At least for this week… …and part of next week… …and a teensy part of the following week. After a 2 1/2 month hiatus, Monday was my first day of doing any reserve work. My first workday since we moved to Nebraska. I’m working every day this week here in the local area, telecommuting with … Read more
Okay, if you’re a USAF Safety Officer, stop reading! I drilled at Shaw AFB this past Sunday and Monday. I left the office at about 4pm and drove east from the base, behind a cold front that brought thunderstorms to the base about an hour earlier. So I was behind the line of thunderstorms driving … Read more
I am stunned! For the uninitiated in the Air Force/military lifestyle, Dave and I are what you might consider “middle management”. The tasks we do often involve having to tie Airman issues with “the bigger picture”. Example: “Ma’am, I’d like to deploy to Iraq and work with the Army.” In this case, the Airman might … Read more
Grey’s Anatomy is my favorite show. Now it’s going to have to struggle to keep my loyalty. Let’s start here. I was very very shocked to see them put one of the gay lovers in a no-kidding Army uniform, complete with 2nd Infantry Division unit patch and combat patch (by the way, since there’s a … Read more
Greetings from South Carolina again! For the first time, I brought Timmy with me on a drill weekend to South Carolina. Dave and Jacob are with a group of Pennsy N-Scale Model Railroaders in Central PA, folks he’s had many conversations with via his Railwire discussion group. In fact, here’s a post discussing what these … Read more
This is my latest cake creation. Duff Goldman, I’m not. This was made in honor of my reserve flight’s outgoing commander, Lt Col Chuck Buckler. He drinks 6-8 cans of Diet Coke daily, and we would watch him accumulate a pile of empty cans on his desk every drill weekend. Sort of horrifying, if you … Read more
…here’s Dave. I’m almost home, dear! You’re doing great!
So…here I am on my 2-weeks tour. No, not in the picture above, I’ll discuss that soon. For all intents and purposes, I’m a member of the 28th Operational Weather Squadron during this tour. I follow their schedule, meaning I go to their staff meetings, weather shift change discussions, briefing about sexual assault (which was … Read more
Our friends Suzy and Andy alerted us this afternoon that the Secretary of the Air Force’s AIM Points web page points to a Shreveport Times article about Air Force Cybercommand being featured as the first “Above All” commercial. It then launches into an interview with the Deputy Director of Public Affairs about how the blogosphere … Read more
…you buy ice cream and your freezer freezes is SO hard you can’t enjoy it? Yesterday I bought a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream at the commissary. It’s VERY rare for me to do this — I last had this over a year ago! So put it in the … Read more