Another day, another dinar

 
11:55PM Central Afghan Time

Okay, rough day: we had a PR crisis (of a nature I would be unwise to describe), and my captain was unexpectedly tied up in meetings; I had to not only do my job, but quite a bit of his, including preparing our portion of the evening brief and then presenting it at the OpCen during shift change.

All that being so, I feel pretty darn virtuous at having turned out 1,500 words, and — in the process — finished my current story. I’m calling it “Dusk Over Pompeii”, and I’ll key it in and post it tomorrow. (I compose in longhand. Fell into it by accident when my laptop crapped out at the Kuwait/Iraq border, and kept it up because it works for me.)

So. The beat goes on.