in a nutshell, living out shines a spotlight on the difficulty i have living under conventional circumstances. sure there are concrete walls everywhere, the bed sucks, dust and sand everywhere, the food fluctuates, and the days are short, months are long. back home are relationships, commutes, politics and media and all you can eat. life [...]
Lots of time for introspection in the desert, working the noon to midnight shift, a ritual of mine is hanging out facing the airport over a man made lake, looking at the planes and helicopters flying around. Thinking about history, what always went down in the books was were the civilizations ‘rubbed’, not the Greek [...]
One of the 'most fun' things out here is water detail. We make an assembly line out the building and proceed to bring 6 huge pallets of water outside the building to inside. If the '12 packs' are extremely dirty, we feel like we haven't got our money's worth. Planning a trip down the old [...]
General Updates — The heat is much better than the dust, tomorrow the 'feels like ' index will be 138, its not describable Big difference between the sand and dust, dust is much worse one word, Jackyl, not the chainsaw solo band, but the animal, subject to many jokes around here concerning lonely soldiers, etc [...]