Library Lock on Front Door Broke/Got Busted In

I've been back in Kabul for a month now. Over the election weekend, our library lock on the front door broke.

You would have to kick it pretty hard to bust it up like this. But nothing seems to have been taken. The security folks reported it and put a piece of white sticky paper (like what we use for book labels) over the door and dated it. They left it unlocked, of course.

So I unlocked the bolt and re-screwed in the bolt to the other side. It was then that I saw that it didn't just 'fall out'.

So our facilities guys fixed it later that day.

The Eye in the Sky. Western Kabul

Kabul has an eye in the sky over the downtown area. Central Kabul. Monitoring activities and movement if/when something happens.

Now we have an eye in the sky in the western areas of town. It hangs above Darulaman Palace or in close proximity.

Do I feel safer? No, but I don't actually ever feel too unsafe. But it is a signal that things may get interesting on our side of town.

We have the whole Hazara / Kuchi thing in our mountains. And last may the car bomb or VBIED on the Darulaman Palace circle.

But it can be easy to think about the balloon as just a big kite in the sky that twinkles at night.

Dallas Cowboys in Kabul. My little room

I am very cozy in my little room here in Kabul. Photos of home. Way too many gadgets (who can live without technology these days? Not I). And Armed Forces Network by satellite. I paid for it myself last May. In time for Football season. And got it setup. It blew down and then I re-fixed it back in August. It is such a blessing to veg out with a bit of American entertainment!