15 March 2008

3rd and 4th care packages; blog; dust

3rd care package: some new notebooks (Moleskine 8"X5" graph paper, fits in my flightsuit pocket perfectly) and books from Amazon (ordered them myself).

4th care package, from the parents: home made beef jerky, chocolate, jelly beans, Peeps, and a book from my mom, blanking on the title right now and I don't have it with me. Will update. Oh and a bunch of mail. Coincidentally, one of our sensors (Angus) got a very funny pic of some Peeps, which I again don't have with me. Will post soon.

Just a thought as I was walking back from the cyber cafe a couple days ago: What I am doing is basically a journal or diary. I used to keep a pretty regular journal (due to a high school english teacher that I can't thank enough), but fell out of the habit over the last few years. I was hard pressed for time, but another reason was lack of motivation. It took time, and I didn't feel like it was progressing at all, just a daily record of events or thoughts, and despite my desire to record history, I fell out of the habit. So why is blogging better? So far, because it seems people are reading it. I guess I haven't said this before so, if you are reading this, it is great for me to hear about it! Please leave me a comment.

Oh, and we're having dust storm right now. I got a nice face mask from maintenance to wear around to try to avoid increasing the cough I still have from two storms back. Pic of this eventually.

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