Quick Day

Today was a pretty quick day due mostly to the fact that I do not think I did anything for more than an hour today. First off, I got to sleep in a little bit because we had late reporting today and I did not have to be to work till 9:00 AM. I spent the morning just taking my time getting ready and relaxing before I had to leave for work. Once I got to work I helped out a little bit with some filing stuff and that pretty much took up the whole morning. During all this a new LT showed up officially relieving me of the "new guy" title. He seemed like a pretty nice guy. I was jealous of him though since he will be done with training before I am even though he commisioned much later than I. But what can you do, I guess I will just have to deal. 

 I ate lunch at work while looking at CrossFit stuff and trying to figure out how to start and affiliate at the base. Starting an affiliate seems like a lot of tough work but I did get some info for a guy at Vance who started a CrossFit group up there. Hopefully I can get some useful information from him to make the process a little easier. After that I pretty much just sat around till we had a short staff meeting. I thought this was going to be a real staff meeting but it turned out to just be a little get together to celebrate the October birthdays in the leadership element. We had a fun time just talking and hanging out until we had an all call. For the all call we first had to do a FOD walk of the entire back yard and parking lot, which went about as well as a FOD walk can go. After that we had the all call to disseminate information about the ORI and then after that we were released. The people from my building went back and cleaned up the building and swept the floors before we headed out. 

Once again this early release really messed up my plans to go to the CrossFit gym so I decided I would head out to the training area to see about helping to tear down our haunted house. I got out there and there was no one around and the door was locked so I assumed that no one was coming. As it turns out, I got a call later from the people out there wondering where I was and of course this is after I am home eating dinner. I would have loved to help but with the inspection, everyone's schedules are just too hard to reconcile. So from there I decided it was late enough to head to the gym. I got there and of course I was too early so no one was there and the owner would probably not have been there for another hour. At this point it was too late to head back to base to workout so I just headed home with the plan to workout at the base tomorrow. Once again my workout plans were foiled. I have a hard time complaining though because these difficulties in working our are due to time off, which very few people can complain about. 

On the way home I talked to my wife on the phone for a while. As always, talking to her was extremely enjoyable. I kept seeing billboards for Mini Coopers on my way and they made me really want to stop at a dealership and test drive one for no real reason. Perhaps the next time I am really board during the weekend I might try to do that. Regardless of my desire to drive a Mini, I went straight home and began making dinner. I made some boxed three cheese macaroni. However, I added a little zest and added two more cheeses, so you could say I made my special five cheese macaroni recipe. While I ate dinner I began watching Assault On Precinct 13. I stopped half way through to go to the store though.

I just needed a few things so the trip to the store was not a full fledged Wal-Mart experience but that place was crowded nonetheless. I just got the things that I had run out of and needed before the next week. After that I cam home and finished the movie. I thought that the movie was pretty good overall but their budget seemed to have been pretty low. The acting was alright but the sets, props, and backgrounds were not very realistic. At any rate, watching that movie was a good way to spend the evening. 

After the movie I came to the computer to write this blog and here I am. Not as much to write about today, I also need to get to bed early because I have to be at work at 6:00 AM tomorrow so I am trying to wrap this up early. One notable conversation of the day was one I had with a coworker regarding life in Germany. He was talking about how you can get a huge nice house for the money that they give you as a housing allowance and that Germany is an awesome area to go and see the rest of Europe from. I have always wanted to live overseas and I always thought Germany would be a really cool place to live. After talking with my coworker my motivation to try and go to Germany was totally renewed and made me want to go even more. But that is a few more years down the road so we will just have to see when the time to move comes upon us. 

Just as an explanation of this blog, you may notice places where I am vague or use some obscure word instead of a person's name. This is because I do not feel comfortable using other people's names when they do not know that their name will end up on the internet and there are some aspects of my work that I am not comfortable publishing for the world. That is the reason for the areas where my narrative may seem vague or not complete. Well thats all I have for now.