Day 149

Very, very little to say today. It was a day that moved at a snail's pace due to the Labor Day holiday Stateside. I did receive one of my last care packages (I'm guessing) today. It was FULL of baked goods from homemade granola bars, chocolate no-bake cookies, peanut butter cookies with pink sprinkles (Thanks, "C"!!!), and sugar cookies. WAY more than I can eat and that's the intent...to share. Share, I will! However, those peanut butter cookies will be kept all to myself. They are THAT good. Thank you so much! As the east coast awoke, I made a few calls back to family including one of my brothers and to Tin Man and Scarecrow. Ever heard of Moshi Monsters? Both of my girls have an account and their custom-made monster. Guess who has one now? Yep. Me. I'm a big blue monster called TooBlue. Yes, blue is my favorite color. You also guessed correctly...I am that desperate to be a dad again and get involved in any way I can in their lives.

I think I'll call it a night tonight. There just isn't much to say. Tomorrow should be busy in the 2nd half of the day including an appointment with a friend back home who is going to record an interview with me in the morning. The topic will be 9/11 which is this Sunday. It'll air on Friday morning's radio Morning Show. I am also going to write a bit on here this week about 9/11 and my thoughts about it. Never did I think when we were attacked nearly 10 years ago, that it would be responsible for getting us into the very country I sit in today. Had we not been attacked, I would not be here. I have some very different thoughts about this war now that I've lived here and the future of this country. Mostly, the United States general public has no idea about Afghanistan and what's really going on here. They really don't. The media simply doesn't cover it, for some reason. Something really bad has to happen for it to even get in the paper, much less the front page. In the meantime, 100,000 of "us" are over here. Anyway, more later.

(NEW on the right side: popular posts. Surprise, surprise...Day 121 takes the prize by a LONG shot. I'm sure you can guess what day that was. The list is in no particular order but I will tell you that Day 1 is a close second. Very interesting!)

Goodnight, everyone.