Very busy.
Short and sweet. Official training ended Monday with Scenario 13. 13 was a very welcome respite from Scenario 12 which is known to students as "the humbler" and henceforth to me as the "Kobayashi Maru".
Tuesday, today, began our Performance Verifications (PV). PVs are judged by supervisors from the field. Passing your PVs earns you advancement into On the Job Training (OJT), failing sends you home with a pink slip. A run will last about 30 minutes if you do well. Generally as long as you don't give up and don't kill anyone you'll pass, but I don't really see that as making things easy. Today was my local run. As we were on night shift on Monday, we got to turn around 8 hours later and come back into work at 8AM. This worked out to less than 5 hours of sleep for most everyone in the class. Then I didn't even PV until 1:35 in the afternoon, and no naps allowed at work. Despite the lack of sleep and pent up nervousness I performed very well on the PV, staying well ahead of the problem and passing with ease. Wednesday is the same schedule except I'll be doing my ground PV. I don't expect to be very nervous about that, as the local was the hardest position.
Assuming all goes well Wednesday, Thursday morning I'll be on the road heading for Spokane. I expect to pull into Spokane sometime Saturday afternoon. I report for duty on Monday morning. I have a good sized list of housing opportunities to check out during the weekend and Tuesday I beleive Dad will pull into town. Hopefully I'll be able to move in somewhere shortly there-after.
Don't expect many updates for a while. I may be without internet for a long time after Thursday.
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