Never Learn

I'm a person who never realizes what I have until something changes. Pretty much this whole deployment has been slow and myself and the other guys kept talking about how much we would prefer to be busy. Well we've been out every night this week and again tonight, its 0130 here and we should be out within the hour. So grabbing sleep has been in random increments throughout the day, but so far I've gotten not more than 3 hours at once. Hopefully the locals will settle down a bit again and I can go back to sleeping and watching movies. Despite the sleeplessness this past week has been fun and makes being over here not feel like a waste of time.

Heres to a quick mission and, if nothing changes, two straight days of sleep.

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I'm going to use this week to complain about the Twins. The Central is not good and yet the Twins will be lucky to stay ahead of the Indians the way things are going.

Should be getting out a few times this coming week to visit the locals. We took last week off which was cool with me. Other than that I slept wrong on my shoulder and I think I have a pinched nerve or something and early last week I pulled a calf muscle. So all in all I'm feeling old and falling apart. I blame not dipping and for the sake of my health I may start again...inner debate I'll let you know who wins.

Not much else.

P.S. The Vikes looked good. Due to that peformance I predict 14-2 and a Super Bowl win.

The Locals

Its an odd sensation to be surrounded by people who seem to idolize you yet you don't trust a single one. We've been working at training them a bit but thats like trying to teach a autistic dolphin to walk on land. Plus they spend half the time trying to touch me, I think they do it to be friendly but its creepy. Bro I have a large personal space bubble please respect that.

But they are nice and while you cannot trust them at some point you have to trust someone and hopefully they prove you wrong...I sincerely hope they do. Overall they might not be able to win a war but they are doing a good job at policing themselves. Which will hopefully get some more of our soldiers home that much sooner.

Less than 90 days left.

Good luck to the Henne's, this week should be fairly exciting for them.

So the big news for myself is I have now gone a month without chewing tobacco. I've haven't said anything preiously because over the past 12 years I've "quit" about 250 times. But since I can't buy it out here it makes it a little easier. Pretty much the only time it gets tough is when we play vids but other than that its cool. Plus I made a promise to an angry little woman in Virginia and you don't want to be on her bad side. Other than that slow week. Never left the base. But its already August so it getting the light in the tunnel is getting closer.

Peace.