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Dec. 1st, 2014 08:47 amI'm awake and I'm at work. This is an accomplishment given that I don't think I fell asleep last night until sometime after 3:30 and I know I was awakened around 5:30 by one of the cats. Long bus rides where I have to sit facing backwards do not help my ability to sleep any.
Thanksgiving was good. Travel not so much. Family is good. Mom spent some time pressing me about what I want to do with my career beyond just working at a job that pays well; I admitted that given my druthers I'd be doing the same thing for the Red Cross at national HQ instead and she tried to point me into all kinds of IT work possibilities at nonprofits and/or educational institutions. I told her I needed to work my Cisco certification up first. And at some point I managed to very briefly mention the fact that my flight instructors talked about flying search and rescue as if it were a job rather than a volunteer thing Harrison Ford did for fun. Don't know if she noticed, but at least I put that out there to start with. We'll see how the Cisco stuff goes and how the flight school goes and how long it takes me to get 200 hours once I have my private license.
(I don't think the American Red Cross has pilot jobs. I know the ICRC has helicopter pilots for international disaster situations. I would not object to that although it would take a while to get used to helicopters built outside the States since a lot of them- not all, but most- are built with rotors that turn in the opposite direction from ours.)
Made it home and the cats were okay, although Shula's been scratching behind his ears again to ridiculous degree. I have to clean them out and trim his nails down properly and give him some time to heal before I get his next vet appointment.
... there was something else and I have forgotten it. oh well.
Thanksgiving was good. Travel not so much. Family is good. Mom spent some time pressing me about what I want to do with my career beyond just working at a job that pays well; I admitted that given my druthers I'd be doing the same thing for the Red Cross at national HQ instead and she tried to point me into all kinds of IT work possibilities at nonprofits and/or educational institutions. I told her I needed to work my Cisco certification up first. And at some point I managed to very briefly mention the fact that my flight instructors talked about flying search and rescue as if it were a job rather than a volunteer thing Harrison Ford did for fun. Don't know if she noticed, but at least I put that out there to start with. We'll see how the Cisco stuff goes and how the flight school goes and how long it takes me to get 200 hours once I have my private license.
(I don't think the American Red Cross has pilot jobs. I know the ICRC has helicopter pilots for international disaster situations. I would not object to that although it would take a while to get used to helicopters built outside the States since a lot of them- not all, but most- are built with rotors that turn in the opposite direction from ours.)
Made it home and the cats were okay, although Shula's been scratching behind his ears again to ridiculous degree. I have to clean them out and trim his nails down properly and give him some time to heal before I get his next vet appointment.
... there was something else and I have forgotten it. oh well.
