Hello World...

It has been a while since I last posted anything.  Mainly because I just haven't felt all that great.  Looks like everyone is going home early...except for me.  I have to somehow get this school up and running all by my self now.  It actually may be a good thing, since now I will have to do just about everything, so I will be aware of everything that is going on...that is unless I figure out how not to share the things I do with myself.

I had my weekly wine rations tonight.  I got a hold of my local chaplain and finally squared things away.  Looks like we may get a few more soldiers in to services as well.  The wine was those little bottles of Chardonnay that they give you on the plane trips...I am sure it will get better at some point.

Have to get up early and watch the Hawks game again.  It comes on at 0430 here.  I get to go on a little trip tomorrow...can't say where or when, but I should be back by Sunday.  May get to hook with one of the LTs that was stationed at Ft Ord with me.  Will know more tomorrow.

Not much else is going on, just trying to figure out what is going to happen with our school.  Got to play a little Euchre and a little cribbage last night.  It was fun.  There was some female NCO that was dressed up as Foxy Cleopatra...honestly, where does one pack an outfit like that?  What would possess an individual to pack something like that to a war zone?  I am not complaining, just trying to figure out the motivation.  I know that there has to be some consumption going on at these parties, but I can honestly say that I have not witnessed any, which is a good thing for plausible deny ability.  That is just judging by the rowdiness of the soldiers that are at these parties.  I have seen some people there that are definitely from our group, so I guess that word is getting around.  Too bad that most of these people will all be going home in about two months or so.

Must go to sleep now.  Hope that Randolph beat Indian Springs today.

Later...

The ABC's of Judaism

The ABC's of Judaism

Not too bad a philosophy. I am looking for some places that I can help some of the other Tribe Members here at "Club Taji" learn about their heritage. Seems like I am the only one here at the moment that grew up in a religious environment. I am glad, thanks to my Mom and Dad, that I had that.

Congress, where 44 percent are millionaires, freezes pay - Yahoo! News

Congress, where 44 percent are millionaires, freezes pay - Yahoo! News

At least congress is starting to "Get it!" IF they really want to get paid more money, they shouldn't become Congressmen...They still make more than every soldier that is putting their life on the line for their country. Are any of our Congressmen willing to do that? Some would, I am sure. But most, doubt it.

But they are white guys?!?

Decided to write this before heading to dinner.  I did have lunch over on the Iraqi side, but on our compound that I used to live at/  Lunch was pretty good, but has anyone, EVER, heard of Texas Corned Beef?  Basically corned beef with bbq sauce on it.  Not that good, but not that bad either.  Better than some of the stuff that I get over here.  I wanted to write something down here before I head to dinner, since I may not really feel up to it after dinner, and I am watching a rugby match.

Japan vs Korea in Rugby.  Only most of the guys on the Japanese team are white!  I guess since we have Japanese Americans they can have American Japanese?  The Korean teams seems to have some national integrity, from what I can tell.  Japan is basically killing them.

Had to Chauffeur around one of the Izzy's today.  Good thing, too, since he had never been to my school, and he is one of the guys that I have to justify my manning roster to.  He kept forgetting stuff, so we were running around all over the place looking for his Body Armor and computer bag.  That was fun.  So I got in a little extra work.  Anyway, not much else is going on here.  I am headed to eat.

Much Love...

Whatever it is, my stomach misses it!

I haven't eaten in the dining facility since Thursday at lunch.  My stomach has been killing me.  No Iraqi food, no Blue Monsters, nothing too out of the ordinary.  Thursday for dinner I got a Pizza from Pizza Hut.  Nothing special, just a stuffed crust deluxe.  I only had two pieces for dinner, so I ate it all day on Friday.  Well, I almost didn't go to Friday night services because my stomach hurt.  It must be that darned American food!  I didn't get this reaction to the Iraqi food last time I ate it.  So I have been existing on Salami Sticks and Salami with crackers.  I am not talking "GIVE ME MORPHINE" hurting, not like last time.  This has just been a low level, I am not really motivated to be that far away from the latrine to go to the mess hall kind of hurting.  Enough of my stomach woes...something far WORSE has crept into my life.

So I am watching Episode 23 of Season 5 of 24.  About 19 minutes into the episode, the disk quits.  Now I am not really mad at the total lack of quality control on the disks...after all, I only spent 10 bucks on all 8 seasons.  What I am pissed off at, is how out of control I feel because I can't watch the final 60 minutes!  I am like a drug addict looking for a fix right now of 24 season 5.  I tried to just jump to season 6, but my heart really wasn't into it, and too much must have happened in that last hour or so.  There are no commercials, so each episode, although covering an hour in time, is only about 44 minutes long.  I think that the problem is that they try to shove way too much data onto one disk.  I would gladly pay full price at this point to watch the damn show.  Curses!  Its not like I don't have the money.  I am getting on Amazon an ordering the damn things.

Watching the Cubs game tonight.  How about the Hawks?  Watched every painful goal that the freaking Canucks scored.  I hate those guys.  Always have.  I used to love to go to the Hawks games when they played those guys...always guaranteed a good fight.  They didn't even do that last night.

Anyway, sorry for not writing in a while...wasn't really into it with the tum-tum on the fritz.  I promise to do better.

Later.