Monday

I seem to be getting worse about updating this thing. Honestly there isn’t that much going on here (fortunately). We’ve had another bombing or two in Tikrit with more deaths, Baghdad has had a lot of bombings lately.

The temp was 106 yesterday.

My bus is still in the process of getting the motor rebuilt. This is the second time as the first guy completely lied about doing the work. What goes around comes around and bad karma will come back to him I’m sure. I wish no one ill will and I’m not trying to be malicious, but this is an instance where I won’t loose any sleep if/when it does. It’s funny the things that occupy your mind over here- I keep thinking about where all I want to go in the bus. For those of you wondering what the bus is, it’s a restored 1978 VW Westfalia camper- sage green of course. Two beds, sink, stove, cooler, storage for my junk- what more could I want for a long road trip right. Well maybe air conditioning.

Vacation/R&R- late June it’s looking like. It’s my end of contract so I’ll have to decide whether I’m coming back or not. It’s hard to walk away from the money but there are a myriad of other places I’d rather be. I said I was going to work for a year over here so that I could earn the money to take off for a while. I suppose it’s kind of addicting though- the more you earn the more you want. I have no faith that social security will be around when I get older so I’m working for my retirement. If I’d had any sense when I was younger and put money away from the start I’d be a lot better off, but how many of us really do that?

There was something else I was going to mention, but I can’t remember what it was………… Oh well.