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Ambitiously Not Working
I've felt totally blah for the past 3 days. I even left early from work on Tuesday. I was supposed to go climbing today, but I'm really annoyed/irritated and just not up to it. I'll get to go climbing all weekend in Leavenworth the first weekend in May, at least. I really hate not having many people to go climbing with anymore. Luckily, I'm ( Read more... ) -
The difference between victims and survivors
In the Coast Guard, we were taught to be very careful about the terminology we used over unsecured radio channels. We were never to report "bodies" or "deceased" or use any words similar to those. Instead, we were to use the word "victim" for someone we found dead, and "survivor" for someone we found alive ( Read more... ) -
Gear list
I have pretty much everything I need for this year's adventures, but there are a few things I'd like to replace or add to ( Read more... ) -
BoeAlps Basic Mountaineering Class
I'm finally signed up for the mountaineering class I've been really wanting to take for over two years now. However, I've discovered I'll be hiking in Peru during a couple of the important weekends of the class. It's going to be sadly ironic if I can't take the class after all because of Peru. If I wait yet a third year to take it, I'm likely to ( Read more... ) -
Reprieve
Out of the 80 people in my dad's division who were given layoff notices, executive-level management gave a reprieve to two, keeping them on at least for this round of cuts. My dad was one of the two.
In other good news, my brother Jonathan has a job offer for when he passes his RN boards this spring. He'll be working at Cadillac hospital in the -
Purgatory
I'm still stuck on 3rd shift purgatory, helping with WF001's refurb process. The good news is that I get paid 23% more. The bad news is everything else gets outta whack. I really miss sleeping at night. -
Winter
We've had an oddball season so far. We got a ton of snow in Nov/Dec, and then a lot of it melted in early January. There's been almost no snowfall in January so far. Nevertheless, John and I managed to make it up to Stevens for our first of five snowboarding lessons last Friday. It was John's first time ever on a snowboard (and he hadn't been ( Read more... ) -
This will be my adventure in 2010
I want to go here. -
Snow, raise, moving...not necessarily in that order
My 8.8% raise took effect December 5th, just in time for all the massive OT I've had to work recently. I guess I don't really mind not having a day off for 17 straight days; I'll have extra money for furniture and other things for the new house ( Read more... )
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