sunday

we've been here over a month now, and we're starting to settle into our groove. it's nice. sundays are our sort-of days off. that is as long as nothing big happens. we're mostly through the day and nothing big's happened. of course, now that i've said that....

anyway, it was a fun day. i got to sleep in, take my time in the shower, play some volleyball....

the living conditions here are the nicest i've encountered (when deployed). we get to stay in nice mortar proof buildings. they make long hallway looking rooms that we use plywood to separate. my room houses 6 people and we've divided up the space 6 ways. that leaves me with a nice 10' x 10' box. considering how un-picky i am, that makes this pretty close to my ideal room.

if there was one thing i could change, i'd try finding a way to make it darker. the lights are controlled by 2 switches on either end of the hall. the 'walls' of plywood don't go all the way to the ceiling to allow the temperature control units (also on either end of the hall) to do their job. so the lights shine down into the room regularly. nothing kills your night vision like those lights. on moonless nights, i either have to take a light, or wait a couple minutes before going anywhere. it's rather annoying, and makes me feel less secure being 'blind' like that. for a while, i tried using my night vision goggles, but then there's this big bulky thing on your head and there's no peripheral vision on those things.

well, it's almost dinner time so i'm gonna run.