It's been almost 6 weeks
since mom passed and thanks to the love and support of many great friends and
family, the pain of loss is pretty much gone and thanks to her many lessons in
life, we are clearly focused on what lies ahead.
Several new adventures are
brewing and I look forward to seeing them develop. No journey is without its pitfalls
however. Without getting into a lot of
boring detail, I am grateful to be working with a fleet lead who is not only a charismatic
leader, but an honorable person as well.
It truly sucks when someone who is supposed to be in a position of senior
leadership in an organization doesn't know the first thing about it and
interjects themselves into your affairs when they have no cause to, and in doing
so causes financial turmoil simply in the interest of trying to be popular to a
whiney < ahem >.
Suffice to say, my lead
rocks and completely gets leadership, loyalty and honor.
*smiles sweetly and shows a
certain digital gesture to the appropriate crooked doofus.*
On the Shinkendo front,
things are going great. I passed my
tests in July achieving the rank of Santen in Shinkendo and I also earned
Rokkyu in
I was supposed to have my
second trip on the BBJ this month, with
I have sooo got to earn a
full time position on the BBJ. I feel I'm
stuck in Learjet hell. It would seem I
don't get to fly the Gulfstreams anymore and I'm too important in all the
things I do for work for them to put me where I would like to be. Apparently I work entirely too hard. I should screw off more and do less, then I
might get ahead and be paid more.
Everyone else that does seems to.
Go figure.
Oh well, as the axiom goes "...silver
lining..." and all that rot. Since I will
be around next month I can attend a demo our dojo will be conducting at a local
university. We are all very excited
about it and besides, even though I'm still over-weight, it's slowly coming off
and I even look pretty darn good dressed out from time to time. Maybe I'll have some pictures taken here soon
and get them up in the photo album. My
wife and her sister still say I look more Jedi than Samurai though. *grins and
shrugs* Oh well, I have fun and they get
a few laughs. Everyone wins.
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