Saturday, March 22, 2008

What, really, did you expect?

I really am not very good at keeping this updated. A lot of that is because I am overly dramatic in my style of writing. I demand from myself a certain amount of flair. Also, I do this thing called the Army. Some of you might have heard of it. Keeps me pretty busy though.

I shot some stuff up hardcore yesterday. Was good fun. Wish I had a picture of my target. Sure it was CQC (Close Quarters Combat) training so I was pretty close to the target. The farthest being 25m and moving up to 5m. But regardless, my target was lit up with headshot after headshot. Really was cool to turn in my target afterwards. Would not have minded being able to keep it, but it felt good to hand that in, almost as if it were my application to kill if you follow.

Not much else going on right now really. Sitting in my tent. Well, I am working on learning Arabic. Thats cool. Especially considering at 0530 the call to prayer plays here and the loud speakers are right over our tent. It is fascinating really, the language. Well, I guess the culture as well. Just the way they live and the history they have. Not sure what about those things really intrigues me, but it may just be as simple as a desire to go for the other guy. It is very possible that it is all because of the conflict of Ishmael that I feel the way I do. Talk about getting the shaft, that kid got screwed pretty much as hard as you can. What did he ever do?

Moving on I guess. Or not since I am done for now. I will try to update this more frequently if I can, but not sure how often. Oh, one last thing. My phone is completely shot. So if anyone wants to send me a replacement I wont argue:)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

heh. If I didn't think you were crazy before I sure do now :D

Dennis Ashley said...

Nice reference to Ishmael there. However, I don't think he got a bad deal...God protected him and gave him a great blessing too. It does seem ironic that the Middle Eastern peoples are so closely related, and yet can't keep their hands off each other's throats. Did they never grow up?