Far East Cynic

Checking all the blocks

At the agency I work for ( well, at least for the next month or so)-they were ranked in the bottom in terms of being a “good place to work”. Havng watched their new contracting strategy-I tend to agree whole heartedly. And unforuntately real change to this agency will not

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How I spend my days now.

The job hunt continues:

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They just opened a gym in our new building.

Don’t laugh-there is more truth here than you realize.

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Across the pond

Greetings from Frankfurt Germany. I am transiting through here on my way back to points east. What am I doing here, you ask? Going here to work for a while-at least for the short term, while I work, search, and hope some things fall into place. Whether they will or not

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Upheaval.

“Six years of college down the drain.” Today,  the carefully ordered world of yours truly ( and that of my section of my company) was blown apart. In a situation familiar to many Americans-I am now facing an uncertain future-vis a vis continued employment here in Shopping Mall USA.  That

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The inventory……..

And so the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Ten comes to an end tonight. I am not sure how I feel about it’s passing quite yet. The fact that it closes out the first decade of the 21’st Century and the advance in age that implies-perhaps puts a

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What was the number of that truck driving school ?

I may need it. What was the name-Truckmasters? The appeal of driving an 18 wheeler grows every time I read something like this: OBAMA CAMP COULD ROCK MILITARY’S FY-10 BUDGET WITH BIG CHANGES   Military officials who expected President Barack Obama’s team to make only minor revisions to the Bush

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Arrival

S.O. , cat, and I arrived in one piece. We transited Dulles enroute to Shopping Mall USA. That sucked with a capital S. Immigration, getting the cat cleared, and making our connecting flight was all a challenge. Nothing makes you appreciate Japan like the dealing with surly TSA people and

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These proceedings are closed……….losing the battle-hoping to win the war!

I got blindly drunk last night-just barely stumbling onto the last train back out of Yokohama. The S.O. was none too pleased when I darkened our doorstep at 1:30 am in as foul a humor as I have been in years. It is 6 am now and my head hurts. When

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Paradise Lost……. or, the surge is succeeding.

Not that surge. The one that is slowly ripping apart the beautiful life I spent 8 years perfecting. Like it’s counterpart in Iraq, it is just as frustrating though. Now conscience wakes despair That slumber’d, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse;

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