Sorry it's been a while since I've posted. It was a combination of being really busy and the internet here on base was down for 4 or 5 days. I'm now pretty much all settled in and am getting comfortable with my job. Well, as comfortable as I'm going to get.

On Thanksgiving, the chow hall had a pretty good spread of food. I got my turkey and pumpkin pie. The pie wasn't quite as good as what I get at home, but it'll do for now!! The food here is generally very good. I guess the one thing that they can do around here to keep moral up is feed us! In the chow hall, we've got pretty much any kind of food you want. Every Sunday they serve Steak and Lobster. Everyone talks about coming to Iraq to lose weight. Well, it's very possible to gain a lot of weight while you're here depending on the job you have. But, I hit the gym every day and try my best to lay off the food.

As of December 2nd, I have hit my one month mark. One down, five to go! The first one went by pretty fast and hopefully the next five will too.

Winter time here in Iraq is the rainy season. 2 days ago we had a big thunderstorm roll though. It felt like I was back in the midwest. We had thunder, lightning and hail. Well, since this entire base is pretty much all dirt, when it rains, everything turns to mud. And the water has nowhere to go so it sits around for 4 or 5 days until it all evaporates up. I have more pictures an videos but I can't get them to load up tonight so I'll try again tomorrow.

That's all for now,


G