Update

Well tomorrow is April fools day...I am participating in a 5k April fools day run here, they expect about 2,000 people to run in it...when you consider this FOB has 15,000 military and about 10,000 contractors living here..thats really not all that many folks. So much of what is interesting here is classified and cant be discussed in the open. I did go see where all of the Hunter/Predator unmaned remote control planes launch from...that was pretty cool...they fly the base peremeter all day and night.

One thing funny today was that my battle buddy, Patrick Rowe from Owensboro went to get a haircut (some Third Country National was the barber) and he got shaved nearly bald (he had quite a bit of hair) most of these folks cant understand much English so I guess there was a misunderstanding...he literally has no hair...the guy shaved his head with a straight razor. He told him "high and tight" which in the states means short sides and back with a tapered fade to longer hair on top...well he got the fade all the way..was pretty comical.

The bright spot of my day has been John Calapari coming to KY...man that Billy Gillespie turned out to be a hand wringing wack-o-loon as one of my frinds from back home put it. I said to a guy here when KY lost to the Irish in the NIT, they need to fire that guy and hire a guy like Coach Calapari, someone slick, with class. Man, they have hit a home run with him. The A.D. at Memphis said the Coach C said several years ago that the ONLY job that would take hime away from Memphis was U of KY coaching job...so the guy is sincere.

Nothing else much to report here...the days are actually moving on by...Ive been in theater a month already..not bad. Please pray that the situation doesnt deteriorate with the planned withdrawl here...too much blood and treasure has been spent here for this to fall apart. Gotta run for now. The cards and packages have started showing up , I appreciate them so much...