100 days... that's it?

Twelve billion dollars a DAY... that's how much the new administration has cost the American taxpayer. That's two dollars for every person on the PLANET. When the American people voted for change, I'd be willing to bet 8.5% of the working population were not thinking that they'd be looking for change as in, "Hey, Buddy, got a quarter?" We have been blessed in this current downturn because of my current occupation which guarantees a paycheck, albeit a modest one, for the next few years. Am I upset about taxes targeting the "rich" people? Well, yeah! I hope to be one of those people some day and I don't want to pay any more taxes than I have to. Here's a thought... everyone pays a flat 10% on gross income and a flat 5% sales tax. If you require emergency services such as fire or EMT assistance, then the responding department will charge your insurance to recover their costs. That would have the impact of rewarding those of us who are careful and encourage more people to be responsible for their action.

So, did anyone watch the press conference last night? I didn't and there's really one simple reason... he's on TV all the time. When the POTUS is on TV and/or radio every day there's nothing special about it. It's like living in San Diego. When I can wake up most every morning to a gorgeous SoCal day with awesome weather, I tend to take it for granted. When I KNOW the President is going to make a press release of some sort, then I no longer bother to watch. Doesn't he have a spokesperson, or did all of his candidates have to bow out because they "forgot" to pay their taxes?

It's been 100 days and I have a hangover...

well... look who's back

Okay... the kids are in bed and my Love is out with her friends for chit-chat and scrapbooking. I've got "The Empire Strikes Back" on Spike TV and a drink so I figured I'd jump on the computer and update some stuff. First stop: blog.

So we went back to Verizon the Sunday after Valentine's only to learn that the sale we were looking for had ended ON Valentine's Day. Now they wanted $130 for the phone we wanted... No thanks. We checke the Target flyer that afternoon and found the exact same phone for $19.99. That was even better than we were expecting so we went out and grabbed a couple. Within a week I had used up the available memory space on the phone so I bought a couple of memory cards: one for me one for J. Well, as I was going home I thought she might have preferred a blue-tooth instead so I kept the receipt... I took her memory card back and got her a blue-tooth the next day as she requested. (man, I'm good)

Fast Forward to March...

(Back story follows) When I got back from Iraq last year I was told that I'd be transferring to Georgia in March. I really (really... REALLY) didn't want to do that so I pitched a fit and got my orders changed. Now we're not moving until this summer and we're not going to Georgia. (back story ends)

My replacement has already checked in and taken over the office so I am pretty much out of a job right now. I don't really mind because I'm taking advantage of the time to hit the gym every day and get caught up on my medical care... parrallel but opposing objectives. See, when I was deployed last year I went through the training in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program to upgrade to green belt (level 3). Unfortunately I damaged my shoulder with all of the throws and arm bars and to skip to today, I have a torn shoulder muscle (revealed by MRI) and an appointment with Balboa's orthopedics dept next week. Ironically enough, that's the day I was SUPPOSED to check in to the career course at the academy to remedy a deficiency in my training jacket. But when the doctor said I would risk permanent damage, I decided that maybe I'll retire as an E-6 but have use of both my arms. Anyway, I've been assigned as the Equal Opportunity Representative for the CG's inspection coming up which meant I had to go through training last week. If I end up in the HR field as a civilian, being trained for EO should look good on my resume.

So that's pretty much where we are right now. Since this is now updated, I'm going to hit my togetherweserved profile and update that as well. Jen wants me to get a wastebook page, but I already have a mywaste page, so I don't know if that will happen.

Sorry it's taken so long to update this. I know I probably don't have any readers, but I wanted to post anyway... more for myself I suppose.