12 May 08b Surreal lunch run

12 May 08b Surreal lunch run

I go running at lunch to keep in shape and work off a gut. I follow a
routine and do some situps and pushups along the way. Yesterday
I was doing situps at the location in the pic below and saw an Apache
helicopter in the sky, high above the trees to my left. We see
helos all the time here as they're mult-purpose aircraft but an Apache
helicopter has only one mission - to shoot stuff. Anyway I then
saw another helo join the first one and they were sorta circling. I
pretty much thought nothing of it and went back to my situps. At
about situp number 5 and with my headphones playing Finger 11 -
Paralyzer loudly, I heard 50 cal machine gunfire even louder! So I
got
up and sure enough 'there's a rukus going on over there' less than a
click away (kilometer or about 1000 yards). I first thought that I
should probably move further away or just cut the workout short as
stray AK-47 bullets can easily travel 1000 yards. (the weapon of
choice for bad guys is the AK-47) But then I thought, chances are
pretty dern slim that I'd get hit or anything so why not just finish
my workout. And so I did finish my workout with gunfire going on in
the background. It all just seemed a bit surreal...
Also, as an FYI, below is a pic of a water bladder. They're about 4-6
tall and contain many thousands of gallons of water.
R/Chris