Polite Dissent

A close-up picture of my desk when I was deployed to the Mid-East. The computer is my faithful HP laptop, which was purchased with long deployments in mind. Thus, it had plenty of mp3s, games, books…oh, and medical texts, too.

The toy ambulance was a gift from the Polite-Wife (then the Polite-Girlfriend) because it reminded her of my problems with driving ambulances. The Hulk I picked up in a Happy Meal and he traveled to all my deployments, so he’s quite the well-traveled action figure. The plane is an F-22 Raptor, again bought by the Polite-Wife. Whenever we played NTN trivia, my name was always “Raptor” (not because of the plane, but because it was a 6-letter name that sounded cool. My second choice was “wombat”). The paper disks are coins. Unlike other establishments on base, the local BX (PX for you army types) only took American money. Since they didn’t want to lug heavy bags of change halfway around the world, they had these disks printed up in 5-, 10- and 25-cent denominations. Coins in cardboard. I think I still have about $30 worth stashed around here somewhere.