Hi chucktown - good to see you around again!
Still working for the feds in the Pacific - glorified Peace Corps engineer, essentially. It's kind of nice because the down-to-earthness of the islanders tends to balance out the bureaucratic nonsense from the fed side, which I am actually surprised (why?) is so much more intense than the island "state" government crap. The difference is that instead of outright corruption from the top, it's all turf wars/office politics/inertia BS emanating from the layers of middle management, which act more or less as a black hole, sucking up space and time, itself.