6 days and the Kid leaves for USAF BMT.

My wife is getting very fidgety. She is dumping car maintenance guidance, choose your friends wisely guidance, speak up when you are talking guidance, do the job well and finish the job guidance, etc on the kid at a constant high speed.

I am backing off. If I did not back off I would just kill him. He still will not do basic chores. There is always some bullshit excuse about why his chores are not done or for why he did not do what he was told to do.

"I did not trim the hedges because it is windy and I might not trim them straight"

He did it the next day which was not windy and still made it look like a creative art project.

"I did not fill up with gas because I planned on doing it the next time I used my car"

The car has been yelling at him about needing to fill up for several days .... now we are down to "11 miles until empty" according to the car.

My wife has been re-reading the 20 tips for preparing for Basic Training to him out loud for days. He still has not done any of the things suggested.

I will not do it for him and I will not allow my wife to do it for him.

I absolutely hope that the DI rips him a new asshole and stays on him like stupid on a redneck for the entire 8.5 weeks of BMT.

This is a great kid. Smart, well behaved, great personality, good looking, he just refuses to be motivated about anything.

Oh ya. And his lady friend who visited for a week over spring break has a boy friend and she and my son are just friends.

He was significantly more mature around her which is a good thing but she is now back at school doing very well and he is about to launch.

I truly hope that he performs to his ability for the next 6yrs in the USAF. His mom told him that if they kick him out for his usual failure to do what is expected of him that he is not coming home.

My hopes are that he performs to his ability, he avoids making friends with the usual geek underperforming losers that he tends to gravitate towards, he actually completes his AFSC training rather than do his usual perfect performance for a few weeks then fail everything because he gets bored and spends all night on WoW with his SpermIdiot, he gains confidence and grows as a strong willed, intelligent young man of character.

My fear and forecast is ...... He will do well in BMT then go off to AFSC and shove his head up his ass and either get assigned to shoveling frozen bear shit off of the runways in Adak Alaska or worse, kicked out of the USAF.

I just want the best for him and for him to do what he is capable of.

I will be hopeful that he will perform but .... I won't hold my breath.

I love this kid with all of my heart. I will miss him terribly when he leaves.

However, I am excited to move on to DINK time with my beautiful bride. I hope we make it through the changes in our lives and through the likely heart break that our kid will put us through.

Sigh........