The long boring days

Well there are only a few days left in my deployment. We have nothing left to do, so my days are filled with try to keep busy. I dont have very many options either. So I have been filling my days with reading and watching movies. Its to hot to go outside unless you have to, so I spend as much time in my room as possable. Thank god we have A/C!
    I will touch on my plans when I get home. Its inevitable that there is going to be a fair amount of partying. Thats fine with me. I think I have earned the right to spend a few days in a drunkin haze. After that though its time to buckle down. I came here weighing 240 lbs, and I am going to leave weighing about the same. Which means I have spent over 8 months in 100+ temps working alot of long days and havent lost anything. Even worse I have gained some. My plan was to drop at least 30 but I defently droped the ball. I am not going to make exuses, its my own fault and thats all there is to it. When I get home its going to take some considerable will power to not fall into a routine that will slow my possitive progress. With the closest gym being almost an hour drive from my house exercise is going to be my biggest challenge. So I am going to count on P90X to meet those goals. If any of you have ever tried P90X you know that sticking to it is a feat of will power. I am confident that I can though. For eating right, and in the right proportions I am going to cook all my meals for the week on sunday and then freeze them. I know myself and know this is the only way I will stick with it. It will save me money also. I will be far less likely to order from the Chicken or go up to Clydes when I am feeling to lazy to cook my own food. I will talk more about this "plan" in future posts.
         I said that I have been reading alot lately and want to talk about the past couple books I have read. The first is The Dark Tower by Stephen King. Its a seven part serise about a gunslingers quest to reach the dark tower. Think the Lord of the Rings with a western theme, in a post apcotoliptic world. This is probly the best story I have ever read. It was a great way to kill time over here, as I have had alot of it in the past month or so. The next is Choke, it was dark and entertaining. It also had a great ending. I would recomend it to anyone that wants to take a peek into the underbelly of socity, and see the ups and downs of being a sexoholic. Its also a really fast read, which was refreshing after the hours upon hours it took to get through The Dark Tower.
           Well I think I have rambled on enough for now. Although there are two other notes worth mentioning. Today there was a bomb scare in the chow hall and it was closed for most of lunch. EOD had to be called in and it was a pretty crazy scene for awhile. Our moter pool was also mortered last night, good thing hardly anyone is down there anymore. There was a UXO that had to be cleared as well. Our base is morterd almost daily but its rarely close, so that cause a little bit of excitment to break up the day. The picture I added with this post is of me working on a bridge we built, it was taken about half way through a 38 hr shift. We got it done though!!!!
     P.S. I am a really bad speller and the Spell Check isnt working for some reason, so sorry for any errors.