The past 7 weeks have been interesting. I have been maybe 6 days spread out across them all. First I had a 3 week annual training in Grayling. When I got home I spent 2 weeks at Ft. Drum for a simulation exercise. When I got home from that I went to Colorado for a week. That was a lot of fun and have some pictures here. Then when I got home from that I had a work conference to go to.

So whats the remix. The remix is I will be talking about more about internet / business type things on here compared to my bitches and complaints. Hrm… Stay tuned!

Starting stage 2 of the craziness. Cozumel was AMAZING. I got plenty of pictures however I have not uploaded all ~700 of them yet. You can see what I have here.

Today I got approved for the apartment I was looking at. Tomorrow shortly after drill I am signing the lease. I will be moving in once I get back from Germany in ~3 weeks. It was also my last day working for the school district =(  . Seems odd that it was going on 5 years since I started working there.

Saturday I leave for Germany! Wooo! Hopefully I will have some fun. There are a few things I am not liking so far, but hopefully it will change.

(it will be the 3rd time this week I am in Charlotte.. peachy!)

Hopefully when things settle down I will write a decent blog post.

So the next few weeks will be quite crazy for me. Friday I will be heading over to a hotel in Detroit. Saturday morning I have a flight at 6am to Cozumel Mexico for a nice 8 day SCUBA diving vacation. SWEET!!! Ive been waiting for over 6 months on this trip and its finally here.

6 days after I get back from that trip I will be heading to Germany for just under 3 weeks for some National Guard training. I hear its going to be boring, however it will be a great expereince in my opinion. I had to get a Hep-A, Hep-B, and Flu shot as my records were out of date. Then they health department also gave me a tetnis shot because my state records didn’t show it even though the military records did. (bummer dude!)

I applied for an AGR (full time) job with my Guard unit as a Personell Services Delivery Redesign Clerk. Essentially I take work that would happen at the state level and do it here. After a few short weeks I found out I got the job. So I will be moving to Charlotte and starting that job shortly after I get back from Germany. I am really excited for this. Though I will have to reclass my MOS to a 42A (Human Resources). Though, I think this is a good thing so I have no problem doing it.

Just received an email that I did not get either of the jobs I applied for. That is such a bummer. However, being 19 and no college it doesn’t really surprise me.

Better luck next time I guess.

So, the interview went ok. There were two questions they asked me that I couldn’t either answer, or give a full answer. One was partly because I was so nervous and havn’t touched the OSI model in years. Yuck!

As it went on, I got more and more comfortable with talking to the people giving me the interview. We even had a few jokes and got off task a few times with talking about things (all tech related). I was told I gained some extra points by mentions “LEFT JOINS” however shortly after I was told I lost some points (jokingly) because I mentioned using Office 2008 which is a Mac product. Only to have someone back me up and say that OSX is essentially just another variation of Unix.

Hopefully I will get one of these jobs. The people there seemed like a great bunch that I would enjoy working with. Now I just have to wait roughly two months before I hear anything back. Yes it will seriously take that long.