The Villa

Just a quick post to provide a current status. Right now - I'm staying in what is called "The Villa" - a home in Kuwait City owned by my company. Its pretty nice - and large - and is providing accomodations for myself & 20+ fellow contractors that will be deployed out to various sites around Afghanistan & Iraq. Sure, we're all going to be sleeping in one room, and we still have bunk beds which have become the norm for my stays so far - but, we're off the transient base in Kuwait for a few days, have TV, some nice furniture to sit on, good food and free internet! Now, the internet is nice - when only one person is using it - but we all try to hop on at the same time & it grinds to a halt. SO, I'm continuing to hold off on pictures for now - its just not feasible. Plus, to be honest, most of what I've seen has been pretty boring. Nonetheless, I'll get some pics up when I find a semi-reliable internet connection with moderate speed. I'm thinking I'll make an album or two on Facebook to place all the pics I have up to the point I get to my actual base - and after that will post all future pics here on the blog. As usual, I'm beat tired - so I'm going to sign off for now, kick back & get some sleep.
PS: The weather here in Kuwait is great. Low to mid 70's during the day and mid to upper 50's at night. Yesterday it was hot in the morning, but cooled down quickly as the day wore on. Some hefty winds arrived which caused the blowing sand to mask the sun for the most part. We had light drizzles throughout the day - and even a decent rain shower in the early morning hours. Today was beautiful - but most of it was spent doing training & processing by "the company".