The Official Blog of Rob Smith

Alright today I received five packages. There was an incredible variety of things in them. I have so much food, gum, candy, etc. I don’t know what to do with it all. I put it all on a table in my room and had this picture taken – but you still can’t see all of [...]

Well Roger, since you are now 30, you really have no excuse for liking Harry Potter as much as I remember you liking him. When I used to work with Roger, his computer screensaver was a countdown until the next Harry Potter movie was being released. But thanks for finally turning up on the blog. [...]

So I’ve moved into the room next door to my old room. There used to be a Marine living in here but he left today. He threw a party with lots of Iraqi food and some of the Iraqi leaders came over and joined us. The food was a little better this time. Anyway back [...]

It’s been a busy past few days. There are no weekends or days off here. We had a general and a few colonels come through our compound, so all work pretty much stops when we have visitors like that because we have to bring them on a tour, tell them about what we do, and [...]

We were all woken up at 4:30am today by a huge thud, it shook our building, someone had driven a dumptruck onto a bridge full of explosives and blew it up, near the base. The bridge is pretty much destroyed. I’m not really sure why these people would want to destroy their own infastructure, so [...]

Today an Iraqi is bringing us a bunch of his native food as a thank you gesture. A couple weeks ago he sliced his hand on razor wire and we brought him to our side of the compound and fixed him up, then when his sheik learned of our hospitality he wanted to offer us [...]

Alright, so I’ve learned that the Black Jack Taco is exactly the same as the Volcano Taco, except it has a black/dark brown shell instead of red, and it has pepper jack sauce instead of lava sauce. Let’s hope some other potential parallels with the Volcano Taco don’t materialize.
Taco Bell introduces (and heavily advertises) new [...]

Three IED blasts in Ramadi earlier this afternoon, two of which were right on the other side of the wall from our small compound, less than 100 meters away. The blasts were very loud. No Americans got hurt, but you can read on CNN how many Iraqis were injured and died. This was the first [...]

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For the last few weeks we were living with the Marines, who had been doing this mission for the last few months. Now since we’re fully trained up on the mission, today all of the Marines left and we’re here on our own. So, I’ve been able to move into my work space and set [...]

Roger I don’t care about hockey, no hockey talk on the blog.
Now, onto the Season-in-Review. I love fantasy baseball so much. My team has been a true labor of love for me ever since March, when we gathered at Malone’s house with our laptops and excel spreadsheets to do our draft. I won’t lie, this [...]