Power out

We lost power in our office so I came to the joint Operations cell to use a computer..The "JOC" never loses power because its where the CG works. Its HOT...officially hit 111 in the shade yesterday..its so hot all you can do is laugh about it....it will be 125 sustained in a few more weeks.

The vehicle thermometers read 125 now...but that in the direct sunshine...couple that with the intense dust storms (Charlie likes to lob things at the base during the dust storms) and it makes for one miserable place at times. We still have it better than most...last week after a 2 mile walk back to my living quarters ( I walk 2 miles to and 2 miles from work ever day) my AC had died....so I sat on my bed and watched TV and sweat..it was almost 90 in my room...about 1030 pm they said we cant get it fixed tonight so I went to an empty trailer to sleep...at least it had air...I am hitting the outdoor pool on weekends...headed there today actually... hope the power stays out..Ill be going REAL early to the pool...when you wake up the temp is already 85-90 at 5am. I have run in 6 5K runs so far and gotten a good enough time for a t-shirt each race...the last one was sponsored by the 5th Combat Engineer group here...the whole course was in the gravel! I said leave it to a bunch of combat engineers to lay out a course in the gravel when theres 50 miles of paved road on this base..oh well, it was fun.

get Rand R soon, ready to leave this place for a while. Hope to see some of you then.

Bacon...over and out.

Im here

Sorry its been a while since my last post...its hard getting to a computer...they say were going to have wireless soon in our living area...that will be great...noting much new here, its getting hot and the dust storms are getting bad....fine baby powder like dust...you cant see 10 feet when its blowing...I socred 230 on my PT test...best score i have had in 20 years...ran 2 miles in 15 minutes 30 seconds...not bad. 55 pushups and 55 situps in two minutes. Best shape I have been in in years. The times are interesting over here, much politics going on with drawdown...just watch the news...the Arabic news outlets report alot of stuff US news never reports...Charlie daniels has been here as well as Billy Blanks....no big deal really. We finally got our footlockers, they were shipped on an ocean freighter...it took 2 months from when they left Texas port to get to Iraq....at one pont I figured they had just been stolen by Pirates off the freighter. Anyway, write more later, Im fine, ready for R and R!

Bryan