It's a jungle out there, but in a good way

People have told me that folks leave here broke. Hard to imagine making all this money with nothing to spend it on and leaving with nothing. Two words: E Bay. Or, actually, Amazon.com. Point, click, shop, ship. Oh shit, I 'm broke.  Our version of late night retail therapy. The home shopping network of Afghanistan. I have been a shopping fool lately. I bought an autoclave on line but they can't ship it here, so it was sent home. Poor E, she had to shlep this monstrosity to the post office. Some things can come to our APO, some can't. Some people insist on using UPS instead of USPS. What can Brown do for me? Not a damn thing. Unless you want to pay three times the shipping cost.
We love out 5.11  pants here. I had a couple of pairs already from the state disaster team uniform as well as one pair of BDU type pants from the federal team. I like the 5.11 pants better, more pockets. The BDU pants have two big pockets but stuff falls out of them, like my camera, which I have lost. I searched everywhere for it, and came to the conclusion that it had slipped out of my pants. Along with a small pair of glasses. Not to worry, all of the pics had been downloaded to my computer, anyway. I  loved that camera. And it had a large storage card in it. To the internet, Batman. Oh, a hell of a deal on a slightly used one from Amazon. "Sign on to buy this with one click," the website says. "One click Caplin," that's me. And they ship to an APO, sweet. Hmm while I'm here I will order some socks that have been recommended to me for my trench foot feets. And let's see, drink mix and what else...?  Ok some pens and a "remain calm and carry on" poster. That ought to do it.
I was sitting in Karki's room for our nightly debrief and noticed that his dressing cabinet was next to his bed so he can push his desk chair out of the way next to the wall. What a brilliant idea. There are so many reasons that I love that man. I immediately went back to my room and pushed mine closer to my bed and pushed my chair out of the way into it's new "garage space." What a difference. It was like having a brand new room; no more move the chair and move the chair again and go around the chair at night to pee. Had to do some minor rearranging and cleaning up of stuff to make room next to my bed. And what to my eyes did see? My camera. Under the bed, next to my glasses. Yep they fell out of my pocket all right. Zoom back onto Amazon, only to be greeted by a "your order has been shipped" cheerful message. Anyone want to buy a camera? I can only ship parcel post though...