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It has been a really long time since I watched a movie that just made me say wow. That may well be due to my deployment, but really we get movies shortly after they are released. I can’t really think of anything that’s come out since I left in January that just left me wanting to watch it again. Batman Begins was a good movie – but I doubt I watch it again. I liked Into the Blue but that’s probably more a factor of Jessica Alba being hot than the movie being good.

Where are the Boondock Saints, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Way of the Gun, or Memento type films of today? They seem to be scattered and rare, which sucks because a good movie is a pretty good way to kill a few hours.

Earlier this week CPT Cahill, my boss for some 14 months, was killed in action. He leaves behind his wife and daughters, and a number of officers, NCOs and soldiers that knew and respected him. He was a good man, and one hell of an officer.

Edit to add: In Audie Murphy’s Boots – another article about CPT Cahill.

So, right now there isn’t a hard drive in my laptop. Why, you ask? At this red hot second, my 80GB drive is in the freezer, for the second time. I’m running Knoppix right now so I can maintain basic functionality. I’m going to order a 100GB drive this time, and a dual layer DVD-RW, but I’m shipping it home instead of to this sandy hellhole. I intend to create a backup image of my drive when it gets out of the freezer, and keep it on a friend’s external drive. If it goes completely tits up, no real loss – when I get back to the States at least I can get back in action quickly.

Got a footlocker today – should be more than big enough for me to send some stuff home early.

I went to the PX today for a footlocker so I could ship some junk home – they were sold out. Damn. I did what any rational human being would do, and bought two new PSP games. Burnout Legends, and Madden ’06. It should at least help me waste some time when I’m in the whole redeployment phase. That’s that.