It's so close...

I have done most of the things I need to do, I just have to finish cleaning the house and move my stuff to my billeting room. But that can't be done until tuesday, so for now I will just wait and enjoy the british country side.......
It's weird having to leave your friends. For the longest time I didn't have that many friends here, but now that it's time to go I realize that I have grown pretty close with a few of the guys. As much as I don't like being in the military, I really have made some lasting friends. So on the whole I have to say thank you Air Force.

Anyway, back to reality..... I can't wait for tonight. FOOTBALL FRENZY! I love football. I just hope Mark Brunell does good this week seeing how I put him in for Favre this week. I never realized how fun Fantasy Football could be. ¡Vive el Futbol Americano!
Alright well hopefully by my next post I'll be totally done and ready jump in a van down by the river....I mean to the airport.

Just a few more things to do....

Well I feel like time is not on my side. I still have to send off a box of stuff that the movers left, and that I can't/don't want to stick in my suitcases. In which I have to carry the box to the PO because I no longer have a car. Fortunately we are getting rid of our old used once or twice since we've been here bike, so I can put the box on the bike and walk it to the Post Office. Save my back just a bit. Then I have to find a home for the lawn mower. Two words or one, I don't know and really don't care, but hey correct me so next time and can really type it wrong on purpose.
Anyway then I have a bunch of junk in the shed that needs to be tossed. That shouldn't be too much work though. Then I have to find a place for all the extra food in the cupboards. I would donate the canned food and what not, but I have this feeling that no one will take it unless I deliver it...and my charity only goes so far. Sorry, I may sound like a bad guy but I really do like my back and ability to walk. Plus I have to get ready to carry my suitcases to billeting. My buddy Olmstead comma Keith said he may be able to drive me and my bags, just to remind him, so hopefully that works out. I need to finish cleaning the house and packing my bags. Then I have to go to CE(that is Civil Engineering) Customer Service to sell my transformer to some guy, and then also while I'm there get new stove rings for the top of the range. After that I may just have to take a breath and relax.
I'm sorry if I sound like I'm complaining and being a not so tough kind, but you all know I'm not really that tough. But I really just wanted to keep y'all informed of what is going on on this side of the really large pond? Why people say that I don't know. It is more like a really big lake at least....
Alright well I hope everyone is doing awesome, and I'll talk, or write some more later. Maybe after everything is done so then I'll be in a really great mood.
OUT.

Two weeks and two days and then.....

AMERICA here I come. It seems like whenever I have a lot of work to do, I want to not have any work, and when I don't have any work, I wish I had a lot. Well that is my old way of thinking. For months now I have had literally nothing to do at work, except for the rare time when we had to clean and pack up all the equipment, which only lasted a couple weeks, and were in fact some of the best times of my time here...work wise. Anyway, I always just run on....so please forgive me....I tend to type just as I'm thinking stuff and I tend to think in run-on sentences....what can you do?
Anyway so now I've come to the conclusion.....no not that I want to have an even amount of work all the time or no I will not stop complaining, I really just want to say that I wish I was rich so then I didn't have to work, and then I could always just go skiing and four wheeling and stuff. Is that too much to ask.
No really???
Ok well I really meant to get on here and update y'all on what I have been doing since my beautiful awesome cool and did I say hot? wife left. Well today I got most of my outprocessing checklist done, so I am soon to be "Officially" done.
Thats's about it. Now you see where all the excitement is in our relationship. Katie is the man.
Anyway... I went over to the coffee shop where I used to work because my old boss John said he had some stuff for me. So I was thinking " Oh sweet a kinda lame going away gift" And you know how at work you have your Office Laugh and you Office Personality, well I figured I'd have to use those big time to pass the awkwardness, but then he surprise me and got me an England Football...soccer...jersey. All that to say that I am super stoked because I've wanted to get one since I've been here, but just didn't want to pay all that money for one. Well now I have one and am super happy.
Anyway that's about all I've got.

My wife is a STUD

Likeness of Katie to a gazelle



Me, on a good day


Well after a long time of not running and resting my leg, I got up this morning to run WITH Katie. I told her yesterday that I would run with her because I do need to get in better shape not just weight lifting shape. Long story short, she is in great shape from doing this three to four times a week, and I just couldn't keep up. She was nice enough to slow down a few times and even stop, and once even ran in a circle around the post office parking lot allowing me to catch up.....That didn't happen. I called it a day at two miles and that is after not running the whole time. I got a new appreciation for what she does.
I don't say this to embarrass her, just that I am proud my wife is so awesome at running and getting me more motivated to be in good shape like the Air Force tells me to be....and that I should be in anyway.
We are down to 24 hours and nine minutes until Katie leaves. It's crazy. But I'm sure she will have a good time with you Walkers and Chuck. What up Chuck?!
Anyway have fun everyone in Las Vegas and I'm sure before too long I'll get my chance to see the beautiful metropolis the call Pahrump.
Love y'all, until next time.

A buyer, and a mechanic

Well I am using one of the computers here at starbucks, and it is making me quite angry. Apparently the key board is a british one....check last post for my thoughts on our jolly ole' friends. So instead of pushing shift, i push \ because the shift on my left side is miniature. And the enter or return or whatever you call that button in inverted so I accidently press # . How annoying. #doh
We showed our car to Diego and his wife yesterday and now they made an offer. Not the offer I would have liked them to make, but an offer nonetheless. So we are going to take it and be done with our trusty red rover. What a great car!
And at work today, \i side note....from now on I will just leave my errors from this stinkin british keyboard. \at work today \i got to work on my car. The last guy that looked at our car took it to the mechanic and he said that our car wouldn't pass |MOT because the brakes are bad or are going bad. So being the great guy that I am I decided to go down to the parts store and get some brake pads. Well after I took off the beauty ring and then the lug nuts and the tire and the screws to the brake pad holders...not sure the official name for that, I found that the brake pads are not as bad as anticipated. After finishing the front, I had to go back to the part store, because they had to order the back pads last night. I get back to work thinking ok maybe these will be worse than the front..... Long story short, nope they were fine too. Why didn't you just take the pads back then, you ask? Well I don't know, I just figure I better do it so Diego doesn't get me for false advertisment, as I told him yesterday that I would be puting the new pads on today.
Anyway, it was a nice day because I got to be outside and not stuck in the hole.

Basically thought what I#m trying to say is that I'm sure thankful God answered our prayer for a buyer. It makes the stress level go down, and that is good.#

I hope y'all are doing awesome and I'll post some more at another time.

Brake pads and pancakes

So I was going to replace the brake pads on katie's car, but then well England lived up to it's less than stellar reputation. By this I mean to say that they again didn't suprise me by not being open, that is the car parts place. And even if they were, the Auto Skills Center was closed....run by brits...well at least brits work there, it's on base so technically it's American run, but hey I might as well blame it on the brits....stinkin brits.

But the highlight to all this was that katie made me pancakes again. You can't go wrong with pancakes. They must be one of the best breakfast foods in the history of man. Up there close to manna sent from heaven. THAT GOOD!

It's about time

Well I just typed like two paragraphs, and then for some reason they disappeared. Kinda weird.
Anyway, for the second time, I am quite glad to have math finally over. I shouldn't have to take anymore for some time. I also will have a month to a month and a half break for classes so as to make the move a little less stressful.
It seems like not much has happened recently, although, I know that can't be right. One of these days they will come up with a hard drive for the human brain, and I will be one of the first in line for it. I always forget stuff, only to have katie later tell me that oh by the way we need to get this and this and this done. Which is good, because if I didn't have her, can you imagine where I'd be. LOST, that's for sure.
Anyway, just a few more days until katie leaves. I'm sure glad she gets to go back to the states and have fun in Vegas.....Pahrump, but man I sure would like to leave too. IF only two weeks sooner. Eh, I guess I don't have much room, I coulda left on the first, but I'm a dork. Another reason I need katie. She makes me cool. Or does that mean I'm not cool anymore because I'm talkin about being cool.....Ah man.
Alright, well life is good, and my laptop is getting warm, so I will go.....Oh there's a christmas/birthday gift idea. There is this apple laptop deal, that raises up the laptop a few inches so as to allow more circulation under the lappy. Not sure if it works....but hey it's an idea, and when the time comes ideas are hard to come up with on the spot.

OK, ok I'm going. Out.