Oh how I (love) sand :-p

I woke up a couple of mornings ago and as I walked to work I realized I haven’t seen the outside in a while. More shocking was noticing the high of 106 degrees during the weather brief of our morning assessment. Its just barely May but already over 100… I then actually took notice during my walk to lunch, “Yeah – It’s getting a little warm.” The only thing that came to mind was welcome to Hell - cant wait til July!

OK to crush rumors... no we are not prohibited from blogging. Yes we have to watch OPSEC (which I regularly do anyway as a matter of, well, trying to stay alive) but otherwise it is business as usual. No the thing that keeps me from writing here is the fact that I no longer have any sort of life. I am in a constant battle rhythm. We have increased our ops tempo and I am at 100+%. Any writing I do now goes directly to our efforts to support the democratically elected Government of Iraq. A truly noble cause eh? So much has happened in the past 2 weeks but its nothing more than a blur. Old faces going – New faces coming. And me? Well I guess this is a promotion. The products I work on make international headlines and the people I work with are known far and wide. The levels of stress and urgency far greater than any Harry Potter release. But in the end I only hear two phrases constantly circling around my fatigued head…
1) No matter where you go… there you are - And
2) You can sleep when you’re dead.

I have so much more to tell but no time to do it so instead I leave you with a haiku from PGF written to me after the previous entry regarding my “fondness” of sand…

Yellow grains in sky
Mighty rocks brought to granules
Sadly, in my shorts.