mailing address for Jonathan

Jonathan is expected to leave for Kuwait right after Thanksgiving. Some of you have been asking about his mailing address and a "wish list" for care packages. Here is an email from him about that:
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USARCENT/CFLCC
Chaplain's Office
ATTN: Chaplain Landon
APO AE 09306

Make sure that you tell anyone who wants the address NOT to send anything until about the second week in December, because if a package shows up there addressed to me, and I haven't inprocessed (so the mailroom doesn't recognize my name) they may just mark it "return to sender" and shoot it right back.

Some notes toward a wish list...

Sunflower seeds are always good.
Jerky (if you can get it through customs).
100-calorie snack packs of various sorts.
Oriental rice crackers.
Soy nuts (Yes, I've had 'em before, and they're yummy)
Low carb, high-protein snack bars.

Maybe some yarn and knitting or crochet pattern books? I dunno about how much time I'll spend knitting. Probably more than I did in Iraq, since I'll probably have Internet access in my room so I can watch streaming TV shows on my computer and can knit while I watch 'em.

Maybe Audible.com audio-book gift certificates so I can get audiobooks to load on an MP3 player to listen to while I'm in the gym. I have quite a few books I've not listened-to yet. Since I don't have any device now except my laptop I haven't been using Audible much - can't listen on the road and can't listen in the gym - but I'll probably go through those fairly quickly once I get to Kuwait.

Can't really think of other things I might want to use over there for now. There is no shortage of books at Camp Arifjan. There's a book room in the PX mall where people can get books - not required to check 'em out or return them, which is nice because that means people can take books to read even when they know they'll be traveling before they finish the book. Therefore the only books that I'd really profit from would be books of professional interest (professional reading for
military officers or for preachers/pastors).

Maybe I'll start a blog where I can make a wish list of book titles I've run across that sound interesting to me, and I can delete them when I've read them. A blog entry of other wish-list request items would probably be a good idea, too.

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I will post an update if he gets the blog set up.

*** Be sure if you mail a package that you use a flat rate box and make sure you get the discount for an APO address (it's a couple of $$ less).