Saturday, July 4, 2009

Day After Day

One of the truly delightful things about the Army is that I am not important as an individual. I am on my 4th day stuck in Kuwait. What overcommitted American worker could get paid for sitting and doing nothing for four days. And it looks like I will be here at least till Monday. I get paid the same for working or for doing nothing if my orders tell me to do nothing. And they do.

So I am sitting in a coffee shop writing about doing nothing and trying to decide what to do next. Should I read in my tent and then go to dinner? Should I go to dinner? Should I shoot a game of pool at the recreation tent before or after dinner? Decisions, decisions. I am going to bed early because I am going to get up at 3am and work out at the cardio gym. It's open 24 hours and beginning at 3am will have a live broadcast of the Daytona NASCAR race. My iPod is in Tallil so if I work out at any other time I will have to watch baseball, golf, or tennis. So I can watch the Daytona night race then clean up for Church, then come back at 11am and watch the Tour de France while I cross train on the elliptical.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 4, 2009 at 1:35 PM

    For July 4th, in your mom's memory, I will be enjoying one of her favorite foods. Potato salad. I'll also be doing a lot of other stuff, but thought I'd share the P.S. with you.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 5, 2009 at 10:16 AM

    Neil,
    Hurry up and wait! My Mom used to describe her WW II nursing experiences that way.
    You are bearing it well.
    Jan

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  3. SarahJuly 7, 2009 at 9:56 AM

    Tony Stewart won... I cannot stand that man, sorry! :-) I'm a Jeff Gordon girl through and through.

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