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It's my last night in Harrisburg before returning home, with a trip to Minneapolis to celebrate the nuptials of Kassie and CJ. While I would have preferred to work another week here, they are downsizing (the technical term is "rightsizing") the staff here, and so home I return.

My financial desires notwithstanding, it's just as well that I leave this deployment. I've been here for seven weeks, and particularly the last few have been pretty slow. Couple boredom at work with a lack of social activities outside of work (exacerbated by my hotel's proximity to nothing but the highway), and you get a bored, lonely Simon.

The vacuousness of television and the internet can only go so far to alleviate these symptoms. Though I will mention that Keith Olbermann on Countdown (with Keith Olbermann) does fill the 8-9 p.m. time slot of my life quite well. Great political commentary with just enough humor to make the state of affairs bearable, at least for a little while.