Tonight was the shortest flight I have had in a very long time, .8 tenths of an hour. It started out well until my front seater told me that she could not see anything because her Helmet was not fitted correctly. This can be a big problem when you consider that we fly around in the dark with no lights on and only see things with our right eye. So needless to say we returned to parking and called for some help to meet us at our aircraft. They came out and tried to properly fit her helmet to no avail. So I called tower asked for cold gas and terminated our training flight. Cold gas for those of you who don’t know means that refuelers will bring a fuel truck to our aircraft and refuel it after we shut down. Unlike hot gas which means that we will fly to the FARP pad and they will refuel us with engines and rotors turning at 100%. Not as safe as cold gas but sometimes we don’t have the time to shut all the way down. So after we shut down and did our paperwork it was off to chow. And boy was chow good tonight, prime rib and barbecued ribs and all sorts of wonderful deserts. It was a holiday meal for MLK day and I was glad not to miss it. Funny how things worked out, if she would have not had helmet issues we would have flown right through dinner.
Tomorrow I will try the same flight we will launch at the same time and do the same training and probably in the same aircraft. Some things don’t change too much and I like it when things are a little bit predictable. I watched a good movie tonight I can’t remember the name of it and I already let Joe borrow it and he is in his room with his headphones on so he can’t even hear me asking him what it was called. It was about a 14 year old girl who was killed by her neighbor and she spends the entire movie between worlds, not on earth but not yet in heaven it was pretty good. It was another 1.6 hours that I did not have to spend here in Afghanistan. I have been equating everything to this lately, like the more I sleep the less time I have to spend here and the more time I spend watching movies and TV series the less time that I am actually in Afghanistan. I know I know, this makes no sense but you have to look at it from my side and when it’s all about counting down the days it makes it a little easier to deal with when you still have so many days to count. Tonight I sit here not listening to music but typing and watching my favorite slide show and doing a little reminiscing about old times. Marie some of your old pictures are too cute, I am glad that we scanned so many in I just wish that we would have gotten all of them done. We still have so many slides and pictures to scan in to digital I want to get them all done as soon as I get home. We might even have to outsource the project if it gets too big. I have been taking a lot of pictures and video over here and I try to back it up often because of all the dust and dirt in the air. I would be devastated if something were to happen to my pictures and video before I got home. Most of them are irreplaceable, and I would hate to lose any of them.
Marie you were too cute as a little kid, I see that our parents shopped at the same store for our gym shoes when we were little. I wonder what our kids would say if you bought their gym shoes from K-Mart, I think our 13 year old would go to school barefooted. It’s amazing how things like that just did not matter back then, or maybe it did but we just did not care. I am looking at pictures of Robby when he was a baby and all I can remember is how much fun it was to have him in our lives. His first everything’s and how darn cute he was. We also had lots of pictures of him with his Grandpa; I wish we could have had more of Grandpa in the girl’s photo albums. But The Army took us away from Cincy and thus away from Gramps. Thank goodness Dad was retired and liked to travel if it weren’t for him coming to visit all the time the Girls would have not been able to know him at all. I would like to try to get home from here on out and spend more time with both sides no matter how difficult it can be sometimes when we do it. We owe it to our kids to try to keep them in touch with their relatives the best we can. And you know me our house is always open to whoever wants to come down for a visit. And it doesn’t hurt that we live 30 minutes from one of the southeast coast best vacation spots. I also want to throw some serious pool parties next summer too, as much as I fought not to get a pool put in the back yard I can actually say that I really enjoy having a pool in the yard. Wow once again I get on here trying to talk about what is going on in my life here in Afghanistan and I am pulled to a magical place that I like to call home, Savannah Ga. Well to close, the weather here in Salerno Afghanistan once again today was dry and a high of 70+ and I can’t complain. However I am hearing from some of the contractors that have been here for a year or so that this summer will be HOT, did I mention that it will be HOT, HOT HOT HOT. Oh well I will just have to adjust and get use to it, hopefully there will be no sand knats like in Savannah. Alright I need to get off here and get some sleep tomorrow will be another busy day, night all
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