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.
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