I've been a little neglectful of my blog, and all my other web pages, due to a new job I began in late October. Yes, against all odds, and in contrevention of promises made to myself to never work for anyone else again, I took a job, working for a civilian contractor at Grissom Air Reserve Base.

The job is like a total immersion class in school. It's 33 hours of intense labor, packed into one weekend. Very little of that time is spent cooking, as our crew only prepares the foods on one weekend of the two we work each month. I often feel like I'm back in the service, because we work for and with the military.

The really odd part of this gig, is that I enjoy it !, and really like the people I'm working for and with. I have to go 'into training' for a week prior to each working weekend, because it is hard for me to get my 56 year old ass out of bed ,and on the job at 5:00AM, and work until 6 or 7 at night, but I'm doing it, and enjoying it too, though how long that lasts is based on the companie's ability to raise my pay scale in porportion to the responsibility I assume for thier success.