Damn Murphy's Law

After 5 long days, Kevin has finally made it to his final destination, Camp Dubbs. He says it's an extremely small base with about 50ish American troops and 120ish French troops. He said he's talked with the 5 people he'll be working with and the base is very safe (although I must say I'm taking that with a large grain - more like a chunk the size of a lick - of salt). His travels took him from Ft. Riley, Kansas to Topeka to Ireland to Romania to Kyrgyzstan to a main camp in Afghanistan and FINALLY to his camp. That's alotta travelling in 5 days. He said he'll be working 12-hour shifts 7 days a week and his living conditions are livable. He also said that all the people he works with are dog-lovers so he will have much opportunity to have many philosophical discussions about Cesar Milan and his dog whispering.

Meanwhile I'm getting ready to leave for my parents' house in S.C. I was planning on leaving on Monday, but alas, the once and ONLY time in my life that my car decides to have its battery die while I'm not at my house is while I was out doing last minute errands on Saturday and of course this happens when Kevin is half a globe away. Damn Murphy's Law (hence the title of this posting). Fortunately, I was in the parking lot of Cahall's Deli (world's best chicken salad sandwich for anyone who wants to eat a piece of heaven) and the owner was super nice and offered to jump me - uh, I mean my car (wow - in writing that definitely comes off not how I meant it to). Luckily, my heroic friends Josh and Tina were able to rescue me and jump my car so I could get home. And even more luckily, my very wonderful mechanic (Kevin Iferd for those of you in Panama City who may need a reliable, honest car fixer) said he'd come fix my car on Sunday night or Monday morning as soon as he got in from being out of town.

So I guess the moral of this post is (aside from the general information sharing of Kevin's deployment status) Murphy may strike unexpectedly and inconveniently, but good friends will always triumph over him.