Direction?

I was thinking what direction I'm taking this whole thing. In seriousness as a place to vent or informative as letting folks know back home about whats going on. I reread my last post and realized I don't want to come in here and go off on a tangeant and spew things about my day that made my v------a hurt. So changing subjects rapidly. Now that I have the BLOG up and running again I want to congradulate (my spelling is horendous but I'm limited with time) my cousin Angie on her first baby! That was pretty cool. My lil bro serving in the gan is getting ready to have one to. 2007 year of the baby I guess. Yes I'm still in Kuwait leaving very very soon for the land of raw sewage and car bombs. One of the shitty things about blogging is that you can't give up to much info cuz your enemy reads these things too. I limited I guess to the things that I can tell you. There is a lot of shit I don't tell you only because I know family reads this and I don't want anybody to be upset. I guess mostly what I tell you is about when I have runny butt or the crud or whatever. I would like to keenly spew rethoric about my feelings on this great Odyessy but the powers that be would cinch my coin purse up and hang me by it.
Its funny how deployments go, because Soldiers are the same on everyone. Already our bantor and shit talking and momma jokes have reached new levels. The spades competions and eyeing of potential partners has taken place. New technology has found its place. Last time I was here only a couple people had laptops, PSP's and IPODs. Now pretty much everyone has somesort of MP-3 player, and hand held gaming device, even myself have been blessed with the Sony's PSP, and Apples IPOD. I have over 3,000 songs in that sucker to keep me busy for awhile. The resident computer genius Crookston is in my squad and can hack and burn just about anything with a CPU. I'm proud to say that I have Every single Legend of Zelda from NES, to super nintendo on my PSP.
I'm also reading a book called Gates of Fire about the Spartans. I'm not done yet but so far its a pretty bad ass book.
I apologize if the posts seem a little bland but fear not faithful followers (if there are any) they will ramp up once I get into country and I will let you hear the true filth of what you all know me so well as to spew forth.
In closing I would like to say thanks for reading and they will get better. I'm just in a rut right now in Kuwait as nothing to interesting has happened, well besides PFC Baumgartner drinking a bottle of Soy sauce for 50 bucks. That wasn't inspired by me.
Ok times
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Ruark OUt!

Back again

Originally I started this blog when I was here the first time. I haven't really wrote in it for awhile so I figured I would start up again. I'm in Kuwait for the second time at the same place I was the first time. Once again I've contracted the Kuwaitey crud, a wicked sinus infection that makes me feel like my left side of the face should blow out the side. Things that I really disliked are brought back to my attention full boar now that I didn't think about before. I miss my family thats a given, but what really pisses me off is using the porta johns. Once again no flushable toilets for a year. Usually when you have to piss real bad in the night you just get up and walk down the hall to pee. Here you have to put your shoes on your pt belt, your eye pro and run to the porta jon, come back and fall asleep. It wouldn't be bad if I didn't keep doing this an hour before I had to wake up. I'm here about the same time of the year I was last time, so its cold in the mornings and evenings and really nice during the day. They have given me more unecessary gear that really hinders my ability to move and ways me down and will most likely make me hotter than shit when the temp starts creeping up around 120. The base has expanded adding more PX's and chow halls and eatery's they actually have a chinese food joint here which is pretty wild, its actually pretty good. The internet is pretty slow again but hey they get their 5bucks out of me. It won't matter in a few days I guess when I cross the border again into Iraq. I have a really good squad, and platoon, the guys are young but excited and willing to learn. Shit I mean who wouldn't it only means their lives. I would try to upload some pics but like I said the computer is enough to make me freak out and start juggling moniters and stuff. Oh ya and another thing that annoys me is that we have to go in buddy teams to the creature features which means you really cant go out and stay on the computer or fone for hours at a time incase your buddy gets done early or what ever.
Hopefully I will end up getting a laptop or something which will make posting these a little easier. I'm kinda writing on the fly and under time contstraint and I don't know wether I should keep it raw as in before with all the colorful langauge that an Infantryman usually speaks or hold back and keep it respectful and clean for the family. If thats the case you will probably miss out on some of the rotten humor that goes on over here. Which is what keeps one sane. Thats why I chose a porta potty for its graffitti and not its cleanliness. I'd rather be entertained than having a clean bum. I can always wipe it off when I go.
I really apologize for the blandness the computer took forever to bring up the page. So send me your quirks and comments what you want to hear and what you don't.... I will try to post pics on here but for the most part you can see them at www.myspace/truark.com I think is the link. Comments and concerns can be directed here or to my e-mail. E-mail me if you know it.
Ok I got some folks waiting on me so now that I remember my password I will try to write better and more next time.
AngryAmerican
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