Today my friend Rick came over and we tackled the remaining 120 boards. This included not only painting the fronts of the boards, but waiting until they were dry (about 5 seconds in this heat!) and then painting the sides and the tops. We also painted the sides and tops of the 40 I’d painted by myself yesterday afternoon. Whew! A solid weekend of painting! The good news is that I should get the contractor to come over one night this week and we’ll have the fence completely installed. That will leave just the other side of all 360 boards. Hopefully that won’t take very long though. Rick said he’d be happy to come back over next weekend to help, and Sharron might be back to lend a hand by then as well. :-)
This week I managed to put together a complete appeal package for the Reduction In Force. My vice wing commander is currently reviewing it. The problem is that I need to get the old wing commander, who has moved to a new job, to buy off on it. I’ll keep you posted on that.
In the mean time, I’ve also been looking into other career opportunities. Cameron-Brooks has expressed an interest in representing me to corporations that look for young captains. Government civilian jobs also seem to be plentiful and the civilian personnel office has been helping me to get my resume in order. There are many three letter agencies in DC that seem interested in ex-military, so that’s always an option. Plus, I had already turned in an application to First Command to be a financial planner. All of these paths seem to be pretty cool, so I haven’t given up on any of them yet. Again, I’ll keep you posted.
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