Just another day in Iraq
Current mood: cranky

Well, the weather's starting to heat up a bit. Its been about six weeks since we left the US, a little less than a month here in Iraq thus far. We're having fun getting our internet connections set up. 1^st platoon got theirs running a couple days ago, so we decided to go through the same outfit they used. Y'know, proven reliability and all that. 3^rd platoon is getting theirs through some vendor out of Poland. It's supposed to be faster and cheaper than the set up we got. We're also having trouble getting enough people to sign up to make it inexpensive. Which isnt all bad, the fewer people the more bandwidth.

Weve been going about 20 days without any days off for anyone, and its starting to show. Some folks tempers are getting a little short, and the whining is getting a bit louder. Me, Im just sinking into the groundhogs day philosophy.

Another mail call a minute ago. Pickings sure are slim. It seemed like at Camp Shelby we were getting care packages all the time. Every mail call would fill up the back of a humvee. Now for my entire platoon its a few letters and one or two packages a day (none for me, yet). I wonder if the mail is just that much slower getting stuff over here, or what?

Not much more to talk about right now. Once again, sorry we dont have much excitement around here. Then again, as everyone back home keeps telling me, boring is good.