a long two days

i just got home (around 1am), after leaving my apartment monday morning 7am. and i'm BEAT, but i have to get this all down.

monday was a long day... quite a bit of work, and running around. i went off to get my weapon and flak jacket at 3pm, at 4.30pm finally got released for half an hour. so i played volleyball, in searing heat. not smart. by the time sundown came, i was rather burnt (and having a newly-shaven head makes that *smart*). nothing like a bit of sunstroke to lift one's spirits.

the dog, the mongoose and i worked from 6pm till 1.30am, and then i went to guard from 2am till 6. no sleep, i - was - broken. slept about an hour after the shift, then had to stand for ages for the changing of the guard.

i had to help raise the flag, which is way less complicated than folding it up. and i still don't know what's up, as nobody's ever bothered to explain it to me.

after a half hour battle with the shift commanders over whether i should remain on alert or not, i returned all my gear and went back to my office, where i had to be on alert for our systems (stuff happened today).

all went smoothly, so i spent my day, until around 2/3pm, sleeping in the office.

in the evening, the dog and i stayed late again, and worked with the mongoose until just after midnight - and we're pretty much finished.

aweful thing is, we BOTH forgot to sign out when leaving the base, so now instead of it saying that we've been on the base for 40 hours, it says we've forgotten to sign in / out 3 times.
that just sucks piles.

smoking rather a lot, i don't know how i feel about that.