Captains log supplemental Stardate -311852.181094622

Attempting a drive by picturing of a horse cart... mmm not bad for a first try!

A second later and I'd have had it

Try number 2.... FAIL

Try number 3 got it!

Gotta add that to my list of skills... will come right after Bow Hunting

Ok behind the SUV you can see a huge stack of bags on a truck.

I saw it a ways back and had no idea what it was... Was not thinking it was anything vehicle related...

I was wrong

Now THIS!  Is an awesome shot of a windshield wiper you wouldn't think it but there pretty much the same here as the states... yeah

I took this to get a shot of the air compressor because they are all over the place here. 1. People here get lots of low tires from debris in the road. Becomes even worse on a rainy day when the dirt roads get wet and nails and things that were covered up get to the surface again. 2. You have to stop once a week or so to blow the dust out of the air filter.       And I didn't even realize until posting this picture up that I got a shot of an Afghani Tire Center!!!

This IS actually a side street after rain the day before

Just one of the buildings I've passed before and thought it looked cool

The guy standing in the road is an Afghan Soldier... Brave dude standing in the roads around here

And now.... For some other stuff

This is a rack I just installed... Has the modem for the dish here.  Yeah I know... it's sexy.. that's why I get the ladies....

Afghan Surgeon General.... He's a bit more serious with his warnings

This is a Jingo (Jingle) Truck. Not one of the best I've seen but it was sitting still. It is called a Jingo Truck because of the chains and stuff hanging off of it that jingles. This one has a bit of chain off the side but if you want to entertain yourself for five minutes go google image search "Jingle Truck". Funny in the US truck drivers put bull dogs and chrome girl mud flaps... here they make em' all purdy! One thing you have to say for em... They are secure in their manhood!

And this is an Afghani Toilet...

I'm dreading the day when this is my only option 

And to everyone out there I've talked to in the last couple weeks who have said you like the blog! Thanks for the kind words guys. This posting is dedicated to you... got me motivated to put more stuff up!

Just a Fun one

Awesome! Somewhere I can learn English and Scince all in one place!!!

A few pictures standing still this time!

Some night Pictures

Well this week I got some pictures during the evening. We're very rarely (never) out driving after dark so was nice to see this for a change. You'll notice that most of my pictures are taken from a car heading somewhere. This is because we don't do a lot of wandering about and the places where I'm out of the vehicle working I'm usually in a sensitive area where I can't take pictures. So because there are only so many pictures you can take with the world whizzing by at 100 KPH (somewhere in the ballpark of 60 MPH) before it all looks like the same stuff. I'm going to still take pictures an post them up here but not likely to be as frequent as it has been.

Well that's Kabul Afghanistan... and now for a couple of fun shots just to throw them in...

Here is me in the Dining Hall of a local customer. This is actually a room in a rented local house.

Here you can get pirated software at your local grocery store. Complete with viruses pre-installed an all!

Here are some pictures I took while traveling around town.

Horse or mule carts are seen occasionally in the city
and more so when you get out to more rural areas.

This is a grocery store called Finest. A couple days prior to this picture
the store was bombed... we get these occasional reminders that we are in Afganistan

I made this one a bit larger so you can see the guy with the AK.... because everyone here has an AK.. ok maybe just seems that way because I don't

I wrote something about the traffic a few days back... Yeah.... traffic... it SUCKS

But now that I've gotten used to it... not that bad really

Traveling along to one of the camps we support. You can see a cart being pushed to the right... seems there is always someone pushing a cart or wheel barrel somewhere. Many of them vendors trying to sell food or other items.

The tan pickup here is an Afghanistan Army Vehicle. That means this is a target and we want to stay the hell away!

Well those are some pictures I took while traveling around. I'll get some others later on in neighborhoods, some of those places are a bit more interesting than these highway shots I took.

And on a closing note this morning at around 3am I got finished setting up and installing a dish that is now used here at the house and that I'm posting this on the internet with right now. 

I got to hear the coolest thing I have (and may ever) heard at a job...

"Ok you are putting good signal on the space craft"