the mist has cleared

The construction of the electric chair has been put on hold due to lack of supplies, ie. small elastic bands to strap them in, and super glue to hold the chair together. For now, we'll continue to feed them to the cats. We are beginning to have quite the furry family here at *******. "Gary" is the kingpin, whilst Mr. Pickles is a close runner up. There is a mother somewhere and she keeps herself hidden fairly well. She gave birth to a litter only a couple of weeks ago, and her spawn have an uncanny resemblance to Gary. The little ones cower away from us, as they have just started coming out of there little hole in the wall. I'm sure eventually they'll become part of the hunting party. Now I just need to find an animal that consumes spiders. I caught one of them climbing around my hair earlier today and who knows how many have climbed into my mouth while sleeping. At least the scorpions have begun to slow down. The cold weather affects their movement, yet we're still finding them lurking around this place. The little translucent ones are the type I don't particularily want stinging me. For that matter, I don't want any scorpions stinging me.
The last couple of days has been relatively slow. A lot of routine duties around here, and no wood to work on projects that have been on hold. As it turns out, the supply desperately needed for the bridge will be here in a few days. This made my day. It'll give us chimos something to do and the reward will be a fully functioning bridge in which noone will have to groound guide anyone across anymore. The shitter truck will be able to come back in, and we won't have to worry about vehicles falling through the gaping hole. I reckon I'll be back with the section in about a week. I'm loooking forward to spending Christmas with those guys, and of course the New Years festivities. I think Dorner has a plan to make a flaming ball on a pole to simulate the one in Times Square. I can't remember the plan, but if its Dorner I'm sure it'll be epic.
Just got off an OP shift with Hryniw. The night has finally cleared up and there is no mist in sight. The last few nights have been zero visibilty and a lot of strange noises coming out of the darkness. One in particular resembles an old lady in severe distress. The animal that creates this shrieking is a large cat, one that I've seen on my previous tour. They are the size of a grown man, and I woould not want one of em sneakin up on me. We tried to locate it tonight, being the sound came from only about 100m way. It seems to know not to look into the spotlight as we did not see it eyes when we scanned. There were some shots fired in a town a little ways away. Some of the boys were busy picking someone up. Then as I'm chit chatting with Hryniw, I see tracer fire come outta the OP down the road. At this point I'm wondering what the hell is going on. I call that OP and they seem to think that they saw muzzle blast coming fvrom our direction. Clearly right out of er. I never did end up finding out what, if anything that they wre shooting at. Probably some MP (military police) falling asleep with his finger on the trigger. Dreaming of making the big collar (in his case a shoplifter) and twitching the trigger.
There areso many pops and explosions arouond here that I've kinda gotten used to them. Every day something out there explodes, or a gunshot, or multiple gunshots is heard. I guess thats this country for ya. Anyway... off to make a call... and then some sleep... Boss is coming tomorrow....out...peace