Poor Pedro

Yesterday the boss lady asked if I had the Man on the Street done since I was the only one at work on Monday. I told her no. I told her why - no cameras in the office. She didn't like that very much. Oh well. So today the supervisor brought the camera she had in and the editor asked if I could get it done today. Of course. That was before we had to pull a story because it wouldn't be done in time.

Apparently, the VI shop was supposed to take pictures of the person working. Today those pictures hadn't been taken and the person is now in California and won't be back before we publish. So after a bit of storming the supervisor decided that the survival equipment shop would be a good photo opportunity. I went to get my thing done. While there I was trying to take a picture but there was no memory card. Yeah, she didn't get it from the editor before we left. So we go back to the shop and she decides she doesn't want to go any more. That leaves me going back to do this.That causes me to be a bit pissy. Maybe it started with the one camera in the shop thing, I don't know. I finally make it back and get the pictures going. Not too bad. Took some pictures, asked some questions. Good times, for being work. But, I din't get back to the guy I interviewed for my Man on the Street. Looks like I'm going back tomorrow. That's cool because the equipment shop is going to test some. I might get a couple of pics out of that too. That, and I can get a person that isn't in the story into the thing I have to do.

I took Pedro to get his nails clipped today. He hated it. He squirmed so much that he got clipped short on a nail. He cried and she put the blood stop on it. He didn't squirm much after that. He did get a bandanna out of it though.

A whole week

This week at work was pretty productive. By productive I do mean worked on stupid stuff all week. The week started off with me not going to Front Page and HTML training. Something about we have to use the half-ass training that is on the intranet to learn it. Guess we're fighting that one. Also had a class on how to be responsible for our computers. I never signed the letter changing that to me. We also had a chief from ANG headquarters here somewhere going around making sure all of the computers were where they should be. The time for our office got changed from Wednesday to tomorrow back to Wednesday. He wasn't happy that I hadn't signed that letter yet. Oh well, they find the computer that isn't in the office and I'll sign it. Also had to make those welcome books for another group of inspectors. While making the books on Thursday I was told that I need to get my Man On the Street thing done Monday. I told my supervisor to stop giving me dumb shit to do and it will get done. She asked if I have any thing to do Monday and I told her no but Friday hadn't happened yet. As it turns out the boss lady loaned out the one camera that was in our office on Friday. And since the supervisor has the second one at her house, I don't have a cam to work with tomorrow because she is on leave until Tuesday. That better not be a problem.

Today I was out with the dog picking a couple of things up in the yard and the neighbor asked if I had a way to cut my yard. I told him no and he offered to cut it for me. Cool. Man, there was a whole lot of glass in the yard, especially near the drive way. The glass would give the impression that a car has been burned there once. I got most of it cleaned up but there is a bit out there still.

Maybe next weekend will be a bit more restful.

Flashback guy update: He's been pretty quiet this week. I haven't heard him at all. I was starting to get a bit worried but he was out today being quiet.

And I'm back

I'm back in town now. The trip wasn't too bad, considering. I did get a chance to see a couple of people. Of course I didn't see all of the ones I wanted to see though.

About made it home

Here I am sitting in a hotel room an hour from Indy. That will happen when you stay up the night before and don't leave town until after four in the afternoon. That and if I did get into town at two in the morning nobody would be awake and I'd be stuck in the car or in a hotel in town and that doesn't work for me.

I'll be in Indy until the 17th so posts will probably be non existant until then.

The first one

Well, since I haven't set up my site to link this to, here is my first story for the paper.

Joint STARS country gets cleaned up

Contractors are removing and replacing contaminated soil at the entrance to Joint STARS -Tanker country between Taxiway Echo and Beale Drive nera Bldg 2079. The soil was contaminated in 2002 by a broken JP-8 fuel line.

Cape Environmental Management workers are moving 6,500 tons - or about 500 dump truck loads - of polluted soil from the site to the Swift Creek Land Fill in Macon, according to Scott Harris, Robins Air Force Base project manager. After all of the soil is removed, contractors will use an absorbent compound to remove any remaining fuel and will fill the hole with new soil.

Taxiway Echo has been closed since the project started in January. But flight line operations have not been adversely impacted.

"There's really not a health problem with exposure," said Fred Hursey, 78th Civil Engineer Group, environmental program branch chief. "It's just something we need to clean up to minimize the impact to the environment."

The fuel line was repaired in 2002 and this remediation project was watining on funds from the Defense Energy Support Center, according to Mr. Hursey.

"The only potential side-effect could be utility interruptions since the water, electric, natural gas, and sewer lines for our East Ramp facilities run through the same corridor," said Ken Werner, 116th Air Control Wing environmental manager.

"The contractor is taking special precautions to protect the utilities, but the unexpected can occur when working around older utility systems. We have established a quick reaction notification process through the 116th ACW Command Post in case of any significant event," Ken said.

The $900,000 soil remediation project is scheduled to be complete before the end of May.

Hope you liked it. Come back next month and see what I write about then.

Awake this early?

Here it is 6:30 in the morning on a Sunday and I'm awake. Why am I awake this early? I went to sleep at 6 last night, that's how. Pedro only got out of bed once the entire time. Had I known that my nap was going to last 12 hours I would have gone ahead and put im in his kennel. It turned out to be a little cold to put him out in his room. He has been out there a couple of times this week and done pretty well. He did end up in bed the first night though.

Well, think I'm going to go stretch across the couch and see what happens. Maybe I'll go back to sleep or watch a bunch of infomercials. Either way I'm not getting off of it until noon.

Um, I don't think this is mine

My supervisor got a RIP the other day saying that my EPR is due May 1, and it's an anual. Oh, and it has my old rater's name on it too. So ass backwards the Air Force is. So I take a look at the three EPRs that are in there and while reading them have to check to see if my name is on the top. "Why?" You ask? Well because more than one of them say that I volunteered for things like cooking and doing the haunted house. Now we all know I don't volunteer. They also have a number of jobs that I had nothing to do with. One of them listed a job that I headed up as a job that I just assisted with. I think the supervisor has it taken care of so far. Who knows I'm not too worried about it.

Paper is out and I have a real article but since the wing webmaster is still a douche it's not on the public site. I have to figure out how to post it. Guess that would be a good use for all of the web space the cable company gives out for personal pages.