Sunday, January 09, 2005
I have been lax.
I know, I never update. You can stop sending in all the mail DEMANDING for more posts. It's so hard to keep you satisfied. I'm only one man, ya know.
Let's see, what's new with me? Tons, I guess. I'm here at Camp Virginia, Kuwait. I should be headed up to Baghdad, Iraq on or about the 11th of January. Let's see.. um.. it's sandy here. Lot of sand, yep.. And there's not much to do, though the gym is open 24 hours and I use that a lot... um.. and the chow here sucks. Oh! And I miss real toilets. And I miss my privacy. But really, it's not that bad here. It's mild.. chilly at night, pleasant in the day, generally speaking. The air is dry, which I like. I don't really like staying here in Kuwait because I don't like being en-route somewhere. I want to get where I'm going. I'll be pleased when we reach Iraq, which should be very soon.
The main thing I like about being here, though, is that life is simple. I don't have to worry about bills. I don't have to worry about grocery shopping. I don't have to worry about this, that, or even the other. Most of the drama of day-to-day life I left behind. Now, the fact that I am a city-lovin' boy who likes having TONS of stuff around to do will never change, but being here gives me perspective on why some people choose a simple life. This isn't really a surprise, though. It's what I expected/was hoping for. Simplicity. Even if that simplicity involves hard work and discomfort. It's why I was actually looking foreward to coming here. All that I really concern myself with is getting into better shape and saving money for when I return home.
All that said, I'm sure that within a few months I'll be ACHING to come home. Still, if someone tells me that we're going home early, I'll be upset. But that's because I want to stay here a whole year so that I can make some money for a car and travel and stuff. I want to spend a few days in LA to visit friends and get my stuff out of storage. Then want to go home and buy a new car. Then I want to drive up to northern Illinois to visit a friend of mine, assuming she goes to college there like she's planning to. Then I'll drive home and spend a bit more time there and then drive back to Ft. Bragg when my leave is over. See, that's the plan. I have it mostly worked out already. :-p
We have an opportunity at some point during this year to take some R&R (about 2 weeks) and go somewhere. To anywhere that we wish. While I really want to save the money for when I get home, taking an extra grand or so out and going someplace like Germany, Japan, Italy, or the British Isles does have a strong draw for me though. I'll have to think on it.
If anyone has any advice for me on that matter, feel free to offer it. :-p
Okay, so that's an update. I'll post something more interesting and thought-provoking at a later date.
Let's see, what's new with me? Tons, I guess. I'm here at Camp Virginia, Kuwait. I should be headed up to Baghdad, Iraq on or about the 11th of January. Let's see.. um.. it's sandy here. Lot of sand, yep.. And there's not much to do, though the gym is open 24 hours and I use that a lot... um.. and the chow here sucks. Oh! And I miss real toilets. And I miss my privacy. But really, it's not that bad here. It's mild.. chilly at night, pleasant in the day, generally speaking. The air is dry, which I like. I don't really like staying here in Kuwait because I don't like being en-route somewhere. I want to get where I'm going. I'll be pleased when we reach Iraq, which should be very soon.
The main thing I like about being here, though, is that life is simple. I don't have to worry about bills. I don't have to worry about grocery shopping. I don't have to worry about this, that, or even the other. Most of the drama of day-to-day life I left behind. Now, the fact that I am a city-lovin' boy who likes having TONS of stuff around to do will never change, but being here gives me perspective on why some people choose a simple life. This isn't really a surprise, though. It's what I expected/was hoping for. Simplicity. Even if that simplicity involves hard work and discomfort. It's why I was actually looking foreward to coming here. All that I really concern myself with is getting into better shape and saving money for when I return home.
All that said, I'm sure that within a few months I'll be ACHING to come home. Still, if someone tells me that we're going home early, I'll be upset. But that's because I want to stay here a whole year so that I can make some money for a car and travel and stuff. I want to spend a few days in LA to visit friends and get my stuff out of storage. Then want to go home and buy a new car. Then I want to drive up to northern Illinois to visit a friend of mine, assuming she goes to college there like she's planning to. Then I'll drive home and spend a bit more time there and then drive back to Ft. Bragg when my leave is over. See, that's the plan. I have it mostly worked out already. :-p
We have an opportunity at some point during this year to take some R&R (about 2 weeks) and go somewhere. To anywhere that we wish. While I really want to save the money for when I get home, taking an extra grand or so out and going someplace like Germany, Japan, Italy, or the British Isles does have a strong draw for me though. I'll have to think on it.
If anyone has any advice for me on that matter, feel free to offer it. :-p
Okay, so that's an update. I'll post something more interesting and thought-provoking at a later date.
# posted by Squisher of Scorpions @ 10:16 AM 
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Only one man? And here I was thinking you were at least two..or is it your multiple personalities?
And I echo on the whole...going to college in Illinois. It'd be a plus to see you, of course, but I really want to go to N'western! You'll be doing a lot of driving. How long are you expecting this leave to be? :-p
And I echo on the whole...going to college in Illinois. It'd be a plus to see you, of course, but I really want to go to N'western! You'll be doing a lot of driving. How long are you expecting this leave to be? :-p
We supposedly get a whole 30 days for block leave after we come back, though if I take all of that I'll be going negative into my leave days again. So I might try to trim it down to 20 days or something so that I can visit certain people some MORE at a date not too much further along the timeline. It takes a year to earn 30 leave days so I need to spread them out a little. If I have to take the whole 30 to get it all done, though, I will.
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