Wednesday 23MAR2011

IDk why but for some reason I don't feel like being on camera tonight so I decided I'd just type it today. This morning I woke up at 0700 and got ready to run and then went over and woke up Sgt Dow and he got ready. We ran 3 miles with 30/60s the last half. We ended up at a pretty good pace, although I don't know exactly what the pace was. I then showered and went to work.

We were ready squad today so all morning I was on the computer, playing dominoes, and doing other things then after lunch we took our Humvee in and it had so many problems they just decided to do the annual service on it which wasn't due until next month but that way they would get all the problems taken care of.

When I got back I put away my helmet and almost immediately got a ride home. I spent the rest of the afternoon surfing the internet and then went to singing practice. Singing practice for the 1830 service was frustrating because first they were late getting the music so we only had a half hour and they used the time to nitpick songs I knew instead of learning the ones I don't know so two of the songs Chaplain White requested I haven't even gone over so I have to learn them from the iTunes version I downloaded. The practice for the morning service went over fairly well overall but there were only a few of us so we didn't even use microphones. It was pretty fun it had a campfire singing feel to it with all of us gathered around the guitarist.

After singing I went to the Moral Courage Movie Night. The movie was The Pursuit of Happyness. It was pretty nice. After that I came home and I've been trying to contact Lydia but I think her phone is dead or something. I'm trying to decide whether to go to midnight chow because I missed dinner.
Thanks for reading. 

Tuesday, 22MAR2011

Monday, 21MAR2011

Sunday, 20MAR2011

My first vlog attempt.

I realized after I filmed this that some things weren't clear so instead of redoing it I just decided to put some clarifications here. We weren't actually working with another unit, just another squad.
"Get suited up"- Put on body armor, helmets, gloves, safety glasses, and I wear a scarf for the dust.
"Outside the wire"- Anywhere outside of a US base.

Friday 18MAR2011

This morning I got woken up at 0815 by Sgt Dow letting me know I had to be up there at 0900, a change from yesterday when I was told 1300. I got up and got dressed and was about to leave when Sgt Dow came back and told me we were on standby so I started my Bible reading. I did my complete goal for my Bible reading today and then fell asleep. I woke up at 1200 and was going to go to lunch but the next thing I knew I was waking up at 1245 and had to leave to work. I got to work and was told to wash a vehicle so I went outside but no one else was out there so I went back inside and noticed some people were eating lunch so I went to the lunchroom but they were cleaning up already, I was too late. So I didn't eat breakfast or lunch.

I went out and washed our vehicle and got my backpack and I drove Sgt. Dow. Our job today was advance party or advon. Advon is where Sgt. Dow checks the next location and makes sure either the meeting is still on and where or that the plane is on time etc. Our first location was a helipad and then Al Faw Palace, which is where most meetings happen here. After that we went to the airport. For some reason he was flying on an airline that flies all the civilian contractors so while we waited all I saw were people with cool hair, beards, and civilian clothes. It made me really want to go on R&R leave. Also while I was there I saw a truck with an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers sticker in the back. That is the union of which my dad is a member.

After that I came back to the JVB and had supper. After that we got released and I came back and texted with my mom, dad, sister, and two of my brothers, plus Lydia. I had good conversations with all of them. After that I wrote this.

Thursday 17MAR2011

This is going to be my shortest blog yet but since I'm trying to make it a habit I figured I'd type something anyway.

Today I slept until a little after 1300. When I finally did wake up I went to the bathroom and then returned to my CHU where I listened to worship music for a while and then put on the CrossFit Radio podcast while attempting to organize my CHU.

At 1800 I showered and put on clean PTs and got ready for Bible study. A lot of us got to Bible study early so we had some nice fellowship time. The Thursday night Bible study is studying the attributes of God. Tonights attribute was Holiness.

After Bible study I went to the DFAC and got 2 ham and swiss sandwiches and brought them back to my CHU and ate them while surfing the web. Eventually my girlfriend got on Skype and we were chatting and she reminded me to blog.