Here I am last Thursday at our unit picnic...

Just killing some time for my last 20 minutes of work...

The folks in the separation office don't seem to be very smart. They almost submitted my paperwork with the wrong code put in for my separation pay...That would have been costly. Luckily I discovered the error and made them fix it.

The South Korean kid should get the gold. The guy from the US is going to have to look at it anyway and think "Oh yeah, I won because the judges were idiots." Have a little fucking integrity. The judges screwed up, everyone knows it, fix the problem and move on...

The next person to mention "Swift boats" should be tied behind one until they drown.

Glad I waited on SP2 for XP. My next machine is going to be a Mac if this keeps up.

I'm running the Army ten-miler in October. Yeah me.

Going to Detroit next week. Yeah me again.

OK more later
Tim

The only constant is confusion...

The latest and greatest (subject to change at any minute). The folks at the Pentagon who handle separations from the Air Force had some bad information that they were working off of. So it now looks like I will be out of the AF on 7 December of this year. I'm trying to work with the AF Reserve folks to find out what kind of position they can get me out in Michigan. At the same time I'm going to post my resume out on Monster etc next week and see what kind of hits I get. If I don't get anything back from Michigan, I will probably go ahead and find a job in the DC area for a while. Reason for this is I have a security clearance and they have a lot of jobs in this area based on the systems I know. I'm a little nervous but excited at the same time. Wish me luck...

Tim

Next person who says "You're throwing it all away" dies. I turned down the assignment to Korea. I've been there. I don't need to go again. I went up to start filling out some paperwork thinking I'd be kicked out in January and they decided to tell me that the rules have changed again, and I'll be here at the Pentagon until Aug of 05. So that's the plan. Here until next August and then Michigan. Works out well. I'll be able to finish school. Gives me time to get my resume together...It's going to be great. I will be doing the AF Reserves. Anyway, I'll post more when all the papers have been signed.

Tim

Very tiring week, but it ended well. Had to go out of town for work. Was under the impression I would be leaving early Thursday morning. Around 10 Wednesday night I get a call saying "they need you and your team there ASAP!"...boy what fun. Contacted two of my people fairly easily. The third did not answer his phone, so myself and another member of my team drove to his place to wake him. He did not respond...this kid can sleep through anything. After 20 minutes of banging on the door, ringing the doorbell, calling from our cell phones etc, a neighbor came out to inform us they were calling the police if we did not go away...so away we went without my whole team...Drove for a couple of hours (actually didn't leave the Pentagon until after midnight) and arrived at the destination at about 2:30. Got checked in and found beds et al by around 3:30...had to be on shift at 6 so I didn't bother sleeping.

Things got better from there. Ran into some old friends while I was up there which was fun. I also solidified the bonds with new friends. Didn't get much sleep, but had a good time anyway. The work load was far less than we expected, so a lot of just going over manuals and talking and watching CNN or FOX news...

Friday got released and it was beautiful out. We were blessed with a perfect fall day right in the middle of the summer. The ride back was very cool. Good music, sunny, good conversation...got home and just unwound. Watched a few episodes of Band of Brothers with my roommate then head off to bed around 1130. At around 1130 this morning I finally woke up. I haven't slept like that in a long time. I really needed it. Managed to mow the lawn and do some other small yard work, then watched a few more episodes of BoB.

Booked the flights for my next couple of trips. Going to see my soulmate in September, and then to Germany for Christmas. I'll probably end up in Detroit a couple of more times before I head to Korea in Feb.

For those of you behind on my current plans...here they are again: Go to Korea in Feb 05..leave Korea in Feb 06 and join the AF Reserves full time as Selfridge ANG base in Michigan. While I'm working for the Reserves, I'll be busy finding a real job. Once I have the real job, I'll switch over to doing the Reserves as a 1 weekend a month, 2 weeks a year thing. Some time after I get out there I will buy a house and some time after that I'll be asking the afore mentioned soulmate to marry me (if you're reading this sweetie..again try to breathe). I'm hoping my divorce will be final before I head to Korea, so I don't have to do any paperwork or anything while I'm there.

All right, that's about enough for now...

Tim

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Got the idea off Shanna's page, but I liked it and thought I would put one out here..enjoy.

OK, so the motivation died... Long weekend. Really not long enough, but you get the point... Managed to get out to a hop-hop club with some friends. It was fun to have a couple of drinks and just let go for a few hours.

Been fooling around with my guitar again..yeah me. I'm really starting to think that I want an electric. Maybe I'll get myself one for Christmas... Speaking of Christmas, I'm going to see Aidan in Germany...It's going to be great. Also a good chance I'll be heading to Vegas in October for a friends wedding...I've never been, but with my current amount of pent up sexual energy (you try having a girlfriend 500 miles away), and a longing to catch up on some kind of youthful foolishness, and my fondness for alcoholic beverages I'm bound to end up in jail. It's probably a good thing I'm not into gamblinf as well. Should be great fun.

I'm off to eat Mexican with some friends.

Still waiting on paperwork for my assignment...starting to get frustrated...

more later
Tim