here are two websites with pictures/videos from iraq:

http://www.redleg.org/gallery/April-May-05
http://www.lostiniraq.com/?q=node

not much time... lata

so today as i sat down for dinner, i heard this come from the television:

"You are more likely to get killed by falling airplane parts or from being hit in the head by a coconut than to be killed by a shark."

i couldn't stop laughing.

and on an unrelated note, i am slowly going crazy.

this is a pretty nifty video of my team and what we do here in the 'raq. we really dont call it the 'raq. but it sounds hard when i say it like that.

http://www.lostiniraq.com/files/PSD_OnTheGo.wmv

im in germany. im dirty. im hungry. ive only had like 6 hours of sleep in 48 hours. but im coming home for 15 days that i will probably forget because of the blackouts.

fuck this is exciting.

so now that im 'settled in' [in other words, im not at all, but im learning more and more shit about how things work here] i realized that mail to this FOB, where i live, will not be picked up for me. we dont have anyone in charge of the mail here. so, you have to send mail to another base where my unit handles the mail. then i just wait for any ( Read more... )

so i just started packing. we're leaving any time from midnight tonight til feb 2nd. i don't know when, so that's cool. nope.
here's my address, for now:

SPC Patrick Grubert
HHB 42nd DIVARTY
OIF 3, FOB Liberty (Danger)
APO, AE 09308

i love you all and not a day goes by when i don't miss you.
-grubert

this is as bad as it gets. wow.

but anyways, i'm in kuwait now.

it's fucking hot here. and there's sand. tons of sand. and camels.

so my address is:
SPC Patrick Grubert
HHB 42 DIVARTY
APO AE 09366

if you care.
i miss most of you.

Bush won!

my pirate name and shit

please email me. ive been awake since 11pm in this simulation center and i am bored out of my skull. i still have until noon. please email me.