Archive for November, 2006

Little update for all my friends and anyone who cares to read this pitiful excuse for a blog.

We have, in fact, reached our final FOB.  We may be hear the entire year, we may not.  Who knows… government works and all.  We are currently relieving the unit here and we officially start our patrolling and such soon.  I have managed to buy a few cheap DVDs and unsuccessfully look for a 500 watt transformer and a little lamp that runs on 240v.  Its odd the things you can find here though.  We did manage to rate some “chews” to live in (Containerized Housing Unit – CHU).  Its kinda like living in a railroad boxcar with a door, but I do have my own space at least.  I have an actual address now too!  So send all those care packages I have heard so much about!

Who would have thought a desert such as this would be cold and rainy!  It’s freezing here in the morning, and this morning we woke up to some really cold rain.

We are currently on a more or less, staging camp. Its been pretty much train, eat, sleep, train.  The food is pretty good.  World’s better than the DFAC we had back home.  If I am not careful I’ll end up getting fat.  The other day I actually had a cappucino served by and Indian. We received the upgraded body armor and a few other goodies and we should be leaving out of here sometime soon for our destination.  Sorry, I can’t go more in to depth on what is going on, but Big brother is watching as always.  Besides I wouldn’t want some terrorist about to get his due to know what is going down. 

Later.