Thursday, October 13, 2005
*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!!!!
Saturday, October 01, 2005
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.
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.
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