Wow, I'm in a bit of a spot. Like the rest of you, I recently read, to my horror, that this years federal work force is going to be the largest ever! Appalling! But that's not the worst part. Guess who their latest recruit is? You're lookin' at him! (Well, not literally looking at him, only figuratively, unless you're reading this while I'm standing near you. Hi Melissa!) Yep, my new big boss is none other than Mr. Change himself.
Don't let my tongue in cheek fool you, I'm very excited about my new job. I'll be going to work for one of the only federal agencies who ever gave a dam. In fact, they gave several thousand dams. That's right I'm going to be the newest engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation. Love them or hate them, they made the western United States what it is today.
I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am at the prospect of endlessly repeating every dam joke I've ever heard and hopefully learning some new dam jokes. "Meet you at the dam store." "Better check the dam safety guide..." "I got lost on the dam road... " "Has anybody seen my dam pamphlet?" Oh, the tears are flowing!
On March 15, 2010, I officially take up my post at Yuma, Arizona. Home of the famous... um... (quickly googling "yuma arizona famous") ... Home of the Famous Footwear? Hmm, I'll have to check that out.
Needless to say my family feels terribly excited. Only, leave off the "excited". We've made some great friends here and we have had an all around great time living in southern California. Much better than I had expected. Change is never fun, no matter what anybody says. But I am hopeful that things will turn out just as good, if not better, for us in Yuma. It's like my good friend John always says, "you get to take the most important things with you."
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I'm trying to be happy. Honest, I am. I just keep thinking about the 3 months without you... and the leaving friends... and the starting over... again... sigh.
Please don't tell any of the kids your jokes... please?!
Try famous for the Yuma Territorial Prison ... famous as the gateway to the Imperial Sand Dunes National Recreation Area ... famous as the winter lettuce capital of the world. Oh, and since you're an engineer, famous as the site of the very first dam to be built on the Colorado River, and for the Yuma Siphon, which first delivered irrigation water UNDER the Colorado River in 1912, and is still working just fine nearly 100 years later.
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Ann - See that's what I get for trusting Google. Keep the good news coming. Thanks for the info.
Tamara told me your news. Congratulations Alan!! You to Melissa.
So starting mid March you get to start your dam job. Great. The jokes will be flowing like . . . well, dam water. Dam fish, dam maintenance, dam co-workers. Ha! How cool is that?
I can already see your youngest getting sent home from school for telling what her daddy does for a living. "He's a dam engineer." Then on Career Day you can go and prove her right, "Look, I am a dam engineer. Here, look at my dam identification card."
You will be great. Maybe next time we come down you can give us a dam tour.
Be good if you can.
John
I always cringed when we went to the cabin and had to pass 'the *** store' it had THAT word.... and the kids would see it!! lol now you are hunting for jokes about it!!! :o) must be a guy thing.... :o) Congratulations on your new job though!! I am looking forward to seeing all the sights in Yuma next fall!
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