Monthly Archives: April 2011

Here are some shots that I got when I was out of the camp on the way to the shooting range. This is the right turn off the road that the base is located on. We went right, but this … Continue reading →

How do you really get a feel for what it’s going to be like to work in totally foreign environment? I had no idea how to deal with most of the questions that were bouncing around in my brain about … Continue reading →

I think a lot of my friends got this story from me as I was leaving: “I’m supervising AP staff in a finance office in-country for DynCorp. As the country is being reconstructed, companies like DynCorp have been contracted to … Continue reading →

One of the two controllable factors in an encounter with a terrorist who is targetting you for attack, is what they call “Time and Place Predictability.” If somebody observes you making the same route each day, they can easily plan … Continue reading →

Today was a day on the range – allowing a bunch of non-security people like myself to shoot guns so that we know what it is like. We shoot the M9 pistol by Berretta and the M4 Bushmaster rifle, both … Continue reading →

This latest Rob Bell book that I finished had a lot of things to say, but as I was reading it on a plane on my way to Dubai, one thing stood out in the middle of one of the … Continue reading →

I’ve talked to a lot of people about a lot of stuff since I got here. A whole lot of it I’m listening to, and some of it I disregard, but the nice thing about the job so far is … Continue reading →

Does it strike anyone else strangely that there are no pictures of my base camp up here yet? I’ve described it as good as I can, or at least as I want to, but I’d really like to put up … Continue reading →

For those of you who are good at improving processes, or coming up with better ideas of how to do stuff, you know that often there’s a continuum of reactions that people can have to your process improvment ideas. From … Continue reading →

I really like job interviews because I think I communicate pretty well and I’m pretty confident in my abilities. I had a few interviews after finding out about my short-date with SuperValu that were pretty intense though. I got flustered … Continue reading →