What a shitty day! It started off badly and ended up badly. My day began by being woken up at 630 in the morning by a middle aged staff sergeant who is way past his prime. He yelled at me for not being ready but I was told the night before that I didn’t have to work today. Well that’s the Army I guess. So then I get dressed and head out to the vehicle to get it prepped for the mission (stocked with water and food, and the communication ready to go) and then I get bitched at again for the same thing. So now I’m tired of hearing how much of a piece of shit I am because I did exactly what I was told to do. Finally we are ready to leave and we are given the order of march (order in which the vehicle will travel) so the LT says I will be behind HQ6 but then once we get rolling they change things and I end up behind HQA1. Now I am really confused but keep rolling anyway. Our trip went pretty smooth except for the vehicle in front of me almost rear ending an extremely old beetle that looked like it had duct tape holding it together (the standard for cars in downtown Baghdad). We get to the objective and then sit around for about 5 hours and then drive back. Heat wasn’t too bad today. About 110 or so but we had a nice breeze. The other day it was 120 and no wind whatsoever. I didn’t eat because the heat just makes me lose my appetite. Well we get back from the site and the trip back went ok except my truck was performing very badly. The transmission sometimes doesn’t work so well because someone decided that the Army needed electronically controlled transmissions instead of the old hydraulic ones, big mistake. So I have trouble keeping up with the rest of the pack but we still make it. Then once I get back to base all I want to do is take a shower and a nap but then the commander needs me to drive him somewhere so here I go again, back in the truck. I finally get back and I take my much needed shower and about a 3 hour nap. I sleep past chow so I miss dinner so now I have not eaten anything all day and it’s about time for some Ramen. I eat some Ramen my mother sent in the mail and get online to speak so Shareese (friend from back home) she is kind of busy at work but I already got online so I spent a few minutes looking at the news online. then more bad news, we get a truck load of demo (mostly C4 but some grenades and other crap) that we have to take off the truck and store it inside. I get done with that and attempt to use my computer to type this very message but I am interrupted by my buddy Pardo. Pardo likes to talk so I spend about an hour talking to him and finally I can sit down and write this bullshit here. It is a quarter to 10 and I think I will finish typing this, upload it, then watch a movie before bed.