crazy week

Time for another weekly report and I have to admit this has been a crazy week for me. To set the pace this week was evening shifts, so I was working noon to nine. Making it to fencing was tight but its not far from were I work. When we get evening shift we are the only one on for the last four hours so it can be really dead or really busy. I got about equal amounts this week and alot of the busy was cause by some departments going to reduce manning for new years.

For the First time ever i went to a gym other then to fix a computer, actually twice this week, spent a -hour with a trainer each time. I kept telling my self last time I was here to go like some bad new year resolution you know your never going to do but this time I making it a point. The first trip was just covering the basics of warm up and stretching and the second trip was yesterday and he put me threw the paces on weight training.

I was going to be a keener and go again today on my own but when i got up this morning well its better to say when i tried to get up this morning and failed. My arms and legs are on revolt, so i think its best to take it easy today. The goal is to fence three times a week and go to the gym three times a week and rest on the seventh. (Insert biblical joke here)

You really start thinking of health when you are here. Another tent mate of mine had to be sent home in a hurry due to heart issues. I have mentioned in the pass how this place is dirty and unhealthy, but its is a very dusty place and so very hard on the system. I'm just happy that i got clean clothes as one of the rocket attacks this week hit the laundromat. Lucky enough they got that back up and running in a few days as if nothing happened.

We also lost electricity for a day. This was not from the rockets but the fact that most of the wiring here not really designed for the loads we put it under. The military can really lay out infrastructure in a rush but not in a way to that’s meant to last the long hall or deal with the rate things have expanded. In military fashion the same day as the power went out a fork lift came along and dropped a truck size diesel generator at the end of my tent row, electrician connected it to one of the big breaker boxes and we are back up again.

It's nice to have power back and my clock is running correct, my little alarm clock was losing two or three minutes a day under the old power sources. Fun with technology, i have been on the ground about three weeks and already have a stack of projects on the go. From making a web page for my network share to updating a corporate website that has yet to be posted I had hoped to do some of my own little projects but they have been a bit side lined, I got marked as a person who can get things done when prodded.

Any way that was my week in a nutshell minus a lot of the frustrating stuff that would bore people. I hope this is a good year for every one.