Kosovo Video

For those of you who did not catch the beach boys reference last time, here is a video for you.

Nothing

I got nothing today. It is slowly getting colder here. I need a haircut but I don't want to get one cause then my head will be cold.

I finished a string of byzantine and turned it into a necklace. I have been wearing it cause I am too lazy to take it off. I need to figure out a clasp for it. I got about 3/4th's of the front of my chainmail shirt done. I have started on the shoulder area. I don't have enough material here to finish it though, so I will have to order some or wait until I get home. Just another day in paradise here. I think I hear the beach boys...

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Dark

This sucks! It is 1630L and dark already! WTF is wrong with that? I'm not talking about the sun is going down, I'm talking the streetlights have come on and where they aren't it is pitch black. Why does the sun have to start going down at 1530L? This is going to be a long winter I think.

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Kosovo

Well after a very uncomfortable flight from Atlanta to Frankfurt and then a search all over Frankfurt's airport trying to find Malev Airlines(Thank God I didn't have to get all my bags and shuffle them around with me, they actually got transferred all the way here)and then an uncomfortable flight to Budapest, a very fast run through Budapest Airport to make my connecting flight to Pristina, I made it.

Surprisingly my bags all made it as well. They were the first ones on the conveyor belt too. What does that tell you? They almost didn't make the flight to Pristina! Anyway, my sponsor and another guy met me right outside the airport by calling out my name before I ever saw them. Seems strange seeing USAF guys wearing 9MM Beretta's at a commercial airport in a former eastern bloc country. Tomorrow I get to be one of the guys carrying while we take the guy I am replacing to the airport so he can go home. He is going home a different route. Pristina to Switzerland to Paris to Atlanta. Maybe I'll get that route when I leave as well. Put some more pins in the map.

The weather here when I got off the plane was dick shriveling cold even with a winter coat on. It warmed up today although it has been very windy. I am actually glad that I had to bring all the cold weather gear the USAF issued me. I think I am going to need it.


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Leaving Again

Tomorrow I leave to go overseas again. I hate that i have to leave my family once again. I had planned to retire at the end of this year and then we could actually live together, something we haven't done since we got married. At least I know there is an end in sight. I will be putting in my retirement paperwork while I am over there. So that when I come back I will only have 2 months or so until I start my terminal leave. Then I will get a job and hopefully make enough money to be happy.

I am selling my Envoy as well. I don't want to make payments for 6 months and then try to trade it in with as many miles as it has. Might as well sell it now and save the payments for a down payment on one when I get back.

Also I have to take 4 bags of military stuff with me to Kosovo. None of them are light, and I am required to take all of them. I fly out of Atlanta to Frankfurt where I will undoubtedly have to get my bags and transfer them to another airline, going through security with them again. From Frankfurt I fly to Budapest, and then on to my final destination of Pristina. From Frankfurt on I am flying Malev Airlines so hopefully I won't have to transfer my bags anymore.

Mud is going to stay with Gorgeous for Thanksgiving, but her mother wants her for Christmas break. I am hoping that she doesn't try to keep her after that. Mud is doing so good here that I don't want anything to happen to stop it. She had a "friend" over last night for Halloween. We had to have a talk with Mud about acting appropriately with "friends" since she was hanging all over him. Told her if she ever wanted to have "friends" over again it won't happen anymore. She was also forbidden from visiting him at his house. I was good though, I didn't shoot him, or hang him by his thumbs. Thought about doing that to Mud, but I refrained.

Time for me to go try to cram some clothes in those damn green bags.

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