19 Days In...

Well, I have been really bad about keeping up my blog...sorry.  I just bought an SD card reader.  So, I can finally post pics again. 

Here are a couple updates:

I am still waiting for my day-to-day job to get rolling...if all goes as planned, it should be an awesome experience.  If not, ummmm....I guess it will be on to something else.  In the mean time, I am keeping myself busy with small projects and helping other people in the office.  The work is very interesting, but I have no real focus right now.  Which, as you can imagine, is kinda frustrating.

It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to keep in touch with my family.  I am very thankful for that, and I think that will help the year fly by -- or at least creep faster.

I am finally in a good work out routine.  Although, I am either getting old or just weak from years of inconsistency.  Either way, I am getting back in the game.

In the true spirit of any deployment, we are having a mustache growing contest (you might be able to see my peach fuzz in the pic below).  We are calling it Awesome Mustache August.  I am definitely at the back of the pack right now, but I plan to take the lead soon.  :)  Well, probably not, but it will be fun anyway.

Finally, we are having an office BBQ on Saturday.  I am going to try my best to make this deployment fun.  It is a bit challenging though as I am the new guy full of great ideas to keep everyone busy.  In some cases, it is hard to break through the walls of people stuck in routines for the last 8-9 months.  I am going to do my best to get people involved...this tour will suck if all we do is work and sleep.  YUCK!!!  I can't do it that way.

Now that I have the capability to download pics again, I will keep making updates. 

Here is a pic of me on the deck located inside our compound.  It is actually pretty awesome...a great cigar smoking location.  There are beautiful mountains behind me...but they got washed out for some reason.  However, you can seem them in the pics below.

This is what was behind me in the pic above...we are totally surrounded by mountains.  I cannot wait until they are snow capped during the winter.

 Grabbed a pic of a helo landing at the base.

Another pic from the deck looking at the mountains in the distance.