In Afghanistan, Friday means nothing

Most people work for the weekends.  They spend their whole week waiting for Friday to get there and dread Mondays because it starts all over again.  When you work 7 days a week, Friday loses all special meaning.  But the bright side is that in Afghanistan you don't dread Mondays.  When you don't really take a day off, all the days start to run together and you lose track of what day it is.  Yesterday, I spent the day thinking that it was Tuesday, when in reality it was Wednesday.  I would have bet money that it was Tuesday, and its a good thing I didn't because I would have lost.

Tonight my office went to the T.G.I.Fridays that we have here in Kandahar.  The last paralegal from the office that we are replacing is leaving tomorrow, so we took her out for a farewell dinner.  I must say that it was quite weird to be eating at a Fridays in Afghanistan.  From the inside, if you didn't sit by a window, you would have had no idea that you were in Afghanistan.  The walls were decorated with all the "flair" that one in the States would be.  The menu was pretty much the same.  Now as far as the food goes, for Afghanistan it was pretty good....although I'm not sure this Fridays would stay in business anywhere else.  All in all, it was an enjoyable time.  Here are some pictures.

SFC Blackall and PFC Fitzgerald perusing the menu

Dave has decided that he will have a cheeseburger

Living it up in Afghanistan

The world's largest booth without a table

My dinner, the bruschetta chicken pasta

Tomorrow is our Brigade's TOA (transfer of authority).  That means that we officially take over from the unit that we are replacing.  All of our battalions have already TOA'd, so now all that is left is for HHC (headquarters, headquarters company) to take over.  I'm am definitely attending this tomorrow, as it will be something different to add in to my schedule and break up the monotony.  Also, it will be good opportunity to take some pictures of something half way interesting, so I can post them to the blog.  Lastly, and most importantly, I never miss an opportunity to eat cake!