Friday, October 2, 2009

Open Season on Care Packages

How to describe the life I have already gotten used to on deployment?  It's going well, really.  The food is still new, and pretty delicious.  The key to chow here is having to choose what you're going to eat at any particular meal. Breakfast is my favorite, but one cannot reasonably keep up a breakfast diet of scrambled eggs, breakast burritos, hard boiled eggs, multiple hash browns, biscuits, juices, and tons of fruit every day.  You have to pick one egg entity, a hash brown, a biscuit, and fruit.  Or, more accurately I do or I'll actually gain weight here like I did at Field Training and that's not really the goal.  You may be wondering why my breakfast doesn't feature a bacon or sausage, and that's because they do not look appetizing and for some reason they're floating in something and I don't understand, and so it's off.

I'm getting over a horrible congestion/cough/cold and starting to work out more too.  Apparently everyone gets sick when they first get here for like 7 days (the crud) and then it's good times.  So I'm doing much better everyday and soon my alveoli will be saturated with tan dust and cease to make trouble and my cough will go away.

I'm still missing a bag but am supposed to get it today so fingers crossed.  That'll give me a camera cable to upload stuff with and charge the thing.  I showed Fist the youtube video of the best wildlife (why are all my friends obsessed w/ the animals here?) I've seen so far, Saddam's fish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcR0Py-mru8

Finally, last 2 things.  1 - my address works so feel free to send whatever ridiculous thing you were going to send.  I like fruit snacks and they don't have them here.  One thing I could actually use are reflective stickers, like you'd put on a biker or a helmet.  If anyone has spares laying around, toss them in an envelope and get them here.  The other thing that would be great are pictures, like of shit we've done or even what's going on now back home or just a pic you particularly like.  I am a captive audience for your amateur photography products.  Now what the hell was 2.  Oh yea, I hear it's fall at home which means blazer weather.  I wanted to just get out front of this and say I miss blazer too.  It'll be ok as I'll be home in time for spring blazer weather.   Just you wait.

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