Showing posts with label nukes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nukes. Show all posts

Monday, February 2, 2009

Jack and other things that matter







Sorry to those of you who are regulars (Mom), been kind of busy trying to get studied up for the initial phase of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing and taking care of the regular family business. The initial phase was instituted after the TMI accident because some of the operators in the control room did not fully understand the theory behind what the instruments were showing them. So the initial phase is theory. For more info on that go to the other blog (http://www.nukesro.blogspot.com/). This week was the Souperbowl at St. Paul’s in Salem O. This is where K is youth group leader/minister Saturday evening we went up for Mass and stayed to start the soups and play some games. It was an enjoyable evening, although Jack was ready to leave before the rest. He occupied himself the last half hour by licking all of the stir straws at the coffee mess in the meeting room. It was amazing to watch. On Sunday, we did some chores, made beans and ham and watched the Superbowl. As much as we hate to admit it, the Steelers are consistent and overall they played a better game. Of course Jack would not have anything to do with going to bed before the game was over and stayed up til almost midnight…..Turd. Here are the pictures for the week, H went to the book fair with K today (Catholic schools week continued) and is reading the book she got for Jack. And the other is of Gus wearing Jack’s winter hat. I think that they both hate it equally as it was on Guss’s head just about as long as we can get it to stay on Jack’s head.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

the latest job news

I had hesitated in posting anything about the NRC License class being held on the site because I was unsure if I would be in it. The Operations Manager, Sam, had called me in and stated that the SRO positions had all been filled but that he had a RO position available. Don’t misunderstand me, RO is a respectable position, just not what I was looking for. Consider my age, the fact that the program is 18 months long and that I would have to do the entire thing again I was not licensing twice. I had formally declined and had planned to finish my bachelors’ degree and then reapply when on Christmas Eve called me at my tour desk (I was on afternoon shift) and said that he had gotten permission to offer me the SRO job. So, after some soul searching (loosing a lot of overtime), I accepted the job. I’ll continue to blog about the family here but will be keeping you up to date on the class over at www.nukesro.blogspot.com. Come on over and check it out if you like…..