Ξ May 28th, 2007 | → | ∇ Uncategorized |
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.
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Feel the power of the parental guilt trip '
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on June 5th, 2007 at 5:11 am
So what are the things you don’t like about Afghanistan? How is the housing out there for married peeps? Glad that you guys are doing well and all.
on September 11th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
I guess the parental guilt trip must not have been toooooo bad as its now September and the last entry was May 28th!!! Mom