On the Road Again…

So this summer I’ve been traveling a ton for the day job as I complete my certification in becoming a Level II Air Force Lean chickie.
Spent two weeks at the University of Tennessee in August, then a week down in Oklahoma City at Tinker AFB doing an improvement event, and now I’m off to Dayton, [...]

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Dipping my toe back in the waters…

So, obviously I haven’t been around in a long-assed time. Part of that was due to the fact that when I quit smoking, it was as if my writing ju-ju got completely shut down. 
Until about two weeks ago, I hadn’t written squat, but I think my behavioral change really drove that.  I was so used [...]

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Lifestyle Changes…

The hubster quit smoking a few weeks ago, and I said I’d join him as soon as my current stash of cigarillos ran out.  Well, that happened on Wednesday night, so yesterday was my first full day of not smoking in over ten years.  With the exception of quitting for two years back in 1996-1998 [...]

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Back to the day job…

No movie or music review this week, because we’ve been watching football, football and more football.  And when we’re not watching that, I’ve been working *g*.
 
Worked my way through two sets of revisions, an editing job and logged some new words on Duck & Run and Live & Let Die.  So I’m very happy about that.
 
Now [...]

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Back in the swing of things…

So obviously I took a bit of a break from blogging in December.  Part of it was the holidays, and part of it was the fact I was in the midst of an editing blitz that took up a wad of my time.  Happily, I used my time off last week to power through those [...]

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Totally Off-Topic fun…The Snuggie

So I saw this commercial on TV during my Christmas break, and while my thoughts aren’t quite as vitrolic as Cam’s, I have to totally agree with him, even as I giggle with unrestrained glee at his rant (and damn, every other rant he does…I think I have to contact this guy).  For the whole [...]

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Merry Christmas from the Schaefers!

Coming out of deep lurk to say Merry Christmas and share a photo or two!

 

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A tribute to our veterans…

Today I thought a photo would suffice. 
This is First Sergeant Brad Kasel, being carried out of the “House From Hell” in Fallujah in 2006.  Note the sidearm still clasped in his hand.  He was shot seven times, and took 44 pieces of shrapnel after throwing himself over a wounded troop when an insurgent lobbed in [...]

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Tour of the Hyundai plant

So I’m in Montgomery, Alabama this week undergoing training for the dreaded day job.  Basically we’re doing the Air Force’s equivalent of Six Sigma .  Part of that training was a tour of the Montgomery Hyundai plant.  What an amazing place!!  Total human/robot integration (noooo, I don’t mean cyborgs *g*).  Their assembly line is just [...]

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Yes, We Can!

Okay, this post is all over the board, and I apologize, but I’m jazzed and have a bit of laundry to air, so bear with me.
I know I don’t delve into politics at all on this blog, but as my Wednesday post, I’m going to.  I voted Democrat this election (I say “this” because that [...]

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