2 Big Cups of Coffee After Midnight = Bad Idea

Here I am at almost two in the morning an I'm not remotely tired. I watched a couple episodes of The Wire Season 1 tonight with a Captain from the logistics section. It's become an almost nightly ritual of popcorn, coffee and TV crime drama.

Tonight we tried to build a gasoline-burning pot-bellied stove in our tent for warmth. We were halfway through trying to form a port for the exhaust chimney in the canvas when someone pointed out that we were either A) going to burn this motha down or B) going to asphyxiate from carbon monoxide poisoning. So the brainstorming began. We considered putting it outside, opening a door and putting a fan in front of it. Though, as hot as it could possibly get I think we'd end up with more cold air than hot air pumping in here. I still thought about suspending the exhaust from the ceiling somehow and running it out a door, but that's just ridiculous for the ways it could kill us listed above.

Eventually, Sergeant Phillips came up with an idea to build a lean-to/outhouse outside one of the doors to house the potbellied stove. We'll give a nice little slanted room for the rain, cut a hole for the exhaust and line the inside with aluminum foil as if we were cultivating marijuana in a closet. Will we be able to pull this off? Quite possibly. Will we burn down the tent in the process? Quite possibly, but it should be fun.