Imperishable Inheritance

I’m blog­ging from my first TDY for work. TDY is mil­i­tary par­lance for a busi­ness trip; it stands for “Tem­po­rary Duty Yon­der.” I came to the incred­i­bly inter­est­ing and excit­ing Reno, Nevada (ok, not really). I have a lot of down time, and it’s been hard to keep myself occu­pied. The con­fer­ence is tbe 2006 Pro­fes­sional Airmen’s Con­fer­ence & Annual Con­ven­tion spon­sored by the Air Force Sergeants Asso­ci­a­tion. Basi­cally, it’s for the top enlisted Air Force soldiers.

The only thing to do around here is (1) drink, (2) gam­ble, or (3) drink and gam­ble. It’s amaz­ing to see peo­ple gam­bling at 8 in the morn­ing! And of course the hotel I’m stay­ing at will hap­pily cater to all your gambling/drinking needs. I never thought I’d be going on “busi­ness trips” like my dad. As I was pack­ing I real­ized that I was doing just that. While this has been an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence, I know that I don’t want this to be a nor­mal event. I’ve decided I’d be much hap­pier stay­ing in one gen­eral area tend­ing to a fam­ily (ide­ally in a min­istry set­ting). Trav­el­ing with friends/family is one thing, and trav­el­ing alone is quite another (big drag).

It’s been inter­est­ing to get feed­back on the prod­uct that I work to main­tain. I’ve met some neat peo­ple include the high­est enlisted sol­dier in the Air Force Chief Mas­ter Sergeant Rod McKin­ley; he was a really nice guy (pic­ture below with him and my boss Neil).

More Pic­tures From the Expo