Strangely enough, the days have been pretty quiet. Not a lot of new activity. Damn its been hot though. We have been pretty busy the past few days, since the change over. Convoys here and there, stuff like that. We have taken to the Iraqi habit of hanging out on the rooftop as the day goes by, people watching, talking and generally trying to escape from the heat. Its kind of funny, if you think about it. The Iraqi's do it, we do it, yet we are trying to tell each other how different we are...

There is a particularly offensive smell comming from the sewers. The base utility people switched to a new plumbing system, and I the old one wasn't designed to handle it, so now there is raw sewage floating all over the place. Wonderful country..