1000 Visitors Club

It took a while, but I have finally reached 1000 visitors. It has been a while since I last posted, but there wasn't much to write about. I guess with the mail picking up, I haven't had time to think about things to write about. In the last week we have seen three days where we have had 9 pallets of mail. It has been taking up our whole day pretty much. We do take about an hour break to fit in some lunch, but other than that, it has been taking about 5 to 6 hours to complete the whole day's mail operations. Just a little stat I though I'd throw out there... We got crazy one day and calculated that over the course of our year-long deployment, we will have handled and distributed over 6 million pounds of mail for our unit. Today we had a few guests tag along. I'm not sure how many of you watch 10/11's "One Soldier's Story", but the folks from our Public Affairs Office at Anaconda followed me around, filming my day to see what a day in the life of a truck driver turned mail man is like. On Tuesday, I will be interviewed via satellite by someone from the 10/11 News station. They will then take a few days to put their story together, and I am told it should air on Sunday evening. So be on the lookout for that. I am pretty excited about it. I am somewhat disappointed because they only shot until 1030. We had barely started sorting by that time, but there is much more to our day than what they had captured. We have an hour and a half time period set up for the units to drive up and pick up their mail. Overall, I was glad I had the opportunity to do it, to show all of you what my daily duties are like over here.
Our basketball team, D-Block Shooters, bounced back from our 0-1 start and are currently sitting at the top of our district and 3rd in our conference with a 5-1 record. We have a little work to do as most of our wins have come from 4th quarter comebacks. In our last game, we fought back as we were down 17 pointsto win by four in overtime. We also need to get some depth in our team. Since the start of the season, we have lost 3 players due to injuries and just straight up quitting. We did, however, add SSG Johnson to our line-up as a point guard.
The softball team lost a close one last week, and no matter who you ask, they'll tell you the officiating in that game was horrible. We moved on though, and were supposed to play this weekend, but the opponents failed to show for the second week in a row. We are now 4-1, and have a pretty tough team that can do some damage as the season goes on.
It's been fairly cool lately. I say cool because I hear the highs in Nebraska are in the 10's and 20's. An error made in some electrical maintenance caused a majority of places on base to lose power. Last night I attempted to clean my room in the dark, and without my heater running. "They" say it should be back on tomorrow morning, and some rumors say even tonight. The sooner, the better though... I borrowed a movie from SGT Hanseling that I can't wait to watch. It follows three soldiers from a National Guard Unit that deployed to Iraq in the early stages of the war. I saw a little bit of it, and it looks like it is all made from their own video devices, such as video cameras, helmet cams, etc.
I have received a lot of mail this past week. With all the decorations and things, I was busy getting my room lit up and decorated. I will post pictures as soon as I am able to turn the lights on in my room.
That's about all for now. Out here.