Chris' Updates

Sorry I haven't updated, it's been a busy week. There weren't too many interesting developments during the week, just school and work. Friday evening my dad came to town, so we went to a late lunch at Chili's. After dinner we both came back to my house, and not long after the girls started arriving. Even Kelly was down! It's been a long time since I've spent time with her, so that was a real treat. Saturday was the big day for the Halloween party the girls were planning. We started at the crack of 8:30 AM with cleaning, no scrubbing, the house. We had our white board in the kitchen filled with tasks, and not nearly enough time. Between the girls they had about 8 separate baking projects, plus tons of decorations waiting to be put up. I wasn't sure if everything would happen in time, but lo and behold, we worked fairly efficiently. All the while, we grumbled about how the party was Kristen's idea, and she was nowhere to be found. She was at work so her ab...

Friday I was asked if I could volunteer for a funeral detail, and after getting work cleared, I accepted. It turned out that the only teacher that would have cared, الاستاذ [Professor] Aissa, took a religious holiday today, so classes worked out well. I slept in for a bit, and then made some final checks to make sure my Class A's were looking good. I drove down to the unit, and met up with SPC Vaughn and the rest of the detail. I was to be part of the fire team that would deliver the 21-gun salute, so we practiced our movements in civies for a bit, and then got dressed and drove to pick up the ashes and then to Ft. Logan. The funeral was for MAJ Johnson as I understand, the former commander and then executive officer for the 259th, one of our subordinate units. He had died of cancer, fairly young too, younger than 60. He left behind a wife and two little girls, around 8 and 10 I think. MSG Kanan joked around with us for a bit, but as soon as people started arriving, we shut ourselv...

It's the first snow of the season! Take a look outside at the Engineering Center! It's really coming down! I'm posting from school, and I'm still here because I have my second physics midterm in an hour. For the most part, I've just been sticking to the new daily grind. School is usual, and I'm actually starting to think I was wrong about Algorithms class. It's not an evil math class, it was just the first couple of chapters that seemed so. My Arabic is progressing steadily, and physics is usual. Work at Transportation Services is still going well. I finally finished with the driver forms, and I'm on to other menial, time-consuming projects, like scanning and filing. I'll tell you though, we have one sexy print/copy/scan/fax machine. It could practically do my job for me if it were set up correctly, but I'm not about to tell them that. Over the last weekend I went to drill at Fitzsimons, which was business as usual. We actually did some proactiv...

Hey everyone. Long time between posts, I know, but I've been a busy guy, you know. Monday I finally started my new job at Transportation Services and so far, it's really nice. It's less of the computer administration that I was envisioning. So far the only thing I've been doing is data entry, taking all of their driver update forms and updating their databases. But really, its not bad. The people in the office are great, they really make the job enjoyable. I'm quickly learning how things work around the office, and how to fit into that. The only thing I'd really like is more of my own desk, because right now I'm just sort of invading someone else's. Still, it's a job and a good one at that! Besides that, Ashley and I celebrated four years of dating last night! Can you believe that? Its hard to grasp for me, but its still gratifying. After we both got off work (she's found a new job at the Walking Company) we went to dinner at Buca di Beppo and ha...