Stream of Conscience

What to Say…
I realize that I haven’t posted anything in awhile, so I’ll ramble on for awhile and hopefully hit something close to a theme…
I went to the blog page today and couldn’t figure out how to log on because everything on the banner was in Arabic. I must have changed my location somewhere in the profile and it just assumed I wanted Arabic as my language…I’ll try and figure out how to even post this, let alone change the language back to English.
Things are going well. The guys have adapted VERY well to our less aggressive mission. It’s tough to maintain a relaxed and friendly posture, while maintaining the ability to switch back to lethality literally the second it’s required.
How ‘bout them Packers? Wow. They have looked so good the last couple of months. Of the three teams left that aren’t the Patriots, I think the Packers are the only one who have a decent chance of beating the Patriots. I’m not laying even money on it of course, but the Packers CAN beat them. I know I am looking past the Giants, I can’t imagine the Giants winning. I was chatting with my brother Jer today and we were talking about where losing to the Giants would rank in our most painful moments in Packers history. We came up with seven very specific moments, and we’ll try and boost that to ten and publish that list. We can vote on it and come up with the rankings for those moments.
As far as the weather today, I bet there are a few Packers who wish the Giants hadn’t beaten the Cowboys last week…maybe some Giants as well ;) According to one website I found… At wind-chill temperatures of -18, skin will develop frostbite if exposed for more than 30 minutes.
So have fun with that.
Went for a run today. Second time in the last few days, both about 4 miles. I have found some nice routes, both around lakes here on the FOB. Today’s route took me past palace after palace. It’s pretty neat to see these gorgeous buildings now being used as barracks or unit headquarters. I always feel better after a run and I am proud that I’ve been able to shrug off the aches and pains of wearing heavy gear for seven hours a day to then go running. I need to start working out as well, but right now I’m happy with running a bit. One downside to running outside as opposed to on a treadmill in the gym is that I can’t wear headphones outside. Listening to music has always helped me when I run. It helps me ignore the boring monotony of running and also helps me keep up a quicker pace by listening to fast paced music.
I have been borrowing my buddies TV for the last couple of weeks to watch the Packers games. One nice perk of AFN is the commercials. If I told you there were no commercials, that would be true, but inaccurate. There are instead Public Service Announcements. Imagine you and your co-workers made a commercial espousing the merits of Safety. How awesome would that be? Suffice to say there are not a lot of them that aren’t painful. Plus, there are not a lot of them made, since who wants to make these painful TV spots? So you see those same ones over and over. Making even the good ones painful…
Well, according to my clock the official local time as expressed in military date time group, it is 201939CJAN2008 and the game is on at 210030CJAM2008, so I might try and take a nap and wake up for the game.
Chow,
Adam