Entertainment

Yo, sup? So we pass the many hours of sitting on our rear ends by staring at that infamous thing we call the "Television". If you'll notice, our "chairs" are actually Humvee seats, that we tacticaly borrowed from nearby units. They work quite well, except when you lean to far back and fall over.

I got my hair cut today, they do an 'ok' job, but what can i expect from a 3 minute razer tornado on my head, and all for 3 dollars. I payed for the cut in "pogs" (cardboard money thats used instead of change), the guy at the counter didn't look to pleased, but he had to accept them anyways. and i was sick of them floating around in my pocket.

I also dropped of my laundry today. Yes, they wash and fold our laundry for us. Free. can't beat that. They even pair my socks.

One of the guys in my section is into japanese anime stuff. At first i thought it was quite retarded. Than i started paying attention to this particuler show called "Naruto" it's actually somewhat interesting, almost as good as voltron was. (Nothing will ever beat voltron though, end of story.) The guy that likes anime, also just bought an Xbox 360, so he's been playing that all day. I'm not really into video games anymore, i'd rather go do something more constructive, like sleep, or play chess, or eat, or fill sandbags, or make the PFC take "Humvee exhaust samples" and have him give it to the Lieutenent..."Here sir, you're suppose to smell this..."

Messy Rack

Yah, ok. So i don't have a wall locker or anything to put my stuff in. So I just kind of shove it under my bed, then pull stuff out as needed. Of course, everything that i need is always on the bottom of my duffel bag or back pack. Oh well. I managed to acquire a little wire rack to put my laptop on. It works great! It has some storage on the bottom, and plus it keeps the laptop cooler.

It's been a slow few days. I've spent a fair bit of time writing our "Standard Operating Procedure" (SOP) since there isn't one in existance. Using lots of big words that managment likes to see, you know, "Fully utilize the organic assets with a 100% effective readiness rate" kind of stuff. Maybe i've just read to much dilbert. naw.

Cool day in paradise

The tempratures have finaly started to cool off. Today it stayed around 120 degrees.

I had Mac and cheese with green peas, a personal size pizza, two bananas, some ice cream, and an A&W root beer for dinner. Last time i was here, i lost weight. This time, i'll gain weight. heh, darn that KBR.

So i was in the porta-john today, staring at the wall, and i noticed the manufacterers stamp imprint in the plastic, low and behold, it was made in minneapolis. So everytime i use the john out here, i think of home. Just thought you all should know that. maybe i'll take a picture of it tommorow. Ok, Ok, i won't take a picture of it.

Heres a question i pose to you all... If you are making an ice cream float with root beer, should you put hot fudge on the ice cream before, or after, you add the root beer?

Hmm...Ok, nuffin new today

Don't really have much to add today. Just sat around, did some training with the guys. Looked over the trucks for the ten bazzillienth time. Yup, the headlights STILL work. The muffler belt was being elusive for the young PFC though, no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find it. So i sent him to go and get the Metric crescent wrench from the Commanding Officer. Amazingly enough, the CO didnt' have it. go figure.

Slow, Fast, Slow, Fast, Slow, Fast

I lose track of the days. I thought today was monday, until someone said that it was thursday. Then a PFC (thats "Private First Class") pointed out that it's wednesday. Go figure. We'll be on a mission for 30 hours, then sit around for 4 days waiting on another mission. Twiddling our thumbs, watching movies, playing chess, building something from the scrap wood pile behind our "hooch" (hooch is a common military term for somthing that looks like a place to sleep, but in all actuallity, it just sucks)

We had our first mishap two days ago, one of my Marines was doing his last pre-check on his truck, just before we rolled, and stepped on a loose board on the 870 trailer. The board popped up and smacked him in the face, he ended up with 6 stitches. I had to take him off the convoy and send him to medical. He was pissed, but it had to be done. So, which means i filled his spot as a driver, and i pulled one of the Corpsmen (medics) and put him as my a-driver (thats military for 'passenger'). i havn't driven a truck like that in over 3 years. Not to mention we were rolling black out (no lights) so i had NVG's (night vision goggles) mounted to my kevlar (helmet). If anyone has ever seen a military ECP (entry control point) they know the snake you have to drive through is tight. I figured i was going to hit a barrier, but somehow, i managed to miss them all. I was actually disappointed.

Thats all for now, gotsta work.

Moving to Blogger, Updates, blah blah blah...

Ok, so as most of you know, i'm now in Fallujah. Being as such, i no longer have time to take care of my website. And since i am techy geek kind of fellow, i've always done the work myself, rather than use an "out of the box" web service. So now i've admited defeat, and signed up for an "Out of the box" service. Rats. I feel so humiliated.

For some reason the military has a block on my website, but they don't on Blogger, and blogger ties in with Google. I already a bizzilion services with google, so i'll use that.

Other than that, not much new with me. Well, besides sitting here in Iraq again. I'll try to post a "photo of the day" thing.

Whats new with all of you? Send me an email and let me know (Jerry(at)JerryLoss(dot)com)