What, no cable???

There is an old joke that went something like this:

An Army grunt stands in the rain with a 15 kg. pack on his back,5 kg. weapon in hand, after having marched 15 km, and says, "This sucks."
An Army Airborne Ranger stands waist deep in the rain with a 25 kg. pack on his back, weapon in hand, after having jumped from an airplane and marched 30 km, and says with a smile, "This sucks just fine!"

A Special Forces soldier lies in the mud, 40 kg pack on his back, weapon in hand, after swimming 10 km to shore, crawling through a swamp and marching 40 km at night past the enemy positions, says with a grin, while biting the head of a snake "This really sucks, I wish it could suck more....."

An Air Force officer sits in an easy chair in his air conditioned, carpeted room and says to his friend, "Man.. Cable's out! This sucks!"

This pretty much sums up Al Udeid air base for me so far. My room is pretty much lousy, but it's a room none the less and I'm the only guy sleeping in it. The latrine is only 20 yards away, I have a tv (a few channels even have sound) and a fridge. Of course they were kind enough to take the adapters, but that gave me a reason to find the local bx. I guess the one I went to was the small one, but it was easily as big as the shoppette in Incirlik. Plus I walked by a Subway, BK and Pizza Hut.

I'll refrain from complaining today. I have a feeling the opportunity to complain will present itself again.