Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Bid List Submitted

Just a very quick post today.  I turned in my second-tour FMO Summer 2017 bid list last Friday.  Now it's just a waiting game to find out where in the world we will go: Europe, The Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania?  We should find out by July 8 (but maybe before then).  I'll post again once we get our next post.

In the meantime, watch and enjoy:






Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Longest Week Ever...

OK, maybe a bit melodramatic.  It is going to feel like a very long week, though, and not just because I have two days of mind-numbing ISO-9001 internal auditor training.  Oh, yes, you heard that right...can it get any more exciting than that?

It can.  I'm also waiting for the FMO second-tour bid list to come out next Monday.  Even though I have more than a year left in Charleston (sigh - read into that whatever you want) it's already time to start working on the next assignment.  Of course my colleagues and I have been guessing and second guessing what's going to be on the list.  One or two of us think they have it figured out; I'm not one of them.  It could be anywhere* and while it's fun to dream of life in Barcelona**, Buenos Aires**, or Brisbane** we just have to wait and see what shows up on the list.

That's why it's going to feel like a long week...until the ten days to wait from turning in the list to finding out the next assignment.  Yeah - that will feel like an eternity.

I went home for Memorial Day (home leave?), so here are some pic while we wait for the list:

Cosmo!

mmm, a Propah Lobstah Roll!

Mark and David with Samantha (Bewitched)

Mark has learned to cook in my absence (and well, too).

Mark in Ogunquit, Maine

That's me, in Portshmouth, NH

Look at this church tag-sale find from Portsmouth.  All four records included.  Only $1!

So long, Boston.  See y'all later.

*Not, technically, anywhere.  It will be one of probably twelve US embassies that has given its FMO position to entry-level specialist career assignments.

**Won't happen (at least not this go 'round).