Day 39

So my crowning achievement for today was taking a couple pictures of a
cat. It wasn't necessarily the most friendly, but it didn't run away
right away. I'd call him the Afghan version of Harrison (with
different markings).

Other than that, I started bookmarking pages of interest to my job,
and reviewed in pretty good detail the draft itineraries for the
upcoming visits on my plate. Two XBox 360's were hooked up to the
TV's today, and lengths of ethernet cable were acquired as well. I
suspect they will be networked by morning!

Unfortunately, the nature of my work is all Secret, so I can't share
the details in advance. However, after a visit happens, I can usually
share some information. Often, a person who visits has coins made for
that position, or themselves. So seeing some of the coins people have
is pretty incredible. I don't put much stock in coins as the
tradition goes, but it's a neat little souvenir to indicate your hand
in the process. So we shall see!

Tomorrow is Friday, which is the Afghan holy day, as I understand it.
So I get to sleep in tomorrow, and show up to work at 11:30, so we can
go eat as a group. Basically, instead of having weekends off, we get
a morning off on Friday and Sunday, for a total of about 1 day off a
week. Not great, especially when each day is 12+ hours, but it's
something. So I'm off for a nice long nap...