More time out of the look

[pecunium]

I leave tomorrow for San Diego.

A week of brain fry is certain to follow. This is another planning conference for the Ukrianian mission I hope (expect, but I've learned to keep my expectations to a minimum, at least as far as the Army is concerned).

I wasn't supposed to be going to this. Nope. Ukraine was supposed to supply the translation. Ukraine, however, is a trifle busy right now, and so we got tagged. The last one had about a dozen linguists. This one has two. EUCOM is being stingy, Calif. is being stingy, and the time line meant (even if more money had been kicked loose) the AF guys were not likely to be tappable.

So two is the number of the counting, and 30 the number of those counting us. We've no idea if that means 30 Russian speakers, or 30 attendees.

I've no idea, therefore, as to whether I'll have much access. Which means (since I will be in Joshua Tree from next Saturday to Monday, and perhaps until Tuesday [feel free to join us] I may not be able to check in more than once or twice.

Comments

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

I'm going to presume on your good nature, and ignore all the admin troubles to sigh gently about the fact that you'll be in Joshua Tree... a portion of my childhood was spent in Twenty Nine Palms, when my mother (briefly) remarried, to a Marine. It wasn't a good year for her, but there was a lot of discovery for me, and now I'm getting all nostalgic over some semi-stranger's journal. *blush* Excuse me, but please do say "hello" to the Milky Way (at least once) and the San Bernardino mountains (er, or whatever those lovely landmasses to the south of XXIX Palms were called, which contained the Joshua Tree National Monument...)

Crazy(and impertinent)Soph

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Nothing impertinent about it.

I did take a look at all those, but was too sick to really enjoy myself. Join us next year, right about this time.

TK