Thursday, May 24, 2007

In Baghdad

Well i have been doing some traveling as of late so i am in Baghdad now. Its pretty decent down here, seen some palaces and such, and trying to go see the perfume palace tonight (its where saddam kept his hos...er...i mean his female companions). the Al Fau palace is pretty cook, not alot of spires but really cool architecture. So thats fun.

Its really hot out here lately though, which is a big poop. Its about 110-115 today and no signs its going to get cooler any time soon, quite the opposite actually. So yeah, if you wonder what iraq feels like, go find 10 hair dryers and point them all at your face, thats a pretty good approximation.

4 cool thoughts for today:
1) Its freaking awesome to be an Uncle, i can't wait to meet my little niece!
2) I saw Toby Keith in concert on Tuesday night and it was really cool. He played American Soldier and i alot of guys and gals there were tearing up. Thanks Toby Keith for making our day a little better
3) C-RAMS, i love this thing
4) Its realy odd to see HMMWVs driving down the street all up armored and then the doors have been taken off.


Oh yeah, I'm taking an advanced networking course down here in Baghdad. If ya'll didn't know it, i don't know basic networking but the instructors here have been really working well with me and everyone else so i will pass this course and actually really like this networking stuff. CCNA...doubtful, but hey, who knows?