Well, it’s been a while since my last blog entry, and the parental units were doing their best wounded puppy face thing over the phone last time we talked, so apparently I’ve been guilted into updating.
Australia and New Zealand were a blast. NZ was noticeably greener than the Pacific Northwest and incredibly scenic. Everybody down there is more or less as friendly as they try and advertise. Australia has rum and coke on tap…. On tap! Combine that with the best beef I can recall eating in the past 7 years (it’s not hard, I’ve been overseas on military bases eating nothing but frozen and cheap low quality junk) and eating at the DFAC on base is almost painful now.
My boss is doing his best to abuse me and injure me. I was barely able to walk the other day. Hopefully this whole “gym†thing will get me back into better shape. It’s nice being able to hit the gym during the day when there’s nothing much going on at the office. It’s one of the benefits of working for the military and kind of falling under military doctrine, including being fit to fight or “Army Strongâ€.
Tera is off in Kuwait for a Network+ class for a week. Allegedly it’s hellishly hot there and kind of miserable. It’s something else to consider about our thoughts of transferring to Kuwait at the end of this contract, which somehow started to sneak up on us (just over 3 months to go). Speaking of end of contract, we’ve got it narrowed down to somewhere between Colorado, Afghanistan, Kuwait, somewhere else in the Middle East, Antarctica, Australia & Europe. And by between, I mean geographically in between… which pretty much just rules out South America, Russia, Greenland & outer Mongolia. Some day we might get our future figured out… we hope.
I’m studying to renew my CCNA which expired about a year ago, and I’m assuming Tera might be trying for her Network+ certification given she’s in class for it right now. She’s taking time off from University of Maryland due to not having enough time with the pace of work at the HelpDesk, hopefully things won’t be quite so hectic here after the contract and whatever we move onto next. In the mean time I think were both going to bust out a couple of professional certifications.
Well, about time for me to run, will hopefully post again soon.
Sydney was Ok, we did a couple hop on hop off buss tours that were pretty decent. Opera house (don’t want to be in the 3.5% of all tourists that dont actually make it there) & Sydney harbor bridge were pretty impressive.
Everything you ever heard about New Zealand is wrong. It’s neon green, the best spring folage doesn’t from, Oregon doesn’t even come that close. The 5-6 days we had for Sydney were plenty, but I’m going to really wish we had an extra week or 4 for New Zealand. Nice people, nice beef… Oh the beef. I had a sirloin steak the other night that nearly made me cry. I ralized it’s been been at least 7 months, if not years since I’ve had a REALLY good steak. So tender, so tastey.
 Tera got her horsey fix, we still hurt from that., Saw hobbiton where the filmed the hobit town scenes for the LotY trillogy. Nice and picturesque.
Have to get up early tomorow, so calling it a night.