Thursday Mar 06, 2008

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job rescheduled for today, so I get to sit around the apartment and be lazy.

I was given a gift card for Christmas and it sat on my bookshelf until last week. I was actually holding on to it in case I needed it to get through the slow work season...paying bills and such. Well I made it through the slowest months, so I finally jumped on Amazon and bought some things I wanted. The bulk of it arrived this morning, so I am sitting here listening to the Black Snake Moan soundtrack. I loved the music when I saw the movie and thought it suited it perfectly. Now, listening to the music by its own self without the distraction of the movie over it..it's tremendous. It takes me straight back to a night...probably late August in New Orleans...probably at Tipatina's or outside Snake n Jake's. good thing I'm off of work today...there's no way I can sit through this music and not sip on some whiskey. goodthing/toobad I've quit smoking since then.

also received Icky Thump and a good Arabic language study guide.

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dave_h:
What I know is that Iraq is mostly safe for most people now. I lived with grunts for a total of about a month, in one-week increments and got to go on some patrols. Also obviously I had access to intel stuff. The place is still a mess and there's all kinds of bad things, but there is a sense of normalcy and stability and progress now. This is in Ramadi, which a year ago was still one of the deadliest places.

I just get a little irriated that its still called a war. The war ended a long time ago. maybe this is just semantics, but I think its actually relavent. Americans don't understand that this is more of a peace-keeping operation than anything. When protestors are out there protesting the "war" they're talking nonsense. What they're protesting is peace-keeping. they're protesting the rebuilding of an impoverished nation.

I was opposed to the war, but I support the peace-keeping.
mistersatan:
Yeah, the first bit's kind of a general "overview" of my mad tech skills. I'll probably dink around with it tonight. And most HR departments just pass those things along to the IT department, because they usually don't have a fucking clue what all our arcane acronyms mean.

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