*yay* back in my own bed finally! Got back from Egypt very early this morning, now I just have to get my body back onto Arizona time. I also have to get used to eating real meals again. The last two weeks we were in Egypt I don't think I had one real meal or more than a small snack to tide me over. When we moved down to the air-base the last couple days we were there, I managed to find a scale... I dropped almost 15 pounds in 43 days!!!!

Suprisingly the sunburn from yesterday was not as bad as I expected it to be. After spending most of the day working outside, sweating my ass off to the point where my brown t-shirt was white with salt stains, I was very happy to get the usual cold shower over here.
Still nobody knows when we're going home. We've been given a range of about 10 days and told that "you will be going home between "this date" and "that date." Which is not very reassuring, I am just planning on being in Egypt until November. Around here it's best to expect the worst, that way you're never disapointed. I think the Major is starting to get frustrated with my overly pessimistic outlook on life in the army.
Aside from all that nothing much exciting is going on. Very much looking forward to getting home, going out shooting with Jerry, and just being able to relax again. As soon as this network started to come up every time I turned around everyone was shoving a phone in my face needing me to help someone program a router, or troubleshoot something-er-other.
I do have to admit that there has been one nice thing about this exercise. The people I am working with now I have developed a much greater respect for than I have with anyone else I have worked with so far in my army career. The sense of professionalism is much more pronounced here, the dick and fart jokes do not fly at the rate they do in D Co. Don't get me wrong, you'll hear the ocassional off color joke, but its not a constant barrage of them hitting you in the face every waking moment. Perhaps I'll be lucky enough to stay in this job until I get out of the army, but from what I hear through the grapevine, I'm not going to hold my breath.

Alrighty then, I know its been a couple years since I've touched this thing, and I don't know if there is a soul alive who still looks at it. But I'm bored, so I'm going to write something anyway. Perhaps I should just use this site as I visit various deserts around the world. Today you can find me in Egypt. Thankfully far less dangerous than Iraq, but still not a whole lot of fun. As far as I'm concerned you can cross Egypt off your possible vacation destinations. From what I have seen of this nasty little country, it's dirty, hot, and the national bird is the fly. Perhaps there are nice areas of this country, somehow I doubt I will get a chance to see any of them. Oh well, I do NOT plan on coming back here, or anywhere else in North-Eastern Africa or the Middle-East ever again. I think I will keep myself on the North American continent or perhaps even Europe from now on.

Aside from the danger aspect, my time in Egypt has been very much like my time in Iraq was. True, I am only here in Egypt for roughly one month, as opposed to the year I spent in Iraq, but being here just brings back so many memories that I did not ever want to think of again. All of those memories... of course... sent me right back into the same shitty ass depression that I dealt with in Iraq and have still been struggling with since I returned from Iraq.

On the lighter side of things, in approximately 150 days I will be a civilian again. I've spent a good amount of time over the past few days researching my possible college choices, and am very much looking forward to going to IL State University probably starting in the fall of 2006.

Whelp, I think I'm going to stop babbling at this point, perhaps this time I will be able to keep making regular updates to this site, then again, perhaps not. If anyone out there still reads this keep checking back, you might get lucky and find new little tid bits about what's going on in my daily life.