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Being good at your job can pay dividends once in a while. Because I can do every task in my shop, and am the senior reporter, and the senior instructor, I got to go to the United Kingdom for a 3 week TDY. It was quite the adventure!

See all the pictures from my UK trip!
I woke up around 7am and was dropped off at the airport at 1:30pm. I flew to Charlotte where my connection to London Gatwick was delayed by 2 hours - over an {imag

We seem to be hitting that lull where we have been here in Georgia a little over 3 years and we just want to know what is next. We are not really fitting in here or putting down roots. We're on our third church - the first two were not bad, but never really clicked. We've not found really good friends to hang out with consistently. The area is meh - the restaurants are meh. To sum up -- Meh!

I've been really quiet on the social media front about where I have been the last three weeks. I guess the military has really ground the whole OPSEC (operations security) thing into my brain. I've been in the UK for the last three weeks and I finally get home tomorrow. I am super excited. 5 days after I get back we leave for Dayton and Virginia - should be a great time!

We've struggled lately with working out and staying motivated, but this week is a new start. We ran 8+ miles on Saturday and had a great workout this morning, now we just need to keep up our momentum. It will be hard while I am away to England for 3 weeks here soon, but we can overcome any challenges set before us. We are going to kick some tail!

Sometimes exercising and losing weight is relatively easy. Other times it is very hard. Lately it has been a struggle for Kelley and me. We are training again for the AF Half Marathon in September, but Kelley is currently hampered with foot pain. Plus, we have been feeling like death in the mornings. That makes it hard to keep to our workout regimen. But we'll keep at it! The alternative is unacceptable!

I test for my next promotion back in February and I found out my results on May 17th. I thought that I would either make it or miss it by a close margin, and I was about 60/40 in thinking that I made it. Well, I didn't make it, and I wasn't even close. I missed it by 5 points last year, and by 27.5 points this year. I bombed the test worse than I've ever bombed a test before. I don't know why - I studied more this year than last. This will definitely increase my motivation to study even more nex

A couple weeks ago, a guy I work with, Brian Olesky, suggested that we get a team together and run the Marine Mud Challenge on May 12th. The Marine Mud Challenge is a 5 mile race with around 20 obstacles interspersed throughout. We asked around the shop for people to join {image}4217|right{image}us and eventually got Drew Meise and Richard Griffin to give it a go. No one besides Olesky had ever done a mud run before, so we were pretty excited about it. We quickly settled on a team name of "Dumps

So, it looks like I am not going to the Air Force Institute of Technology this year after all. In a way I am surprised, and in a way I am not. It is disappointing, that is for sure. The early thought is to give it a try again next year in I make MSgt in May. If not, then it looks like I will start a Masters program in my spare time sometime soon, probably in the fall. Looks like we staying in Georgia for at least the next 16 months.

Well, the time we were supposed to find out about moving to Ohio has come and gone and still we don't know. Some research has revealed this is not unusual. So, we continue to wait and basically do nothing to prepare for our future, since we will do completely different things if we are going to Ohio in 6 months then if we were to stay here for likely a couple more years yet.

In other news, I just ran a 10k with my best time ever - 1:05:06. Kelley is visiting the family in Ohio. Both

Any day now we should know more about what our future holds. Are we going to move to Ohio in September, or stay here for likely another couple years or more? I honestly have no idea which way it is going to go, nor which way would be best for us. We are just trusting that God will work out what is best for us.

In other news, Kelley's job is going well, but she is working a ton! Good for the bank account, though. I test for Master Sergeant (E-7) on March 7th. If I make it I'll get pr