Another few days down...

This is a stop sign here, sorry it's not very good quality - I had the night off and cameras don't take very good pictures of things that reflect and their was not enough light to take a picture without the flash, so this is it.
   It's pretty cool seeing different things in arabic, also it is confusing.  I can't read the ingredients on any of the sodas I drink.  But, that's okay, I don't need to know what is in my mountain dew, I only need to know that it's delicious.
    Having the night off was pretty nice, I got to sleep in an extra two hours, then my room mate came back from his shift and needed to sleep so I grabbed my laptop, iPad and camera and left for the next 9 hours.

I walked over to the side of the base that is nicer (because people who are staying here for a year or more stay over there), I ate dinner over there and the chow hall was nicer and had few more options on food (pizza buffet being one of them).  After that I went over to the Community Mall (Pictured to the right) and walked around to see what I could find, just little shops and nothing major cool, I went and sat down in a hang out place and watched tv for about 20 minutes and then I got bored so I left and walked back to my side of the base, I went to try and find a inside hang out place that had wi-fi, but the only place that had internet and air conditioning cost $3 an hour, so I decided to just hang out outside in the major hang out zone where people are allowed to  
drink, smoke huka and relax.  I did this for a while until my buddy google texted me and he came and hung out with me for about an hour and gave me some downloaded tv shows, which I watched after he left.  I then read, played online, made a few skype phone calls and then it was time to head back to my room, which I did and got on my running gear and went running at 4:30 am, I was super hot and tired after 30 minutes, that leads me up to now.
    But, this place is still going good, the days are long but I think the time will go by pretty quickly for me.  I've already got lots of awesome plans for when I get home.  Fenton and I have gotten into a groove of walking to work everyday and changing into our uniforms there and running back after work, it's about 1.8 miles, and that has been good for me so far.  We are also playing in a Battle of the Bands next Saturday night, should be good a time, I'll see if I can get him to record it on my camera while I play.

    The other day I was driving back to work from dropping a few people off at the dorms and I saw two desert foxes running across the street, they were homely looking creatures, skinny as crap and pretty ugly, I wanted to catch it, but the commanders here said that we shouldn't do that because they would prefer us to not have rabies.  I found a picture of something that looks sorta similar.  I've also seen a few wild cats running around the base, they are also very skinny and look pretty haggard as if to say their isn't much to eat in a desert...   Their hasn't been many bugs, I have seen a ton of grass hoppers though, they are all around at night time when I am working, I also see lizards running around at night.  We've also caught a few mice with mouse traps.  I attempted to build a mousetrap that will keep them alive though because I want one as a pet, maybe I'll send one home to someone to keep as a pet as well ;)  (also, it's good to note that the environment that fox is in is pretty much what I see where there isn't a building, just sand and rocks)

 But, life is good, I am happy, I am staying positive and just enjoying my time here.  I am thinking I will be going off base here in the new couple of weeks on one of my days off, my friend Ned has the same day off as me, so we might try and see what we can put together.  We need to find a driver though, because you have to have special driver training to drive here (because apparently these guys are crazy insane drivers), I might take the driver training, who knows, we will see.   Also, no awesome fourth of july plans for me, I will be working/sleeping through all the stuff they are doing here, which I think is some games and that is about it.     Anyways,  That is all I have for you guys this week, I hope everybody is doing great.  Love you all.