Qatar or Vegas?

Bear was able to call again this morning...thank God for modern communications! so far he hasn't had to use a calling card either. he's been able to get on a DSN line (kind of like a toll free military only phone line), and even though the lines are monitored so that you get disconnected if you talk for longer than 16 minutes, it's still great! he does have access to the internet as well, but for only 20 minutes at a time. i figured he would have been in djibouti by now, but he said he'll be stuck in qatar until thursday! something along the lines of that they're waiting for a bigger plane instead of a leer jet full of colonels! in the meantime, he has been putting his "spare time" to good use. he woke up this morning and went to the gym for an hour or so, then went to breakfast in the ginormous chow hall. after that, he shot pool for a while and even played in a texas hold 'em tournament! he ended up in 6th place out of 6 tables of people! even he was thinking "i can't believe i'm getting paid to be out in the desert like this!" all in all, he's doing pretty good!

our window is finally getting fixed today! this window repair guy has the absolute worst follow-through skills i have ever seen! our window got broke back in july when bear was weed-eating. that's the second window he broke this year while weed-eating, what bad luck! anywho, they refused to replace the first window (on our front door), so i went to a vacant set of quarters, and took the window off their door. we needed something, and were refused help! the other window broke sometime in july, yes july. the guy came out and measured it, and ordered some new glass, assuring us it would be in within a week. a month and a half later, i called and wanted to know what was going on. the repair man called back, and said that he never came to the house, and that he has no record of it. well, when he came to the house for the second time, he said that he found the order, but that the glass had broken in his truck and had to be reordered, so he had to measure again, and reassured us that it would only be a week or so. now it is october (starting to get cold!!!) and something really needs to be done! i called this morning, slightly irritated about the situation, and low and behold, the man came over with the glass, saying he finally got the glass in (like he really just got it in this morning!). at least it is getting fixed! now if i could just figure out how to replace a bad belt on my vacuum cleaner, i would really be happy!!!

have a great day :)