Arizona State

I am sitting here watching a live broadcast of college football. Arizona State vs University of Southern California and ASU is winning! It's halftime and #14 ASU is winning against #1 USC. The bad part about this is that it is nearly 1:00 am and I'm gonna finish watching the game and it'll be probably 1:30 or 2am when its over. But I like college football and it's great to watch it live.

I saw a cloud yesterday. That is the first cloud I've seen since I left Phoenix in May. No kidding, even in Phoenix we get to see clouds every now and then, but this place was the exact same every day of every week that I've been here except yesterday. I saw 2 clouds and even smelled rain somewhere. They say when it starts to rain over here, that it never stops until after the first of the year. There will be mud everywhere; the moon-like dust is just like concrete when it gets wet and I hope I get out of here before the rain starts in a few weeks. My luck, I will leave on the day that it rains here and I'll be nasty for the trip. But I'll still leave. They have me leaving Balad next Friday nite on a medievac to Ramstein Germany, then on Saturday afternoon I fly on a commercial flight to Phoenix. That may change based on my previous experience so I'll see what happens. That is that.