Endless Waiting & Hurricane Watching

Well, I haven't heard anything further about travel time or if the background check was okay or if they needed any more information from me. So I sent an e-mail to my recruiter who said if I was missing any information, that the "support team" would let me know....clearly I asked the wrong question.

So I fired off an e-mail to the company that does the background checks and they responded by saying that they have enough info from me to do the background check but could not "disclose that information" and to contact my rep.

Talk about annoying. So as Nora and I make plans and spend some money to prep for me to be gone for a year, we do not know for certain that I am going. And now it's Friday so I'll have to wait another 2-3 days before anything else will happen. I ended up calling the recruiter but only got her voicemail.

I started thinking that the storm and rain from Tropical Depression Erin had affected some of this process. I mean, Houston (where the recruiting office is) did get 6 inches of rain in 4 hours Thursday. Now with Hurricane Dean brewing in the Gulf as a Category 4 Hurricane, surely to become a Cat 5 hurricane, who knows how things will go? Forecasters predict landfall anywhere from the Texas-Louisianna border to somewhere close to Mexico City. Talk about a HUGE prediction zone. And it will hit by Wednesday of next week. That's the Wednesday before the Monday I am supposed to fly to Houston. Gov. Rick Perry has already declared the storm an imminent threat to Texas and activated personnel to handle evacuation/disaster plans, if necessary.

So who knows what will happen in the next week. All I know is that Nora and I will have friends over tomorrow to see me off. We'll play some cards, have some food, drink some beer and have a good time. It's been a while since we've all gotten together. It will definitely help me relax and take my mind off the "not-knowing if I am confirmed yet" issue. As well as all the other things taking ove my thoughts.

I guess I really won't have a good night's sleep until.......... well, until............ hmmmmm........ wow ................. have to think about this now,.......................until I get back for R&R from the first few months.