Updates

Michael took the little camera with him when he went down to Missouri for TDY, so I can't post any pictures on here, but since I was sitting around doing nothing anyway, I figured I would let everyone know what's been happening up here.

For the past week, the temperature has been hovering around zero or below. Mostly below. I just looked outside now at noon and it was only 3 above. When your working night shift, those belows can be pretty cold, especially if your outside a lot.

What am I doing on night shift all of a sudden? My shop had a big shipment come in--9 trucks and thirty 20 foot containers of all the ammo Eielson will need for the next six months or so. While it was coming in, we had to work around the clock and I was one of the lucky ones to pull the night shift. It wasn't that bad, though. At least it wasn't the normal routine we'd get back in the shop. Once all the trucks came in we got to scrape all the hazard labels off the containers; 4 per container. When it's past midnight, the temperature is around -15 and you have a razor blade that's so dull it wouldn't cut paper, it makes for an interesting night. Happily, we got some new blades though. We got all the labels scraped off and went home around 3am instead of 6 like we were originally planning. That's all over, though, so it's back to normal come Wednesday. (We have Monday and Tuesday off for Veteran's Day.)

I was told about a week ago that I'm in the deployment bucket that begins leaving in December, but as of right now, there are no taskings for Senior Airman. If I had gotten that Staff stripe, though, I'd probably be going. Michael and I are praying that a Senior Airman tasking doesn't come down. I did enjoy going to Baghdad three years ago (wow was it that long?) but I'd rather stay home this time and work on being a wife. :)

Not much else is happing up here in the frozen north. I think I saw some moose tracks out the bathroom window this morning. They were spaced about as far apart as human tracks, but the shape of the print is all wrong. If it is a moose, ol' moosey was within two feet of the window.

Well, Michael should be back on the fifteenth. Until then...