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[pfloyd]

Just some thoughts...

I hate being out of work... temporary layoff or no...
I start feeling useless, and it gets me down. When I feel like that, I don't feel like attacking the house with the act of cleaning. It gets on Colleen's nerves, granted. Hell, I know that things need to be done. I keep saying that I'm going to work on it, but in the end, I do very little towards the goal. What I need is a kick in the pants at times.
I'll work on the house during the day (taking a few breaks for food, email and LJ perusal, and a breather here and there), and then I can work on my Fantasy Hero campaign at night.

I'm seeing the eye doctor this afternoon. just a checkup on the irits.
Colleen's seeing a doctor at Fallon Urgent Care (*snort*). Her ears have started to hurt, and she's headachy, nauseous, and running a mild temperature. I say ear infection, and I'll bet that she'll be on antibiotics before the night's out.

Speaking of Colleen, one of her major stresses is over and done with -- mounds of work to grade and report cards. She got them done last night. Now, she's got parent conferences tonight and tomorrow.

Wish I had better news, but at least something's sort of going on...

More later as news warrants...

Comments

[paladyn.livejournal.com]

I know you don't want to leave MA but have you considered looking for work with Kellogg Brown and Root? 80K for starters ain't bad. Even if they are a fascist tool for Cheney and Halliburton Oil

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

Few comments/questions...

1) It's not that I want to leave MA... I can't leave. Colleen has a great job here, and it may be worse for her to find a teaching job elsewhere. She's settled in. End of any ideas of moving anywhere outside of a 30 minute maximum radius of Shrewsbury.
2) What the hell does Kellogg Brown and Root do? I'm just a PC/Network Tech... I don't know much else in the big wide world out there... unless they need someone well-versed in the world of RPGs...

[paladyn.livejournal.com]

1.) She doesn't have you leave MA. You get deployed. Yeah i know it sucks but the money is worth the absence.

2.) KBR does everything. They are the majority of the civvies you see running around doing shit for uncle sam overseas.

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

Okay, C and I have discussed this in the past, especially since a friend of her family has a similar position with the government, and he could have missed the wedding by being deployed to the sandbox. Our general consensus was a great big NOT!
While I wouldn't mind being overseas and out of the country for a little while, I don't think I could handle being away for extended periods of time, especially since I'm a newlywed, and I don't relish the idea of being stuck somewhere and I can't speak the language... or worse yet, can't eat the food.
If I wanted to be deployed somewhere, I'd have joined the Navy long ago. I'd do it now, but I'd probably end up 4F with my medical conditions.