Ready for a TE…

Monday:

Terrie and I had a nice lazy weekend, and Saturday was my 54th birthday.  We went out Friday night to celebrate a bit, but other than that we mostly just vegged.  It was rainy and much cooler here all weekend too, which helped keep us in and lazy.

On Sunday evening I got a call from Val, my TE.  We’ll be headed out on Wednesday around noon and plan to be out for roughly two weeks.  As I feared, we’ll also have another student along with us.  On the plus side it’s a guy I went through class with (Curtis) and we got along just fine, so it shouldn’t be an issue.  I will have to share driving time with him, but that may turn out to be a blessing in spite of what my ego says.

OK, that leaves me with two days to get ready to go.  I’ve had my clothes packed since Friday, so nothing left to do there.  I spent a lot of today making phone calls and setting up different things like my Comdata card web access, ordering refills on my Rx, sending a few last minute image files to the lab for printing, and gathering up all the ‘toys’ I want to take with me.

I did give Val a call late in the morning to check on a few items I wanted to bring along, and also confirm that the size and number of bags I was planning to bring wasn’t excessive (I have a bad habit of wanting to take everything with me when I travel).  He also told me that since there will be three of us in the truck, we’ll be stopping at motels every night so HE can get a room.  Curtis and I get to sleep in the truck since this is part of our adjustment and learning period.  Fair enough.

That’s about all for now.  I will take my laptop along and plan to update this blog unless something unexpected prevents me from doing so.