THE MOVE HAS BEGUN

Well, it is official, we are no longer posted on that mountain. They are going to relocate us to a more active area. I am both excited and frustrated by this. I was just starting to get things situated here. Ordering lumber to build a hooch, getting lumber for an out house, and had a line on a generator for power. Now we have to start all over again.

The weather here went to crap the last few days. It has done nothing but rain here for 2 days now. Our tent is holding up pretty well considering the amount of rain we have endured. The water that is getting us is coming up through the ground. I have put down some plywood to walk on and now it is paying off in spades. I got my guys together and gathered some scrap lumber that was left over from some of the building projects, last month, when we first moved here. Since then, others have moved into our tent and now they are scrambling for some plywood to do the same at their part of the tent. LOL

I could say that I am counting the days before I go home, but, that would be a lie. I have found that if you just bury yourself in work, the time goes by much faster. The more dead lines you have the less time there is. The last time I was here, '05-'06, I had five jobs assigned to me. I was in charge of the HQ section, the local national liaison, the security NCOIC, the Company motor SGT, and the local carpenter who build what ever the unit needed to have built. On the side, I was the go to guy when anyone needed anything. ( I had some really good connections). All I know is that we arrived in May and I woke up one day and it was April and time to go home. It did not even seem like a month, much less a year.

Here, it is kind of going the same way. I have been here for over a month and I do not know where the time has gone. I am kind of upset that I am not always busy here. I have only one job here and that is not helping. Once we get our B-hut, I am going to be busy building beds, desks and cabinets, so that will keep me occupied as well. And now that we have Internet on a more steady basis, I am going to spend some time reading the latest news and checking my stocks. Watching them plummet like the Titanic with BHO at the helm. I can only hope that the country survives because I am sinking a lot of money into my Mutual Fund and am getting the shares at a really deep discount. So when the economy finally recovers, the $12,000+ I will have invested should triple or more. Assuming that it goes back to what the Bush Administration had as a high or higher.

Well, it is time to go do something. I will write again soon.