A lot of Mumbo Jumbo

What a day! I had so many crazy things happen that its all a bunch of mumbo jumbo in my head. So, I have nothing specific to write about tonight but instead, I think I will just cover my day.
Ok, I got to work at a normal time today and was looking forward to a busy morning followed by lunch with my good friends from church. My first order of business was to go to our Finance section and get a copy of my Spain orders turned in so my pay would not be interrupted as I transition from civilian to military. As I'm walking out of Finance, I ran into our Chaplain and my brother in Christ, Tom Smith. It's funny but God sometimes puts people in the right place at the right time. Tom said he was about to hold a short Bible study if I wanted to hang around for a while. I agreed and WOW! It was perfect for my day. Tom titled his study "The greatest gift" and basically just reminded those of us in attendance that the greatest gift we could have ever been given was Christ on the cross. He then reminded us that no matter what happened to us throughout the day, God's strength was great enough to handle anything that the world may throw at us! After you read the rest of the day, you'll understand why I kept having to tell myself that all day!
So, I get done with Bible study and stop to get my plane ticket and then back to the office to try and get some more last minute stuff taken care of before I leave. My butt had barely hit the chair when I was paged to the aircraft hangar to look at something. I talked with one of the inspectors that is here this week and we come to an agreement and once again I am headed back to the office. By this time it is getting close to lunch, remember, the one I was looking forward to? Well, my boss comes in about that time and says that we need to accomplish two more interviews from a mishap earlier in the week. He tells me that the only time that everyone is available is 12:30. WHAT??? By this time it is 1145 and I am supposed to meet my brothers in Christ at 12:00. I go to Western Sizzlin and meet Jessie, Jeb, and Jackie for what has to be the quickest lunch in history. Jeb bought my lunch and reminded me that he and Jackie will be taking care of my yardwork while I am gone. I couldn't ask for better friends than those that God has given me! I only hope that I can repay the favor one day! THANKS GUYS!
Well, I make it back just in time to start the interviews which turns into 3 hours straight on speaker phone. YUK!
I complained once to myself and then God put that little voice in my head that said "I'm bigger than any little problem you may be having, lean on me!" I also reminded myself of the core values of the Air Force...Integrity First, Service before self, Excellence in all we do! Yeah, I know it's kinda goofy but sometimes I have to remind myself of those. It's a lot like being a Christian, because it's not all about us but about something much bigger than Mike Francis.
Now, remember the inspector I was talking about earlier, yeah, he's a pain in my backside! Guess where I was as soon as the interviews were over? YEP, you guessed it, back to the hangar. Our maintenance guys are awesome and I'm proud to work with them and I truly felt sorry for them today. They have been giving 100% for weeks to get ready and this one guy is giving them fits, so instead of us all going home to be with our families tonight, we worked until 7:00 trying to manufacture a part that will make this guy happy! I think I'll take them some donuts in the morning, they deserve it.
Now for the good part of my day, What's that you ask! Yeah, I actually did have a good ending. Andria came and picked me up at the base and we all went to Logans Road House for dinner. On the way back Lily started asking if we would play the car song. We couldn't figure it out and so we started going through the songs on the CD. When the old tune "Jump, Jive, and Wail" came on she started saying "That's it, that's the car song" I still wasn't getting it, so I listened to her sing it and the reason this is now known as the car song is because of Lily's lyrics which are "You gotta Jump, DRIVE, and wail" I laughed so hard I was in tears! That's my Lily for you! I'm going to miss all the silly little things she comes up with while I'm gone! Well, if you aren't snoring from this extremely long blog...you should be! I'm typing myself to sleep so it can't be that great! See, I told you it was a lot of Mumbo Jumbo!