Grateful......8-19-17

I rarely post anything on facebook.  I do look at it, way too much and I need to stop.  Its full of bad news, or maybe that's just what I look for.  Passing by the posts from people who have crossed my path enough in life to become a "facebook friend".  Of course many have been in my life since childhood or birth, relatives, cousins, aunts, etc....I look for the bad news from the states and the new "President".

Tonight I posted simply "Never thought I'd be living this life (just being happy and grateful)".  Waking up this morning at 5 am on the last day of my employment and deployment with San Juan Construction on Kwajalein, the cleaning began.  It's been a very very long time since moving from a place that wasn't mine.  Fortunately, along the way, there have been a few rare people who have demonstrated class as tenants, and as just friends borrowing things.  Jacob Dehues, a former tenant of mine, left the lease early, and left the place spotless.  That was probably twenty years ago, but it left a mark in my head.  Then there is Marty Brown, best guy in the world, who borrowed stuff from me occasionally, but always returned it in better shape than when he received it.

It wasn't only those two who motivated the cleaning this morning, they were just the largest influence.  Loni, James, or now Myra were left to the task of cleaning the man camp units after guys (mostly) left.  Knowing James and Loni was another small part of the motivational cleaning.  I wanted to make sure they didn't have to do anything, but let someone move in to my space.

I've never moved out of a place (that wasn't mine) and packed for "vacation" in the same 5 hour period.  It was a bit stressful, despite having done what was supposed to be the majority of the work before hand.

POHNPEI.  Its in the FSM.  The two capitalized words there were two places not in my head, my  geographical arena, or my vocabulary until taking the job with San Juan Construction on Kwajalein.  Now, sitting in a hotel, on Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.

How the hell could my life be any better!?  Yea, there is always better, and there is always worse....but the best imagined life in my head didn't take things here, or where I've been for the past few years.

KUDOS to you life  THANK YOU!!