Sitting in the Black Hole of Doom

[aadler]

1:40PM Central Afghan Time

Okay, I’m at Bagram. I had to wait eight hours at the air terminal at KAF last night (starting at 9:00PM), then a flight of just over an hour, after which I waited at the USO hut for another couple of hours until I knew someone would be at the office. Once I put in a call, they had a guy there to pick me up in fifteen minutes, then I slept for three hours in the transient quarters, and now I’m settling in for several days of nothing.

Good news: I have easy access to Internet terminals here. Not-so-good news: they’re terminals only, I can’t plug in my memory stick, or even use basic text-editing programs; that will definitely limit my capacities. Good news: ludditerobot has already done one run-through of “First Do No Harm” (my newest fic), and expressed general approval, with another inspection and further commentary pending. Not-so-good news: as things stand, there’s only so much I can do as far as editing, altering, or even posting what's there.

On the other hand, it appears that I’ll have plenty of free time. Maybe I’ll start another story.