Fourth Post, enjoy the beef roast

Tonight was steak night. yay. Definitely not as good as the meat Grandpa used to bribe the butcher for. :)
Nah he didn't bribe, he just bartered.

I promise there will be pictures. It's really hard to post any because the whole base is classified...trying to get a good picture of the mountains, but this one will have to do for now. haha, sorry it's edited.

Work is getting better...I think. 

Hopefully will post more soon.

Third Post, while you eat your toast.

I'm gonna run out of words that rhyme with "post".

Well, I was gonna post the other day about going outside the camp. That was fun. But I'll probably have to censor all of that.

We did a whole tour of the base on Tuesday, drove through some parts where on either side there was signs for old mines. The Russians left everything mined so parts of the base are a little dicey, but that's pretty far from where everything is. There's also thousands of unmarked graves outside the fence, which is kinda crazy. Apparently the indigenous still come and maintain them, at least some of them.

Work has been getting better, it's busy, then nothing for stretches of time, but that's good because 12 straight hours of sitting at a computer would kill me faster than an Afghan bullet. It's freezing in the workspace, so that sucks. Some of the stuff we do is really cool...some of it is...boring.

Definitely love the mountains around here, but hate the sand and dust. It sucks. But the sky and mountains are gorgeous. Saw a few blades of grass on our trip out but that was about it.

Planes take off all the time, and the jets are deafening, but I think it's kinda cool.

Played basketball last night in a tournament, just asked as many guys as I could until someone let me play. I'm a bit rusty and I didn't have any shoes, because my trunk hasn't arrived yet.

Played Halo with Josh and Drew this morning at about 8 am local time, that was awesome. Connection was terrible, but felt like being back home. Will try and do that some more.

If you want to get a hold of me, email my gmail, benjamin.hinders@gmail.com. I'm pretty good about checking it.

Will post when I can.

Ben

Second Post, I miss everyone but the Provost.

Well,


The mountains are gorgeous here, and that's about it. It's windy, sandy, smelly, hot/cold, humid, dry, and LOADS of fun :) You won't here me complain about anything but possibly having to work through the 4th quarter of the skinz game tomorrow, which I will start watching at 3 am ;)...of course.

If you're praying for me, thank you so much. If you're not praying for me, pray for our troops in Kabul. The embassy got attacked recently.

As time goes on, I probably won't post every day, hopefully will have some pictures up.

Benjamin

First Post, the post that hurts the most.

Hey.

So I don't have a lot of internet, or time. But here goes with a first post.

I'm here in Bagram, have been since last night. Yes, right now it's 9:40 am on Monday. I'm way ahead of you guys. As Dan Mayernik said so succintly, "you're in the future", and that I am.

I traveled through Qatar, which was nice. I wish this base was as nice as that one. There was wifi everywhere.

Here, there's no wifi except for the AF, and the conditions aren't fantastic. But we'll survive.

The mountains are amazing, the air sucks. ha.

Will post more hopefully.

Benjamin