Long time no write ...

Well, I cant believe that I have not posted on here in well over a month and that it is already November. The fact that its November is awesome. I am so excited that time is finally going by quiickly and the days go by without me even realizing the weeks go by. Its great to completely lose track of time and then wake up and have the same meeting again tomorow that feels like I had it the day before.

So what is new with me ... recently I have been trying to figure out what can help me get through all of this and help the days go by more qcuikly, I have found a few things to occupy my time. I spend a lot of time reading books and articles and reports about real estate and the stock market. Hopefully I will be able to take advantage of what I am learning and do some ivnesting in those areas. The main focus of my time other than work has been football.

I am creating a Flag Football League down here in Basrah and opening it up to every single soldier that lives donw here on the base. It is going to be a massive projects of trying to pull in about 20% of the base population into a sports league that does not exist and never has. I am trying to do something here that has not been done before, and with the help of a lot of people, especially my parents and their contacts, I have been able to touch NFL executives as well as top leve business men and women. I am trying to do something more than just collect up some money and pool it all together to get some footballs and flags, I am trying to positively influence the life of every soldier deployed here and create a league that will pull people together onto teams and encourage some friendly competition. Here in the next few days I will be hosting the captains meeting, and soon after that I will be kicking off the season. It should be amazing. I am really excited about his project and what I can possible accomplish here. This could be something that last not only the rest of this deployment, but also throughout the existence of this base, possibly longer than that. When I leave here in early 2011, it will be 100% handed over to the USO. What they do with it is up to them, but what I do know is that it could be a model adopted all over the country of Iraq and Afghanistan for that matter. Itshould be incredible and I hope it turns out that way.

I look forward to updated this frequently again and letting everyone know how things are going here. For now I am doing well and am looking forward to this football league as well as the start of my countodnw for when I come home on leave. 63 days and hopefully I will be back in new Jersey!