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all right, so there is this kitty on the base, its orange and white and likes to meow a lot. well its not quite a kitten, but it isn't old either. and every time i see it i just want to go up to it and pet it. though of course i can't because every animal here is a stray, though this cat has been here since i've been here. so it hasn't strayed ( Read more... )

Things are going fine here, less then 4 months left ( Read more... )

For me it is now September 11. If you're like me you always think back to where you were that day, and how you found out about the attacks. And this day means more to me this year then it has before. This event is probably what gave me the final push to join the military. I had thought about it before this event, but the patriotism and the will ( Read more... )

I've never truly appreciated the Full Moon until I was here. As you can imagine you aren't bombarded by street lamps here, when its night, there are no lights outside. I've had a day where there was no moon at night, and you couldn't see your face in front of your hand. And just the other night, there was a full moon. And it was so bright you ( Read more... )

So just to give everyone a heads up my times will be changing for the hours I work. So, I will be getting off work at 515pm central time. I plan on working out and then showering which will be about hour fifteen, hour and a half, which will put me online chatting around 630-645pm central. So if anyone wants to chat with me, just be online around ( Read more... )

So, I've finally gotten into a routine of sorts. We'll say my day begins with work at 630pm. To put that into central time, this is the equation I use. I add 2.5 hrs and then subtract 12 hrs. So I go to work at 9 am central. Then I work for 12 hrs. Now work isn't that rough most nights. I'm either putting reports together, and hoping ( Read more... )

As I've mentioned before I work the night shift here. Back in the states you really don't know how dark it is at night, what with all the street lights. Even in the middle of the night you can see where you are going. Here though, if you are waking around at night without a flashlight, you can't see your hand in front of your face. It is pitch ( Read more... )

So I'm a couple weeks into this deployment, and its not going too badly. Last night was rough, we watched dane cook and then robyn williams live. Those are some funny guys. Even though this work here is pretty boring at night, this whole thing is giving me plenty of time to think and just do some things I dont get to back at my life in the ( Read more... )

It has been about a week since I've arrived here at the base I'm now working out of. Things aren't too bad. Working nights is a bit boring but I'm finding ways to stay entertained and busy. I've started studying japanese with one of the Army guys that works during the night. That will be interesting. Also, we had a nice discussion about ( Read more... )