Myself and a couple other folks took a trip to Al Ristamiyah (about 30 minutes from Baghdad) to work on some radios there. Nothing too strenuous, as it only takes about 30 seconds to program the radio once the changes are entered into the software on the laptop. However, there are several hundred radios to program, so it's taking a little time! I'll tell you what, I'd rather be reprograming radios than patrolling the streets of Iraq though. I suppose that's why I picked the job I did ;-)

There actually was a couple drops of rain this evening. Quite surprising. In fact, today was the first overcast day I've seen since I hit the Middle East.

I'm not sure when I'm heading back to Baghdad. It's a little quieter here. Not so much mortar and bombings and such. To be honest, most of the violence is occuring on a fairly limited area of the country; the famous "Sunni Triangle". From what I hear, the rest of the country is more or less settled down.