I've been busy lately and haven't had the time to post many pics. I have got my next dio story 95% complete, but a busted water heater and Comic book Creator V1 going bad delayed my plans to publish it before I left. (not to mention that 4 emails and 2 calls to Planetwide comics have been totally ignored!!) Anyway I hoped to get all this stuff (and much more) taken care of before I shipped out to Iraq.

Yeah, I got the news Last week that one of the guys heading over there decided to take orders to another base at the last minute and they needed a Staff NCO to take his place. I was told Mid-late august, but I found it just got moved up...mid-late July. So I'll be outta here before I can spit! I've been told twice before I was going but the plans fell through....either someone else took my place or my unit wouldn't part with me...so I didn't want to tell everyone "bye" again and then look like a fool once more. But this time it seems fairly certain that I'm deploying. I've got about 200lbs of new weird gear issued to me and I'm doing the most screwed up of training. Oh well!

Anyway, I SHOULD be able to log on to JD once I get online in country (even though my Personal laptop I just bought to take won't get here until AFTER I leave and Kris is gonna have to ship it to me!). Man, this trip is more stress than it's worth. I don't mind the danger, it's the jumping through my @$$ to get ready to go that's ticking me off. Anyway, if it takes a while before I get the chance to talk to anyone, you know where I'm at! I'll be fine and back in the US around February - March of 2009 timeframe!

Catch ya on da bounce!