BORED!!!!!

So I remembered my camera but it was dead so no new vids. But it was pretty cool. Other than that we did one thing and were very successful but I can't really talk about it in a blog. But its a good story and I'll share later. I know that sounds stupid but I would get in trouble and in the grand scheme its not the coolest thing ever.

Overall that means in the past week I've been outside the base for about two hours...its mind-numbing out here right now. We are the only ones on base with Sat TV so we thought we'd be nice guys and invite over some of our security guys to watch the UFC fight. That channel didn't come in too well so I went to mess with the dish. Of course...we lost all channels within 20 seconds of me touching it. But we had another dish flown in this morning so I'm able to watch the NFL. Plus with Florida v Bama this weekend this issue immediately became priority one, so I'm glad we have everything back to normal.

So in recap...I'm very bored. Pros: I get to read a lot, I'm in great shape, and tan. Its like a vacation with the added risk I may get shot at. I'm sure I made the right life path its just a bit dusty right now. Hope everyone who ganders at this is well and I'll see you in the spring.

The Sun?

So we've been busy again and I just woke up a few hours ago. We're going out again for the third night and I haven't seen the sun in almost three days. But its kinda nice because its pretty nice here at night. Even when you live in a small city you never realize how many lights there are until your flying over a desert in a country that has power only in the smallest sense of the word outside of Baghdad.

But another week down..24 to go. Plus we have a big demo op sometime in the near future so I'll try and remember my camera. Hope everyone is well.

Countryside

Landmines

New song...same lyrics

So I finally made it to my base. Still getting settled. But actually being in the middle of nowhere in nowhere Iraq is pretty nice. Its just us and no one bothers us about anything. We've been fairly busy but thats actually a good thing. We were able to get all of our gear used on some easy stuff to make sure everything works right. But out here no one makes us wear uniforms or tells us to do this or that. We workout, play games, sleep and if they get us some work we blow it up. All in all good times.

For the bad...the closest bathroom cannot handle toilet paper which means you have to place in a big garbage hanging in the stall. Needless to say I'm not cool with that and schedule my movements while I'm in another part of the base.

I will try for a lot more photos this time. I also have a video I'll try and post tomorrow. Henne asked me for some video of the beautiful Iraqi countryside and you'll get to see my glorious view every time I go out.

Doing really well. Already have a little routine working so I'll ride that for awhile and see how long into deployment it takes me. Miss everyone already but I'll be home and bored there too very soon.