Well here it's been too long since I last took time to write an update. In the meantime, I've managed to kill someone's pet cat during our trip to Sea World in San Antonio, avoided strep that has taken out three people in my class, missed the deadline to be eligible for early promotion (thanks to California), saved the recycling program here on base, learned a lot and enjoyed my time with the family too. Now I'm counting the days down until graduation -- 28, to be exact. Bren and the family will be going to Utah next month to visit family and attend Eric's graduation and Corrie's wedding. Sadly I'll miss them both. I will hopefully be in Utah the week after Corrie's wedding for about 2 weeks before heading off to the great SouthEast! Wish us luck, we may be looking at buying a house near Evans in Georgia.
With every day I learn something new about my job and about other opportunities available to enlisted folk. Unfortunately it means that I have to make decisions now about what I will be doing for the next 4-6 years, and set a course for only one of them. Three options sound incredible, it hurts to have to single only one out as my future.
We also had computer issues and spent over 200 with the Geek Squad in an attempt to fix them all. Most of the issues are gone, but we have a few still lingering. It is almost time for a new computer anyway...
Friday, April 24, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Shift Work, Baby!
Howdy again, y'all.
Just a quick update, we're feeling settled in now, and are getting into a somewhat comfortable schedule. My work starts in the afternoon between 3:30-4:00, and goes late - sometimes until 1:00am. On the upside, I LOVE being able to spend the morning and early afternoon with the family, I can't get enough time with these boys. They are so much fun!
Today we went downtown, to a really neat all-wood playground. It's a big playground, set up like a miniature fort with different bridges, passages, slides and swings. Dylan loved it of course. I think I enjoyed it just as much as he did. One day I will live out one of my dreams and build an adult-sized playground so I won't have to hit my head on another tunnel roof. One day.
Our camera is on the fritz after Cameron threw it across the living room. Twice. So we're in the market. Any suggestions or advice welcome, I'll take my 2% with glee. San Angelo is still drab and dry, but offers some spectacular sunsets and no fishy bay smell. Just rotting roadkill. I believe skunks outnumber Texans 3:1, maybe more.
Last weekend we drove 95 miles or so to Abilene for Stake Conference, only to find out that the Conference was actually a multi-stake, district conference broadcast over the satellite and we could have stayed home and attended our own building, and not forgotten our Sunday dress clothes. We had a great time anyway. We took the boys to the zoo on Saturday afternoon, and tried to stay warm and out of the wind. They had a neat reptile house, and we saw one of the reptile handlers working with the rattlesnakes. It's a very small zoo, and quite a few displays are under renovation. We may go back in a couple of months. We also stopped at Dyess AFB for lunch. I want to go back just to walk along the main road and look at the two dozen or so planes they have on display all along the sidewalk. C-130's still fly out of Dyess, and maybe B-1's, which may be one reason the base is in such great condition compared to some of Goodfellow's buildings.
That's all for now!
Just a quick update, we're feeling settled in now, and are getting into a somewhat comfortable schedule. My work starts in the afternoon between 3:30-4:00, and goes late - sometimes until 1:00am. On the upside, I LOVE being able to spend the morning and early afternoon with the family, I can't get enough time with these boys. They are so much fun!
Today we went downtown, to a really neat all-wood playground. It's a big playground, set up like a miniature fort with different bridges, passages, slides and swings. Dylan loved it of course. I think I enjoyed it just as much as he did. One day I will live out one of my dreams and build an adult-sized playground so I won't have to hit my head on another tunnel roof. One day.
Our camera is on the fritz after Cameron threw it across the living room. Twice. So we're in the market. Any suggestions or advice welcome, I'll take my 2% with glee. San Angelo is still drab and dry, but offers some spectacular sunsets and no fishy bay smell. Just rotting roadkill. I believe skunks outnumber Texans 3:1, maybe more.
Last weekend we drove 95 miles or so to Abilene for Stake Conference, only to find out that the Conference was actually a multi-stake, district conference broadcast over the satellite and we could have stayed home and attended our own building, and not forgotten our Sunday dress clothes. We had a great time anyway. We took the boys to the zoo on Saturday afternoon, and tried to stay warm and out of the wind. They had a neat reptile house, and we saw one of the reptile handlers working with the rattlesnakes. It's a very small zoo, and quite a few displays are under renovation. We may go back in a couple of months. We also stopped at Dyess AFB for lunch. I want to go back just to walk along the main road and look at the two dozen or so planes they have on display all along the sidewalk. C-130's still fly out of Dyess, and maybe B-1's, which may be one reason the base is in such great condition compared to some of Goodfellow's buildings.
That's all for now!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Long lost us
Hi everyone. It's been a long time since I wrote anything new, and I just found a draft that could almost have been finished. So I posted it anyway.
Here we are in lovely Texas, where everything is bigger - The speed limit is 80 on some stretches of freeway, the trucks are more numerous and have fancy deer-catchers on the front bumpers, and yes just about everyone wears a cowboy hat. We have enjoyed a partly sunny, 75 degree day, an 80+ degree day, and today a cool, windy 46 degree day. There's no telling what will happen next, except that it probably won't rain - hasn't in over three months. Goodfellow AFB is small by Air Force base standards, but the facilities are pretty nice and I am among people I already know. My supervisors and instructors all seem cool and less overbearing and DB-y than some I have dealt with in the past.
Our trip went by pretty smoothly, the van did an exceptional job of pulling about 3k pounds (surprise! We only wanted to take 2200), and the kids even though they had moments where we would have been happy to leave them at a truck stop (on purpose, Dad) they were both really good during the four day marathon drive. Bren keeps saying that she can't believe we brought so much stuff, yet we still have such an empty apartment. I agree, although we're adding to the things we brought with us daily, with little luxuries like a toaster, and an internet connection. I'm about to snap with some of these projects, it seems like every time I come across something that sounds good, it ends up being too good to be true. Like an internet connection.
Today we took the kids up on base and visited a few of the static fire trucks that are on display there. Of course Dylan was enthralled, and I hope to get him back up there another day so we can see the rest without needing a pair of gloves and a coat. Thanks to all of you for your prayers, I believe that they are what carried us here so smoothly, and has helped us get settled more quickly than we have at any of our other moves. We love you all!
Here we are in lovely Texas, where everything is bigger - The speed limit is 80 on some stretches of freeway, the trucks are more numerous and have fancy deer-catchers on the front bumpers, and yes just about everyone wears a cowboy hat. We have enjoyed a partly sunny, 75 degree day, an 80+ degree day, and today a cool, windy 46 degree day. There's no telling what will happen next, except that it probably won't rain - hasn't in over three months. Goodfellow AFB is small by Air Force base standards, but the facilities are pretty nice and I am among people I already know. My supervisors and instructors all seem cool and less overbearing and DB-y than some I have dealt with in the past.
Our trip went by pretty smoothly, the van did an exceptional job of pulling about 3k pounds (surprise! We only wanted to take 2200), and the kids even though they had moments where we would have been happy to leave them at a truck stop (on purpose, Dad) they were both really good during the four day marathon drive. Bren keeps saying that she can't believe we brought so much stuff, yet we still have such an empty apartment. I agree, although we're adding to the things we brought with us daily, with little luxuries like a toaster, and an internet connection. I'm about to snap with some of these projects, it seems like every time I come across something that sounds good, it ends up being too good to be true. Like an internet connection.
Today we took the kids up on base and visited a few of the static fire trucks that are on display there. Of course Dylan was enthralled, and I hope to get him back up there another day so we can see the rest without needing a pair of gloves and a coat. Thanks to all of you for your prayers, I believe that they are what carried us here so smoothly, and has helped us get settled more quickly than we have at any of our other moves. We love you all!
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