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Right now I am under house arrest. Medical leave prohibits me from leaving the house and I am dependent on crutches/roller chair at home to move about. I have abrasions at the sides of my torso from moving about too much with the crutches but thanks to SAF powder the wounds clean up pretty fast. Seriously, I swear by SAF powder for all abrasions. I will always welcome house visits - but only in the day, unfortunately - for I become awkward between my folks and friends when they congregate in the same space.
Still reading? Awesome! Because this turned out to be a very disjointed and monotonous post. Nevertheless, I shall Soldier on. You may have discovered a series of new links at the side (<--). These help me pass the time when I am not playing a Chinese online game 神仙道 (if interested, join for free and add me as friend; my character name is 上官丝月). Yes, female character, I know.
'Soldier on' is the name I gave to 'Bring the Heat, Bring the Stupid' to give you an idea of what the link points you to. It is a really good military website that provides foreign news (mostly American I guess), be it policies, happenings or the opinions of the author and other writers. There is also a wealth of information on weapon systems and soldiering equipment of all scale. 'Researching' (Google) on the MATADOR HEAT brought me here, and further introduced me to more variants of anti-tank weapons such as the SPIKE, AT4 and the Javelin. As a weapons SME in SCS I was ashamed that I had no additional weapons training compared to the non-weapons dudes. Other than reading lesson plans (which were occasionally out-of-date), the Internet was a great buff to my theoretical know-how.
The food websites are excellent sources of food trails all over this sunny island, though I try not to read them nowadays to avoid getting hunger pangs. My waistline is gradually expanding back to pre-enlistment inches and I can feel the fitness levels dropping drastically. The physiotherapist estimates that I can go back to jogging in approximately three months' time; I hope I can still jog 2 km by then without passing out?
I also drop by Yahoo! News once in a while to keep myself abreast of local affairs, despite the occasional poorly-written article and sometimes dated news (olds?). I started reading Geekologie again as of yesterday: Jubilant posts spanning a wide variety of subject matters. It led me to several videos that I usually would not watch, such as short Lego stop motion films, slapstick Star Wars humour, cute girls playing good music, or unbelievable gadgets that actually exist.
Of course, I have never stopped reading physical books. Recently finished 'The Places in Between' by Rory Stewart and juggling two other books about Afghanistan. All three books let you look at the different aspects of the warring country that cannot be more unimaginable, through the eyes of the authors. Reading them together can be a good, if not messy, experience. Learning more about Afghanistan makes me pay more attention to what happens in other conflicted states in this 乱世, like Syria (Homs) and Libya.
