The Cade Chronicles: Volume 2 Issue 6

        "Mini Issue"

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You're Killing Me Smalls
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    Seriously besides losing my chatting privileges my receiving email seems to have hit a dry spell so if you received this message please let me know, because I have no idea how many people this actually gets to. All you have to do is click reply and type yes. That's like three mouse clicks and three keys punches with a little right hand movement of the mouse, so I don't want to hear any excuses about you being too busy. Now if you're Blake, Tim, or any other DOS or Linux/Unix user it's going to be an alt-r, maybe a couple of times on the tab key, a few key punches and an alt-s to send it, but then again they don't really believe in the mouse unless they're playing Doom III :-(. Sorry I promise I'll never use an emoticon again. Lauren T. I tried to email you ages ago and it got bounced back to me and I just never got around to sending it again. I just thought about that and thought I'd apologize. On to the purpose of this email.

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Danger Will Robinson Danger
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    Due to overwhelming concern for my safety and the way things are going over here I've decided to call it quits. You heard me right I've decided to resign and I'll be on the next thing smoking out of here. It's been fun and all, but my safety is more important than all the money I'm making. Hold on let me think about that for a minute...yep thought about it and I was just kidding. Just had to make sure. Actually it's been relatively quiet here. They threw a couple of 120mms at us last week, but missed everything by a mile. Considering the fact our base is about 10,000 acres, they have no precision weapons, and they can't really aim since they've been watching some old U of H

highlight films and they are practicing the Run and Shoot method of offense I'm not too worried about it. My trip to Baghdad last week was pretty uneventful except finally meeting a few cool cats that I've only had email communication with and doing a little late night "team building" with my Baghdad boss and some other PC people.

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No News is Good News
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As some of ya'll know I rarely watch the news or even read about it online, so don't ask me "Cade, have you heard about blah blah blah on the news about Iraq?" Chances are that I haven't and unless the blah blah blah is replaced with "Budweiser sending cases of REAL beer and the Swedish bikini team to all the bases and/or starting a brewery at Al Asad" then I'm sorry, but I don't really care. That rule does not apply to stuff that is actually going on in you all's lives. If John Kerry gets another Purple Heart for stubbing his toe or falling down some stairs or if he's out hugging some tree and one crushes him, then those also acceptable reason to ask if I've heard about it. The only news about Iraq that I care about is what's happening right here on my base and the media has no way to report that. I know that's a pretty closed minded way to think about it, but if I worry every time something bad happens over here well I just don't want that extra stress. In fact I suggest that all of you quit watching to news and reading the paper too. In fact all you need it Google News http://news.google.com/ Just go there and read the headline or type some keywords and read stories from tons of different news sources. Even if we were getting attacked every day here (which we're not), do ya'll really think I'd tell you. I mean seriously ya'll worry way too much anyway.