I am lousy when it comes to remembering dates such as birthdays or semi-important holidays like Valentine’s Day; I’ve even forgotten my own birthday until I get the package from my mom often accompanied by a reminder of how old I'm getting and/or a demand note for grandbabies. Love ya, mom.
So last year I started using the Google calendar and thus far I haven’t missed anything but Valentine’s Day again; a moot point but whatever. I went all-out with it and put everything that I had planned for the next year or so in there. March is definitely the month for birthdays it turns out. I’ve got Kyle, John, Ashlie, Sarah, Andrea, Tim (Tim-eeehhhh!), and somebody named JP….that’s it. Impressive! Now if only the PX would have appropriate birthday cards for friends and brothers instead of in-laws and cousins x-times removed…and that I had an up-to-date address book. Happy birthday one and all!
Looking back at what I accomplished in the past 12 months, I didn’t accomplish everything that I set out to do, in fact I inflicted a few idiotic setbacks upon myself but all in all it was not a bad period of time. I’ve helped some friends through tough times and had some help myself. Met new people, renewed some old friendships, burned a bridge or two, started and dissolved my own corporation, found $600 cash on an airplane, made and broke some resolutions, won a raffle, kissed a girl, got a free upgrade on a car rental, switched jobs, and I traveled a bit.
And if my R&R schedule hadn’t been all mixed up by my switching employers I would be in Ukraine next week getting my rad dose on the Chernobyl tour and making an idiot of myself with my old Dnieper buddies. I hear that for a guy who isn’t an alcoholic and doesn’t have violent tendencies towards women, it’s a tough place to stay single for long. But then again men will always talk up their country’s women. Anyway.
But I wonder what the next 12 months will hold. Of course the monotony of work will be a constant for the next 5 months or so but after that its 30 days of unfettered Pete time for whatever. Then it’s my EOC leave in December after that! And if I get really lucky, I’ll finally get my own contract here and will be able to retire at 30! My buddy Larry and I both have our fingers crossed for that one. I did the math once and 6 years of doing this work is the equivalent of almost 14 years of experience at a normal job working normal hours. C’mon 2010!
So whatever lies ahead in the near future, I can’t wait to get to it.
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