For Memorial Day we dealt with sand storms here. There were really two storms and both were at night and were really just your basic wind storm along with tons of sand and small gravel thrown in to just remind you were you are. The winds were about 30-40 knots and maybe a gust or two higher and just powerful enough to shake my hooch and knock over ever porta-john and probably half the satellite dishes out there. Anything more powerful and there would have been a lot more car windows blown out from flying debris.

But anyway, that was yesterday and today it's another fine Navy-day in I-Rak (as you can see below).

I also work everyday and that can be exhausting. It's not hard work as I'm generally behind a desk but 12 hours a day, just sitting is tiring. Forturnately the Army has 'RipIt' an energy/caffeine drink in the DFAC. And occasionally they also have caffeine gum. One stick has 100 mg caffeine which according to most sites that I googled is equivalent to one cup of coffee.