It has been a while since I have last posted. I received a new boss in September and two of our staff members left the team. One was transferred to another job and another was sent home early. The Ft. Hood shootings had occurred at the same time we were processing the paperwork to send this soldier home for personality and behavior issues. I guess that I just didn't feel like writing for a while. I am not sure if my muse was involved in an IED incident or I had a case of writers block. Maybe it's because I am the primary writer for our department and I need a break. Also, I don't want to post something excessively negative so I decided to wait for a while. Time has become a factor because I don't have a half day anymore. I am panning to start posting again and I have taken lots of notes and I will write more once I have time to reflect in Kuwait later next month.
Thanksgiving was the first day that really felt like a holiday. We were given the entire day off! I wore my Navy sweats all day long (we can only wear our uniform or PT uniform). In late October, the weather cooled down almost overnight. The lows are in the upper 40's and low 50's. We even had to turn the heater on. KBR put on a fantastic spread for lunch, complete with butter and ice sculptures. After lunch I went to one of our civilian's apartments and played XBOX 360 and a board game called Settlers of Catan. I went back for a light dinner and watched football until 2:00 AM, the Cowboys had a great game BTW. Since football season has started we have started keeping unusual hours. We have pushed back our start time in the morning and most people stay up to midnight or 1:00 AM. It should be interesting to see if this continues after football season is over. I think that another reason for the strange hours is that most of the military works until 9:00 PM everyone needs a little time to wind down.
Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes and the great R&R last month. I plan on writing about my R&R time in a later post.
