Day 43: 116 degrees today (or: the British are weird)

It's hot outside. Real hot. Nights now feel like the daytime when I came, just about a month ago. Kuwait is supposed to be even hotter and it is expected to get hotter in the coming months ahead. Good news, is that the sector I'm going up to next week is a few degrees cooler. I'll take what I can.

I saw the funniest thing yesterday. I was over at one of our tent camps, checking out where I may have to move to when I get back (we have a serious shortage of space). It is a series of large tents in rows. I walked past one, looking for the one that I was supposed to be in, and I saw some movement and a flash of color out of my peripheral vision. Like a vision that came out of some dream, I saw a cheap drugstore beach lounge chair and two pasty white Brits laying out sunning themselves. Now, this was not under shade, but in the direct sunlight at high noon. The photo isn't of him -- I didn't have a camera, but will try to snap some before they leave.

I remember that when I was a cadet, and we did out junior year 8 week training session, we hadd some cadets from Sandhurst join us as a sort of exchange program. They stayed in their own area and apparently had access to the Officer's Club and the pool. They regularly were falling out for sunburn and heat injuries and one female cadet in particular was a regular sight, hooked up to an IV drip. Maybe it's cultural?

I asked one good-natured guy while waiting for a shuttle bus, what the deal was. He said that he himself had just finished getting some sun and that he "didn't want to go back home and have all my mates asking me why I didn't look like I ever went to the desert." Ok, makes sense, I guess.

Have a great weekend everyone -- I'm curious what the weather's like where you are.... if you have a chance, leave a comment describing it in detail. Always nice to live vicariously through your eyes.