but when there’s a sad storm in the desert, things that go bump in the night are creepy, just watching the dust EAT people in front of you – highlight of my time in baghdad this far, having ‘DFAC’ dinner with my cousin, GREAT to see him, catch up, talk about the family, talking about [...]

Blogging after an EXHAUSTING day, this isn’t Kansas, come to think of it, its not like anything I’ve remotely experienced before, that’s why it’s a good thing. I sit at mental gridlock, although tons on my mind. It’s hard to look towards the future at the moment, instead the general rule is to live day [...]

Life in Baghdad-e-o isn’t all that bad, long hours, hard work, don’t even know where to begin with all those. Just walk with an authoritative walk and do you job, I guess that’s the way to roll – Teamwork is big out here, which is AWESOME — Pile A needs to get into building, everyone [...]

Nothing says a hard days rockin’ like falling asleep while walking — I promise to never complain about a 40 hour week again, I won’t ever complain about pulling weeds in yards, It’s a good hardening effect here. Meeting all sorts of cool people, linguists, politicians, people studying Arabic, etc, etc. Always the ‘dumbest one [...]

Tonight broadcasting from ‘the fish bowl,’ the original and only bordello in the palace complex area. Disorientation continues, eyes hurt terribly bad today, burnout has came and went. A few more iterations and I’ll be used to this. The ‘hula girls’ from Hawaii were here tonight providing entertainment including song like ‘Imagine’ Hawaii hula girl [...]

4 am venture to the loo’s this morning reveals the moon / star that’s present on the flag of Islam, man and his symbols. It’s safe to say that ‘things’ move 3-4 times quicker here than back home, strip the frivolous politics from you day to day work environment and you get what you have [...]

I recall the gently rolling hills / mountains in Austria, and when I see them again I feel ‘my heart will search no more.’ Same thing with a lot of other aspects of life. Nothing like a war zone, long hours and a desert sun to put life into perspective. Over here, ever yard is [...]

groundhog day, really sank in to me tonight, that i won’t have a free weekend for 6 months or so. putting it bluntly, it kinda sucks — 12 hours a day 7 days a week are just words until you’re actually there. the difference b/w this and a silicon valley startup is 12 hours of [...]

its a clash of civilizations, on one side you have players who see nothing but a finite game, played to win or to lose. on the other side, half play the same finite game, the other half play an infinite game, a game where winning is to have the factions play again. such polarizations seem [...]

More bullet points until cohesive though can sink in – I haven’t seen bigotry here, people, political, religious, etc — the caricature I saw of the war fighter or those that support it has always taken a ‘conservative’ stance, I see the question framed differently here. The ant nest has been kicked, now you have [...]