I smell the smell of white paint. Now, that could have been purple or green or red paint, but, I am reasonably assured that it is white. Why, because the Hansen Construction guys have a double high scaffolding in our family room painting and repairing the mess created by the Legacy Hospital going up behind our complex. They started around 10am this morning and have been going ever since. I set the ac at 65 degrees as the outside temp is at least 100 today. I did the usual calls to DFAS, Tricare, Willamette, and made a trip to Beaverton (for camera parts...2x teleconverter and tube for my Fuji 7000). Trying to figure out why the Navy sent me a notice that I have been awarded a bill for 89000 dollars for who knows what. They said that the Denver DFAS crowd does a verification on the mess and if it is in error, they will correct my W2 that just came out. What I believe happened is that in Feb 04 when we filed our taxes and got the W2 from the Navy for 2003, they still showed me receiving income from the Navy and on active duty. They corrected the w2 back to just the one month of income in Jan 2003, but somehow, some yahoo noted the 'unseparated member still getting paid ?????? about 82000 more than I really got. So, we'll play wait and see what happens and hopefully, the error will be found. Oh boy, another crisis to inform mom about. Oh well, it'll work out in the end. Got my Black Arrow Clancy game going. It is pretty good. Running around a train station in London. Well, I have to go check on my family room and stairway status. I'll send a photo later if I can figure out, again, how to make it work.

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