O.K. I’m going to give this a try. I will write my article while I have a couple of minutes at work and then e-mail it and cut and paste into the blog page.

Well, another 10 days has passed since my last posting and not much has changed. We are getting a whole lot of people here so hopefully I will be able to get some time off and write more once they all get up to speed. My birth day was uneventful with a normal work day and nothing else. I did go over my last half way mark on Monday with 80 days since arriving at ISAF and 80 days left to go. As everyone says here, the days go by slow, but the weeks go by fast! I now have just over 10 weeks until I leave Afghanistan and less than 13 weeks until I get home!! As for any Christmas items, the recommended last day for parcel post and letters is 21 November and priority is 5 Dec to ensure stuff gets here before Christmas. The last day for overall shipping of anything to me should be 31 December for parcel post and letters and 10 January for Priority, after that, I may be gone before it gets here. After I leave, if you want to send something to be given out to the Afghans (clothes, shoes, postcards, school supplies, etc) you can send it to:

Charles Potter
US NSE / JIOC-A / ISAF HQ
APO AE 09356

By the way, before I leave, my address is the same as above with my name instead of Chucks.

I will also try to include in this posting a picture of our mustache growing contest. I tied for first with another guy here, but since everyone had already decided to donate the winnings to charity, it really did not matter who won. My mustache was gone within about 5 minutes of the photo being taken and I was very glad to be rid of it!!

I will try to write more often if this cut and paste thing works. Love to all!