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Owie. Calves hurt. A little too much on the calf raise machine.

Everything else is slowly starting to get better. I am happy. Five months before I go home, and I know the month of December will not be a workout and diet month. It'll be a "OMG! Food I haven't been able to eat in forever! BEER! And... gym? What was that? They have...
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SuicideGirls, thanks for the decks of playing cards!

I gave one to one of my gators and one to one of our guards.

Selfishly, I kept one for myself!

haha

I watched Sex & Death 101. Interesting. So weird how dumb comedies make me think about serious things. Plus, my High School Crush was Winona Ryder.

And she is beautifully creepy.

So, I'm a little over two months into this whole shebang, and I'm feeling retrospective, so we'll just put together a report card for my deployment:

WORK:

My back is really fucking sore today... not ouchy I hurt it sore, but dore nonetheless.

I am listening to The Replacements and thinking of how badly every band since wants to sound like them...

Yesterday = Awesome.

9 hours of uninterrupted sleep.
A phone call *AND* IM chat with GlassHeart.
Books from Spica.

Of course, I am spre as fuck from the gym, but I'll be happy about that around the time I get back to the states.

And I am ending the day with pudding. Yummy.

I just watched Children of Men. A bunch of my co-workers said it sucked and was boring, but the premise interested me and I love Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Really. They are among my favorites. Granted, with the exception of the lovely Ms. Moore, they are all character actors, for the most part (Owen the brooding, tortured hero, Caine...
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Watched the UFC fight. Very good. Very good.

Going to the pool shortly. Will take pictures.

Note to self, a whole teaspoon of Redline = bad. Felt like I was on coke. Still, got a good workout in...

45 mins bike
8 sets of 8 dips
8 sets of 8 incline bench
8 sets of 8 bench

Tomorrow - 30 mins on the bike and leg day.

Long, slightly sucky day at work. After work was much better.

My little brother is sending me PDFs of the D&D 4th Edition. I'm skeptical. I pretty much stopped playing D&D once I found Warhammer. It just fits what kind of Fantasy gaming I enjoy more than D&D did. My favorite roleplaying games tend to be Warhammer and Call of Cthulhu--darker, more lethal games with little in the way of video game fireworks.

Everything I've been...
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A truly amazing book which adds considerable perspective to the current War in Iraq is The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr. It deals with the history of the split between the Sunni and Shi'a sects of Islam and how the Shi'a developed the mindset they have today. The book also takes this into modern times, explaining the implications of modern events, most notably the Iranian...
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