The morning blah blah blog..

I am sitting in my temporary, very nice, office having my morning cup of tea. I am surrounded by coffee drinkers and smokers. Or tobacco chewers. It's like being in a scene from "Deliverance."  0600 here, no shower, unshaved, teeth unbrushed just enjoying the quiet morning. This is usually when I skype with E but she is just back from Hawaii, so we'll talk later.
Went out and about on the base yesterday. Went over to Bastion, the RAF base {sound of Bob doing Wing Commander impression} in the clinic pick up truck. It's a big American Toyota with left hand drive so, of course I did the "windshield wiper for turn signal"  trick. Great, when it get back to KAF I'll be doing that for a couple of days. My poor Exporer will be so confused by me when I get home."Why is he sitting in my passenger seat? And leave the damn windshield wipers alone, it ain't raining, dumbass." Dissed by my own beloved vehicle, what a drag. Plus I'll be doing 20mph on the roads. While out I bought a new coffe mug and the Lonely Planet Afghanistan tour book. It was funny, they are not allowed to sell it in Dubai. There is an official guide for UAE but I searched everywhere for the Lonely planet guide, they had them for everywhere but for here and there. Not that I'm interested in being a tourist. Actually I am. It sucks that we don't get to go to town. I wanted to look up the local birds. I asked about a bird book and they just stared at me. I know that there are "bird nerds" as I call them here. They're just hiding. I think maybe we sent them to the Taliban so that  they would bore them to death. "Please Sir, please, please  stop arguing about the plummage of the Ruddy vs. Common Shelduck..." Anyway I'm off to the shower. Cheers.......