Up, caffeinated, off to work.
Happy Birthday swampy!!!
Blurf.
So far the new job involves a lot of sitting on my ass at home until I get a new pass for the base. Could be 2 weeks before that happens. :grump: I have sworn that if I have to cool my heels tomorrow too, screw it, I’m going fishing.
Happy Birthday Swampster, ye olde pharte… 
I don’t understand why it’s such an ordeal to get a base pass. Especially since you had one already. I understand the need for security and all that, but good grief, it gets ridiculous sometimes.
What really kills me is that most Navy bases I’ve been on have a large, unsecured waterfront where pretty much anyone can get on base. So they hold you up at the gate, wanting to see ID, bar codes, and a note from your mother, but some yutz on an inflatable air mattress can just float up to the unguarded beach. Heck, some even have marinas, so you can just bring your boat right in!
I miss my Navy days…
ahem
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Swampyyyyyyyyyyy
Happy birthday to youuuuuu
Happy Hump Day!
Happy Happy Birthday Swampy!
Today we go to the college, no more putting it off.
He was up half the night and waking me up too, but he has to get over it.
Nava I have taken him to a doctor, it was not only a free test study he could take part in but he would be paid for it as well. He was over 12 and refused so he wasn’t accepted. He did okay through High School, shy but could function and took care of a lot on his own since I was forbidden (by him) to ever speak to the school again.
I’m hoping once he gets started and makes some friends he’ll come out of his shell a bit.
The reason I was forbidden to talk to the school was…
When he was a freshman I drove him to school in the beginning. Every day I’d drop him off and see him enter the building. Every day I’d get a call from the school saying he was absent and they wanted to know why. So I told them, I drop him off, I see him go in the door and once he is inside the door he is YOUR responsibility and I want to know why you are losing my son.
You are the one losing him, it’s your job to find him.
So the school researched it and found out they had him scheduled for two different sets of classes and he was going to one set and not the other. The ones he wasn’t going to were marking him absent. So the school told me* I* needed to contact all the teachers (16 in total) and find out which classes he had attended and which he missed. Excuse me? I have to track down and contact 16 teachers for YOUR mistake? I think not. I told them they were the ones who screwed it up and they were the ones who could fix it.
I know it pissed them off but wtf? Not my job to fix their mistake. I have no idea what they said to my son but he told me I was never to talk to the school again. He would handle everything.
Happy Brithday Swampy!
(Apparently, I was so happy it was your birthday that I forgot to type properly.)
At least you didn’t say Happy Brisday! :eek:
Swampy celebrating his birthday…
Which are celebrated in a clip joint…
I BEG YOUR PARDON???
meanwhile Blurf
HAPPY SWAMP DAY!!!
still blurf
I have no military experience, but my WAG would be that people enter bases now and shoot people.
Personally, I think it’s an overreactionary response that’s supposed to make you feel safe and secure when you really aren’t.
When I was in Jax, every once in a while, they’d do a 100% ID check (before it became the norm) and it’d back up traffic for miles! They also required, in addition to the base sticker, that you have a bar code sticker on the window behind the driver. Not sure what the rule was for cars like 'Vettes with no back window. So you’d have 2 stickers, plus you’d have to show a badge and driver’s license, but if you had a boat, you could just pull up at one of the slips in the marina and walk anywhere on base you want. Yeah, I felt secure…
Oh yeah, at at most bases, “security” was minimum wage rent-a-cops. And we’ll not get into the surly people you have to deal with in the pass and security office. I definitely don’t miss that part of working on base.
Tipping allowed??? 
But I still had to do a quick drive-by to say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWAMPY
and may you have at least 50 more!
Partly. Every aspect of our lives today involve some measure of “anti-spree” security. But a big part according to some command level people BB and I know is theft. Ripping off the various services has gotten to be pretty serious over the last ten years with truck-loads of supplies turning up missing on a too regular basis. Not so much guns and rockets as computers and food and stuff like that.
(I remember the old days when even places like Bragg were pretty much “wander in and look around”; almost fully open. And basically almost a tourist stop when you were in the area.)
Without benefit of frilly apron or pearls, I cleaned both bathrooms (except for the shower in the master - I’ll get that when I shower tomorrow) and I bathed Higgs. Go me! 
Now I need something for lunch. Should I forage or should I go out and let someone else cook for me?? Hmmmmmmm…
ahem*
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Swampyyyyyyyyyyy
Happy birthday to youuuuuu
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWAMPY HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY!
Happy Swampy Day!
Yay, BatBoy!
Hump day!
Just finished chopping up the poke loin I bought yesterday. Four roasts (sufficient for 2 plus leftovers) and 12 chops. Half are in the freezer, half will be smoked tomorrow when I get back from the dermatologist.
It’s been a productive day!
Woohoo! Got a call from a guy about firewood. He’s going to deliver a half cord of mixed hardwood for $70, and if they’ve got enough to make up a full cord, he’ll let me have it for $130! No delivery fee! Guess I’ll be stacking firewood tomorrow. There’s a sweaty chore!