Another week in the history books

It is now Sunday morning and I am getting to rest for a change. I was going to be building a new project called the "Alamo Cafe," but, it is raining. So I decided to use my day off as an actual day off. Normally I use my day off as a shorter than usual day. So on my days off I only work about 10-12 hours. Not this day. I plan to not work more than 4-6 hours and even that, only because I have some pressing issues to deal with. Otherwise, I would not have gotten out of bed.

We cannot seem to get a reliable weather report to save our lives out here. It seems that they cannot accurately predict tomorrow’s weather today more than about 25% of the time. And they are trying to tell us that 20 years from now we are going to boil to death from this global warming thing. Actually, I just saw a new mantra. In the 70's it was "Global Cooling, the second Ice Age" in the 90's "Global warming" and now, wait for it, wait for it, "Global Climate Change." Shoot, all you have to do to prove that one, is wait an hour (unless you are in Texas, then it is only 5-10 minutes) and YES THE CLIMATE CHANGED. What a surprise. They had to use a new mantra because they just discovered that the world did not get any hotter over the last 3 years. In fact, I just read a report that it actually cooled down a 1/4 of a degree. Besides, who is to say what the temperature of the earth should be. We just know what "we" would like for it to be, not what it is supposed to be.

Anyway, back to Afghanistan. Here, the weather is about to get much hotter. We are entering the "100 day winds." Every year, around this time, we start getting strong winds that kick up a lot of sand and stuff into the air. It usually lasts; you guessed it, around 100 days. Then, the summer heat kicks in. We are actually experiencing it right now. And, in about 2 months, the heat will set in and it will calm down again. It does not get too much over the 120's here. Usually stays in the 110's or lower. The evenings get down in the 70's or low 80's so it is not too bad. All you have to do is drink lots of water and all is well. It also helps you lose weight.

It seems that almost everyone here has lost over 15 Lbs. I have talked to some guys that said they have lost over 45 Lbs since they got here. This is, despite the really awesome food that is served here. This is mostly because we walk everywhere and drink lots of water. The ones that have lost the most are usually the ones that do not drink the soda here, just water with the flavor packets. I was down to 170's and am now back up to 180 or so. Not bad, considering that I was just less than 200Lbs when we left to come here. I have not done any PT for a while and it is starting to show. I am going to start a work out plan next week, once I get some things done and have more time.