Well, I
was finally able to take most of this Friday off, with the exception of a few
minutes on email. So, what did I do on
my down day today? I slept in! I awoke at about 0730. After a couple cups of coffee, I went over to
the MWR area and ran a few miles on the treadmill followed by a bunch of
push-ups and various forms of ab/core work.
I am feeling much better than I was last week. I’ve run three days so far this week, not
long, about 30 minutes each time, and I’ve been doing the other exercises as
well. Like I said last week, I won’t be
eating at TGI Friday’s again. A
colleague of mine ate at Friday’s the day after I did and he got sick as well. He had to go to the aid station to get
treated for his abdominal discomfort.
So, Terry
told me this week that she just received the card I mailed to wish her a Happy
New Year! I cannot figure it out. It only takes about a week for packages to
arrive from the US but a simple card takes two months to get back to the US.
I leave for
my second R & R on Wednesday. I’ll
be travelling for over 36 hours in order to get home to be with Terry. I’ll first fly from Kandahar to Dubai. I have a 10-hour lay-over in Dubai. Fortunately, I’ll be able to spend the time
in an airport lounge where I’ll be able to eat a little, nap, read, and access
the internet. Then I board the 14-hour
United flight to Washington/Dulles.
Since United has no flights from Dulles to Manchester on Thursday, I have
to fly home through Chicago, adding a few hundred miles and 3.5 hours to the
trip. I’ll finally arrive in Manchester
late on Thursday afternoon.
I plan to
bring home a suitcase full of clothes and winter gear I either no longer need
here or never used while I was here. My
ultimate goal will be to leave here in August with just a small backpack of
belongings so I am going to start reducing the amount of “stuff” I have
here. I will need my cold weather
clothes still in New Hampshire anyway.
The daytime temperatures here are now approaching 80 every day and we’ve
turned on the air conditioning in my office building.
I am really
looking forward to just relaxing at home with Terry during this R & R. I suspect we’ll go out to dinner
occasionally, maybe take in a show or something but just hanging out together
is on top of the to-do list. I’ll have
to do our tax return while I am home and it is time for Mikey to begin
preparing for his move to New Zealand.
NZ has strict animal importation laws and they still require a period of
quarantine. If Mikey’s paperwork is all
in order, he’ll only be locked up for ten days, but we have to start six months
before he travels to have everything together.
I will
probably not post anything while I am home so you can expect my next post to be
published on about April 12th.
Until then…
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