Some have heard of my "new" job. I put it in quotes, because it's not so much new, as made up. After unplugging from my previous job, the powers that be created a position and stuck me in it. Now I mainly do procedures writing and other pet projects. It's nice to be able to leave for a stretch of time during the day with no repercussions to the troops, but also disheartening that I can leave for hours at a time and it affects no one. This leads me to believe this "job" is just a placeholder and isn't really relevant to anything. I try to look on the silver side, that at least I have more non-work time. even though that's not really the case. It only appears that way because I can just stop in the middle of something and resume it hours later.
Some of the pet projects aren't too bad, and mildly engaging. I prefer to work a little at a time on several at a time, so 3 or 4 complete at generally the same time. I find when I'm working on several things at once, I can think better about the projects altogether and get ideas for one based on what I'm doing with another. It is annoying when something I'm working on, however, is held up by someone who doesn't want to do their job. But I figure, that's the way most of the world works. It's giving me a real insight into how a business should NOT be run, and the overall inefficiencies of the Army as a whole.
I'm reading two books at once right now, aside from my Bible. One is a dark, everyone dies book called On the Beach, a famous and classic book from several years back. The other is a Christian Living type book called "This Little Church Stayed Home," in which the author rebukes several seemingly apostate practices in mainstream Christianity. I say seemingly, because you take this kind of book with a grain of salt. If he didn't have a strong opinion about his topic, the book wouldn't be interesting and wouldn't do very well with the readers. I don't question his sincerity, or even the truthfulness of his main points, but I do think he exagerrates the influence some people have in the Christian community.
I recently put an order in to Amazon which contained, among other things, 14 pounds of M&Ms. I figure, with what anyone else sends me, and this order, I should be set for the Spring. Around here, we call it the Spring Fighting Season, or just the Fighting Season, and there's lots of talk about supplies this and movement that. I like to think I'm building up my stock for the Fighting Season in my own way. M&Ms are great morale boosters, for me and everyone else, so I use it as a tool to fight terrorist-caused boredom and frustration. I'm fighting terrorism with M&Ms.
Other ways I'm combating terrorism is working out and staying fit (so I leave excess fat and weight here for the enemy when I leave), carving a walking path out of the ground between random locations (so the enemy doesn't know where our walking routes truly are), and taking pictures and writing letters, (so I take all the good stuff away from the terrorists and export it back home). I think my candy line of effort, however, is the best practice yet.
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