Slooooow Progress…

Thursday:

There hasn’t been much to report over the last 10 days.  I’ve spent most of the time being generally lazy and bored.  I’m still reading the PumpkinDriver.com forums regularly.

I did get to watch two of our grandchildren for a few days last week, which was a treat and a bit of a challenge at the same time.  They’re wonderful kids; an 8 year old girl and 4 year old boy.  Amanda is normally as sweet as can be, but can switch to full ‘female attitude’ mode faster than any woman I’ve ever seen (well, at least since her mother was that age).  Addison is all boy in the classic sense; sometimes I can already picture him asking Poppy Bill to grab him a beer.  We have three other grandchildren to date, but unfortunately we don’t get to spend as much time with them as we’d like.

Today was finally the date for my DOT physical.  It wasn’t all that in depth and I passed with no problem.  Mainly I was looking forward to getting the DOT Medical Card and a Specimen ID number, as that is all that remains before starting the school.

I planned to call my recruiter with the new information and get the final nod on my school date, however his voice mail says he is ‘out of the office’ until 09/06.  I was looking forward to hearing that my DMV, background, and previous employment checks were complete and satisfactory, but I guess I’ll have to wait another week.  There’s not anything in any of that history that I’m worried about, but it will still be a relief to hear it is all settled in SNI’s mind.   

There’s not much more in the way of progress to report.  We’re headed to Destin, Fl. Saturday for our annual anniversary vacation and we’re both looking forward to that.  From what I read it’ll probably be the last one for a year or two.