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Monday, July 19, 2010

Forking Hot

  It kinda sucks being good at what you do.  Either that or I really ticked off the management.  I move down to Kandahar 3 weeks ago to help out the new manager and personnel here.  All of a sudden they think I need to come back to Bagram and then on to Maza e Sharriff, way up north.
All of this is after a month elswhere.  I went from temperatures in the 80s to the 130s to 115, and I hear it is even hotter up in Maz.  Maybe I should retire.  Go someplace with water and fish and drink beer.
Here in Kandahar it is not too bad.  The food is definitely better than most places.  The only thing wrong here is sleeping in a top bunk and the damn rocket attacks.  They have more than their fair share here.
Interesting thing here though, they have gigantic dust devils.  They look like tornadoes, but not anywhere near as strong and they do not go far.
I am getting tired of travel.  Maybe I will go and maybe I won't.
I have a rule.  I never burn a bridge unless I have to, and I never burn it until I am all the way across.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Lazy Bum

That is me. The lazy bum. I have not written in a while, again. However, I do write a lot in word and notepad when I am between things.
I am still here in Afghanistan. They moved me from Bagram to Kandahar. In some ways that is a plus. My company has a habit of almost "promoting" you. In my case I let them do it twice, so this time the fault is mine. They promote you, give you more responsibility, and then do not pay up for the promotion. That is not goo but then I am getting a lot of experience in different areas. Here in Kandahar, the food is much better. I can go to an army mess hall, a British, or German messhall, or even have asian food. On the other hand, it is much hotter down here, I am sleeping on a top bunk because the place is really crowded, and attacks are much more frequent. We had two last night and another this morning.
I decided to try writting in this a few days ago, but not only could I not remember my password, I had the ID wrong too. On top of that, the opening webpage for this blog kept coming up in arabic. What the hell?
Anyway, hello out there. I will try to do this daily, I seem to have to have enough time for it.
 
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