Musings from the Smartest man in the world!

POST

2010-03-08T10:25:00.000-08:00

If I don't post something with in the next couple of days I invite you to fly to Reno where I will buy you dinner and then you can beat the crap out of me.

CHOOSE THIS DAY

2010-02-18T12:03:00.000-08:00

I debated about posting this when I read it. I know a lot of you have very positive feelings for our law enforcement, as do I for the most part, but it is hard to deny that somewhere along the line something has gone wrong. We are not all criminals. Yet time after time Innocent people are being treated that way. Some cops no longer seem to trust or respect the citizens that they are supposed to protect. SWAT teams are the norm, not the exception. There is no accountability on their end if they make a mistake. There should not be an "us against them" mentality when it comes to our law enforcement either for them or for us.

KILLERS

2010-02-18T10:51:00.000-08:00

A really awesome essay on how the environmental movement has killed more people than any dictator. Very good. Not angry but presents some very good facts and some scary quotes. I stole it from Capt Lex.

FINAL STRAW

2010-02-17T06:48:00.001-08:00

Really? Now the TSA is just going to randomly test passengers for explosives. How is this not a violation of the Constitution?

When are we going to say enough is enough?

FIRE THEM

2010-02-16T10:20:00.000-08:00

All of them. Power hungry whores. Read this about our TSA.

I'm getting pretty tired of reading about their stupidity. They all need to be fired. Starting at the top.

DUMB ASS

2010-02-08T07:47:00.000-08:00

Stole this from LL over at Chromed Curses. Wrong on so many levels.

TODAY

2010-02-05T08:26:00.000-08:00

Things I've done today:

Touched an F/A-18 Hornet.
Touched an F-16 Viper (Navy F-16's are Vipers not Falcons.)
Drove a flight line consisting of over a billion dollars in airplanes and assets.
Homework.
Contacted another school about transferring.
Saw Snow.

So what about you? What did you do today that someone, mainly ME find interesting. Also I'm just trying to see who's out there still.

WATER

2010-01-25T07:40:00.001-08:00

Sorry I haven't posted for a while.

Was surfing the net and found this article on California's water.

This is very important and will affect more people than in California. This IS going to affect how much you pay at the grocery store.

WTF?

2010-01-14T09:35:00.000-08:00

8 year old boy on the TSA watch list. Why doesn't this surprise me?

BLEH

2010-01-13T16:16:00.000-08:00

Still feeling a little bleh. Christmas was fun so was New Years. Lots of shit piling up that's not making me feel any better.

The car I drive? $200 for a starter. That's good news because I figured the engine had just completely crapped out. It runs now but still has a few issues. So while that was going on I've had Number One's Jeep. NOW? Ya. That AFU. Died on the way home from work today. Yea! Hopefully I'll be able to get that looked at this weekend.

Good news? I'm taking Tuesday of next week off. Why? To go see about getting a job at home. I know more than half the folks at this place. It's something I'd love to do. I'd be an instructor again. So we'll see. The only downfall is that it might be a big pay cut. Big. Like 20 grand a year. Not quite sure I can swing that. That's a big cut.

COLLEGE

2010-01-05T19:57:00.000-08:00

Why are 80% of the classes you have to take in college COMPLETELY irrelevant to what you are getting your degree in?

DUH

2010-01-04T08:14:00.000-08:00

Leave it to the Brits to not see the obvious. Read it here. It's this little word called discipline.

1+2=ALL/What does a Retired Chief Do on the Weekend

2009-12-30T06:22:00.001-08:00

Christmas was a blast. We spent the weekend in San Diego. If you've ever been to San Diego then you know when you go you can never ask for better weather. While we were there we stayed at our daughters apartment. It was a little cramped but it was nice to be there with her and the grandkids, yes I'm a grandpa.

Flew to San Diego from Reno to San Diego on Wednesday after work. No problems what so ever. Damn near a first. Thursday we finished up a little bit of Christmas shopping and called it quits. Christmas Eve we all just hung out at the daughters and ordered Pizza.

Christmas morning was absolutely great having both the kids and grandkids there. The grand daughter is to young to really get it but everyone else did! Everyone got what they wanted and more! It was fun watching the kids open their presents. That really is fun.

One funny thing is that I had told Number One about the me buying the XBox 360 for the boys a couple of weekds ago and she didn't seem that excited about it. What I didn't know at the time was that they had just bought my Christmas present. A Playstation 3. So like the title says 1+2=All. We now have all of the big gaming consoles in our house. She's not to thrilled about that, but I think she'll get over it. The boys and I however are pretty excited!

What does a retired Chief do on the weekend? Why he pays good money to go on a retired aircraft carrier. On Saturday I took my two boys and the grandson to the USS Midway museum. Very cool and we had a great time. The two younger ones liked seeing everything, but I think Mini-Me really got into it. We managed to see most of the ship, but sometime soon I'd like to go back and take a little more time. There are things I didn't get to see and some parts of the Midway that I have never seen on any of the ships that I was on. I highly recomend it. My favorite part? Surprisingly it was seeing the "racks" or the beds. Just sort of reminded me of actually being there again.

This weekend I was planning on going home, but as I look outside it is snowing like crazy and has been all night. Not good. Hopefully it clears up soon or I'll be stuck here all weekend.

WTF?

2009-12-28T07:32:00.001-08:00

Obama once again shows his disdain for this country by allowing INTERPOL to have free reign in the U.S. Obama Surrenders U.S. Sovereignty

Read the whole thing. The last two paragraphs are the most important in the whole story.

TIME

2009-12-22T19:46:00.000-08:00

Time has once again gotten away from me. Lots of things going on. To much sometimes. So where to start.......

It seems I won the alleged bet (see below) LL over at Chromed Curses decided to pipe up on twitter about the Army-Navy game. Well I couldn't let that go. So a little bet was made and of course... Navy won. She now has ordered and received a nice sweat shirt. Pictures will be on her website. Maybe next time she'll know better than to put down the Goat. All in good fun and she was an awesome sport about it and that made it even better. Fear the goat!

A few weeks ago I went to Reno to do the Christmas shopping. Yes me. It's OK. I bought for the boys. I know how they think. LOL. So fast forward to last Friday. I'm a going home so that Santa has all the Christmas presents in the right place to be delivered on Christmas morn'. I get 30 miles into my trip home, stop for gas....... and my car won't start. Not good. Not that it doesn't start... it does nothing. Turn the key no turning over, no click click. Zip. Shit. Time: 2:30. Call the insurance company for a tow back to where I'm staying. Tow truck arranged. I get an automated call back and they say the truck will be there in 45 minutes. Time: 2:45. Call Number One. Enterprise in town: No rentals. Hertz($$$) they have cars, but they close at 4. Shit. Tow truck driver arrives. Time 3:00. Call Number One again. Hertz($$$) guy will stay no later than 4:15. Ass. Get to town at 4pm. Car off of tow truck. My friends son is there to pick me up. Time 4:10. Call Number One. Tell Hertz($$$) guy I'm on the way. Arrive at Hertz($$$) 4:30 guy is still there. Tell guy how much he rocks for staying. Get home at 11pm. Christmas present crisis averted.

Quick but nice weekend at home. Play Yahtzee and War with Mini-Me and put together puzzles with the Story Teller.

Tomorrow I get on a plane and fly to San Diego to spend Christmas with the Middle Daughter and Number One's In-laws. Should be an interesting time considering all that's happened this year. I'll be back on Sunday. Oh, and this is the first Christmas in YEARS that I do not know what the family is getting me for Christmas. I asked Number One and all she said was it's something I've already asked for. Hmmm. OK. We'll see......

Hope ALL of you have a super Christmas and you are looking forward to it as much as me. Be careful and be smart.

BET

2009-12-11T22:49:00.000-08:00

Seems I may or may not have bet with a certain blogger. Loser has to wear either an Army Shirt or a Navy shirt to work. Good think I already have one picked out to send.

MINUS

2009-12-09T08:30:00.000-08:00

It's -11 degrees here. Ya. That's friggin cold. Supposed to stay that way most of the week. It's also supposed to snow in the mountains, 80% chance. Which means...... I probably won't go home this weekend. Sucks. Hopefully next weekend I'll be able to be because I have most of the Christmas presents with me.

Army-Navy game is this weekend. Navy will slaughter Army. Just saying.

MOOD

2009-12-08T08:28:00.000-08:00

The mood was perfect.... The lights were out.... Candles lit.... Everything was perfect for a nice romantic....... SHAVE! Ya. Woke up this morning and was getting ready for work. Brush the teeth get ready to shave and then...... the power went out. So I shaved, showered by candle light. I can see maybe showering by candle light if you were with your wife, girlfriend or maybe both. But using it to get ready for work is kind of a pain in the ass. Then try and get dressed that way.

Came to work..... no power. Everyone was about getting ready to leave when it came back on. Dammit.

BTW there's been about a 18 inches of snow here. It's pretty and all but damn is it cold. Driving yesterday was interesting. Especially considering half way to work my windshield wipers stopped working. I think the motor might actually be froze up. The fuse was blown and I went through 3 more trying to get them to work. I gave up. I figured it would stop snowing and I have a bunch of life insurance. Either way.....

Supposed to snow again later this week. This will thwart my going home this weekend. That would be bad considering I have most of the Christmas presents here with me. Hopefully the weather guessers are wrong.

SOMEONE

2009-12-06T12:32:00.000-08:00

I've been meaning to send someone an email but I figured this is just as well.

This place where I live Nevada, that's "a" as in apple, is a Pepsi state. The only place I've been that serves my beloved Coca-Cola is McDonald's. I'm not exaggerating at all. Every freaking place.

So, Orange Juice Lady, if you ever come here bring plenty of your "Thank you for serving Pepsi" cards.

WEEKEND

2009-12-04T07:35:00.000-08:00

Not much going on. Staying in Nevada. I think I might go the Reno so that I can do a little Christmas shopping. There is NOWHERE to shop where I'm at now. Mini-Me wants some sort of game that has a helmet that you control with your "mind". I doubt that's what it is, but if this rings a bell with you PLEASE let me know. I will be stopping at Target and Toys R Us to see if they have it, but I really have no idea what it is.

Oh if I do go to Reno you bet your ass I will be hitting a buffet. One of the Casinos has a $19.99 all you can eat Lobster.

What about you? Any plans for the weekend that are more exiting than mine? Let me know.

THANKSGIVING PART II

2009-12-02T17:24:00.000-08:00

This year was a little different for us. We ended up going to Cambria, CA. One of my favorite places. Stayed with the Nephew and Niece Doctors. Loved it. Thanksgiving dinner was actually at another house there in Cambria. Number One's Brother-in-law's sister and husband live there ($$$$). Very nice house and nice people for the most part. The whole weekend seemed non-stop but relaxing at the same time.

It was also another brother-in-laws birthday. So on Friday for his birthday his kids took him trap shooting at a range that was just down the road. He went with this 3 sons, I went and one of the nephews went. Awesome place. They had everything you would want including shotguns that you could rent. We all had a blast. Literally.

Saturday was a day that will live on in most of our minds. The kids, and by kids I mean the 20 something nephews and niece-in-law wanted to go hiking/rock climbing. So we went minus Number One who stayed with her mom. My little one, the Story Teller, was the funniest thing EVER climbing that rock. We were all dying laughing. At one point a guy and a lady came and started climbing next to us. Well he had done it before and got about half way up the wall and was laughing too. So the Story Teller, yells at him, "Stop laughing at me! This is my first time!" We all lost it. I took a crap load of pictures but there are all at home. Hopefully I can post some later. But wait. Not done! The Doctor Nephew also has a kayak. Mini-me had his heart set on going. So after a lunch of a half pound burger, we went. Got pictures of that too. My fat ass, well stomach stuffed into a kayak and Mini-me in front.

Awesome weekend. Did not want to come back here but I had to.

One more thing. I bought my Christmas present on Sunday morning. A new TV. 46 inch Sony Aquios. Sweet.

Hope everyone else had a good Thanksgiving and hope your weeks are going good.

THANKSGIVING

2009-11-30T20:06:00.000-08:00

On the coast! This year we went to the coast for Thanksgiving. People I can't tell you how good a time I had or how better I feel. 5 days off. Well 4 if you consider me driving on Sunday. I needed that.

Lots of stuff to say and I might have pictures soon. Things like pictures of my 7 year old 100 feet off the ground rock climbing... Ha ha. Yes they did that. Real rocks, not the fake rock walls.

More later.

HABIT

2009-11-23T17:30:00.000-08:00

Gotta get back in the habit of posting. One because I think I have at least 1 loyal reader left and two well, to maybe lift myself out of the funk.

Weekend was slow. Worked for about 6 hours on Saturday then hung out with my friend the rest of the day. Sunday I was supposed to go fly my R/C airplane but it didn't work out. The guy I was supposed to go fly with, who happens to be my boss, called and said he couldn't make it. Turns out that was OK because shortly after the wind kicked up. Also my plane wasn't ready. That gave me time to go over it again and triple check everything. Plus the engine hadn't been run in a few years, so I managed to get that started and running good. Now it's good to go. Can't wait to fly.

I also drove around and looked at a couple of houses that Number One wanted me to check out. One house was pretty nice the only problem is it's about 35 miles from where I work. Not ideal if you ask me. But a 2300 sqft house for about $1100 a month isn't bad at all. At least compared to that I'm used to.

Thanksgiving will be spent on the coast this year. I can't wait. Nice and relaxing..... with about 30 people.

Ok. Chime in and let me know who's still here please. Pretty please? ;-)

Hi

2009-11-19T17:53:00.000-08:00

Remember me? Sort of in a funk and not really motivated to blog. Just getting tired of this being 6 hours away from the family.

A few updates:

Got Number One a cell phone, finally. We surprised her for her birthday. Probably couldn't have picked better gift. She was VERY surprised and VERY happy with it. The funny thing is Mini-Me texts me more than she does. Number One and I talk every night, but 9 year old has got a handle on the text thing.

The insurance payed to have the tree removed and there is about a grands worth of damage to the roof, but nothing that jumps out at me. So once I get off my lazy ass and send them the last of the paperwork they'll pay us.

I think there was something else but I forgot. So to my 2 remaining followers thanks for hanging in there.

Feel free to kick me in the ass to blog more. Maybe ask me some questions. Maybe I'll post some more articles that piss me off.

REALLY?????

2009-11-12T12:11:00.000-08:00

You have got to be shitting me! Read this. Just a short clip from ABC trying to say that Nadal Hasan and his murdering brethren are the real victims. I just about shit myself. Thanks to Barmy who got it from Gateway Pundit.

Still can't focus I'm so pissed at this.

CHECKING IN

2009-11-10T07:32:00.000-08:00

Hey all,

Not much going on here. Working and trying to figure out whether to move the family or keep looking for work in Cali.

The insurance company decided that they have to pay to have the tree removed. That's good.

I'll let you know if anything worth writing about comes up.

IN THE NEWS

2009-11-04T07:12:00.000-08:00

A big part of my morning is skimming the news. Yesterday saw elections all over the place. We now have Republican Governors in New Jersey and Virginia. Virginia wasn't a big surprise but I figured the Dems would try to steal Jersey. Maine voters also rejected same sex marriage.

Hmmm. Let us look at this one for a second. They got same sex marriage in Maine the same way California did the first time. They sued for it. Then it went up for a vote of the people. The polls said it would pass and they would keep same sex marriage, same as California. Then it lost, same as California. I see a trend. Oh but it gets better. According to this article every state that has put gay marriage up to a VOTE, has lost. That's 31 to nothing. The quote early in the story from Cecelia Burnett shows just how little they, the gay community, understand about how most hetero people feel about gay marriage. Part of her quote is "I don't understand what the fear is." It's not about fear. I'm not afraid of gay people. I'm not afraid of you being married. I have gay friends. It's about you telling me that I'm wrong for not accepting what you do. That's I'M the one that's intolerant. Even though it's YOU that's forcing your belief's down my throat. I feel that they are the intolerant ones for not accepting how I believe.

Now on to this. This is the icing on the cake. The title says it all. "California Stealing". Lawmakers in California have increased the amount of taxes withheld from paychecks there by 10%. Regardless of income or tax bracket. Why? Because they still don't have a balanced budget. STILL! DON'T! HAVE! A! BALANCED! BUDGET! If you live in California or pay any attention to what goes on there you would realize that this is not new. They have been fighting this for way to long. None of those morons will do what is necessary and cut the damn budget. You must also realize that they will have to pay the majority of that money back when people do their tax returns next year, so the state is just screwing themselves, well more likely the people, later on. They just don't get it! You don't take more money from people during a recession. I hope this is the last straw there, but I doubt it.

I really should stop reading the news and maybe just read comics.

DISASTER?

2009-11-02T16:10:00.000-08:00

Don't know yet. Very interesting, busy, frustrating weekend. Got the tree off the house. Not sure if there was any damage. That could be bad and worse. The bad is that the insurance said they won't pay to have the tree removed if there is no damage. The worse is that at first they said it was covered, so we had someone clear it out. At a cost of $1400. Not happy. I see a fight brewing.

Number One wanted a new toilet in the bathroom. Bought toilet. Toilet no fit. Make toilet fit. Almost bleed to death.

Rented car. Ford Focus. Nice! Had satellite radio in it. Spent the drive there listening to talk radio without changing the station! Drove back listening to Howard Stern. Good stuff. And it got great mileage.

That's the wrap up. Good times.

SHIT!

2009-10-27T15:18:00.001-07:00

This is my house as of about 2:30 this afternoon. Nice huh?

*** UPDATE (very early Tues morning)***

One of the teachers at our son's school recommenced someone. They came, talked $$ with Number One. They agreed to waive what our deductible is and charge the insurance company the rest. Then they came back later that evening to get most of the weight off the house. Today the tree will be gone. I also learned that it is an some sort of Ash. Great fire wood. Number One is asking to keep the tree so that it can be cut up. Good for her, crappy for me. I will not be heartbroken if it is all gone when I get home.

BLOWOUTS

2009-10-27T07:35:00.000-07:00

This weekend I watched two football games. One high school one college. Both scores were awful. Watched the local high school game. I left at half time for two reason. One it was already 40-0, and I was dog ass tired. Managed to sleep until about 6am when the dogs that live in the house went ape shit. Stupid ass little wiener dogs. Later that day went to a college football game in Reno. Reno VS. Idaho. Another ridiculous score. 70-45. What the hell?

Sunday had the pleasure of again waking up to the dogs going crazy.

Number One and the boys are doing fine. I'm taking Friday off so that I can have a little more time at home. I think we will end up moving. Just can't find a job in California. Not looking forward to moving but might not have a choice.

BAD

2009-10-22T03:44:00.000-07:00

This is bad, bad bad. Where does this administration get off thinking they have the right to tell anyone in a private sector job how much they can get paid? This is way out of line and definitely NOT constitutional.

I would hope at some point these people get their heads out of their asses and realize what's going on. Yes they took stimulus money. Shame on them, but shame on the government for handing it out. We are going down a road that we should not be on.

KIDS & STUFF

2009-10-20T05:51:00.000-07:00

I am starting to think that me not being at home all the time is starting to get to Mini-Me. He is fine at school but he is not behaving very well for Number One. It's not like him at all. He's usually very good at home. That is when he's not bothering his little brother. I also do not see anything opening up there anytime soon. So we hold out for a little while longer, or we move. Both choices present their own problems. Some big some not so. It's getting very aggravating driving 6-7 hours to get home. It's to long of a drive for me to do every weekend. I would go crazy trying that.

Next week I am going to try to be home on Thursday night. That way on Friday I can go and talk to some people about jobs there. I'm not holding my breath, but that's all I can do.

So here are are.... to move or not to move. That is the question.

RACISM

2009-10-16T05:49:00.000-07:00

I recently came across an article titled "Searching for Whitopia" and deliberately did not read it. However my CPO brother Curt over at Captain of a crew of one had posted on it. I then had to read it. As I imagined it really pissed me off. The guy the wrote the book is black of course and has written about how us white people have decided to move out of certain places and into more "homogenized" cities and neighbor hoods. I think the man misses the point entirely.

I am not a racist person. I have had friends who are every color imaginable. But there are things about the culture that I do not like. I cannot stand hearing someone's stereo from a mile away. I don't like the vulgarity and violence of rap music. I love rap music in the 80's.

Maybe people are moving away from areas that are starting to go downhill. Maybe they are moving to go to these better schools and live in better neighborhoods. It's called upward mobility and it's something that most people strive for. I don't want to generalize but typically you don't see that in the black communities.

So I don't know. Good weekend discussion fodder? No? To heady? Racist? Me or him.

13 October 1775

2009-10-13T07:13:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Navy!

EARLY

2009-10-13T04:36:00.001-07:00

It's 4:30. I'm at work. I've actually been here for an hour already. I know a certain person does this all the time and it's actually not that bad.

WTF??????

2009-10-09T07:01:00.001-07:00

How in the hell did Pres. Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize? Boggles the mind.

WINTER? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

2009-10-06T07:14:00.001-07:00

It became obvious to me on Sunday that I have been in California for WAY to long. See I went home for the weekend. No biggie right? Well before I left it started to get a little chilly here. And by chilly I might actually mean cold. So off I go to Lemoore where it's in the high 80's on Saturday and even on Sunday it wasn't as hot but still comfortable in shorts and a tee shirt. Which is exactly how I drove back to Nevada. It was a nice ride. Sunny all the way, right up until about the 5000 or 6000 ft mark going up to Donner Pass and it starts raining. Then eventually that turned into snow. Who would have thought it would snow in October right?

I must explain something. This place called "Lemoore" where I have lived since 1996 has 3 seasons. HOT, Fog and Rain. There is no winter to speak of. It cools off, gets foggy. Rains for a day or two. The all of a sudden it's summer and hotter than hell. So cold and snow are not really part of our normal vocabulary. So when I was driving in the ever increasing snow it dawned on me how much I am out of touch with this whole winter thing. It also dawned on me that if something happened to my car I could be in big trouble. I even forgot the coat I wanted to bring. I did have pants but nothing heavier than a tee shirt.

This winter thing might take some getting used to.

WHAT WAS I THINKING

2009-10-02T07:49:00.000-07:00

Decided to go to the Freshman football game and watch my friends son play. No biggie right? You'd think that a game that started at 5pm, then I'd have a fairly good chance of getting home at a decent hour right? Wrong. Didn't crawl into bed until 11:30. First the game was an hour away in Reno. Then a quick stop at a hospital to check on an injured player, store then dinner at Olive Garden.

I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. I probably am. But as I told my friend, I don't need beauty sleep. I need grouch sleep. If I don't eat or get enough sleep, I get grouchy. The eating thing is medical, at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it. The sleep thing is pretty universal to all of us I think. If we don't get enough sleep we get grouchy. With me it tends to be a little more amplified. If I am grouchy then that filter between the brain and the mouth doesn't work as well. I tend to say what I think before it has a chance to get filtered in to something civil. So when that happens I tend to be more quiet then usual. Not because I have nothing to say, it's just the stuff I do have to say can be misconscrewed as rude or grouchy. It's a horrible cycle and hard to break.

This is why I try to go be to bed early. Eat regularly and TRY to watch what I say.

COLLEGE

2009-10-01T06:45:00.000-07:00

Took the plunge. Signed up for college yesterday. I seriously put it off the whole time I was in the Navy. So now that I'm out I figured what the hell. I'll be doing on-line classes through Phoenix University and going for a degree in Human Services, that's counseling and social work. I'm hoping that at some point I'll be able to work on base as a counselor/social worker.

We still need to see how many credits they'll take from all the Navy schools I've done and we'll go from there. Should start on the 12th of October.

Good times ahead I'm sure.

AT LEAST THERE'S NO VOICES

2009-09-29T07:03:00.000-07:00

My brain is a big empty sheet of white paper. For once that's a good thing. Usually there are at least 10 different random things running around my head. Bills, am I driving home this weekend or can I talk Number One into coming here, boobies, money, lunch blah blah blah. Oh lets not forget the latest ear worm I heard on the radio.

So for now I'll enjoy it.

WEEKEND

2009-09-26T08:08:00.000-07:00

Stayed here, didn't go home. Gas is getting out of hand again. Hanging out. BBQ later. Laundry must be done.

WTF????

2009-09-24T14:34:00.000-07:00

Why isn't this all over the main stream news and on every web site you read! Seriously. I'm so pissed after reading this.

Here's the headline: The rules murdering our troops. Go read so I'm not the only one pissed.

WEEKEND

2009-09-21T16:03:00.000-07:00

What a great weekend. Got to go home. Took my buddies daughter with me to give her something to do besides watch her older brothers play football.

Mini-me's team won their first game on Saturday. Good on them. He had one helluva tackle. Then later that evening we had a small party for his b-day. He turns 9 today. Lots of swimming, yes in September, pizza burgers and yes cake, presents and what not.

And yes, 3 Sigma. ;-)

I almost need a break from my weekend!

LYRICS

2009-09-17T19:54:00.000-07:00

From an obscure 80's song"

I used follow
Yeah, that's true
But my following days are over
Now I just gotta follow through
And I remember what my father said:
He said "Son, life is simple"
It's either cherry red or...

Any guesses?

GREAT MOVIE

2009-09-16T07:37:00.000-07:00

So by now we all know that Patrick Swazye has passed on. Great guy that did great movies. While most people are swooning over Dirty Dancing or Ghost, we must remember that he did another awesome movie that was NOT at all popular with critics at the time but was . Do you all remember Red Dawn? Surely you must realize that this was his best movie. It might at first seem like a guy/girl thing. They wonderful story of Dirty Dancing and all it's great choreography compared to a bunch of high school kids taking on the Russian Army. However. Red Dawn had a message, an important one. One that is completely forgotten today. Read this article here.

Two posts in one day. Right that on your calendar!

Blah blah blah

2009-09-16T06:45:00.000-07:00

At this point in time my life is rather boring. Not much to write about. I could tell you that everyday I read at least one news article that makes my blood boil. We could talk about how the only smart thing President Obama has said since he got elected is that Kanye West is a jack ass. But no, I'm sure you don't want to hear that.

I'll try to think of something tomorrow. Peace out.

9-11

2009-09-11T05:38:00.000-07:00

We all remember where we were and what we were doing. That's important. Very important. A lot of our citizenry want to trivialize today.

Don't let them.

Don't put up with it.

Don't tolerate it.

Today is about remembering what happened.

All the souls that are no longer with us. Why? Because the people that we hired to protect us were complacent. Those same people are the ones that want us to forget and will try to blame us.

Don't let them.

Don't put up with it.

Don't tolerate it.

Remember what happened. How you felt. Remember.

GEEKASM

2009-09-10T09:46:00.001-07:00

So, I am a total and complete airplane geek. Major. Like I would almost pass up sex to see an airshow. So...... the base I work on is having an airshow tomorrow. Cool, yes. But it gets better. I am a huge fan of the P-38 Lightning. I think it is just a great looking airplane. I am also a huge fan of the P-38 named Glacier Girl.

Well guess what is parked on our flight line! Ya. No shit.

I found that out this AM and first, almost had to change my britches from the enormous geekasm I had, and second, damn near ran outside to see it. Oh and by the way, as much as I like the P-38, this is the first time I've seen one close up. Sorta like meeting your favorite celeb.

Pictures do not bring justice. For an airplane that was built in 1940 something, that bird is in better shape than some of the F/A-18 Hornets built a few years ago. Awesome. If you've read the history of this plane then you'd understand why it's in such good shape. Right down to the dummy .50 cal rounds.

I might have to go back out and look some more.

3Sigma

2009-09-08T16:29:00.000-07:00

So I made up my one recipe for a great weekend. I decided to call it 3sigma. Sort of after the 6sigma B.S that some companies like to use for their production and what not. So my recipe for the perfect weekend is this:

Sleep
Swimming
Sex.

Hard to argue with that logic huh?

OPEN OR CLOSED

2009-09-04T06:14:00.000-07:00

Something I have noticed here recently is peoples bedrooms. No I haven't been in a lot more bedrooms recently but with my renting rooms and occasionally sleeping, well passing out, at my friends house I noticed that more folks than I realized tend to sleep with their bedroom door open. This bothers me and I don't know why. I sleep with my door closed. Sort of a security thing with me I guess.

What about you? Seems like a good weekend question? Open or closed? Your bedroom door. Not my fly.

I'M SO SMART

2009-09-02T11:16:00.000-07:00

I posted this a while ago about how long the receipt tapes at the stores where getting. Then today I come across this posted at one of my favorite news sites.

Just goes to show how smart I really am. Do not doubt me people.

MOVING DAY

2009-09-01T06:26:00.000-07:00

This afternoon, I will be moving from one rental room to another. I'll let you know how it goes.

Didn't make it home last weekend, but I WILL be home for this 3 day weekend. I had originally wanted them to come up here, however Number One told me that Mini-Me should be starting this weekend for his football team. Good for him. Can't wait to see them all.

FOOTBALL

2009-08-29T08:35:00.000-07:00

So last night went to the local high school football game. My friends son is one of the captains. They did OK. Lost by 1 touchdown. Today is freshman son plays. Not sure if I'll make that one. I probably should have left already.

Either way today I'm off to Carson City to got to the hobby shop. Maybe a movie. Not sure.

Have fun.

ORDINARY

2009-08-27T06:31:00.000-07:00

Ordinary = boring. Boring means nothing really to blog about. Settling in nicely here. It's going well except for 1 person that works our night shit. She thinks she knows more than I do and likes to stir the pot. Obviously she does not know who she's dealing with, me being the Smartest Man in the World and all that.

Was gonna go home this weekend, but that probably won't happen. Number One spent about $250 getting the brakes done on the Jeep. Ouch. Plus I want her and the boys to come here for the 3 day weekend. I think we'd have a lot of fun. My friend that lives here said that he can get quads for the boys to ride. That would be a blast! So we'll see.

Been twittering a little bit. That's kinda cool. If you can pop in there.

ODDS & OUTBACK

2009-08-23T08:40:00.000-07:00

Where I happen to be residing is a Navy Town. It is also a fairly small town. 20 minutes away is another small town and 30 minutes away from that is Reno/Sparks. Not a small town. Because this is a Navy town there are lots of retired Sailors and military that live here. I'm not the the type of person that holds grudges and what not. My list of people that I can't stand stays pretty short. One of those fellows actually lives in the small town about 20 minutes from where I live. So you'd think the odds of running into him would be pretty small right? Ya, not so much. Happened to run into him while my friends family and I were eating at the Outback in Reno. We walked in and were seated without him seeing us but when he left, ya. Spotted. Shit. We explained pleasantries for a few minutes and off he went.

Seriously. Never saw that coming.

TGIF

2009-08-21T14:24:00.001-07:00

That's all I'm saying. Oh and I see beer in my immediate future.

FRUIT

2009-08-20T19:04:00.000-07:00

Seems my body is rejecting all the fast food. Yesterday it was salad today it was fruit. I went to help my buddy and his wife setup food for the high school football team. When they were finished there was a lot of cantaloupe and oranges left over. I think I ate a whole melon and 5 oranges.

Next week I hope I can eat better than what I have.

BODY

2009-08-19T17:15:00.000-07:00

So for the most part since I've been here I have NOT eaten well. I have a kitchen but I don't. hard to explain. Well today I was CRAVING salad. Yea. Salad. See I'm not a big veggie guy but a couple weeks of fast food and my body demanded something good. So went to Safeway. Got an apple, chicken walnut harvest salad and apple juice, Tropicana of course. Tasted great.

Got the new laptop. Can't get it to connect to the internet. My fault I'm sure. I'll monkey with it later.

Night all.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

2009-08-18T13:41:00.001-07:00

Or, in this case, "Who the hell is that? She's hot!"

So like 18 or 19 years ago on Monday, I married my current and ONLY wife. We didn't get to celebrate on the date, but we did go out on Saturday. Super diner of barely dead cow, drinks and dessert.

It was a nice weekend at home. Saturday we watched Mini-Me's football team get trounced in three scrimmage games. Fixed the pool, had dinner, then came back here. Except for the driving it was a great weekend. Good weather, not to hot, not to cold.

The week is going great so far. Probably won't drive home this, weekend. Maybe next. Can't afford to drive home all the time. Doctors appointment today. Need my medicine refilled and other stuff.

Will most definitely be moving into another room on the 1st. Yea. Hopefully it will work out better than the one now.

Peace out.

TWITTER PART DUH

2009-08-17T17:44:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Leanne for the hints at getting onto Twitter. You guys are fucked now. A peek inside my random and often dirty thoughts.

Find me here: http://twitter.com/EinsteinV2

TWITTER

2009-08-14T06:56:00.001-07:00

Spent way to much time trying to come up with a name that can be used on Twitter. I give up.

RESIGNED

2009-08-13T07:06:00.000-07:00

I'm getting resigned to stay in the room I'm in. Looked at another one last night. It was better. Out in the country on 5 acres. 3 horses. BUT, there's always a but. It's a just a woman in the house. I don't think that would be appropriate for me to stay there, nor do I think Number One would buy off on it, nor am I even going to ask. So, for now I'm stuck.

Tomorrow I'm heading home. Saturday the boy, yes boy. The little one decided that football was not for him. Don't know if I mentioned that before. So Saturday Mini-Me has a bunch of scrimmage games and that night they are both staying at a friends house for his birthday. Good timing too since our Anniversary is on Monday.

Should be a fun weekend.

So there I was......

2009-08-11T06:29:00.000-07:00

In a small town east of Reno.......

Actually it was kind of a nice weekend. I had a whole other blog prepared but decided to scrap it due to it's negative nature. I will just say that finding a decent (read clean) room to rent is a whole lot harder than you'd think. I'm starting to believe I should just buy an RV and park in someplace.

House sat/dog sat for a friend this weekend. Worked a little Saturday and Sunday spent the day with a different friend and his family. Spent yesterday afternoon at their house trying to fix their computer and my laptop. No joy on their computer, but got the laptop up and running about 9:30. Now hopefully I can use that to download some stuff I can use to fix theirs.

So, after retiring after 20 + years in the Navy, not much I see around impresses me anymore. However yesterday I was in Subway. No biggie if you know me. I love subway. At one table was a bunch of Navy Captains, Colonels for you Army and Marine types, with them were a couple of Commanders. Yawn..... But in line were two young guys wearing something that has and will always impress me. The Navy Seal Trident. Indeed. Couple of Seals. I think one was a Second Class (E5) and the other a First Class (E6). Way more impressive than a bunch of Navy Officers indeed.

The kids have their first games this weekend. Well the older one does. The little one decided that football is not for him. Now while I am not, nor will I ever lead them to believe quitting is OK, I am on record at home stating that he wouldn't like it.

SO FAR SO GOOD

2009-08-05T18:14:00.000-07:00

Liking the job. That's a good thing.

Also ran into a guy that I was stationed with a long time ago. Our families hung out quite a bit. Went to his house for dinner. Went on a little quad ride. That was fun. HOLY CRAP has his kids gotten big. Two of his kids have graduated, one is in High School and the youngest is in 8th grade.

Probably see them again tomorrow.

Kids are doing good in football. The first games are next weekend so I WILL be going home. The little one seems to be doing better at it. At first he was kind of miserable in all the gear, but he's getting used to it now. I was afraid he was going to quite.

That's it for now. :-)

JOB

2009-08-03T15:57:00.000-07:00

Started the new job. Seems like it will work out a lot better than the last one. Now all I have to do is look for a room to rent until I can get the family moved.

DONE

2009-07-31T09:29:00.000-07:00

I decided at some point that I would not be going to work on Friday. So I told them and now? I'm at home. Glad I did. Now I get to spend a couple of days at home before I head of to Nevada.

Today I get to watch Mini-Me have dive practice and the Story Teller's swim and later I get to go to football practice for both of them. Might even throw a date with Number On in there at some point.

Next stop..... Nevada.

LUNCH-TIME

2009-07-29T14:34:00.000-07:00

So haven't slept well the last couple of nights and last night I stayed up to watch a new show on the SciFi oh wait... they renamed it.. SYFY channel. Today I was dead ass tired. So for lunch time I zipped back to the ghetto apt and took a nap. I feel like a new man.

OPPRESIVE

2009-07-28T19:46:00.000-07:00

Heat that is. 110 here today. WTF? How can people live in this shit?

SO WHERE WAS I????

2009-07-27T20:37:00.000-07:00

OK. The place I currently and soon to be quitting is a shit hole. Between the company and the Navy, I do not see them, the company, being there by the end of the year. Ya, that's bad. Really bad, you really have to fuck up for the military to yank a contract from someone. There are lots of problems, to many to go into here. Besides I probably signed some bullshit confidentiality paper. So I'll leave it for now.

Moving on.....

The guy that got me to take the job here quit shortly after I got there. I now understand why. He is now working in Nevada. East of Reno. He called me shortly after than and told me he would like me there. I was sort of on the fence about taking the job, because that would mean moving the family. I did manage to convince Number One to at least go look at the place. I might have already blogged about that. I still wasn't sure about taking the job, but that all changed, on Friday the 17th. The Site Manager and myself had a little talk. It wasn't good. They are trying to blame me for some shit that really isn't my fault. The only fault I have is that I was telling them the truth and sometimes I guess those morons would rather be lied to. I almost quit right fucking there, but I did decide right then and there that I would be givin notice sooner than later.

Went home and told the wife that I was going to take the job. I would give my two weeks notice on Monday. Well we also decided that since I had two and a half days vacation time I would take it. So that Monday I went back to work gave the Site Manage verbal notice and put in my vacation request. After that bullshit conversation we had I didn't want to be there anyway. Last thing I did before I left for the day was give him written notice.

Tuesday about 10:00 I went home for the rest of the week. I had a ball. Football had started on that Monday and it was conditioning week. So I got to be there from Tuesday on. It was fun. They boys were also going to VBS so I was able to drop them off or pick them up.

The only down side to this right now is that it's a lot farther away than were I am now. Not something that's practical to do every weekend. I am going to look for something that's closer to where I actually live. But in the meantime I still have this and if it looks like something that might be decent then we will make the jump and move. There's a lot of pros and cons.

This week is my last week here at China Lake, CA. I fucking don't want to be here. Not at all. Screw these fucks. OK. Got that out of my system.

I am thankful that so far I've been able to find a job in this messed up economy. I know some of you and some of my dearest friends are out of work. Trust me that thought rests heavy on me sometimes and I don't know how you manage.

So that's it. I'm sure I left some stuff out. But if I think about it and deem it important I'll back fill later.

BAD BLOGGER

2009-07-26T20:05:00.000-07:00

I've been a bad blogger again. Left with out leaving any sort of word or forwarding address. Sorry.

Little bit of what went on. Last week I decided I'd had enough of the place I am working. Got a job offer in Nevada, close to Reno. I took it. Then I took my whopping 2.5 days of vacation and gave them notice.

So since last Tuesday I've been off work. It was nice being home. Got some stuff done, but mostly I was a sloth. Also football started and last week was conditioning week so I wanted to be there for Mini-me.

That's it in a nut shell. I'll elaborate more as the week goes on.

GOOD NEWS

2009-07-20T17:21:00.000-07:00

Finally got the official job offer today, and..... I took it. I also gave my two week notice at work. I am so ready to leave this place. It started out fun, but turned into a heaping pile of crap in no time. Luckily another opportunity presented itself. Yes it is out of state. But that's OK. If you don't watch the news and live under a rock, California is going to shit. And fast.

Like I said before, it's in Nevada. True not exactly a conservative bastion and it is the home of Harry Reid, but it's not as bad as California.

I am going first and the family will come shortly. A very new and exciting chapter in the life of a former Navy Chief and his family.

NO NEWS

2009-07-15T19:53:00.000-07:00

Is sometimes not good news, it's just no news. Haven't hear anything about the job offer. They are trying to work out pay issues with the corporate office. I want more than they were originally offering. Hope to hear something tomorrow.

Mini-me is playing on the baseball All-Stars this week. Good for him. He should have been playing the whole time, but that's another post.

It's also way to damn hot where I spend my weekdays. Over 105 all week. Anything over 90 is to much.

SO

2009-07-14T13:28:00.000-07:00

A little more clarification on what I did this weekend.

The guy that got me hired at my current job left about a month after. He is working in Nevada. About 40 minutes east of Reno, ya, Reno NV. He wants me to work there. I'm all for it. I hate Kalifornia and want out. Number One is the one that needs convinced. So on Friday morning her I and our little Story Teller set off on a quick road trip. It's about 6 hours from my house to there. At first she was dead set against it. And by dead set I mean she hung up on me while we were discussing the trip earlier in the week. Well she says she didn't hang up on me. But it was a very very curt, "Goodbye." and then nothing. From my end that's being hung up on.

Once we got there she was impressed. There's a town west of were I would work that is pretty nice. The best part? The house prices. We drive by numerous houses that are in the 2000-2300 sqft range that rent starting at $900. Oh, those are golf course homes. Yea. The house I really liked was on 10 acres. $1200. Nice huh? So that part has turned her. She still can't bring herself to move yet but I think I'm about 80%. I'm supposed to get a call today for them to officially offer me the job. Scratch that. They just called and I missed it. I'll probably take it.

I'll let you know how that conversation goes.

WEEKEND

2009-07-13T08:38:00.000-07:00

Was very interesting. It include a job interview OUT OF STATE. More later.

GUN CONTROL

2009-07-08T16:39:00.000-07:00

I like this:

WOW

2009-07-06T17:08:00.000-07:00

What a nice weekend. Went home early Thursday, because basically I was ready to go home. Had a nice evening, IN THE POOL!!! Friday farted around, did a little shopping with Number One. GOT A HAIR CUT. Finally. Let's face it. Both places I live likes to hover around 100 all summer. The shaggy dog look was not comfortable anymore. I think I lost 10 lbs on my head. Don't believe me? Well first of all I have VERY thick hair, and a big ass head. Combine the two and ya. 10 lbs easy. Then..... MORE POOL!!!!! Almost over did it. I was a little pink by the end of the day. Hopefully that should at least give me some color other than fish belly white.

Saturday was a whole different animal. Our town has a small 4th of July thing in the park. It wasn't unbelievably hot like it has been so we took the boys there. Finally, managed to cook some ribs that were edible. Hell I could barely get them off the grill. That and cooked some steak that would almost make you sell an organ to get more of it. Number One made Potato Salad. The best in the world. I'll fight ya if you say any different.

I haven't even gotten to the fireworks. They do it here at the local casino. I didn't know it, because we've always gone someplace else, they have a free concert before the fireworks show. This year..... wait for it......... ready????........ They had Drake Bell. Don't know who that is? What?? You don't have kids that watch Nickelodeon? Then perhaps you've never seen the show Drake & Josh. Well I have. Every damn one of them. However the boys were excited to see someone they knew sing. I want to be snarky and a smart ass, but I can't. The kid sounded really good. Not the pop crap you'd expect. Good music. A real blues influence. Something grown-ups and kids could enjoy. Then the fireworks? Seriously, awesome. This comeing from a guys that's seen real bombs and shit explode. The whole thing was done to music. Everything from John Phillips Souza to Sammy Hagar. The finaly really took your breath away. You would have thought the whole damn sky was on fire. Can't say anymore good about the whole show. The boys had a great time and so Did number one. No fighting traffic to get home. Super night.

Sunday was laid back, then I drove up here. Yuck. There were talks and rumors that there was problems with the company and the Navy and they were going to lay people off. Not true. Damn.

HOT

2009-07-01T16:24:00.000-07:00

It's hot. AND muggy. My boxers feel like tighty whities. Just thought you should know.

WEEKEND

2009-06-30T18:26:00.000-07:00

So anyhooo you might have read something of my weekend already. I' m a little slow on the draw this week. But I'll give you my side of it.

Spent the weekend NOT at my house but at my ghetto apartment. Worked Friday and Saturday. Oh well. It did give me a unique opportunity to see Blogmom Tammi. When I figured out that Palmdale was about 1/2 way for us and invited her to lunch. To my great surprise they had one of my favorite restaurants BJ's Brewery. And they had Airplanes!

So on Sunday I met her for some good food, great, albeit lopsided conversation. If you know Tammi then you really shouldn't be surprised. What else could I ask for right? Well to top it all off we went to a small air park. Answered A-LOT of questions. None of them dumb. They had a good mix of jets. Most importantly they had the mighty TOMCAT! Yes indeed, the first airplane I worked on. I almost teared up.

I did have a great time. It was hot as hell walking around the air park, but it's nice being able to share something you like with someone else. Then? Then I drove back to my boring apartment.

This week I WILL be going home. I'm taking some time Thursday and getting home early. 3 day weekend laying by the pool. Hell it's been so hot here I might sleep in the damn thing.

WTH?

2009-06-27T15:53:00.000-07:00

Saturday.... at work..... thought I gave that shit up.

Oh wait. Now I get paid for it. At time and a half. Almost worth being stuck in this crap hole for the weekend. Almost. Yesterday should have been very lucrative, but all the flights ended up being cancelled. What should have been a $300+ day turned into a $130 day. Today will be about the same.

Besides the money there's a silver lining. Isn't there always? Only if you a fucking optimist, I'm not. I'm a realist. But this time there is. I may have a date with Blog Mom Tammi. Meet for lunch and maybe see a few old planes in Palmdale, or planes then lunch. I figured Palmdale was about 1/2 way between hell and Disney land. They have BJ's Brewery and much to my surprise they had a little aviation museum.

Could it get any better? Tammi, planes and good food!!

WORK

2009-06-23T18:47:00.001-07:00

Can be seriously aggravating. Damn Marines, well today anyway. LOL

Seriously. I Wish I could tell you more about what goes on. We do some pretty cool shit there.

QUICK

2009-06-22T17:00:00.000-07:00

The weekend. That is.

The family got home on Friday. I actually beat them home by about 45 minutes. Mini-Me turned into a little beach rat. Guess he learned how to boogie board.... and loved it. He said he learned to do "tricks". Seems he can get up on his knees. The little one had a good time too. He's not as adventurous as his big brother sometimes. Both were pretty tan.

Saturday I took the boys to Wild Water in Fresno. We had a blast. Again... Mini-Me had to do all the really fast rides at least 3 or 4 times. There's one they called the "Skateboard ride". It looked like a half pipe on steroids. I was made to go on it twice. Hated it. Hated it. Can't tell you how much I hated it. Went the first time on a double tube with Mini-Me and the second time I went on a single tube so the littler one could go. It was worse the second time.

The only other thing I'll say is that good god some of our young "children", and I use that term loosely. NEED TO PUT ON CLOTHES! Girls did NOT look like that when I was in school.

Sunday was nice and relaxing. Make French Toast for breakfast then a tri-tip for dinner. The only bad thing was having to drive back here for work late afternoon. Called my dad to wish him a happy Fathers day. Other than that nice and relaxing.

???

2009-06-18T19:37:00.000-07:00

How much crap, I.E cheese, egg etc does it take to ruin a healthy salad?

MUST KEEP QUIET

2009-06-16T20:41:00.000-07:00

So, this is my exciting life:

The ghetto apartment that I'm living in is being foreclosed on. Eh. No big deal, because every other unit is being foreclosed on too. So today after quite a few months the city counsel of this fine city finally had a meeting about it. So I went. I heard what I needed to hear within the first 10 minutes or so of the meeting. His Lord on High Obama signed a law about foreclosures. Bottom line we can't be kicked out until our lease is up. However a lot of other people are screwed. I feel for them. Somewhere in my hardened piece of coal of a heart I feel for them. Some of them are being put out and can't afford another ghetto apartment. What chaps my ass and made me leave the meeting is the insistance that the government should be doing something for them. They gave time at the end for people to ask questions. Most of them did NOT ask any questions. Instead they pissed and moaned about the city counsel. The local police. The county police. WTF people?!?! Are you not adults? For fuck sake. Go out and do something for yourself! The government is not there to move your damn furnature, pay the deposite for your next place to live.

I left. I had heard enough.

OH OH OH!

2009-06-14T20:52:00.000-07:00

Ask me about this car if you care.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!

2009-06-14T20:31:00.000-07:00

OK. Rare Sunday appearance from the Retired (officially) Chief. Couple of things before I get to what I wanted to post about. First I am indeed officially out of the Navy. Well I'm not active, I'm what's called Fleet Reserve. As of the 3rd of June. Yea! OK, lost track of what else I was going to say except that I took the scenic route to work.

Left the house early since Number One and the boys are down south for a graduation. And I stopped to take a couple of pictures. I know some of you, like Tammi, like the beaches and oceans. Well I've had my share of salty water. This is more what I grew up around. Well it's actually a lot greener where I live, but I digress. The pictures were take along the 178 going north from Bakersfield. It is the Kern River. This is what a lot of the rivers in the western part of Washington State look like. Really reminded me of being a boy in Forks.

Hope you like.

HOME

2009-06-12T07:13:00.000-07:00

It's the weekend. 3 day weekend. Yea. Home by myself for the most part. Number One and the family are south. One of the nephews is graduating and she has to pick up Mini-Me. See he wanted to go home with his big sister to San Diego. He's been having a good time.

Not much else going on. The middle daughter bought herself a car. I tell you that is one determined young lady.

Not much else going on. Since Number One is not here I get to do what ever I want this weekend. Yea right! Have fun.

SUDDENLY 17

2009-06-09T16:23:00.000-07:00

So the other day I happened to be sitting in a bar with friends. Yes I have a couple of friends and no, I don't frequent bars despite the whole Navy background. Anyway back to the story. So I get a call from a friend. We'll call her Teri, yes that's her real name. She was one of the first people I met when I moved from Forks Washington to Olympia Washington. She was the cousin of a friend from Forks. Well it seems that another dear friend of ours, we'll call him Tom, because.. well ya. He happens to be my best friend from High School, and a fellow Chief Petty Officer, who retired last year. Well his mom is sick. Yes it's Cancer. Lung cancer I think. Life time smoker (Pointing at an unnamed blog mom) and she's gotten bad. She wanted me to call him and see hows he's doing. She's concerned he doesn't have any support for HIM there. And with their history she felt it would be wrong for her to call.

So I call him. Best hour and a half I've spent in a long time. I haven't talked to him in a very long time. I'm so glad she called and gave me his number. After talking to her and talking to him I was transported back to High School. I mean that in a good way. I spent so much time with these two while growing up. OH! Did I mention that they were together most of the time during school? No? Well they were. Right up through our Senior Year. Ya. Lots of memories. Most of them good.

So anyway. Talked to him. He seems like he's doing good. Mom is not. But they have been having some good times since he came home. She didn't want to stay in the hospital sick from chemo, so she came home to enjoy what she had left. I sort of agree with that.

We laughed because his mom HATED me. I was the stoner kid. He was the preppy kid. His sister was my sister. Loved her. She hasn't changed. That's not good.

I will put my best effort to go and see him when I go home. Hopefully in August when my brother gets back from overseas. I hadn't realized how much I miss those two. I'm hoping in a sick sentimental way that they might get back together after all these years.

BAD BLOGGER!

2009-06-09T06:03:00.000-07:00

Sorry. Been a little busy. I'll post more after work. Promise.

OK.

2009-06-02T18:31:00.000-07:00

Where was I? Oh ya. At work. It just seems to scream by. Unlike before when 2 pm would come I would be at wits end waiting for the end of the day. Now it goes so fast I can't believe it's already lunch time and time to go home! I haven't even had time to waste your tax dollars and blog at work! What's the world coming to!

The weekend went by pretty fast. Went to the late sister-in-laws funeral. It went very well. I couldn't believe how many people were there. Simply awesome the turn out. It was amazing to see all the people that she had touched. Now I only hope that's the last one for a while.

I have to take Friday off. Why you ask? To get all my retirement stuff done! Woo hoo. I am officially out of the Navy as of Wednesday! Yes. It seems like forever already that I had my ceremony.

More tomorrow.

THINKING

2009-05-29T10:27:00.000-07:00

So as I've mentioned before, I am all that smart. However I can think for myself.... barely... when the wind and the stars are just right and I stand facing east. So how can I be expected to think for someone that knows their job better than me? WTF people!!!

OK. I'm done. Carry on.

IS IT OVER?

2009-05-28T17:10:00.000-07:00

The week that is. No? Shit.......

So started with the new position as stated below. It's a little more fast paced than I've been used to in the past..... but I'm managing. It's a little strange because some times things are going so fast it's like my brain is trying to keep up and process all the information but my mouth seems to know what to say. Make sense? Ya. I didn't think so either. But so far it's going good. I've managed to surprise myself. Next week will be a little better. Why? Because I won't be the only supervisor there on days. Ya. So two people get promoted and one guy takes the week off. WTF?? Oh well.

Wish I could say more. Like what happened this afternoon with "sensitive" material, and I'm not talking porn, but I can't.

Should be off tomorrow, but there are things that didn't get done that needed to be. So it's overtime. Hopefully we can get it all fixed because early because I don't want to be there all day, because I get to drive south to the in-laws house.

Have fun. Peace out.

FLYING

2009-05-26T13:41:00.000-07:00

OK. Started new position today. I already like it. It's almost 2pm and the day has just flown by. That's kind of nice for a change. Seems every time I sit down something happens and I have to get up. That sort of makes the time go buy a little quicker than sitting at the computer the whole day.

Also California Supreme court gets it right. They did not take it upon themselves to change the will of the people. Probably a smart move on their part. People are starting to get a little upset with the way things are being run here and that might have actually caused quite a bit of problems I think.

The Chosen One has nominated his replacement for the Supreme Court. I'm more than a little concerned. I don't think the Republicans, or any body else for that matter have the balls to give her the look that the position deserves. She'll get a pass because 1) well it's a she and 2) she's a minority. So we're pretty much fucked with a potential bad nomination. You also know that the Main Stream Media will go along with the Messiah's nomination. Nut less bastards.

WEEK/3's.

2009-05-22T07:28:00.000-07:00

It's been an interesting week to say the least. Yes I did get the promotion. Good news. I've been sort of getting involved with what's going on, even though I haven't officially started. However, if I did that, I'd be more behind than I am already. Naval Aviation is a very dynamic fluid thing. So, it's better for me to try to juggle both things right now than to step into it balls deep on Tuesday. I try to use a little foresight vice hindsight.

Now for the bad. I've heard that death comes in 3's. Well for Number One and her family number 3 came yesterday at about 3 am. Her sister that has been fighting Pancreatic Cancer for what seems like forever was finally taken home. I could tell by talking to Number One and her sister that it was extremely hard. They are a tight family and losing a sister is not something they ever thought they'd have to deal with so soon. I feel for them. A lot. The family has been through a lot this past year or so. Not only have they been dealing with this, but one of the Nephews past away suddenly and the step dad passed away just a few weeks ago. So for their sake I really hope this is the last bad thing they have to deal with for a very long time. Such an awesome group of people to have such a bad go of things. Services will be next week. I really hope things get better for them.......

JOB

2009-05-19T12:36:00.000-07:00

Well finally cornered our boss here and we talked about the job I interviewed for. And..... I got it. I start Monday. Well actually Saturday, but Monday will be the first work day. Kind of a big pay increase. Over $5 an hour. I'll make close to $30 an hour. I'm sure in normal parts of the country that's really good money. But in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia it's so-so. But it will help! Don't get me wrong. Number One was happy, so am I.

Maybe I can get that shotgun now...........

INTERVIEW

2009-05-18T12:12:00.000-07:00

OK. Just interviewed for the job I applied for. It's a promotion here. I'll know by the end of the day.

AIR FORCE

2009-05-18T07:07:00.000-07:00

People tend to tease the Air Force. Hell I have and will continue to do so. However I will also give credit where credit is due and here is a prime example of how and why some folks in the military deserve more credit then they get.

Read it. Good stuff.

HOLY CRAP!

2009-05-15T19:39:00.000-07:00

So, went to see Brian Regan last night with Number One. Seriously, my face hurts from laughing so much. I have not had such a good time since I don't know when. I've seen his DVDs and heard him on the radio, but nothing compares to seeing him live. We had a blast, plus I think it's something we both needed.

CRACK

2009-05-14T09:13:00.000-07:00

Internet style. I totally blame LL over Chromed Curses for getting me addicted to this website.

Also for all intents and purposes it's Friday for me. Woo hoo. Today I'll haul ass home and see Brian Regan tonight with Number One. Not much going on Friday. She might be going to see south to see her sister so it'll just be me and the boys for the weekend. On Sat we have baseball and a birthday party. I'm going to try to get someone there to clean the house for Number One.

That's about it. Peace out.

BEER

2009-05-12T20:07:00.000-07:00

Now that I have your attention. Ha ha.

They announced that they are hiring 4 "Lead" positions. I was told by my supervisor that I should turn my resume in. So I did, that was yesterday actually.

Today:

The guy that works next to me is the Chief Shop Stewart for the union. Why does that matter? Well he got his hands on the job announcement and it was all F'd up. The description of the job made it seem like they were hiring for senior technician positions. In actuality they were supervisor jobs, read non-union. So the job announcement called for union work being done by non-union people. I've never seen grown men act like frigging babies. Seriously. The job description was messed up. I told him. He didn't hear me or ignored me. What ever. Seemed like every 20 minutes someone was coming into my office crying about the job description for the new jobs. Shoot me. Really. I was done. I am so done listening to grown men cry about work. Do the job, shut the hell up. AND, AND, he see's a list with my name on it to fill one of said positions. AND AND AND - he has the nerve to ask me what experience I have in Maintenance Control. Seriously? My fist thought, "None of your fucking business." But I laid it out for him. Not that I felt like I had to, but to shove it up his ass.

THEN. You knew there had to be more. My buddy came to the office and called me "Shipmate". That's a Navy term, duh. Sometimes used to get someones attention, most times used to fuck with someone. So my response? "Who the fuck are you shipmating?" Behind him was a guy from our corporate office. Nice huh? He proceeded to talk with about the position I put my resume in for. God I hope that wasn't what I thought it was. For fucks sake, talk about a good impression.

WOO HOO

2009-05-11T19:57:00.000-07:00

I'm going to see Brian Regan on Thursday with Number One! I'm so excited I could piss myself.