Here's a little bit of advice for you all: eat dates. Apparntly, the bedowin's eat a lot of dates. Bedowins also have an exreemly low cancer rate. So, from now on, when I get back to the States, I'm gonna start eating a lot of dates. By the way, Bedowins are a type of people around here. They're like Middle Eastern nomads. I don't know too much ( Read more... )

Christmas Eve was great. Besides when I had to work on my truck. I had to replace a half-shaft on my truck. Raising it was a pain. I spent about 10 minutes trying to raise it with some old jack, before the handle broke. I felt like I might as well try to lift the truck myself. Then someone finally gives me a different, better, jack. I felt like a ( Read more... )

I just got finished reading my book, Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. It's pretty good. It's about the history of Mormonism, but mostly about Mormon fundamentalists. Then he relates the story of Ron and Dan Lafferty to the faith, since they where Mormon fundamentalist. Ron and Dan Lafferty killed a women and her baby back in 1984, ( Read more... )

So, I just found out that these computers have Yahoo Messenger. I would try to chat, but you all are problably sleeping. Maybe later. Maybe tonight.

I don't know why, but I'm seeing a lot of seagulls around here. I'm pretty sure seagulls only live around bodies of water. The Persian Gulf is hundreds of miles away, along with the Mediterranean Sea. The Tigris River is only a couple of miles away, but I never heard of seagulls living by rivers ( Read more... )

Why was the idea of a god ever taken seriously? I mean, until a god starts getting interviewed on CNN, I don't see why that its existence should seem logical. You definitely can't deny that god then. At least its existence. Life is amazing, life is incredible, and life is very complex. A lot say that should prove the truth of a higher being. But ( Read more... )

As I'm sure you all have heard, Saddam is captured. I could hardly believe it, when I heard. It feels like such a huge relief. I'm not sure why. I'll still be here. I'm not leaving any earlier. At least the 4thID caught him. I'm tired of the guys in Baghdad getting all of the attention. I was really tripped out when I heard where he was caught, ( Read more... )

Another person died today. Somebody drove by a small convoy and shot at them. The dead guy is Iraqi. I'm not sure if the dead dude was working for us. I just had to go over and pull security. Then we had some Iraqi police drag the body out of the truck he was driving, and take him away. I'm definitely unaffected by death. At least the death of ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, I got to talking with a friend about bondage. Apparently, him and his wife are really into it. He was ecstatic that he could talk with me about it. Most people find bondage just weird and "off the wall" I guess. So, he just goes on and on about all the things you can do, and some of the aspects of bondage. He has gotten me ( Read more... )