The wedding is getting closer. We're at about 41 days until the nuptials. A certain excitement is in the air.
School starts for all the kids next week. The oldest monkey is in Middle School, which has the potential to make me feel old.
Work is a pain in my rear. I have 8 reports to write and am getting very little cooperation from the necessary parties. I also have to write new procedures and negotiate with service owners. Oh, and I'm still only a Team Lead so I'm getting no credit for doing management level activities. We're also short handed until September 18 as I have a newbie coming in that I need to train. Add in 6 day weeks and I am reaching burnout.
I have recovered almost all my kidnapped files. There are noticeable missing ones, but they were on the drive that was formatted rather than the drive with the file allocation table corrupted.
Game planning for the next phase of my space marines game (not Space Marines of Warhammer 40k) is going well. I am writing a fiction piece to bridge a four month game time gap for the players. Its good to get some fiction writing in given all the technical writing I've had to do of late.
I have a brother and brother-in-law now deployed to Afghanistan. I have a brother out at sea with his squadron. My youngest brother is due to be stationed to Afghanistan sometime in the next 6-9 months. Another brother is getting stationed at Okinawa in January. A brother who is having his first child sometime around the turn of the year. And I have no idea what my sister is up to; I'm assuming it's college.