Mother's Day

1512 hours Sunday (11May2008)

Last night I finally got to play another basketball game. I lose some serious sleep when I do this but how can I resist? There’s not much fun stuff to do on this base so when I see basketball I get super excited. I lost both games because the other team had this guy that was decent. There was some trash-talking going on as well. He was 6’2 but I was still pissed. I decided to be the bigger man so I just told him he was ugly. He really was though. True story.

Today I woke up early enough to get into the gym before work today, but I was so hungry that I ended up grubbing’ a little bit instead.

There are concrete sidewalks to walk on around the base, but it’s quicker to cut through to rocky gravel. When the stones get bigger it’s harder to walk so you end up talking the longer, sidewalk routes anyway. Who knew that paved roads and flat sturdy ground was something to be grateful for?


I still got in push-ups and sit-ups before work. From 0200 hours to 0600 hours it was pretty slow. When its dark in the morning and im driving out there by myself it gets pretty lonely. I sing and dance to keep myself entertained. I wonder what comes to mind when these people see that Asian guy driving a forklift through the flight line while singing boyz 2 men, blackstreet, and Britney spears songs.

We try to do some cleaning and then some reading on training materials when it’s slow. I also have to stay away from the food because there’s so much of it there and when we don’t eat it all (and we never do) we end up having to throw it all away. I can’t stand being there when we’re throwing all of that perfectly good food into the trashcans. We do save the lunchmeat, bread and cheeses though. I just feel bad asking for care packages and here we are throwing good food away.

In the morning they had fried rice, or at least someone attempted to make fried rice. It looked like rice mixed in with those multi-veggies that u buy frozen. It wasn’t too bad.

Today was by far the worst day of work I’ve had so far. There were a whole lot of planes coming down all at once and everyone was flustered. I was pissed because we didn’t know what was going on or why were messing up. We have to know exactly what the problem is in order to fix it u know? It’s all good tomorrows another day so we’ll get it done then.

We got off late because of all the screw-ups. There was a BBQ but I forgot about it and went straight to the dorm. I bought new socks because mines are all dirty or with the laundry crew. Then I hopped onto the computer and sent some emails and chatted with Jess and my lil sis. Emailing with everyone back home is really one of the more entertaining parts of my day. I know some folks back home must think im going CRAZY without my cell phone.

I’m going to miss everyone’s college grads and AP’s grad from SEAL training. Im pretty upset about that. Congrats ya’ll. I’m very proud of you guys. I brag about ya’ll all the time out here.

RANDOM: A lot of these people out here have southern accents. You know how some people try to talk to foreign people with FOB words hoping that they might understand them better? Well, I find myself putting that southern accent on some of my words when I talk to these folks out here. Maybe I feel like my words are hitting them a little bit harder that way? I don’t know, its not like I mean to do it.


Well this is more thAn I planned on writing. Is it then or than? Whatever. Peace out ya’ll

Tak