It's 3:52 in the morning here in Baghdad. We all take turns being available to answer the Admin phone in case the Red Cross calls or some other emergency occurs. Tonite, as I sit Watch, I viewed the 1976 film "The Eagle Has Landed" based off of Jack Higgins novel of the 3rd Reich idea to kidnap Winston Churchill. A few of you may remember it...starred Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, and Donald Sutherland.
When that finished I took a look around the building for our 8 lbs rat. That's another part of the night watch...seeing who spots the rat. Nothing so far. We have a cat without a tail that hangs around our building. Apparently he hasn't been so lucky catching the rat either.
I am now playing the DVD of Norah Jones Live in New Orleans. Her report with the audience isn't that great but her voice is just as pure live as on a mixed and professionally recorded CD. It reminds me of a Friday night in Clearwater, FL when I first listened to Norah Jones CD with Andra after we put the kids to bed. We liked the music from the first song. In fact, Alex and Ava have had Norah as their going to sleep music. Within the first 15 seconds of hearing her music on the radio, Ava will shout out "Norah Jones!"
Anyway, it's starting to warm up over here. Afternoon temps are reaching the mid-80's and it seems as if the rainy season has ended. A lot of dust gets kicked up by all of the vehicles around here. The civil engineers have water trucks come around and wet the roads down a little to pack down the dust.
Andy Gibbons and I found a local national store on base that sells DVD's for 2 dollars. Available to us, fresh from the theaters via videotape and digital reproduction, every movie that has opened up in the States within the last 2-6 weeks. I think I side-stepped the whole black market moniker there pretty well. :) It's just funny to see people still trying to find their seats silhouetted by the movie screen. What can one expect for $2.00???
Another quick look for the rat has revealed my Girl Scout cookie bait has been snatched from the kitchen corner. In fact he's in the middle of the room swaying his head side to side with Norah Jone's music. Just kidding. I have my camera ready though. If I see him, I'll post his picture. The silly muses of one who has been awake for 22 hours! Speaking of GS cookies, we are supposed to receive a package with 200 boxes of GS cookies in the next week or so. Extra time in the gym here I come!
Work continues to go well. Spending a lot of time pouring through reports to look for trends or emerging changes in tactics or equipment in the counter-IED fight. Still very disheartening to read patrol reports where an IED detonated and the wounded in action have their status changed to killed in action. The only limit to the enemy's tactics is their imagination. It makes trying to shut down these animals akin to chasing a demon...forever running and forever haunted.
When that finished I took a look around the building for our 8 lbs rat. That's another part of the night watch...seeing who spots the rat. Nothing so far. We have a cat without a tail that hangs around our building. Apparently he hasn't been so lucky catching the rat either.
I am now playing the DVD of Norah Jones Live in New Orleans. Her report with the audience isn't that great but her voice is just as pure live as on a mixed and professionally recorded CD. It reminds me of a Friday night in Clearwater, FL when I first listened to Norah Jones CD with Andra after we put the kids to bed. We liked the music from the first song. In fact, Alex and Ava have had Norah as their going to sleep music. Within the first 15 seconds of hearing her music on the radio, Ava will shout out "Norah Jones!"
Anyway, it's starting to warm up over here. Afternoon temps are reaching the mid-80's and it seems as if the rainy season has ended. A lot of dust gets kicked up by all of the vehicles around here. The civil engineers have water trucks come around and wet the roads down a little to pack down the dust.
Andy Gibbons and I found a local national store on base that sells DVD's for 2 dollars. Available to us, fresh from the theaters via videotape and digital reproduction, every movie that has opened up in the States within the last 2-6 weeks. I think I side-stepped the whole black market moniker there pretty well. :) It's just funny to see people still trying to find their seats silhouetted by the movie screen. What can one expect for $2.00???
Another quick look for the rat has revealed my Girl Scout cookie bait has been snatched from the kitchen corner. In fact he's in the middle of the room swaying his head side to side with Norah Jone's music. Just kidding. I have my camera ready though. If I see him, I'll post his picture. The silly muses of one who has been awake for 22 hours! Speaking of GS cookies, we are supposed to receive a package with 200 boxes of GS cookies in the next week or so. Extra time in the gym here I come!
Work continues to go well. Spending a lot of time pouring through reports to look for trends or emerging changes in tactics or equipment in the counter-IED fight. Still very disheartening to read patrol reports where an IED detonated and the wounded in action have their status changed to killed in action. The only limit to the enemy's tactics is their imagination. It makes trying to shut down these animals akin to chasing a demon...forever running and forever haunted.
1 comment:
Hey we had 72 degrees down on the Snake river, it will be awhile before we see 80 though. sounds like you have a muskrat sized rat there, better guard those girl scout cookies close! We are enjoying ours!
Nora is enjoyable to listen to, Dave Holland is still making coffee just right, the praise band sounds good but we miss your drumming!
Keep up the good work!! stay safe.
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