Day 150.64 - POKER Thursday

Yep it's Thursday and our POKER night - well actually we now play twice per week - there's a Monday game too. We are down to only four players but its still fun. We finished the game room and if I say so myself it's OK - typical manly man room - (Thanks to "Tool Time" blueprints & Time Allen- he's our idol - NOT). Anyway a few pictures are better then me describing it.

Thanks to Leo for the Christmas decor - Leave in 2 days home in 5 - yippie!!!!

PIctures from Thanskgiving

Just a few pictures of the aftermath of the Thanksgiving day attacks - only one minor injury - thank goodness. Luckily they over shot the main building of the hoapital and hit

behind it.

THANKSGIVING DAY REVIEW

Well quite an eventful day we had. Very nice lunch with all the fixings (and shrimp cocktail to boot). It was very good but not nearly as good as home cooking.... It was different being away for the first time.....

Then things got ugly. At about 4:40pm Ali Baba dropped about 20 rockets onto the area in less than 5 minutes. Everyone was in the bunkers. Surprisingly little major damage and only very minor wounds. Luckily they can't aim very well. The DFAC (Dining facility) had to be closed so no real dinner. Thankfully it wasn't nearer to 5pm as then there would have been lots people outside and that could have been real ugly.

Enough of that.....Friday is always quiet cause its the Iraqi religious day (like our Sundays)....reduced crew and basically Chip and I cover everything while the others are off. I get Sundays.....

Oh well - Only 25.71 days till I leave for home - yeppie.

Hope everyone had a GREAT TURKEY DAY...
Hi to all

Same Day More Pictures

Wednesday Day 121.87

Today I finally got moved into my very own trailer (again) - it's even bigger than the first one I had to move out of. A few pictures of the new digs - obviously I need decorating help 911.

Counting the days till I can leave for home (34.13) - not that I am EXACTLY tracking the hours and minutes.

We had a little fun with the Program Manager back in the states - he was always petrified to be here. Every little noise could send him scurrying to the bunker - so after he left I go the painter's to make a special place for him. His personal bunker......of course some how pictures found there way back to KY.

Other than this nothing much going on in Baghdad - except the usual car bombs, IED's, mortars and rockets- just another day in a city gone wild.

Be home soon - Bye all

MAIL ADDRESS CHANGES

Well it's not that big a change just the Unit number

We were the 28th CSH but now it's the 86th CSH.....so just change 28 to 86....
everything selse is the same as before...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

DAY - 98.45

Nearing the 100 day mark - sometime Wednesday. ONLY 57.55 days left till R & R (Heading home).

Rather eventful week - yea won at poker both times (practicing for the WSOP next year) that was good....hope that streak continues. Then Mr Ali Baba started his incoming on Wednesday night and I was relaxing on the bed (6:05pm)-half asleep. Boom Boom...near by and I jumped out of bed....well no one told me I wasn't a Ballet dancer so when I landed on Mr Left Big Toe- it not being properly trained to do that Toe stand thing (can't remember what the technical ballet term is)....so anyway it went CRACK and down I went. So NO technically I did NOT fall out of bed.....regardless of those nasty rumors. Yea, the toe broke at the base where it meets the foot bone....and of course one can't do much about that....except WHINE (now where's the cheese). Yes there are pictures but no - it's too ugly a sight to share (lol).... Good thing I'm in the desert cause my poor old foot would freeze in the states. On the positive side - I got to watch movies for two days in my trailer....but back at work today...well sorta.

Anyway enough of this realty show (or is it a Comedy) for now. Should be all healed by Dec 19th...I hope