Testing Out New Technologies

There are some benefits to being in a very rural part of the world. By this I do not mean rural America. I mean rural Afghanistan.
For one thing we did not have to deal with TV commercials. In fact, for the most part, the only time I enjoy commercials is when they are interrupted by the Super Bowl, or on a show that is highlighting the best commercials from around the world. Curiously, I ended up being home on R&R leave for the Super Bowl this year.
However, there is one key negative to being in a very remote corner of the world; we were somewhat out of the loop for news, and especially technology news.  As an example, the "tablet" craze got started just before we left. I can think of only one Soldier who was with us who had an IPad. Many of the phones that we have today were not even on the radar. So I share this to let you know that this is the first blog posting that I am attempting to do from my phone. I hope it goes well. Keeping up (or catching up) with all the technology changes has been a challenge, even if it has been nerdy fun.

New Adventure Possibly Ahead

So I realize that it has been quite a while since I posted anything.

This would of course be due to the fact that I was deployed to Afghanistan for a year, and I did not have access to this page very often.

However, we are now back and I have been given a "heads-up" about the next adventure to come our way.

My family and I have been told that we should expect orders in January for us to report to Camp Casey, South Korea. We are very excited.

Although Korea is a long ways from here, it will be an awesome opportunity for us to experience a different culture, and see the world from a different angle.

What I would like to do with this and upcoming posts, is to relate some of what we are experiencing as this process goes proceeds. Who knows, maybe it can help someone else. Maybe one day you will be moving overseas, maybe even to South Korea.

For now, let me put this out there--you probably have more stuff than you really need. We are learning that quickly as we start thinking about what we are, and are not going to take with us.

Hope to post soon.