The rest of the night...

I woke up late this morning to a cool breeze and a sweet smell of burning garbage and "waste". Nice image, sorry about that. I'm sure everyone that reads this just couldn't sleep last night wondering if I made it to my hooch early enough to relax and watch a movie. Well, let me tell you....almost. I left the office around 9pm, went to the hooch to set up Matt's old laptop, got some Chips Ahoy cookies from the BX, blew the dust off of said Chips Ahoy package, turned on the laptop and got the movie going with earphones. Spread everything out on my twin bed and began to relax and watch Ocean's Twelve. Just as it was getting good, the electricity went out! So there I am in the dark with crumbs of Chips Ahoy all over my twin bedsheets, a half drank Orange Crush soda and I can't find my flashlight. I usually put my flashlight where I know where it is but tonight, I guess I was Americanized. I just took everything for granted and forgot that the electricity may go off or that I might need to get up in the middle of the night to accomplish a required ritual by getting dressed in uniform and walking 200 yards to accomplish said ritual. Oh no, I just laid on the big ole twin bed eating cookies and veging (is that how you spell it?) out. So imagine this, crawling around in the dark looking for anything to shed some light on anything, in my GI Joe underwear, in the talcum powder dust that follows you like "Pigpin" from Charlie Brown...not a pretty picture again...sorry. I finally find my flashlight headgear that you put on like a hat, very cool idea by the way, switch it on and look around for my big flashlight, that you could use as a baseball bat, find it, turn that flashlight on. What I see shocks me. I see an incredible amount of Chips Ahoy covering my bed, I see caked on dusty, dirty hands and kneecaps and even some dirt on my face. I actually look like Pigpin. So now I have to get dressed in uniform and go thru my new ritual to get clean. All of the hooches are dark, no lights anywhere and as I find out, when the electricity is off, there are no showers. So I drudge my way back to the hooch, get undressed and just fall into my bed where I find my Orange Crush, and book and just read until I fall asleep. I get woke up by the sounds of electricity coming on in my hooch after nearly 3 hours. It is very hot now and I hope I can go back to sleep in this heat. I notice the time and after about 45 minutes, or mikes as we say over here, 45 mikes it is back down to my normal 64.5 degrees. Fun times huh? So I'm off to finish the movie. And that is that.