Finally, after all these years

I finally bought an iron, and even an ironing board yesterday after six years of fighting it. That's what happens when you go to the cleaners after they close and the one uniform you have has been balled up on the floor over a long weekend. I remember back in Japan when I would "iron" my BDUs by putting them between a couple pieces of plywood between the matress and box-spring. I did acquire an iron when my supervisor left, but I didn't use it much after I got the LOR because a uniform didn't dry after spending the entire day in the dryer at the dorms. I figured if I'm going to get written up for not having it ironed when I did iron it, why bother doing it. I did crease the sleeves every once in a while when they needed it though. I'm not too sure that I did much ironing in Montana since that iron got left in Japan.

Two outlets, one plug

Like the pic? I'm on the laptop right now. Here is a secret for ya, if your internet seems to be going slow or not working, it could be because you have a virus. It could also be because you don't pay attentionwhen you plug things into your power strip and use to outlets to plug in the modem. Luckely this doesn't seem to fry anything, it just makes the internet not work too good.

"When I heard you on the phone the first time I called, I thought you where a black guy. That's what I told everyone." My boss told me that today. That's funny stuff.

I can get my hands on a hard drive eraser and I think that I'm going to erase the one on the desk top. I just don't like the way it is running so slow. It doesn't have anything I need really, photoshop is on both comps and I can get a hold of 7 if I want to put it back on. Other than the few hours the eraser will take, it shouldn't take much time on my part.

Oh yeah, going to be sick

I had to get that annoying little flu shot today. I'm looking to be sick between Christmas and New Year's, as happens any time I get this stupid thing. Good thing it only lasts maybe a day when I get it. Last year I was just down for half the day. Guess it's the Air Force's annual bonuses for all of it's troops. Thanks Air Force! Maybe I could manage to get sick during the ORI. Perhaps when the IG is in the office. How great would that be?

One month down, 20 to go

I have been here in Warner Robins, GA for a whole month. This isn't too bad of a place either. Then again, I don't leave the house unless I have to go to work or shop. Guess that is just the anti-social in me. As you have probably read, the shop has been busy all month. It will continue to stay busy as long as we are bending over trying to do stuff for everyone. Those books we have been putting together for the IG, they are now being binded. They only have five maps in them too. Monday should see the finishing of those things. Not sure what is planned for the rest of the week, since it's quite a short one.

We where informed the other day that our office will be at the IG outbrief on whatever weekend day it is. The party afterwards is still voluntary right now. They have even added kareoke to the list of events for the thing. Woohoo party down!!

My first story for the paper is a retirement story and will be out on the 28th, yay! Since the wing's web master is a biatch the paper doesn't get put on the web. Appariently he thinks that we should be able to do it even though nobody in the office has rights to update the web. Guess that's what happens when you don't renew the civilian's contract and give the job to a master sergeant as an extra duty. I'll just put it on here when it comes out I guess.


Question for the GI's:

If the Air Force Climate Assesment Survey is annonymous, and optional, then why do the higher ups know how many people in each shop hasn't done it? They might even know exactly who hasn't. I think that because they are having a pizza party for all of the people who do complete it.
If you want to make it mandatory, then make it mandatory. Don't say it's optional and then send daily email updates telling us which shop has how many people still needing to do it. I wasn't going to do it, but I think that will be one of my comments and my feelings towards all of this stupid stuff we are doing fot the IG.

And can the IG investigate itself? Just a thought.

People in Georgia don't read?

I went to buy that American Psycho book yesterday. Now, I have only seen two bookstores since I've been here. Neither one of them is a chain kind of place. One is a used bookstore in my neighborhood. Not going in there doubt they would have it anyway. I went to the one in the mall. This mall, not much better than the mall in Great Falls. It's pathetic. But, they do have a bookstore, a sad excuse for a bookstore as it turns out. It is a Wharehouse Books, that apparently means old ass books that nobody bought anywhere else. It's like the last chance for books. I'll probably just reread one of the books I have here. Or I might just take a trip to Macon, it's only about 15 minutes out. They might have a Barnes & Noble, that means Starbucks, yay.

I would like to take this opportunity to say, "Welcom IG team, we are happy to suck you off." Why? Why? Why? Oh my goodness, we have been getting ready for our big ORI, the first one this wing has had since it blended together three years ago, and I can't believe what an ass kiss fest it seems to be. We set up their "office" today, no big deal, just a few tables and a bunch of chairs. There are also these welcome packages that folders aren't good enough for. We just happen to have a book maker thing. It's one of those that has a plastic spine. In here we will have 2 maps of the base, one of which will have all of the buildings and Base X (what an unimaginative name) marked on them. It's a good thing someone thought about using photoshop for that, almost had to do 85 by hand. There will also be a map or two of the city. Of course there will be the bios of the higher ups in the wing along with a history of the wing. And we can't forget all of the supplies that they should bring with them but we buy instead. That's just dumb. I'm sure they will come up with something else to keep us on our knees till they get here. Let's not forget the "Post ORI Bash" that is planned for the Sunday after the outbrief, yeah, I said Sunday. We're waiting to see if that will be mandatory. Bet I don't go either way. Doubt they'll have a sign in roster. They might, just one more ass kiss move.

Do what you are trained to do

So this week I finally got to do what I was trained to do months ago. That's right, I got to put my writing skills to the test, sort of. Wrote my first press release Tuesday and my first retirement ceremony story today. I'll finish the retirement one on Monday because the ceremony wasn't acctually untill this afternoon. The story should be published in the December issue, yay.

Finally got my travel pay, woohoo no more credit card debt. All the charges from the trip will be paid off real soon.

If you know me, you know I'm not a kiss ass. Imagine my surprise when I found out that our office is the one that bends over for DVs. There is this ORI coming up, man have we done our share of puckering up. Everything from buying supplies they should have when they get here - paper, pens, markers, the usual, and don't forget, we get to buy the coffee they will consume. The shop has put little "welcome" packets together. We are also coordinating with the local businesses to put "Welcome IG team" up on their signs accross town. It's just dumb. We even get to set up the area they will have their in brief in. Maybe one of them will break a leg and all this will be worth it.

I did tell my boss that I can't stand people today. We where on our way off base when some female cut me off. I did the thing that I do and got nice and close to her bumber and sped up even more, a couple of times. My boss told me that I shouldn't do that and I told her that she should not have cut me off. She told me I was right. Off base now and a guy isn't paying attention to his stop sign. I did stop and wasn't going to wait for him to figure things out. I pass him and speed up a bit through the parking lot. She sais "Have a bit of road rage do you?"
I said "Well, that and I have and adversion to people." "Why? don't you like people?" "I can't stand them." "Why's that?" They are retarded or jack asses." "I'm glad to know that you like us." "Y'all aren't too bad yet."

I did not think to put antivirus software on this desktop before I left. When I got the internet hooked up, I hooked it up to this one with the hopes of one day setting up a wireless network for the lap top. A week went by and I expected to get hit a couple of times by a bug or something. Tuesday night I loaded some software on here and ran it. There where fifty some-odd spyware files and six trojans. A few of the trojans where duplicates. I was not happy. After the virus check finished it was able to clean all of the trojans and most of the spyware it's self. I had to delete the rest of the files my self. Now I have a clean computer, yay!

About the lack of pics lately. I have just been too lazy to A) Take new ones B) Load said new ones onto the lap top and transfer them to the desk top C) Haven't felt like putting the software on this one. Might do it this weekend, since it is a three day weekend.

Done reading

I finished Angels & Demons yesterday. That was a good book. Not quite as good a The Da Vinci Code, but a good book none the less. So now I need a new one to read. If you have any suggestions, let me know.

I did buy an ethernet connector, a USB one. It broke in three hours. I don't know how it happened. I tipped the computer and it broke. I ended up replacing it with a card.

The Xbox did work Saturday before I exchanged adapters but it isn't working now. I don't know exactly how I got it to work and I don't know how to get it to work now. Maybe it will just happen to work tomorrow, who knows. I'm not too worried about it. It's just a time killer.

Going to get back to the game. Yes, the Colts are winning at half time (21-7). I'm sure Manning will find a way to lose the game like every other time he plays the Patriots.

Hooked up

Well, I have the cable and internet hooked up. I also went a head and got a couch and love seat. Didn't really need the love seat, but the both of them only cost $400 at the furniture store on base.

I have kinda started doing work here. I won't write a story for the paper until the January issue I guess. Not real sure why. Was trying to come up with one for the December issue. Yes, the paper is a monthly. That gives us time to do less important stuff.

I have been trying to hook the Xbox up to the internet with no success. I'm not too sure why it isn't working. Might have to get a new hub. I don't know why I would have to do that though, it worked in Montana and it's not even a year old yet. Maybe I'll try to Homie engineer something for it. But I've tried every thing short of plugging the Xbox straight into the modem. That will be a pain if I have to switch out the computer and Xbox every time I want to play.