15 December 2006
I found the Panorama function, and it was good...
This is me right after i had just gotten up to go running... Man i was tired... That spot on my shirt is water from a drink... I thought i looked too mean in this pic so i took on of me smilin for all y'all...
heh... i hate my smile lol... Been workin out though... *Flex* haha anyways lol...
(no caption necessary) ((Picture is worth a thousand words, especially with this girl)) (((Love ya)))...
I love her dark, gorgeous eyes... I get lost in em... Merry Christmas y'all...
You can see a zoom shot of that clock tower in the distance. That lady's name is Panna. Shes a co-worker that was driving around with me on base...
Some sort of observation tower in Baghdad (location withheld for security reasons) Still a pretty sweet zoom shot...
This is a Panaramic shot of the FakeLake that was built for Oday Hussein (Saddams Crazy ass son.) That bastard... Glad hes dead...
Un yeah... i think i was playing a Fighting game when i took this snapshot lol... kinda badass looking lol... not much else to take pictures of at 11:30 at night haha...
The un-finished Palace of Saddam Hussein. Talk about downgraded... He went from this to his hole in the ground haha. What a chump. the cranes just sort of stayed there... lol...
Until we talk again yall... Hey if you want to write me or send me stuff (wink wink) address to:
SSgt Josh S Garrett
UNIT 42129
JIDC
APO AE 09342
And my Email is Somnioblivio@gmail.com
at work, my unclassified email is joshua.garrett@iraq.centcom.mil
and if for some reason you have access to a classified computer, myclassified email is...
haha gotcha.. its classified. :P
TTYL - LEAVE COMMENTS - I LOVE HEARING FROM YOU ALL - IT BRIGHTENS UP MY DAY...
10 December 2006
So freakin painful...
Ok, so a funny thing occurred to me today out of the blue... Have you ever done something so incredibly embarrassing that you wanted to just run from the room screaming? We'll about a year or so ago while i was still stationed at Lackland and i was working at Medina... i knew this Girl who was pregnant the last time i had seen her. The next time I had seen her, had to have been about 4-5 months after i found out that she was pregnant. So i saw her one day in one of the establishments on base and i asked her when she was due... she was with some guy, and she appeared to be about ready to pop! We'll she gave me this look as if she had must seen a Puppy get shot in the middle of a playground. Ab-so-lute-ly crushed and she goes “i had her about two months ago”
OH EM Effin' Gee!!
i wanted to run from the room... well... run from it screaming lol. It was excruciating... ODD moment! So i tried to play it off with oh yeah thats awesome... whats her name.. you know... completely disregarding the fact that i just basically call but called her a complete heffer. :( so yeah that was the worst thing ever... and i thought id share with you one of the millions of random thoughts that stop in to say hello to muh brain every day.
Oh and P.S. Its raining cats and dogs out here in iRaq. Who'd have thunk it. Y'all write me to meh email and leave me some comments!! mailto:somnioblivio@gmail.com
Love y'all
Josh
07 December 2006
Strike a pose... There's nothin to it...
God bless Army construction.. Lord knows they try.... :P
Theres three things you should take from this picture, they are:
1. The surprisingly beautiful Iraqi Sky at 9AM
2. Some sweet, geared out Hummers
3. The ARMY doing what they do best in the lower bottom right of the pic. haha...
This is a picture of one of the officers from Saddam's former Regime. Its now ours. :)
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Anyways guys... just wanted to pass on the good stuff....
My 1st day off since November the 9th is coming up on saturday!! (that's friday night for you guys :P) and i plan on taking about 5.4 million pictures of the base... i'll talk to you guys later :)
Josh
05 December 2006
Incoming...!
“INCOMING! INCOMING! TAKE COVER! I REPEAT… TAKE COVER! THIS IS NOT AN EXERCISE! TAKE COVER! INCOMING!”
We all bolted instantly toward the barriers as if we were madmen after someone. It was a little bit odd, watching everyone scatter like ants toward safety. So we posted up behind the barrier (this barrier was about 15 feet high and made of two foot think concrete) we felt a little safe. So we waited and waited… nothing. Pins and needles for five minutes… it was excruciating! then over the loud speaker, comes the same voice, false alarm… carry on, ALL CLEAR!” we all looked at each other and burst into laughter. Then we proceeded to make fun of how each other ran and how we all thought that everyone else was all scared. I wasn’t scared… I swear… honest… haha :P
I mean it was a sort of feeling that made me feel like “This is going to be sweet!” But yeah, we continued to walk back to work as if nothing had happened. This place is going to give me a heart attack I swear it. Lol.
Josh
04 December 2006
Finally, some pictures...
This tat is the one that i got for my little (in a manner of speaking) brother Eric. I sure love that guy, im jealous of him sometimes... he just seems so down to earth, I think about him a lot... I sure miss him...
I love the smell of mortar fire in the morning...
Anyways, my room mate looked absolutely terrified. With the look on his face, my knowledge of what was actually going on, and –this is where it gets good- the fact that I knew that Frazee (my room mate) had left early and had most likely not read the email… afforded me the opportunity to play a little Practical joke. Lol.
So I look over to Frazee after the last blast and yelled, “Were taking fire! Get ur Shit on! Gear! Gun! Go!” haha he was out of bed in .5 seconds and had his IBA (Individual body armor (I think)) and his Kevlar helmet along with his M-16 at port arms and was out the door all in the matter of about 20 seconds. It was hilarious. The funniest part was that he was all geared out.. but he was wearing Pajama bottoms and a PT shirt underneath his armor. It looked ridiculous.
So I let him stand outside for about 2 mins then I got up and told him what was really going on and we both just lost it. I told him how hilarious he looked and I took a picture (which I will upload later) and then he proceeded to Judo chop me in the neck and then went back to bed ‘till he had to get up. That’s how my morning went. Absolutely freaking hilarious.
Josh
03 December 2006
Pictures of me...
Josh
Day 22
So I was playing around with excel this morning and I made a running counter program… I punched in when I got here and when I’m leaving and here are the stats:
As of 2:12:57 PM, 3 December 2006, I’ve been here:
3.1 Weeks
22 Days
518 hours
31,093 Minutes
1,865,577 Seconds
And I’m 5.9% complete with my trip here
I will give up a total of 4.13% of my life here in Iraq in service of this “glorious” ( lol) war.
Not bad id say.. its seems to have gone by really fast but the worst part about my calculator is the next section that I added lol, that’s the “how much time I have left” part heres what I came up with:
As of 2:12:57 PM, 3 December 2006, I’ve got this much time left:
11 Months
49.1 Weeks
343 Days
8,214 hours
494,507 Minutes
29,670,423 Seconds
And I’ve got 94.1% of my trip left haha
Kinda depressing if ya look at it from that perspective. Oh wells… my boss just got on my ass cause I spent more than 5 mins away from my work computer… I gotta run… ttyl yall
Josh
P.S. I love ya Lenell :P