Hmmm... I figured that I would be updating this a little more often than once a week...

Anyway, week 2 is in the books and I still don't really have a long term project to work on. I have been in a bunch of meetings and conference calls, yet no project. Technically, I think that I am working on three projects but they are all waiting on someone else. Maybe this is a good representation of the government. But I was told that I would get some work this afternoon working on some more policy stuff. But isn't there something wrong with putting someone with little experience in security on security policy stuff?

But I think that this is going to be a great experience for me, simply because it is showing me what I *don't* wan't to do. Bascially, CMS exists to manage contractors who do all of the real work. So when I asked whether they had their own datacenter and they said yes... they did answer the question as honestly as they could. It is just that my interpretation of running a datacenter is much different from the government's idea of running... anything. From what I have seen, CMS does nothing except create a huge amount of federal buerocracy for Lockheed Martin (the contractor) to deal with and through. And that is your government at work.

The lady's house that we are staying at is a very nice house, but them lady does not take care of it. 95% of the lights are burned out and the garden would look great without all of the weeds. So I am finding that conditions like this motivate me to clean up. I guess I am a neat
freak down deep.

But when I am not working or showing my neat freak side, I have been seeing the sights. Friday I saw an Orials baseball game. It was fun, but I still don't understand what would be interesting about actually watching the game regularly. I have even been following baseball a bit because the radio stations talk about it a lot since this town has a team. So yeah... I don't get it Christine: baseball is still boring.

On Saturday, I went to a Baltimore tradition called Honfest. It was... interesting (honfest.net). I guess it is Baltimore celebrating the fact that they can't move on from the 50's. A lot of people do the beehive hairdos and wear those takcy glasses. But they had good food so I had a crabcake and a thing of fried dough. So many things that are huge over on the east coast are hardly offered at all in Idaho. That is why I am loving the east coast... atleast for a summer.

Yesterday we made a daytrip up to Gettysburg which was great. I was a little rusty on my civil war history, and I don't think I ever really studied Gettysburg atleast. It is amazing how many people died so quickly... especially since they hardly had accurite weapons and could, at best, shoot 3 times a minute. I guess warfare has really changed in the last 150 years.

So I guess this summer is going to be me taking the good with the bad. I am having a lot of fun over here, and this job is great... but it is not what I would want to do. Niether was last summer with the government either though. Maybe this scholarship wasn't as hot as I originally though.

Just kidding... yeah... it still rocks.