042312 Spring in DeStile Garden, also the start of malaria season.

042312 Spring in DeStile Garden, also the start of malaria season. 
Pics that I posted just a month ago show lots of snow and me here in Kabul a jacket.  It's definitely spring now and all the snow is long gone but it's still chilly enough here at night to warrant a lite jacket or sweatshirt.  In Iraq it's lite shirt weather by now for both day and night.  It's been raining every now and then here too.  The rain so far has been a 'Seattle rain' where it'll just slowly drizzle for 5 hours or so and barely rain an inch.  With the standing pools of water come concerns about the start of malaria season.  Some offices/companies require their employees to take a malaria prophylaxis.  The military seems to be haphazard on this topic as well as again, some take it and some don't.  But that's really par for the course since there are so many commands and nationalities represented here at HQ ISAF to get EVERYONE to 100% agree on any course of action is essentially an exercise in futility.  Heck if the Greeks are FOR it you can be sure the Macedonians are going to be AGAINST.  And the malaria prophylaxis of choice?  Good ole Cipro!
R/Chris