11 Oct - James

Hi BOB,
 
Chuck, this blog may be a little too high tech for me.  Next thing you know you’ll be advocating getting rid of Peachtext and 5.25 discs on our Z100s and moving over to Wordstar
 
Sorry about your Boeing job.  It may still work out just fine.  Who knows?  I’ve heard horror stories from my civilian friends about their work organizations.  One friend of mine from college who has been in mid level textile manufacturing his whole career was once sent on a two week tour of a Chinese manufacturing plant only to learn upon his return that he was let go for unknown reasons.  I guess in the AF we had to deal with the occasional so-so commander or vagaries of some MPF system, but the personnel problems never seemed that bad to me.   

We had a fairly busy month.  We traveled the 1000 miles to Whiteman AFB to see Gary Harencak’s change of command ceremony.  Gary took over from Greg Biscone who is going to be Deputy J3 at Centcom.  He’ll be busy.  Gary’s kids were in the audience.  His son, Michael, is a cadet at the Academy.  His permanent party commander is Major Kathy Winans.  What a small AF!  Bill Winans is also stationed at the Academy. 

We moved into a new apartment about 10 minutes from our old one in a growing section of Savannah.  A friend of mine with a truck helped us move all the small stuff and we hired “All My Sons” to move the furniture.  It was strange moving without going through Transportation to handle everything.  This move worked really well though.  Four guys showed up, wrapped all our furniture and drove it straight to the new place.  There was no inventory, other than mental, and the whole process was over in two hours.  There wasn’t a scratch on anything.  We were very pleased.

My father is doing okay at the nursing home.  We go daily for a few hours to feed him, etc.  After six months of observing how the nursing home works, and I assume this place is typical, I’ve learned it is vital to have a family or friend presence in the home.  It’s easy for the staff to ignore people and their needs otherwise.  Sad, but true. 

The anniversary of the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah was a couple of days ago and there were several celebratory events leading up to it.  I attended one lecture at the Savannah History Museum on the French participation in the Revolution.  We could have done without D’Estaing, but we might still be having afternoon tea if it wasn’t for Lafayette, Rochambeau, their Navy and other resources. 

Oh, and one thing I learned this month is that it is very important to carefully thread your Maytag washer input hoses onto the water inlet valve.  Otherwise, you might strip the threads on the $22 water inlet/valve part and incur a $118 Maytag Repairman visit (He actually does work sometimes!)

Talk to everyone next month.

James

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