500!

Right now I don't have internet access in my room so I'm trying remote posting through e-mail. On government internet systems I can read blogs but I cannot log in to make posts or edits. Hopefully this remote posting works, or even better, hopefully my room internet is connected tomorrow and I'll be back to normal operations.

In blog news, I'm over 500 readers! Unbelievable! That means that over 500 times y'all have had so little to do that you've checked in to see what, and how, I was doing; simply amazing! My goal when I started was to have an easy way to send news back to a few folks at home. Selfishly, I just didn't think I'd write enough e-mail to everyone to stay in touch and thought that if I had one central news location I could keep folks at home informed with the least amount of effort on my part. And now, my site has had over 500 hits!

The polite response I suppose would be a simple, "Thank you" to everyone who is keeping up with my adventures in Iraq. As the one over here, I don't always see the interesting story in what we are doing here on a day-to-day basis. I certainly don't find my personal day-to-day life that exciting. But one thing I will admit, it is unlike anything I have ever done before!