I'll be home tomorrow

Went to play raquetball yesterday with the guys in the shop. That was fun. Today the civilian in charge took us all out to lunch. It was pretty good. Went to a restaurant that her mom owns.

I'm packing for my trip home tomorrow. I think this is the least amount of stuff I've ever tried to shove into my bag. I might even end up with room left over in there. I'll be home till the third. Not real sure what I'll do for the two weeks I'm around. Perhaps throw the little brother into the snow a couple of times. I'm going to go finish the packing thing.

The grands are still on dial-up so I might not post much while there.

This land is my land, and so is this land

So, I went shopping tonight. After buying a few Christmas cards for the family and a couple of other people I walked around the store and found someone's gift. I was waiting in line when I noticed a display of Game Boy games. Just looking as to see what they where trying to get rid of I seen a game with Risk on it, yay!! Sure it also has Battleship and Clue on it but I doubt those get much play time. As a guy that doesn't quit when playing games like most people I like the idea of it being on a portable game system where the computer isn't a quitter . Although it seems pretty easy and I won within the hour, it's not a bad version, just wish you could control how many dice you roll for each attack. Since I'm going on my trip next week and won't be on the plane or the airport long enough to get a whole game of Monopoly in it's a great thing that I seen this. Yup, I'm a nerd sometimes.

School stuff sucks, and I'm not even in one yet

Went to look into classes today. Appariently walked into the school's office instead of the education office. In the school's office I was informed that the CCAF degree didn't mean any thing in the "real world." The lady tried to get me to sign up for some kind of certification program that had classes that where needed and strangley they where the same ones needed for the CCAF degree. She tried to sell me on the fact that the classes where free due to some program. She also said that I could get some grant to pay for the books. That's weird, the military has the same program and I'm not restricted to the classes I can take. Don't mention the fact that of the seven classes, only three could be CLEPed or transferred. You can do that in any combination as long as you only do it with three classes. I will also have to take one of those placement exams to even get in. For one class? Screw you hippie. I'm not going to take some test to tell me there is stuff I don't remember from back in high school. I know that with out some test. The high school transcript is also needed. Why wasn't all of this stupid stuff needed when I took that accounting class in Montana? This is just frustrating I guess. Not to mention the fact that if you ask someone that has anything to do with the Air Force education program they tell you that the CCAF degree is worth some thing on the outside. I think we should get all of the people who decide what is accredited and what is not into one room and get this figured out. Also you should be able to go one place and be told one thing and go right next door and be told something else. Thinking that I might just say screw this stupid little degree thing and go for a bachelor's. Sure I could get a good number of classes out of the way before I seperate.
I'm going to look into some local college to see if I can get by the testing thing, and the transcript thing. Hate to get those things taken care of and it not be in time for the start of class. We'll see what happens. There's allways next semester. Probably not a bad thing since I still have to get my CDCs started and done.

Quiet Sunday

Today was a good day of nothingness. Was nice to watch football. It's just too bad Carolina lost to Tampa Bay and Cleveland lost to Cincinnati.

We received a Satisfactory on the ORI. Seems kind of weird since we got a bunch of outstandings and excellents in most of the catagories. The comm squadron did cause us to get our only marginal, way to go guys!! Word on the street is that if you get even one marginal that causes you to get a overall satisfactory. Don't have another one for five years, so that's a good thing. Heck, it might just be my last one.

Now that this if finally over I might be able to finish in processing the base.

This is where the title would go, if I had one

Yes, that's the book for the team, all 30 pages and five maps. We'll see what kind of warm fuzzies it gave them Saturday. Word is still that we did pretty good.

Saturday I went to the dredded Blockbuster and rented Kung Fu Hustle, for the third time. Yes, the third time. I didn't get a chance to watch it the first two times. So last night I made it a point to put it in. About half way through I fell asleep. Not going for a fourth time. Think that Sunday I'm just going to sit around here all day long and watch the football. Haven't had a good Sunday of football in weeks.

Tickets for home are bought and I just need to adjust times for the rental car for while I'm there. Guess that in the last seven hours it has snowed around a foot. That's nice. Do it now before I have to drive in that stuff. Snow is nice when it's not on the road.

ORI is DUN

That's right, it's over. Guess we did pretty well. Everyone except the med group, but what do you expect. The out brief is still Saturday though.

Not too shabby, so far

I guess we did real well on the phase one part of the inspection. I haven't been botherd by the IG team yet, guess they never came into our office at all the whole weekend. Must of loved the handjob that was those welcome books. That and the second half of the team got here no earlier than 10 last night. This getting up at 4:45 stuff is getting pretty old too. I don't like the fact that I have gotten home and fallen asleep just to drag myself off of the couch and stay awake long enough to go to bed at a decent time. Just a couple more days of pure boredome I guess.

I am glad that I'm not a player in this phase of the inspection since it rained all day. Did wash the car this weekend though, so that sucks a bit. Would suck more if I washed it myself, but it came free with the oil change.

Looked at the EQUALS list today and noticed openings in Yakota, Japan and Eielson, Alaska, both of which where on my list a couple of months ago. They don't come open untill June any ways. I think I'll change the dream sheet just because I can. Ya never know.

And we're off ... Kinda

So, today kicks off the IG inspection. They should have arrived on base at around nine this morning but the plane broke before they left Langley. That pushed them back a couple of hours as they tried to get onto commercial-air. They got a flight and the base sent a bus to Atlanta to pick them up, kinda doesn't make sense to have had 40 rental cars delivered from Atlanta to base yesterday. I could be wrong, but that seems pretty dumb to me. Noon roles around and the plane they where suposed to be on broke too. This pushed the arrival on base to I'm not real sure what time. All I know is that it would push the time we got finished with these people to around 8 o'clock. Four other poeple and I where voluntold to stay after hours and give them those pretty little books we spent so much time on. After getting a early dinner, Tim and I got to the conference center at 4:30. It turns out that only like half the team is going to be here today so me and Tim where let go. The captain and Master Seargant are there passing out books. What a nice couple of people. I'll be in at Six tomorrow morning anyway so I guess it evens out some how. And I guess I'm not working the weekend, the weekender is working Saturday though. He's guard, that's what he does.