Life

Day 167 I am being ordered to take the First Class exam today. I don’t believe I am qualified to advance yet. I do not have the professional knowledge that an Information Systems Technician First Class should have but my command has order a test for me and now insist that I take it. Fun … Read more

Day 164 Five days since my last post. I am sorry. I’ve been kind of busy. Stood watch, of course. Revamped my resume. Not so much a revamp as an up date. I added a recent job change that happened just before I came out here and I added this temporary stint that I’m on … Read more

Day 159 Today was a busy day and I wasn’t even on duty. That’s a good thing for reasons I can’t go into. 159 days in the middle east. I wish I had more opportunity to interact with the culture here. Kuwaiti society seems very interesting. There seems to be some pretty significant differences between … Read more

Day 156 Same old stuff. Went swimming. Swam 500 meters. Swimming it stronger and more steadily now. Much stronger strokes. I’m hoping to try and run this afternoon, well really this evening. I think I forgot to mention that I finished Joint Task Force America and am now reading Janet Evanovich‘s Two For The Dough. … Read more

Day 155 Had duty yesterday. Actually got a decent night’s sleep out there last night. It was a quiet night. Went swimming today, big news that, huh? Anyway, I still getting my exercise. I’m gonna miss Boomer. I wish he could have stayed with us for the whole deployment. So does he. God’s grace to … Read more

Day 153 It seems I got a little dehydrated. I was feeling dizzy and thought it was just BPPV acting up again. I went to sick call and explained my symptoms. They raised the possibility that I might be dehydrated. I came back to the tent and started drinking water. A lot of water. I … Read more

Day 152 Went swimming today. Slept a lot. Reading Joint Task Force America. Got off duty this morning. It was a pretty uneventful day which was nice. Just another hot and sandy day in paradise. Aloha

Day 149 I didn’t go swimming yesterday. Never managed to get the motivation together to go. Going today though provided that work doesn’t get in the way which it is threatening to do. Watched X-Men 1.5 last night. Great movie. Really fun. I’m looking forward to watching X-Men: United tonight. Then I’ll be out of … Read more

Day 148 Trying to get motivated to go swimming. I’m almost there. Busy watch yesterday. The day went fast. Sleeping in CCP isn’t something I’ll miss much. Slept a lot today. Probably why I’m struggling to get in the pool and swim. I finished Charles Knief’s excellent book, Silversword. I really enjoyed it. I hope … Read more

Day 147 I ran across Sgt. Ray Reynolds email and also read the dissection of it on Orwellian Times. I read most of the comments to the Orwellian Times article. It is amazing to me the number of people who seem to believe that the Iraqi people would be better off under Saddam’s regime. I … Read more