Country stuportard Trace Adkins is coming to play a concert here at Salerno! Or he was! Or he came, and is here now, but is not playing because he’s leaving in a few hours! The FOB is abuzz with rumor. The strangest part for me is that this is the second time I’ve written a blog entry about this guy. On my old blog I wrote about running into him at Vanderbilt Medical Center one time. And I still can’t remember what songs he sings.

Why can’t anybody good ever do a USO tour? I guess all my favorite bands are liberal cowards who hate freedom. That, or the USO thinks that nobody would be too excited about Young Knives playing here. On the other hand, this place is pretty starved for entertainment. This might be the only situation where a band like that would get attention from this kind of crowd.

This has absolutely nothing to do with me, or Afghanistan, but it sure is… I don’t know. I have no idea why this exists.

Today marks the official halfway point for me. Halfway there, livin’ on a prayer, etc. My orders started on June 20th, and they end on December 20th. Things to expect in the second half of my time in Afghanistan include

• Continued weight loss and getting in shape (I’ve lost over 20 pounds as of today)
• A new Macbook Pro when they’re released (supposedly on October 14th)
• More blogging as a result of the new Macbook Pro
• Getting better with Java and Oracle/SQL via my online classes (which may have an effect on the fanciness of this website)
• Photos of things besides this visually uninteresting FOB (since I’ll be in Kabul)
• More lists (with more parenthetical asides)

There hasn’t been a lot to report recently. Things here at the FOB have been pretty quiet. Which is good. Time at work not spent working, or hounding people to chat with me on teh interwebz, is spent on homework for the two online classes I’m taking. I’m working on a Web Programming certificate.

I’ve been reading like a madman, and thanks to Mike, I have a ton of awesome books to read. So I’m working on those. I’m using Shelfari to keep track of them all, and I’ve added the associated widget over in the sidebar.

Oh, and it looks like I’m getting sent to work at Kabul in October to finish out the year there. Which is pretty exciting. It’ll be a nice change of scenery. Kabul is a pretty huge city, and it’s 3000 years old. Take that, old stuff in America.

Oh, AND: some new photos.