Well its after Midnight here in KAF and Xmas is done for me. We have been told we can come in late tomorrow if we like as a last gift. Speaking of gifts I was sitting on my bread last night about this time when a one of the decorative Xmas stockings was flung into my tent space by a passing manger in a hat. Turns out its full of swag from the ( Read more... )

Well its Xmas-eve, we called it a day early with a lunch for the department made up of food horded from the snack food orders and stuff from families and friend care packages. Some of us went down to the little concert down at the board walk, nothing too special, recorded it on the camera. Then back to the tents ( Read more... )

Another week had started... Had one of my more better days off. Spent most of it sitting on the deck of the oasis taking pictures of the air craft flying by ( Read more... )

Oh reading this on LJ there is a bunch of pictures on the Blog johnmoranafganistan.blogspot.com ( Read more... )

Warning, If you are not schooled in the combat arts the following post may not make all that much sense ( Read more... )

I need to get back into the habit of writing these little adventures. But like before I have follen back into a rut of living here. Get up, go to work, go to the DiFac (Dinning Facility) find something to do after dinner and then go back to bed ( Read more... )

Oh to Money as we don’t have any. The “rumor” is the Afghanistan national bank office on base that has the only two bank machines has forgotten to renew their employees ID badges to get on base. This process for Afghans can take over a month, until that is done there is no one who can come and refill the bank machines. Not a big deal as we can eat ( Read more... )

Well back at afghan land. I found out when I got here that well I was gone we had a bit of a swine flu outbreak… An outbreak being one person… But it meant my first day consisted of getting a flu shot in each shoulder while I was replacing a video card in one of the hospitals machines ( Read more... )

For those who are curious I am back in afghan land. I arrived in an Afghan winter, its cold here and yes colder then Ottawa. To compound the issues almost none of the buildings here have isolation so it’s time to throw on the winter jackets. Other then the winter not much has changed from when I left ( Read more... )

I just made it .. This is written from a small internet cafe in down town london...I've been wanting to go to england for a long time and its nice to get a chance... Today i'm just going to hang out at my hotel and the Paddington Station Area. till a bit of the jet lag wares off.. Tomorrow is the British Museum ...