Well, 2.5 months after my last blog entry...I'm home! I arrived on 9 Oct, had about a week off from work, went to Florida to see Adam for a long weekend (I don't recommend booking a flight 4 hrs before it takes off...long horrible story...) picked up my new '03 Roush Stage 3 Mustang while down there, and now it's back to work.

Plenty more I could write about, but now's not the time.

I would like to continue blogging since I've got plenty to share between my family, the Navy, cigars, card games, Twitter and my new Mustang, but until Connie is recovered from her surgery I can't see any kind of schedule that will allow me any time on a regular basis to do updates. We'll see, but I'm definitely not promising anything soon.

Thanks to those who kept up with me while I was depolyed.

It's 120 degrees with a slight breeze.

Ok, so I have seen water for a few hours in the past 6 months, but not much!

The Marina 1/2 of the Marina Mall.

It's been confirmed...I suck at blogging!

Another month's gone by already? Well I guess it's a good thing that time at least feels like it's flying by.

It's pretty much a daily grind, comfortable in the 90's when I get up for a shower in the morning, 120 by 9 AM, 125+ by noon, 100 when it's time for a cigar at 8:30 PM. Luckily, our AC works fine and it's 70's inside.

So since my last update I've gone back into Kuwait City again, this time to the Kuwaiti Towers and the Marina Mall. The Towers were nothing more than an observation point, good for pics and that's it. The Mall was nice, what I would call 'upscale' with the decor and cleanliness and the Masaratis, Ferraris, Jags, Aston Martins etc parked out front. It was pretty much just window shopping for me especially after I saw the prices. A new PSP game that would cost $40 in the US was 19 KD (Kuwati Dinar) which was equivalent to about $75 US. A pair of regular Timberland boots was 48 KD or around $190. No thank you.

They did have 2 cigar stores though, so that's when the window shopping stopped and turned into REAL shopping! I escaped after spending only 20 KD. My wife should be proud! :-)

My buddy and I had lunch at an American Johnny Rockets and paid 11 KD for 2 burgers with fries and 2 shakes. Yup, $40!

Next week I'm scheduled for my R & R trip to Qatar where I'll have 4 days to relax, see the water (I'm in the Navy and haven't seen water in 6 months for crying out loud!) play on a jet ski, eat at a Chilis, and DRINK 3 REAL BEERS EACH DAY!!!!!

By the time I'm back from that, there will only be about 6 weeks between me and my family and that's broken up by the arrival of the first wave of the next det, departure of the first wave of my det, arrival of the second wave, and the pack up and move out of my wave. So with those little distractions I'm praying time will continue to fly by.

We'll see!

And this is what it looked like