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I am a 22 year old college student deployed to Iraq. My inbox is getting full of emails, so I thought it would be easier to keep you posted on my experiences here in a blog, and still have an opportunity to read your replies. Please feel free to leave any questions and/or comments by clicking on the comments link below the posts. Also, be sure to leave your name, so I know who has written and visited my blog.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

A New Office

Recently we moved our mail operations from a "hole" to a "can". I would load some pictures for your viewing pleasure, but the internet in my room isn't what it used to be, and blogger has been blocked on our government computers, so maybe someday I'll make it down to the MWR center and use their internet. Mail has picked up since word got out about our extension, so it's back to the headaches of several pallets a day. The new mailroom is a little bigger than our old one, but we are still trying to get it up to par. I moved all the shelving units and desk over from previous mailroom, now I'm working on getting the AC unit repaired. I just took it in today to the civilians, and we should get it back in a few days. For now, we have a big hole in our mailroom. The weather has been excellent. Still a little cool at night, but I'll take it over the weather we had been having a few weeks ago. Burnometer and I have been hitting the weights hard and heavy. We wake up at 0530 4 days a week to throw the weights around. Last summer we had started what is called the "T-Shirt program" and it worked out pretty well. So we decided we would do it again since we hadn't lifted all winter. I have been taking a protein supplement after workouts, but I just ran out the other day. One of my other buddies has been using this weight gainer for about 6 months and gained 30 pounds so far, so I decided to switch from the protein, to the weight gainer. Burnometer and I are in the middle of our 4th week, and next week we will be starting the first week of phase 2, a much more rigorous phase than the 1st. Out of the 4 weeks we have been working out, I have gained 5-6 pounds, so I'm looking to, as they say in the gym, "take it to the next level". No basketball games lately, besides the one last Friday which was cancelled due to the referee's not showing up. We took the top seed in our league in softball recently, but the most recent game was a win by forfeit. Next week we will face off with C 2-123 Armor, our "in Squadron rivals". They are already talking a lot of smack, but it will be no contest if you ask me.

Labels: basketball, mail, softball, Weather

posted by Beans at 9:03 PM

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just be careful with all that weight gain. In another 10-20 years you'll be wanting to get rid of it!!

Mom.

January 30, 2007 9:59 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

if you need any softball advice...u know where to go =)

emily.

January 31, 2007 8:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Brent!

Hope things are going good now that you're all settled into the new mailroom.

Dad's outside scooping the 1 1/2"-2" of new snow we got yesterday. It's supposed to be really cold for the next week with a chance of snow each day. Forecast doesn't show anything above 30 for the next 7 days. Glad I had my foot surgery when I did!!!

Let us know if you need anything. Are you missing Dad's polka music at all??? He could burn you a CD!! Course if you say "yes", I'll know you've gone off the deep end! :)

Love you!!

Mom.

P.S. Any VTC's coming up that you know of???

February 08, 2007 8:53 PM  

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