Creep Doggin’

Days to go: 9 (SINGLE DIGITS MUTHAFUKKA!!!)

Noah “Dude, they’re adding days!”

Me, having no idea what he is talking about “What? What days?”

Noah “Days until we get out of here.”

Me, thinking someone extended our contract somehow secretly “Who’s adding days?”

Noah “You know, ‘them’!”

Me, finally realizing what the fuck he was talking about “Bastards! Why the hell would they do that, are they trying to kill us or what.”

So we are totally stricken with ‘short timers syndrome’. This terrible disease aflicts all people when they only have a very short time left on their deployment. Symptoms include extreme boredom, impatience, a distinct lack of “give a shit”, sloppiness, laziness, and your brain turns into oatmeal. Other than that other crap and the fact that time is moving like pond water things are pretty much cool.

Couple of days ago another team got ambushed on an overpass. Their armored SUV was blown off the overpass by a vbied and fell 70 feet to where the four men inside burned to death. The crater is fucking ungodly, we drive through it every day, and it makes me feel sick to think about those poor fuckers in that car. What the fuck are we doing here?!? We need to nuke this place into glass then put in a Starbucks and a gas pump for god’s sake. You know we had a big meeting the other day about tactics. Just a couple of days after Noah and I sat in the chow hall of the damned discussing how nothing we do really matters.. how its all just luck. It’s like we are all pretty smart guys, we all have a lot of experience in every area of warfighting, but we can’t fucking solve this problem. We can’t figure out a way around some of the fucked up shit over here. I can’t get into the details, I will not talk tactics here and splash sensitive information all over the motherfucking internet, but dammit.. we can’t figure it out. There just isn’t anything we can do to fix the problems that we face on a daily basis. The real problem isn’t with what we do to stay alive anyway. It goes so much higher. It’s like we’re stuck eating this shit sandwich and theres nothing we can do about it.

So I watched some pretty cool movies recently. Donnie Darko, I don’t know how many people have seen this one. Im kinda out of touch with what is cool and popular and what not back in the states. To be completely honest I had never even heard about this movie before I watched it this evening but it was totally kick-ass. Im not gonna revert into Billy the Movie-Dork but theres a lot of cool stuff going on in old Donnie Darko. Let’s see, I also watched Requiem for a Dream the other day. That was another cool flick but a little bit exaggeratory (is that even a word!?!?!). Like everything went to the farthest extreme possible. Favorite scene .. lemme just say “ass to ass!” (kidding, kinda).

Other than that not much going on. The pix posted on here I snapped off today, so they are all hot off the press. I know I put 2 lists in the last blog, but here’s another list just to piss everyone off.. this one is actually kinda funny.

Short Timers Things to do to Keep Your Morale High List 10in2010: (in no particular order)

- Laundry Bag Swordfighting – Noah and I have engaged in desperate battles as we walked to drop off our dirty laundry. Using only our bags of dirty laundry and our cunning we battled our way through the dusty streets of Baghdad. One time we actually made light-sabre sound fx for the swinging laundry bags.

- Toilet Paper Roll Dodgeball – The other day in that bathroom we found ourselves in a heated TP Roll fight with the 25 or so rolls of brand spanking new toilet paper set out in a pile just after the janitors cleaned out the shithouse.

- ” Creep Doggin’ “ – Giving each other creepy stares when the other guy isn’t expecting it so that he turns around or something and you are there giving a creepy stare. I don’t know how we even came up with the name, but this practice has become known as creep doggin’

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