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Category: Afghanistan

Rain, rain, rain

Written by:blondtwin
Published on March 9th, 2010 @ 11:49:20 am , using 114 words, 23 views
Posted in Afghanistan
The weather has been pretty evenly dividing between blinding sun and dreary rain for the last couple of weeks. What does that produce?  Yep, you guessed it.  MUD.  And rutted roads. So, we had to do some errands the other day and one of the guys slip… more »

Singin'

Written by:blondtwin
Published on March 8th, 2010 @ 08:41:56 pm , using 76 words, 8 views
Posted in Afghanistan
I share a ride to work most days with three of my co-workers.  They like to listen to the latest R&B stuff, which I don't mind. There's this one song that sounds like it has one of the Chipmunks doing backup, singing, "how low can you go". So, th… more »

Rusty

Written by:blondtwin
Published on March 7th, 2010 @ 09:25:02 pm , using 168 words, 143 views
Posted in Afghanistan
It's been many years since I've had to take a leadership role at work.  Sure, I get to be the boss-lady (in some aspects) at home, but, work is a whole different story. I've oft said that I didn't want to be in charge of anyone but myself and I still… more »

Weary

Written by:blondtwin
Published on March 6th, 2010 @ 11:36:07 am , using 159 words, 36 views
Posted in Afghanistan
There are some days I love my job.  Today wasn't really one of them.  I got some "corporate love" from my higher ups and got really furious in the process.  I've noted my objections professionally; hopefully, someone will listen. One of the guys on m… more »

Engineer THIS

Written by:blondtwin
Published on March 5th, 2010 @ 10:49:46 am , using 57 words, 24 views
Posted in Afghanistan
We have a few disparate systems here that, while closely related to what I work with, aren't exactly the same.  So, we spend a lot of time and effort trying to get the information from these other systems into ours. Conference calls, requirements boa… more »

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