In an email, I busted on him: Oh, we have time to surf the 'net for pics and stuff, and to engage in serial emails... but I can't get a post out of the slacker, noooo....
That drew him out of babe-ogling defilade:
Hey, we just stuck up a new sat-receiver -- plus I've been busy snapping oddball boom-tubes to edify the readers. Plus teaching Iraqi stoon't pilots esoteric aeronautica. Plus putting a class together to teach *all* the pilots in the IqAF instrument flight skills so there's no repetition of that Mi-17 crunch (the pilots didn't want to take off in the crud, but had -- ahem -- Field Grade pressure to get back. The FG also died in the crash, so that's a scalp that's already on the IqAF Air Ops flagpole). Plus teaching Iraqi ATC personnel Aviation English classes.
Only one of those services is in my contract, but WTF, it's not like I have a life over here.
Sooooooo, I'll have a post ready prolly tonight. If I can still get into MT. And Fototime.
The off-post booms have increased from one every two days to three or four a day (and night), so the 10th Mountain is either getting *real* good at finding and detonating the IEDs or AQI is ramping up. The 34,000 gallon oil tanker convoys now RON across the street from my hootch, so we're all crossing our fingers that the dillweeds launching the bottle rockets hit *us* instead of the truck park.
At my age, I can still take cover from flying debris behind a blade of grass, but I don't think I can outrun a 3,400,000 gallon fireball.
On the bright side, now that I've got bandwidth access, I might even be able to view all those Yoo-HooToob vids everybody keeps telling me are "must-see"...
Heh.
Now, you may remember a post back in December, when Bill snarked Microsoft and posted this pic of a C-172S for Neffi to drool over...
Heh. Bill and those-like-Bill didn't make the editorial cut, I see. Hmph.
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