Blathering incoherently due to lack of sleep
Ξ January 21st, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
It’s been a busy week or so, and I haven’t had a chance to update; now I’m sitting around with nothing but time on my hands. No Internet where I’m camped out, and the Air Force blocks “Personal Websites†which it classifies mine as over where I can get a connection.
On the way to Kuwait, I ended up crashing in Bagram for the night; I got to stay in basically a circus tent with 200+ of my closest friends on cots. It was below 0 and there was a big flap all the way around flapping all night. I did get some boots… wait didn’t I already mention that, must have made an update I forgot about, and can’t check on at the moment.
I ended up finally making my way to Tom and Heather Eisele’s pad to crash for the duration of the class. It’s still a dam nice place. Heather’s new Toyota Fortuner (overseas only model, bigger than a RAV4, smaller than a 4runner) is pretty nice. Although it’s no where near as nice as Tom’s new Porsche. I was lucky enough to ride home with him the night we picked it up from the dealer. It’s a 2004 with next to no mileage on it and the previous owner was Kuwaiti royalty.
Later when heading out to a Lebanese restraint I decided to fold myself into the “back seat†rather than ride in the Fortuner. It required some gymnastics to get back there, but wasn’t too hideous once I was in place, other than the not enough headroom. The ride is stiff like you’d expect from a sports car, but not nearly as harsh as I was expecting. I must say I really like that car and I’ve started contemplating the possibility of one myself down the road. Who knows if it’s just a flight of fancy, or something I’ll still think about down the road.
Waiting to catch the flight back to Bagram, show time got pushed back twice, then put on standby, which is basically sit on your thumbs at their whim and we kept getting told there was a big list and limited number of seats. The guy next to me decided to run for dinner, which of course instantly triggered a quick roll call and one of the fastest palletizing of bags I’ve seen. So of course the guy ends up getting bumped off the roster and being pretty upset about it… of course I now think he may end up there sooner that us, depending on how things go, oh, and of course less than a third of the seats ended up being filled.
We are now sitting in Quatar, after flying all the way to Bagram, only to find a pile of snow on the runway. So here I sit just chilling in Quatar with show time for the 2nd try of our journey constantly getting pushed back and various people saying the snow just keeps falling.
The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy calls the towel the most important traveling tool you can have… it is wrong. It’s actually a T-shirt. You can take a shower and use a T-shirt as a towel, but towels are only acceptable to wear at the beach or toga parties. Always cary a pair of shorts, underwear, socks and of course a clean T-shirt in your caryon. Throwing back on the same pair of pants isn’t great, but being able to scrounge up a clean pair of skivvies and a make shift towel when you are delayed for pushing days and can’t get to your checked bags is priceless.
Movie review: Crank
Somebody popped it in while we were waiting, and I wasn’t expecting much. However once it kicked off, it turned out to be a frantic little ball of entertainment. Not very high brow, but very entertaining action flick with a good amount of humor thrown in. Probably one of the funniest sex scenes I’ve ever seen and very appropriate for the movie, not just thrown in for the token gratuities sex scene.
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