Life is...  better...  I'm home again and I'm not on
a plane.  ( I never did like flying more than 8 hours at
a time.)  If everything goes the way I want it to go, I should
be back in Iraq.  (NOT Qatar or some other soft deployed spot)

Or, if things really go the way I want them to, I'll be gone for
about a year instead of this 4 to 6 month silliness. 

Though, I have to admit, haveing a living space bigger than
10'X10', all to myself, with a bathroom and kitchen in the same
building is a wonderful thing.  ( that and safe drinking water.
not that bottled water is all that bad)