The New Blog

Ok, the new site is ready. dissingyourdog.net is a go. Anyone know how to make blogger redirect automatically?

Frank Sinatra

Since stormy weathers and the fact that my flight is way later than I thought it would be, here's something to tide you over until I return.

One of our girls is a Girl Scout troop leader, so that means we get tons of Girl Scout cookies every month or so. After sampling pretty much all of them, I've decided that their Cafe Cookies are the best. The worst is a tie between the ones with coconut on them and the lemon ones.

The only problem I've had is that once I start eating them, I can't stop. I can take down a whole sleeve in about 20 minutes. And that isn't healthy.

On another note, thundertorms are weird in Baghdad. We just had one and it was just bizarre. It poured for about ten minutes, and whole sky was just orange from all the dust. Of course the whole day was overcast like that, but it's ten times worse when it rains.

Out of office again.

I'll be going on another trip tomorrow. Should be gone a few days, and probably won't have internet access.

Also that "Clipboard Story" I teased yesterday is going to have to wait a bit, it's late and I've got to get up early.

One more thing, if you look at any previous posts, you'll notice the formating on them is all fucked up. That's because I did move to wordpress.com, and it's auto-import did that to everything. But, once I got to wordpress.com I realized it sucked. Which is why I went ahead and decided on paying for hosting and using real wordpress. I'm still waiting for the host to confirm everything, then I'll be diving headfirst into something I have no clue about and probably have no business doing.

Later.

I'm So Movin' On

It's decided. I'm leaving Blogger.

DreamHost is the host I chose. I got a really good domain name, too. In fact it's pretty much the one I wanted. I still have to wait a day for the "new DNS information to propagate across the whole Internet." As soon as that happens I should be good to go.

I'll let you know more as it develops.

Stay tuned tomorrow for "The Clipboard Story."

Wordpress?

I'm thinking about moving over to Wordpress. Good idea? Bad idea? Any thoughts?

Letters to Bobby, Part 2

This is the second and last part of the "Letters to Bobby" series. Maily because after reading them again, there wasn't much other good stuff. Go here to read the first one.

Sgt. Bobby, Thank you for helping our world because if something goes wrong they will fight for what is right or wrong. Love, Stephanie

That Legit Post I was Talking About.

My assignment the last couple of days has been to cover the emergency room of the hospital here in the green zone. That's where they bring people when they need more help than they can get at their local clinics and such. It's a really great thing they do, because they help more than just our American servicemen and women, but the coalition forces, Iraqi police, soldiers and civilians. The first day was a bust in a story telling sense. They had a British contractor come in with chest pains, so no real story there. I did go around to the surgery section and ICU and got a little footage. In surgery they were sewing up an Iraqi soldier who got shot in the leg. The second day things got way worse. I'm not going to go into any more detail than that. I think it would be more info than I need to put on a blog. Let's just say it hit me a little closer to home than an Iraqi could have. I will say it wasn't a death, just to clear that up. I have started a bit of a debate at our station. In my story I want to show as much as I can about what happened. That means blood. And not a little. Since our news director is out on a mission, and our station managers are on leave, our senior editor is the final say. I don't think he's going to like what I use, becuase I want to show what really happened. That means blood. I think he wants me to sugarcoat the story because he doesn't want to look at blood. Believe me, I know there's a line, but I'm going to get as close to that line as I can. I don't think I would be doing those doctors and nurses justice if I didn't. Even they say what I saw was nothing compared to other injuries they've had. Sorry if this was a downer post, but it's just something I needed to get out.

Monster/Cyborg

T-A-G-G-E-D

So. I got tagged byAsh. It's called "Six Interesting Facts." Let the fun begin. 1. I used to be a very good trumpet player and wanted to make a career out of it. But, I could never find any other trumpet players I liked to listen to. I tried Wynton Marsalis, Maynard Ferguson, the guy from Conan O'Brien, Al Chez (David Letterman), Dizzy Gilespi, Chuck Mangioni, Arturo Sandoval. None of played like I wanted to play, so I just gave up. 2. I have a huge scar on my left forearm from when I had a tumor when I was a baby. 3. I think the funniest thing in the world is when a child cries. 4. I think I'm the worst soldier since Jerry Garcia. (Well, except for the doing drugs and getting arrested part) 5. As much shit as I get about being from Arkansas, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. 6. I want to start a CAKE tribute band when I get home. That's it. It's all you're getting out of me now. Kiss that legit post I was working on good-bye. I'm tired now, and I tag no one.