Ramblings about nothing in particular

Happy Cinco de Mayo… There are margaritas in the plaza, but that started an hour ago (when I was supposed to get off). Likely by now they are gone. Oh well. Maybe I’ll go for the flamenco dancers or something.

Today was another blah day. Nothing exciting at all. I’ve yet to feel I’ve accomplished something, other than that wedding story, that has made any difference here. That’s frustrating… but I also know that in a couple of weeks my boss will be gone and possibly I’ll have a chance to spend my time at work doing productive things instead of worrying about how the slides that nobody will see line up. I should be resentful that I’m in “austere” (he said with a smirk) living conditions so far from home doing things that don’t even remotely contribute to the war effort, however I’m not. I keep in the back of my head that I’m not fully in the mix here after only 2 weeks and that there is hope of these piddley tasks falling off when Col Retro is replaced. Does that make me a positive person? That’d be a first…

Last night I discovered the library… There was an entire wall of DVDs there and you’re allowed to check out 2 for free at a time. I checked out Erin Brockovich and Laws of Attraction. After my run last night… I settled into the movie.

Speaking of my run… I split up my work out. I discovered the gym on this side of the base and that it is easy to just take my uniform top off and lift weights there for 30 minutes and then run later at night when it is bearable. Great plan… I am all about easy. If it isn’t easy logistically, I’m less likely to do it. I’m going to do this routine every other day, and then on my days off to do a great big work out on the mainside gym which has the better equipment. I’ve been doing this plan for a couple of days now and I’m sore as hell. But I want to go back looking better than I do now… I talk to people here who have lost 30 lbs and others who have gained 10… it is either one or the other… I am eating more here… That might be my demise. The food here is good and it is easy to eat – see that logistics thing again… it is free and it is close.

I did have a thought I wanted to explore here, but I don’t feel like typing so much right now so I’ll just mention it. My screen name being smallwerld… I always say “It’s such a small world.” Just one of my perceptions… well, my smallwerld from yesterday bumping into that guy I met once in Florida ages ago got even smaller… out of a base of 6,000 people, his room is 2 doors down from me. Could it be any smaller a world?

So mom made me feel like crap today by reminding me that I should probably email grandma… I can’t believe I didn’t think to do so. Our family support folks told me I should give my nearest relative contact info for my work back home because most people call work and forget to call home… I was like, what dumb ass would do that? But now I find myself not having emailed grandma… oops. Every now and then I’ll go in my email address book and email somebody random… but I usually scroll down the names till I find somebody I’ve not emailed yet… well, I’ve not gotten to the “S’s” yet for them so I guess I didn’t think about it. Oops… so emailed grams. Cut and pasted old blogs since I’m sure she doesn’t read these so it looked like a way long and interesting email. I left out the one about the bathroom goings-on. Mom didn’t like that one either because she gave my blog to her friends… sorry mom’s friends!

Breakfast: Eggs, Bacon, Pancakes, OJ, Banana

Lunch: Shrimp creole and green beans

Dinner: chicken salad and rocky road ice cream… I tasted the rice pudding, but it isn’t anything as good as mom’s… ptooey.

Off to flamenco’s and margaritas. Ciao.