After Midnight
Posted by Erik Rupard on 11th July 2008
I am writing at 0014 hours Iraq time, from the not-quite-comfort of my can (getting there, though), where our electricity has just come back on after a very long day of spoiled food, 100-degrees-in-the-absolute-darkness heat, and scarce generator parts which affected only our small section of the base. Air conditioning is, even in the high-desert, still a luxury, but tonight it verged on necessity as the members of our camp found our hermetically sealed can-tainers simply not habitable after a day in the sweltering sun. More tomorrow on the impromptu outdoors get-together that this situation fostered as it persisted through the evening and finally into the next day, but suffice it to say that, as I lie here on my sweaty bunk, I am grateful for the white noise of the working fan next to me, and for the modest ambient light of my laptop as it sends this message out to you.
Goodnight.
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