Well, we are delayed by two hours. I pray I will be able to sleep on the plane. I have a few "happy pills" that I hope will help. We didn't have to report till 5 so we went to the movie theatre. The ladies saw the movie with Ashton Kutchner and I saw the Green Hornet with Seth Rogan. It was pretty funny, it did the trick but in reality I would have waited till this came out on DVD if I was home. Now we are waiting, part of me feels I should be calling a bunch of people but I honestly don't feel like saying the same info over and over again. I will say one final goodbye to the family right before we leave. So you're probably asking what I am going to do over there. I will be a shift supervisor for the night for the passenger terminal. We are next to Bagdad International Airport. We get people onto the planes, a lot like what you see at a regular air port. It involves paperwork, procedures, safety pro cautions, and computer data entry. It's not a macho-type job but we are all part of a team. My buddy Scott gives me a hard time about it but here is the thing. We all make the same money regardless of job. An electronic technician makes as much as a cook, a intel specialist makes as much as we do. You can have a pretty low Adsvab score to get in but the reason it is appealing to reservists is the two week tech school. What you get is an interesting anomaly, not very bright people on the active side but people on the reservist side that have very good civilian jobs and are very smart, because of the 2 week school. On the reserve side, we also seem to have a lot of individuals that work for law enforcement or the correctional system, probably because of the pay and you do not need a degree. There is only one other school teacher in the unit besides myself. As a shift leader I will be making sure training gets done, will be in charge of missing baggage, and writing LOE's. Hopefully part of that job description is not getting yelled at by chiefs and officers. But if I can deal with yelling parents and demanding administrators then I should be able to handle the terminal haha.
I have some goals I want to get accomplished while I'm here:
1. Work out every day: nothi g else to do during off time. Naturally I have always enjoyed it, dating back to playing high school football. But over the years, especially after marriage and family, things get in the way. I am in a great situation where nothing should get in the way. I have all of the P90 X workouts downloaded on the iPad. They're hell but they are the best results period. I want to lose 30 lbs but the key here is body fat percentage.
2. Get closer to the lord: I became born again about two years ago after being astray for 22. It's been great but as a human, I still sin every day. One of the biggest misconceptions is if you are a Christian, you don't sin, and if you do, you are a hypocrite. That's so not true, but now I really do not want to do all of the things that use to get me in trouble. Now I have a great opportunity to get into reading the bible, I definitely enjoy reading it more now that I am an adult and a history teacher. I want to get with the chaplains on the base, so what they got. Who knows, maybe I can show what I have learned to some of my comrades over there. :)
3. Only drinking water: nothing else period! This is going to be very difficult for me. Though I quit drinking beer three years ago I love my diet pepsi. I expect to get some caffeine withdrawal. Th e only true way to see if my workouts are effective is to drink pure H2O.
4. Catch up on some reading. I just got a 1000 page Stephen king book and want to read a few history books. I remember when I was student teaching and my mentor teacher Dave talked about all the books he's read. I never could understand how he got the time. I naturally love to read.
5. Learn as much about my job as I can: this should be easy being that we are working 72 hrs a week.
There you have it, I'm going to get ready for the flight, by for now
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