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Date: 2010.06.20 | Category: links! | Response: 0

Something different every day

Date: 2010.06.18 | Category: Life as we know it | Response: 0

We’ve hardly had any real downtime since I’ve been home and it isn’t a bad thing. We’ve been busy hanging out with the extended family, attending weddings, playing with the dogs, cleaning the house, and we’ve been having a great time doing all of that. We won’t have any slow days until sometime next year if we ever have one again. This is the life we live and its busy and a little bit different each day.

The wedding is right around the corner and we’re putting all of the finishing touches on the planning. I’ve still got to make a few reservations for our honeymoon in Kauai but we’ve got the important bits done (airline tickets, hotels, and a rental car). I figure I’ll set up one or two things ahead of time but I’ll leave the rest open for free time. We’re supposed to go and relax – I’m bad at relaxing. I guess that’s why I don’t mind the pace our lives have taken.

Parent, grandparents, and other relatives will be traveling to the Pacific Northwest for the wedding. I want to make sure that I thank all of them for taking time out of their schedules (which are probably as busy as ours) to make a trip out here. I hope I have the time to fit it all in. It’s going to be a crazy couple of days as we see everyone come and go – in fact, we’ll leave before some of them do (my parents are included in this group).

Ok, I should stop typing – change my clothes and head to the garage – I’ve got some unfinished projects and I don’t mind a bit.

It’s different

Date: 2010.06.17 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

Had to update wordpress and the old theme died with it… gotta fix that later… when I have time

Where can I find one of those fantastic geocities “construction” signs? I sure could use one.

I am so lazy

Date: 2010.06.02 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

Ok, I’ve been home for a few weeks and updating this blog has been on the bottom of my list.

I’ll do something proper at some point… really – I swear

Travel

Date: 2010.05.15 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

Travel has officially begun. I’ve been awake for 6 hours and I have a few more hours before my show time. I looked at the flight board and it looks like I am going to wait for 5-6 hours after my show time.

By the time I land, I will have been up for 22-24 hours. At that point I’ll sit around for a few days before I get on the next round of flights.

Ahhh military travel at its finest. Hurry up and wait and wait and wait and then wait some more. I wish I could get a direct flight – that would be awesome.

Almost done

Date: 2010.05.08 | Category: Life as we know it, desert, rants, work | Response: 0

The replacements are here and the pass-on has been completed. The new guy doesn’t have any of his worker bees yet but I can’t do anything about that. If all goes to plan – and there is no plan – I’ll be home within the next 14 days. Isn’t that an overly broad swath of time? Isn’t there an overwhelming lack of preciseness?

I wish that I was being overly vague because I’m not allowed to write about time lines for redeployment. In reality, they haven’t told me anything. I’ve got to find a way to keep myself busy over the next week (or two) or I’m going to loose it.

I can’t wait to be home with my woman… anybody got an aircraft that has fuel tanks large enough for international travel? Want to come pick me up (along with a few thousand others)?

For free?

Guess not. Oh well.

Filling the days

Date: 2010.04.16 | Category: desert, work | Response: 0

I’ve been adept at filling my days at work. We’ve had a constant stream of traffic coming through the door and whenever we find a lull we create additional traffic. For the last week I really haven’t had time to do anything at work but sweat and work. (our a/c is on the fritz… oh well).

I’ve found that although I can fill the days at work I cannot eat up all of the time during my days off. My solution to the problem: never have a day off. To help keep myself sane, I’m only going to leave early for PT but aside from that I’m just going to work – everyday.

All things considered, it’s probably the best choice for me. I’m more likely to get involved in some interesting shenanigans and I won’t go stir crazy. Best of all, I won’t notice as the days tick by. I’ve got roughly a month left and then I’m headed home.

Awesome

Date: 2010.04.03 | Category: links!, videos | Response: 0

This is awesomely EXTREME! It reminds me of the over the top Mt. Dew commercials.

The cassette tape effect

Date: 2010.03.30 | Category: desert, work | Response: 0

In the first of many instances of dating myself, I’m using a metaphor for cassette tapes as my post title. What in the world is he going to be talking about? Read on intrepid explorer of the internet.

Years ago I had a cassette player and I would listen to tapes for hours on end. For quite some time I borrowed my parents but one year I received my own – it was an upgraded model and had an auto reverse. I would listen to the same tapes repeatedly until the material started to warp. After a while the batteries would wear down and everything would start to get comically funny as the motors would run out of juice. The tape would slow down until it eventually stopped.

Time feels like that cassette player on its last bit of juice – it is dragging. We’ve powered through most of our work and I’m digging for something to keep me occupied. Yes, I still have a little bit to go in each of my classes but its hard to study without break throughout the day. I need something to break up the monotony. We joke about it all the time and we’re sure that a bunch of work will be dumped upon us at any moment. I’m waiting for that moment – I’m waiting for those batteries in my cassette player to be replaced…. still waiting….. and waiting…

Award Winning Stupid

Date: 2010.03.23 | Category: desert, rants, shenanigans, work | Response: 0

I work for three stupid people. They aren’t any brand of stupid, they are award winning stupid. I’ll refer to them as R, S, and O. (they might search the inter webs thus the anonymity).

O wants everything done immediately and doesn’t understand that we cannot do everything at once. He screams mission at all times.

S is a complete and total tool. He doesn’t have a clue as to what is going on and spends an overwhelming majority of his time up O’s ass.

R has a standard answer for everything. Mission. He fails to realize that there are competent people in his workforce that are capable of running their own operation. They will break when necessary and do what they must to complete their work on time. They do not have the time available to take two hour lunch breaks that leave anywhere from 5-40 minutes late. They do not have the time to wait while everyone else wastes time. They want to leave, eat, pick up documents, and return. They can do all of this in less than an hour.

R and S saw us at lunch and didn’t think that we could be competent people so they mandated that we take the bus. Starting tomorrow we will simply lock the doors at lunch time and all go. If it takes two hours it takes two hours. When we return, we can take our vehicle on a 35 minute round trip so pick up documents. So – for the people that scream mission – they’ve mandated that we waste 1 hour and 35 minutes.

Award winning stupid… I can’t wait to be done with this career field. The smart ones leave and the morons are left behind. Miraculously they make rank… and their names are O, S, and R.