Deployments blow. DD's bf is deployed until the end of the year and then getting shipped to either Pensacola, DC or Japan. It looks like they're heading to Japan early next year. (They're semi-officially engaged kinda-sorta; the deployment is the test case scenario to see how they handle the separation but since her dad was also USN and they live in a Navy town and she's a grown-up she's not unfamiliar with the whole thing.) She's loving the Facetime on the iPad. They didn't have that stuff when XH was deployed.