Tonight was family night after a very short lesson Stephanie said the closing prayer. The 3 oldest were less then reverent. Rule is if you are not reverent during prayers you go straight to bed no reading time and in this instance. no family night treat ( home made popcorn balls) the howling that ensued was of Titanic proportions. but the quote of the night and the reason for this post came from Trevor

"Can't we stop this consequence thing"

I have been explaining to Trevor when he needs discipline that there are consequences for actions. Stopping the consequence thing is so not my call. Way out of my league and I'm kind of glade about that.

part B with Pictures

I got a little more done on my work bench. this weekend was a bit of a recharge. I only worked 4 hours on Saturday and 7 today. Stephanie had a meeting on Saturday or I might of worked longer but it was a nice break. I am including some pictures dealing with my last post. also one of some shelves I built over christmas stand down. and one of Sterling because he is cute. if a little dirty.

I think I have decided to go with a simple lever and 4 bar type machine for the raising and lowering of the tool bench. I should be able to finish it next

month some time or possibly the month after depending on

time and finances. A picture is a good as a thousand words and I don't want to type that much so you-all will have to wait for the pitcher.

work feels more like school right now but I am learning some interesting things. right now I am learning about how to control nuclear reactors. I

could tell you more but well you know.

Garage organization + update

Hello World,

in the little spare time I have I am attempting to get the garage in order. I brought my tools with me but have no place to put them. I did take my old tool case from when I was a copier repair person and turn it in to a kind of fix it kit. inside are the basics.

6 way Screw driver (very handy)

hammer

Allen keys

adjustable wrench

small drill bit set + driver set

cordless drill

cordless impact wrench (my new favorite tool I highly recommend one)

pliers

ear plugs

gloves

tape measure

little wall hanging kit (drywall fasteners / picture hangers)

sharpie

pencil

torpedo level

that's about it

the idea is any time a project or chore needs done I grab my basic kit that has all the essentials in it all ready. so far I like it a lot. a cheaper tool box would work fine for most people I just happened to have my old tool brief case laying around.

I have one side of a tool bench built my hope is to make a sturdy bench that sits on big legs most of time but has casters (wheels) that lower so it can be easily moved. I have had lots of ideas on how to do this most would work but I'm not quite happy with any of them yet. I will end up putting the bench together and adding the casters and some point in the future. I would also like to build a smaller cart that holds my chop-saw at the right level so I can use the work bench as a feed table for it.

I am moving along at work. I am having to put in lots of hours to accomplish the things they want me to but I should be able to qualify by mid March. Time commitment should drop a little once at that point. until I get my first class.

I will stop this post before a ramble more maybe I'll try to do another one on different topics in a few days

CM

sharing

hello world its been awhile, I did survive ODS flew home drove with Steph and the Kids across the country and arrived in Charleston SC. We closed on the house latter than planed but got in and it is nice. Our last home was small but had lots of storage this house is big with very little storage. so far I like the latter. adding storage is way easer than adding floor space.

that was the catch-up paragraph.



About thee weeks after we arrived the bishop called Stephanie and me in for an interview where he called Stephanie to be the RS president. now I was a little surprised but also have great faith in wife's many talents and wonderfulnesses (I don't believe the the spellchecker did not mark that as wrong) She was set apart today with one counselor the 2nd is forthcoming. So I have lots of faith that Stephanie will do a great job and I have always tried to support my fantastic marvelous and all things nice wife. I will have to admit I have slight feelings of worry. I have not had to share Stephanie before. I guess with the kids a little but when I am home she does an excellent job of making me feel like I come first. Now I know there will be many times when I am home with the kids and she is out using her super powers for the betterment of other people and I am not 100% sure I want to share. I support I love and I raised my hand today to sustain her and I will but I will miss her too.

The last few days have been better. we are now wearing uniforms most days and I don't think they would make us do sand angles in uniforms that cost around $200 but I could be wrong. PT is every morning now and they make as tough as they can. So I still get exorsize. Well I have some home work to do before I go to bed so best of luck to all of you.

ODS First Week

Well here I am at Officer development School. In Newport RI it is very windy here I do have a room with a view a beautiful view of the bay some times there are sailboat races that look really neat. I don't have a lot of time to look at the sail boats the first week they run you pretty hard. wake up between 0400 0430 and most nights we were let go around 2000 "8:00PM" lights out at 2200 "10:00PM" lots of little silly rules to obey and if you mess up the whole team dose push ups for it. It is supposed to teach team work. I'll let you know how its working next week. I did get a uniform and it looks OK. dress uniforms don't come til the next week or two.

I did do a PFA or physical fitness assessment sit ups 51 push ups 38 1.5 mile run in 13:58 I should do better in all areas by the time I leave here. I think I will. the food is not too bad I have lost weight but not a lot one pound or two is all I was hoping ODS would drop me 10 pounds or more. it might still well I had better finish things up I have to muster for Chow in 30 min or so

ENS McRae

On and Off = more work

So the house was listed we got two offers accepted the second one only to have it fall after inspection. We are off the market for a week so I can fix all of the things the inspector found wrong. How fun for me! We are also in the process of making an offer on a new home down south. I think in order for the financing to go through I need to figure out my school loans. I am also trying to understand everything I need to do for the Navy as I leave for Officer Development school in three weeks. So little to do and so much time. no stop that reverse it. Thank you.