The Date
Katie's asleep and she'll probably kick me when I get home for posting it here before she actually knows but seeing how she'll be asleep past my bedtime, I should at least put this somewhere.
I leave the base I'm at on July 13th to come home.
I have to go to another base from here first and then to Kuwait but the important part is that once I leave here I only have to catch a couple flights and I'm home. Start counting days. I'll be home within a week of leaving here.
This guy does not deserve this.
I hate to follow two nonsense entries with another one but this needs to be pointed out.
Nintendo sends George W. Bush a Nintendo DS Lite and Brain Age for his 60th birthday.
That's exactly what I want for my birthday.
A flavorful array of gross.
There's a reason I like Mike & Ike's so much more than Jelly Belly's. Mike & Ike's come in 4 flavors, lime, orange, cherry, lemon. They recently added crappy strawberry and I usually throw those out but otherwise they're almost perfect. Jelly Belly's are a much more mixed bag. You get some decent flavors mixed up with utter dog crap like buttered popcorn and black licorice. Ugh, I just ate a coffee one and I think I might hurl. Anyway. In conclusion, Jelly Belly's have a 1 in 40 chances of making me hurl, while Mike & Ike's are nothing but sugary love.
Edit: Still dry-heaving.
I hate the blogosphere.
The word "blogosphere" itself gets on my nerves. Who coins this garbage?
Boring days ahead before I leave. This is a good thing. I'm all packed up, almost. Still have one box to mail out and to throw my junk into the shipping container but other than that it's all over. I've taken down my poncho walls and feel very exposed even though I'm the only one down here right now. I'll have my camera with me the whole way home so I'll try to get a bunch of pictures of the process. My memories are as reliable as pre-second edition Windows 98 and taking pictures of things helps me to remember them later. My memory is very visually connected. I won't remember something if you tell it to me but if I've got it written down or I see something related to it, I'll remember. Then again I have big issues with seeing faces that look familiar but I can't place a name or a memory to them. Like I'm recognizing total strangers. I tend to think I'm haunted by the ghosts of my past.
More pictures
So if you're blind, I was testing my Flickr account yesterday. Apparently it's working. So go see new pictures here.
Test test test
This is me testing my Flickr account. By the way, kind of funny that my "this time in the past" entry is about deploying to Iraq and now I'm less than two weeks from coming home.
I’m lazy.
Between counting days and working with my replacement, I haven't been doing much of anything besides sleeping. If I just sleep away the next two weeks they'll pass by much quicker. I might get briefed today, which is one more step closer to going home, but we tried to do that yesterday and it didn't work out too well.
I swear I'll edit and post those boring pictures I took last week before I leave Iraq.