Picture Day

The pictures in my camera are piling up, so I declare PICTURE DAY! Woo-hoo.

The John Belushi poster was already there, a sign that I truly belong here

Wow, I was reading that last update I wrote and can only assume that the raisins I had during breakfast must've somehow fermented in my stomach and affected my senses. WTF was all that? Well, today I actually have something worth writing about. I finally got my own trailer. Whoooopeeee! No more tent living for me--for a while anyways. I must admit, I was very patient during the 5 weeks I stayed in that tent. I didn't bitch about brushing my teeth in a community trough with 4 guys on either side of me (don't drop that toofbrush!). I didn't bitch when the old man of the camp would start a conversation while coming out of the shower and toweling his testicles. I didn't bitch about the blue chemical splashbacks from the portapotties (got my own toilet now!). No sir I was a champ.

Yes, it was a pleasant gift. And it just happens to be my 2 month anniversary of being in Iraq (again).

You can't tell from this photo, but the bed is on a 12" stand for some reason, putting it about belly button height. This would've been OK if I was a belly button, but I'm not--I'm just a guy with really short legs. Looks like I'll have to find some phone books If I wanna climb into bed tonight.

I did something today that I bet only a few people in the world can say they have done...I shaved my elbows. They've been really dry lately and felt like a combination of sandpaper and the not-soft side of Velcro. It only seemed reasonable to shave off.

It came off pretty easy and it gave a snowy, Winter wonderland feeling to my desk until I threw it on my helper who came to investigate my self mutilation. He didn't find it as funny as I did.

This is what I bought the other day at the Hajji shop. A disk set of 133 movies! Dizzamn! That'll take me at least a month to go through. Actually, I wish the choices were a little better. I don't care for any of the 13 Harry Potter movies, besides, shouldn't he have graduated like 12 years ago? Its got all the Star Wars, LOTRs, Rocky's, Dirty Harry's and Die Hards on it. Basically, everything I've already seen. Great investment for $40. Yeah right. I don't really care for the movie choices on the basic cable here--I've already saw The Beastmaster 240,000 times when my family first got cable TV in the early 80s. AWE!! AWE!! (that was a hawk sound)

Speaking of beastmasters, the hand in this pic belongs to my office mate, Richard--he does the pest control here. This critter was under our guard shack. That lump in the snake may or may not be my last helper, Jugdeesh--he disappeared one night at his second job. I hired him to sleep under the guard shack dressed as a rat......**chirp chirp** **chirp chirp** ehhh, whatever.

I got to thinking. Does anybody ever eat chicken and say it tastes like snake? I dunno, just a thought....Work with me, it's late at night here. Well, the internet is slow here and it's taking me forever to download this crap, so I'll bid you good night.