Six Days Left

Here I am sitting in the livingroom of my Spokane apartment longing to be back home. I only have six more days to go here, but I'm afraid these six last days are going to pass by very slowly. This morning I woke up around four and faded in and out of sleep until seven. I drempt of Jennifer and I making love. When I couldn't sleep anymore I continued to have visions of the two of us locked together passionately touching and kissing. I wished she was in bed next to me. Six more days.

My aunt Linda has been really cool to me the whole time I've been up here. She's been writing me cards to say hello and see how things have been going for me. She has neat handwriting. I've been writing to both my aunt and uncle in response which has given me a good way to get alot of stuff off my mind and kill some downtime. I've had far too much downtime during the past few months. I think the first month I was here in Spokane I wrote them more often. I wrote to everyone back home more often for that matter. I've been constantly e-mailing all my friends back at TDS that are still stuck there. I don't e-mail Mom much anymore as I end up on the phone with her instead.

I spoke with Dave and Jerrie yesterday about TDS woes. They told me a four-star general is coming out to inspect the WAM situation. I guess WAM is doing so poorly in the field since the prototype stage of production that he's coming out to the site to see for himself what the hangups are. It's no wonder to me. TDS has invested very little money in improving the test equipment since the proto stage. Prototype test equipment doesn't cut it when you get into initial production because it generally wasn't engineered for high volumes of throughput. Stuff consequently wears out immediately and you have to keep rigging things in order to get anything out the door. It's a shoddy way of operating no matter how you look at it. Jerrie told me the situation with the tri-axial vibration machine in the environmental lab is so bad now that they can only test three units at a time. That's fucked up. That test is supposed to handle dozens of completed units in each run.