Day 62 - Busy Around Here

So its been a busy few days. I have bee helping Weaver setup several commercial Internet satellite dishes around the base. He rents out bandwidth to people so they can have regular Internet. My fee for helping him is that I get Internet for free. I also got a semi-new computer out of the deal. Its a lot of work up front. We had to setup the network and put all the equipment in place. Now we are adding users.

Monday night we had the worst sand storm yet. It came at night but lasted till Wednesday morning. Monday night was so bad, it stirred up the dust in the wooden building I am in. Sand here is nick-named moon dust. It is a fine powder similar to flour. Well, it can set off a smoke alarm. In fact it set off all the smoke alarms in the hallway Monday night. Of course not all at once. I awoke to one going off at 130am. Another some later point of time. Finally the last one went off and I had enough. The other two I got up and shut them down. This last one I laid there for 10 minutes hoping someone else would take a turn. NOPE! So I made sure everyone else shared in my misery. I stomped down the hall (hollow wooden floor) snatched it off the wall and yanked the battery out. Then I tossed it to the ground and stomped back. Yeah, I know, childish, but I was sleep deprived and grumpy!

Tuesday night we had an impromptu Poker game since Chris Knight is going home for vacation. I won again! Seems my luck is kicking back in. I told Chris too bad, I know he had hopes of winning so he had some spending money for the trip.

Tonight I spent some time playing Halo 3 on legendary mode. Man that is a hard game! After that I had some server maintenance to do (YES! I actually had some work to do!!!) Late night but no major issues.

I'll upload a few more pictures later, one Marine got an Easter basket in the mail. I know Mom's are their own person but plastic eggs with stickers to decorate them. This ain't the Marine Corp I expected!?! He also received a chocolate bunny. Well I think it was supposed to be a bunny. It had melted and reformed to the shape of the bag that held it. Mail takes about 2 weeks to reach us here. I don't think it gets an air conditioned ride either!

Enough for now,

Chris