective - if it were MY bike that had been knocked over (or if I'd been the one knocking someone else's motorcycle over), I'd have felt worse about that than I did about changing my records and finding out I owe money. Someone's always got it worse...