Almost ready for R&R

Well, it's been a while since I blogged.  I'm getting ready to go on R&R so I'm trying to get all my projects in order before I go.  So what's happened since the last time I was on here:

 

WAR EAGLE!!!  Yep, I got up in the middle of the night to watch the Auburn Tigers put a whoopin' on the Gamecocks.  Of course everyone was tired of me talking about it so they had to haul a fellow Auburn Man in from Qalaal House to talk football with me just to get it out of my system. 

 

 

 

Had another round of outside the wire site visits.  I met with my LNQA, KTR and District Minister of Education at one of my project sites.  The District Minister of Education was a little upset that we didn't let him know we were coming.  I guess the part about not giving people the advance notice to round up the local taliban never crossed his mind.  Of course, a few days later the LNQA failed his CI Interview and had to be escorted off the base.  He's no longer allowed on the FOB.  I don't know if the interviewer was being over cautious or right on the money, still working that issue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

COL Magness came down for a visit.  Project reviews and tours.  All went well, nothing to exciting to say.

 

 

 

Dinner tonight was provided by an Afghan guy that we know who owns the bakery.  They made rice, bread, vegetables and goat.  It was excellent!!  I'm not sure how the goat was made, but it was probably simmered somehow all day because it was really tender.  So far my stomach has handled everything Afghanistan has thrown my way, hoping tomorrow won't be any different :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOME FRONT NEWS:

 

For those of you who have kids, you probably know what the "Elf on the Shelf" is.  If you don't know what it is, it's basically an elf that sits on a shelf.  Every night he returns to Santa to let him know if you have been good or bad and returns to a different shelf the nexdt day. 

 

The elf that visits our house is named Fisbee.  My son has seen Fisbee as a direct challenge to his free-wheelin' good spirit.  The first night he was a little weary of Fisbee, but willing to accept that Santa's good will lay through this elf.  The next night, he started yelling at the elf to go to sleep and quit watching everything he did.  The third night, he had it all figured out.  He told Katy, "You know what I think?!?!?!?!  I think that is not even a real elf, it's just decoration!!"