Good News

Finally, something good. Evidently pestering the FAA finally paid off. Today I was e-mailed my TOL paperwork (government working on a weekend, wut). My tentative facility is Spokane ATCT. Not quite what I had been day dreaming about, in fact, on the opposite side of the state from where I was day dreaming. However, I did say that I'd take any facility in Washington as long as it wasn't Seattle Center. And this is a tower, not SeaTac Tracon, so I'm still getting what I wanted. The option to transfer elsewhere at a later date will remain, so I'm not terribly horrified at Spokane. Its just slightly disconcerting as I knew a bit about Seattle and had been looking into it more, thoroughly ignoring everywhere else in Washington, so I know basically nothing about Spokane. I fixed that a bit today, although mostly what I know now is where the hell Spokane International is and what kind of weather they have there. At least it won't be raining every day.

Immediately started looking at rental property because I've been waiting 9 months for a chance to find my own place again. My rough searches have showed that the west side of the city where the airport is doesn't offer a whole lot aside from apartments. I've got plenty of time to find somewhere, but I'm hoping for a small townhouse, I've lost interest in living in complexes. I don't like having other people's immediate lives interfere with mine, or at least make themselves heard clearly at 3am.

Along with the TOL came a mountain of paperwork, most of which I'm not real sure about. Lots of stuff pertaining to military service that I can just set aside. Time frame gives me 5 days from Monday to get myself drug tested and have a medical scheduled. Immediately after that is basically a medical and a psych eval within 10 days. Add to that all the paperwork needs to be back in 10 days. Going to be a busy week, for once. Slightly concerned that I don't see an SF-86 form in here, which is the difficult to fill out background check form. I also don't see it required in the background check materials, which is odd because I've heard nothing about them not using it anymore. (Upon further investigation it appears this has moved to an online process, which makes it now more concerning considering how "well" the ASAP process worked for me)

All in all, good day I guess. I'll be much happier once I'm on my way, as I know I've still got some waiting even after I have all this stuff filled out and sent back. At least the process is back in my hands again, which is thoroughly relieving.