Happy Hour

"IF A LIFETIME CAN BE LIKENED TO A DAY, THEN THIS IS HAPPY HOUR!"
BUCK PENNINGTON

Mother, Mother Ocean

Mother, Mother Ocean, I've heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
In your belly you hold the treasures, few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred year's too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

Yoda

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

Counted the Stars

Counted the stars on the 4th of July
Wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind
I have these pictures and I keep these photographs
To remind me of a time
These pictures and these photographs
Let me know I'm doin' fine
We used to be so happy once upon a time
Once upon a time
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
And the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line

""SOME SEE A GLASS AS HALF FULL, SOME SEE IT AS HALF EMPTY, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO’S DRINKING MY RUM."
Rumbear

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Furlough Update

At the of the work week, the DoD civilian furlough is over. Seems that the DoD did some stuff and instead of 11 furlough days, it was lowered to 6 days. Tomorrow, I have 5 furlough hours and will take 3 hours of sick leave to get those three hours of pay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next week I have my RDO.............................................so the next pay check in two weeks from this coming Friday will only be missing 5 hours and not 17.
We are going to Honda-Subaru of Lancaster tomorrow/later today to test drive a Honda Civic and a Subaru Impreza. The PT took a dump of the transaxle variety.....................2200 to 3500 to fix................on a car that blue books at about 5800....................................Missus ORPO needs a new set of wheels.
I have applied at Lockheed Martin on the F-35 here at Edwards. With the way things are, I am going to stay a WG-10 for a long time. I can get thirty plus dollars per hour, have to pay union dues(closed shop) and still do better.
I also called the recruiter at my old employer, Herzog Rail Services, Inc. and pretty much begged for my old job back. The 416 CTF/FLTS/AMU is not going to be around for much longer. The F-16 is programmed to be replaced. I would hope it would last till I am 65 but I am not holding my breath.
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2 comments:

Buck said...

Good luck on the LockMart front, Glenn.

Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:10:00 AM
Glenn Mark Cassel said...

Thank you my friend!

Saturday, August 17, 2013 11:25:00 PM

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