A Year In The Sandbox

Why didn’t anybody tell me this site looked all jacked up in Internet Explorer?? I use Firefox and everything looked fine to me, but our personal internet was down for a little while today so I used a NIPR machine to check on things here and saw that it looked like a hot mess. [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about this trip for a while, it’s been almost 2 weeks since we went, and I’m finally getting around to it.
Doggie named Mazique
We were going to check out a couple sites for future schools at some villages in the Achin district. We found the first village no problem, but we [...]

2 girls, no shoes
The other day we took a drive down to Rodat to check out a clinic and assess a couple sites for future clinics. The trip was relatively uneventful except for the kids outside the existing clinic. It’d been a while since the last time we were in Rodat, so the kids were [...]

Yesterday we went up to the Goshta district to check out some road construction, a wall, a school, a mosque and meet with the district sub-governor. This trip was the first one I drove a vehicle on. I drove the trail truck, an 1151 Hummer. It was a long drive, almost 3 hours each way, [...]

Last Wednesday I was leaving the chow hall after dinner headed back to the office when the Civil Affairs Captain grabbed me and asked if I wanted to go on a long mission Friday. I said, “Sure, how long is it?” expecting to hear 14 or 16 hours, and he said “3 days”. Ok… Whatever, [...]