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!

So I finally broke down a have been doing the Netflix free trial. Why? Simply because there is hardly anything on TV worth watching. Pretty much, Comedy Central, and Discovery Channel are the ones I watch.

Anyways, I have been doing both the streaming to my Xbox 360 as well as getting the DVD’s in the mail. As for the 360, its a pretty good experience. There was only 1 day where it kept telling me it detected a slower connection so it would lower the quality to keep the movie going smoothly. Except for the fact it did this several times within 10 minutes and it got to the point where it was so grainy it wasn’t worth watching anymore. The next day I got an email from Netflix saying there was some trouble with their system and increased my trial date by a day. Awesome! I haven’t had that issue since.

Get your dvd’s in a day! I know I do. They have a shipping center in Lansing which is sweet! I dropped my DVD the other day in a mailbox just after 4:30. By 7:15 the next morning I had an email saying they received the dvd. Then just shortly ago, I got an email saying the next dvd will be here tomorrow. I picked it out late last night so I am happy. I do plan on keeping Netflix as it is cheaper than going to Blockbuster. There , I rented a DVD for like $4.00 ( I think it was $4 and change), and didn’t care for the DVD. Now I can pay less than $9 and watch a bunch of movies, and if I don’t like it, move on.

Oh yeah, they even have the IT Crowd. Gee Wilikers BATMAN!!!

In the terms of an ebay review

Would recommend A+++++++++++++++++!

Ive been in my new place for a week now. I have to say SWEEEEEET!!!! I love it, except the part of cooking dinner. Everything is nice and quiet. Yesterday met one of the neighbors (her door is 3 feet from my door) and she asked if I was just moving in. I thought we were being loud moving all my crap in. Guess not!

New job so far has been good. Still working on getting access to everything I need.

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.