Anna and I are expecting a baby boy in September and are super excited!

Remember when our Dear Little Friend (DLF) promised to help small business owners succeed, and that he would stop government over spending?  I point you now to the USA Today newsrooms.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-05-24-income-shifts-from-private-sector_N.htm

So I finally got it!  I have been looking at a 2010 F-150 XLT SuperCab for a while now and yesterday I finally took the plunge and purchased one, I will be posting pics as soon as I get back to Pensacola and my camera.  Needless to say I am very excited.  Hopefully I will be revampng car tales soon and I will be able to keep an update on my new truck!

I am considering getting a new 2010 F-150 XLT and I am trying to figure out how to keep her paint looking beautiful for a long, long time.  There is a company called Optimum Car Care that specializes in all sorts of car cleaning products.  From what I can tell from the line-up of options available to me, if you have a new car the 3 most important products to have are as follows:

Optimum No-Rinse Wash and Shine – This is a product that you use with two buckets of water, one to apply,and one to clean, and you don’t need a hose or bubbles, or pointless time spent doing all of that.

Optimum Opti Seal – This product creates a molecular level bond over the paint that keeps rainwater and acids from penetrating, and ths helping to keep the car looking better longer.

Optimum Car Wax – This product is a combination of Carnuba wax, and high grade polymer to create a nice long lasting finish.  The problem with all Carnuba is that it only last 1-2 months, and the problem with polymers is that they don’t give that rich, deep look that Carnuba does.  So this is the best mix of both worlds.

I am pretty happy with what I have found, and I am hoping to be able to order these products after I get my new car.  Keep posted for more updates.

Later.

Anna says I never update, which is true; for the life of my blog I have been horrible at updating it, I try but in reality I can never think of what to write.  who want to hear about the day of a casual LT?  Well I will try, in clumps so that it is not all at once. 

Pensacola NAS

I am stationed on a Navy base, or station, or whatever, awaiting CSO(Combat Systems Officer) training which doesn’t start until August.  Until then I spend time with Anna and lounge around the house.  All though I did just get a job in the unit, we call them stash jobs.  (because this is where they stash us away)  I am stashed at a place called Starbase Atlantis, it is a science oriented field trip for 5th graders in the Pensacola school system, they come onboard NAS Pensacola and learn about the basics of flight, and the science behind it which is pretty cool.  Our house is pretty cool, we live in an old late 1800′s house that has been splite into 6 apartments, and we have a basement!  Yea I love having a plave to put all my tools, and spread out and have some fun.  I will update soon with more info, and how we got to where we are now.  Laters.

I start ASBC tomorrow, and it will definitly be a busy week.   We have basic inprocessing, photos, flight introductions ect, and then we get a quick lunch break, and then it is off to Blue Thunder!  A week of sleeping in tents in weather with highs in the mid 40′s!  Very excited.  Anyway It has been exciting getting settled into the Air Force!  I can’t wait to see what this adventure has in store for Anna and i, and I can’t wait to see where this career takes me!

Anna and I are here at Maxwell in Montgomery, Al. We are all settled into our room, and we will inprocess tonight, so fun times! Its cold, and cold, and colder. but its fun, so we dont complain.

I, Brian Paul Merritt, having been appointed a second lieutenant, in the United States Air Force, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, so help me God.

HUA!

Computer repair tech contracted by Dell is here to fix my computer issue. So heres the deal, I updated the BIOS on my all in one, and the fans stay on all the time now. So I do some research and find that it is something with the bios update, and nothing can fix it, so what does Dell do? Instead of putting out a new BIOs update to fix the problem, they send me a new motherboard, and all new fans… pointless, and and not just a new motherboard, but cases, LCd and everything….pointless, but hey I’m not gonna complain.