Update from Mosul

Sorry it has been awhile. They have been keeping me really busy. Usually working 12-14 hour days. I've lost about 30 lbs. Know I am not starving. The food is pretty good here.

Here is what the average day is like.

5 AM go to gym work out for an hour
1/2 mile walk to gym
1/2 mile walk back
7 AM go to Office
1/2 mile walk there
additional 1/2 to new HQ (palace) and back. Go there 3 or 4 times a day.
10 PM Go back to hooch.
Pass out
Repeat.

The Corp of Engineer's headquarters is moving here, so since IT is everything here, even telephone service, I am going to be really really busy the next couple of weeks. But hey that is the price you pay when you move into a palace of your own.

It had been peaceful hear until a day or so ago. Hey, the occasional rocket attack breaks the monotony. Myself and two coworkers were on our way to the new HQ. We had just walked thru the anti-vehicle barriers in front of the old palace, when we heard a whistling thru the air. Yes folks, it sounds just like in the movies. We all in the ground fast and hard. About 30 people were basically out in the open or between the barriers. The weight loss and workout has been helping. Everybody got up and broke for the hard cover of the old palace. I was first or second thru the doors, beat most of the soldiers in.

Most attacks are hit and run and they can't hit crap anyway. But... You can't count on just one coming in. The rocket hit a Texas Barrier (t-barrier) wall that surrounds the places people sleep and work here. (These are concrete sectional walls that are 20 feet high and 2 feet thick at the top.) It made a dent in the outside of a t-wall, damage a couple vehicles parked there, but no one was hurt.

It doesn't happen often, but God you feel really alive for an hour or so. LOL

Don't forget to check the post about schools and please try to help if you can.

God Bless,

Frank