04/27/2013

I’m bored.

This week has been the most uneventful week at work. To make it worse, we are currently working 12’s and also an 8 hour shift on Saturday. Why? For something that might not happen for over another year. Whatever. The mainly sucky part about it, is that I am currently ‘jobless’. If you’ll notice, I’m not opening this entry up with a "Oh my God, it’s so fucking hot in this country…" because, well, we’re not there. We don’t know if we will be going. It’d be nice either way, I just want to know whether it is cancelled all together or not. With that being in limbo, per say, that also puts my job in limbo as far as what I should be doing. They are not going to move me until they have a definitive answer on whether or not we are going, but until then I was told to scale back and let the other two people handle the work. So what does that leave me with? 12 hours (well, I’ve only been doing 11 or less…) to sit on my thumbs and have no work to do. Normally, not necessarily a bad thing, but trying to find something to do to pass the time is taking it’s toll. I’ve taken longer lunches, made up appointments to be out of the office, went to the comissary to buy formula for my cousin while he is back in the states for a course, but the day just drags on and on. I guess I’m finally going to take advantage of a semi-empty office and make an update for a change.

My birthday was last week. (And there was much rejoicing…Ya!!!) Didn’t do much besides take an impromptu trip down to London for a few hours. I just like being in that city. So much to see, so much to do and so much to explore that I could do it almost every weekend. My friend, Courtney, from the Olympics, I learned also arrived in town the same day but I was already on a train back to Cambridge. Despite the reprieve of going to London, I’ve basically become a hermit. But, I’ve also been running more. In fact, that Saturday and Sunday I went out and ran 3.01 and 4.5 miles respectively. Then this past Wednesday after work I went and ran another 3.33 miles around town. That one was a bit rough because it seemed like everyone that day decided to cut their grass so that smell was in the air and I could smell dinner and different roasts being cooked while running on the sidewalk. I don’t do too well when it comes to running and having those smells come at me. It makes me sick. And slightly hungry. But I pressed on and finished the remaining ~2 miles. (The dinner smells were very early on into the run)

This whole possibility of not deploying is really putting a damper on the "I want to buy a new car" line of thinking I’ve had for a while now. It has caused me of dreaming big (BMW 328i, pretty loaded) to thinking small, Ford Focus small. It all depends. If I can sell my current car for around £6500-£7000, I’d be right around where I was planning on being with saved money from the deployment. It’d be nice to have that saved money though as it would double the amount almost and let me be more able to buy what I wanted versus what I would be forced to buy possibly if worse came to worse. There are still plenty of good deals out there for Military discounts overseas, like Volvo has an offer for an S60 T5 pretty much fully loaded for $31k. Not too shabby. It mas more in it than the 328 I priced out and is around $9k less. Yikes! My ultimate goal when I buy a new car would be to finance it for no more than $25k. Ideally. I’d be willing to go up to $30k if necessary but ideally it would be $25k and under. So, we’ll see.