Very Interesting

So there I was protecting the free world from the trans-national terrorist hordes through logistics, and absolutely nothing interesting happened today! My goodness me I have nothing to talk about. I think we have pretty much covered everything lately. Lets see.....We have positively determined that I don't have latent monkey issues. We have established that it is really, really hot here and we have collectively wondered if anyone is actually driving our directorate and if so, do they know where they are going? What else.......Oh Yes! We have had a few important lessons in Texas history; plus, we have evaluated my loathing for tedious administrative tasks. We laid down the law of "Field Shower etiquette", dissected my deep concerns about the intestinal fortitude of our nation' will to war, not to mention my troublesome insomnia issue. Unfortunately, that is still a problem (my Bride thinks I have malaria. She is sweet to worry, but I think that ain't likely. I takes me mefloquine like a good little drone). As soon as the magic happy sleepy pills the pecker checkers gave me ran out, I stopped sleeping again. Being a man of action and unquestionable good judgment, I have taken aggressive action to combat that problem tonight. I stopped by the exchange and bought a cubic shit-ton (if y'ain't familiar with the anal system of measurement, a cubic shit-ton is one order of magnitude greater than the standard cubic butt-ton. There is a complicated system of algorithms and standard deviations associated with the system but since deviants make me nervous we won't get into that) of Nyquil, green death flavor. There ain't nothing a good dose of Nyquil won't fix. Actually, I think we have covered quite a bit since the beginning of March, expect a pop quiz!

Speaking of Mefloquine and my Brides conviction that I am gonna die of Malaria, I just called up a google search of the side effects and ya know what!!! I think I know what ails me now. According to the internet (which we all can agree is never, but never wrong) the common side effects of mefloquine are as follows:

Nausea
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Abdominal pain
Loss of balance
Dizziness
Vertigo
Sleep disorders
Ringing in the ears
Headache
Muscle cramps
Abnormal dreams
Emotional instability
Insomnia
Panic attacks
Hallucinations
Anxiety
Depression
Paranoid reactions
Convulsions
Visual impairment
Numbness
Rashes
Itching.

The use of Lariam (Mefloquine) with quinine or quinidine may result in cardiac arrest. There have been approximately a dozen reported suicides and hundreds of cases of depression among Lariam users. Furthermore, it is believed there may be links between an outbreak of domestic killings at Fort Bragg North Carolina linked to Lariam.

OH YEAH BABY! I AM ALL ABOUT THAT! I have just about every one of those symptoms even without resorting to hypochondria. Well to be fair, I was emotionally unstable even before I started taking the Mefloquine; but, that, I'm sure is PURELY coincidence. My purple monkey buddy had been telling me that all my problems are the mefloquine's fault but I didn't believe him. He also said the everyone is out to get me but I think HE is actually out to get me. Hallucinations are like that, very sneaky. In fact, I am very anxious about my figment's duplicity and that depresses me.

Well, speaking of monkeys, the subject of Monkey Knife-Fighting has been on my mind of late. I haven't quite gotten my thoughts together about that so we will postpone that post till a later date.

I think it's time for this deployment to end. I need to go home to my Bride!

TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD