One week!
Well, a week to go and still there are some pretty big things that I have still to accomplish.
I am waiting for a box to be shipped to me from a printer in Canada. This will be the 24 binders of "Student Handouts" that I was tasked with creating. I will have to load them up into my bags and check them.
I am still waiting for confirmation of my tickets on Ethiopian Airlines.
I need to get my "Travel and Evacuation" insurance. This was something I didn't know I needed but found out that I should get it. I am not really big on insurance, but I figured this might be a good idea. just another expence that I wasn't expecting.
I finally got the cobra thing figured out. I found out there are some ways to get out of paying for it in my case, but I felt it was smater to just pay the reduced rate and keep the family covered over the two weeks while I am gone...instead of taking the chance. The scoop is....I have until the end of January to "elect" to use the Cobra insurance. But I will be back at Horizon and re-insured before then....So why pay the $1200 to keep my family insured while I am gone!? UUUUUURGH! It just doesn't make sense? I can elect to use the insuance AFTER the fact.....(if no body needed insurance while I was gone.....then I could decline)But I didn't want to put too much grey matter into it, so I am going to just pay a reduced two week rate and not bother with the lapse.
I needed to get a full copy of an Aerosim program that will allow me to teach FMS to my class. Finally after many e-mails, we got that all nailed down.
I went out and got some new clothes. Thanks you GoodWill!
I started packing today. Warm weather clothes. I am not taking very many shorts. I am not sure what skin I can show or if there is some African rule about a Fat White Ass and Latitude and Attitude T-shirst sitting by the pool!
All I am waiting for now is the final tickets and some pay stuff.
I still need to do a few things around Ghost to make sure that Ang doesn't have too many things to deal with while I am gone, and that will be it!
Next post should be from Wash D.C. The night before I catch my overseas flight.
Bye for now
scty
