Back to Blue (Rocky) Bayou
A rainy day in (not Georgia)…
Waiting for the rain to turn into snow, as promised by the weatherman, buttoned up in the cozy motorhome, we are parked for the next two weeks in one of my favorite RV parks, Rocky Bayou State Park in Niceville, Florida. Phil is catching up on DVDs and email, I’m finally blogging here (now that we’re traveling again), and Buddy is cuddled up in a warm spot. 
Last evening David came by and took me to dinner. He’s gone to New Orleans today to drop his car off to be shipped to Germany, but maybe we’ll be able to get together again over the weekend. Otherwise, it will be Wednesday before we see him again, since he has to run up to Ft. Benning Monday to do some outprocessing there. I’ll try to have pictures of his last jumpmastering run here Wednesday. He says he doesn’t expect to do much with that skill in Germany & Afghanistan (although you never know), but if all goes well this time out he will increase his rating to senior jumpmaster, which will serve him well in the future from a résumé-rounding-out perspective. He actually leaves on Saturday, the 20th, unless there’s some last minute glitch trying to outprocess from down here, in which case he says he’d just go up to Benning to get it straightened out and leave from there. We will hang around here until the 24th, and then either go back south to Lazy Days to get some work done on the RV, or head west toward Dallas and points beyond.
While we’re here, I’ll be applying to a different school at Mizzou. After two semesters I’ve decided that Journalism just isn’t the program I ought to be in, but I do still want to get an Masters degree. Right now I’m taking a class called “Introduction to Digital Media” from the School of Information Sciences & Learning Technologies (SISLT) in the College of Education. It’s a really great course, and while I do have a lot of background in the subject already, I am learning a lot as well as having a good time brushing up on the technology. So, I’m planning to try for a transfer to that school, to get an MEd in LSDD (Learning Systems Design & Development). Yes, I can do almost all of that online, too. There is one course that has to be taken on campus in Columbia, but we can handle that.
I’ll also put some of the time to use writing up yet another response to questions from the IRS concerning the ISM Corporation’s application for tax-exempt status. The International Spaceflight Museum has been moving right along, maintaining a level of donations that let us avoid begging for last-minute salvation every month, thanks to an anonymous donor who is paying the rent on Spaceport Bravo. While I can’t spare the bandwidth on our Verizon AirCard mobile internet connection to go into Second Life (where the museum exists), unless we find an internet café somewhere here, I am still actively working for the musuem in the background, and keep up with what is happening there by reading the meeting chatlogs.
So, even though it’s a lazy day today, we have lots to keep us occupied while we’re here. C’mon, snow! Do your worst! We’ll enjoy watching it from our toasty-warm enclave.
