Well, I finally got around to updating my Iraq pictures page. Apparently it is pretty popular since if you do a search on Google.com for "Iraqi Freedom Pictures" my page comes up as second out of over 100,000 results. Pretty impressive eh? Anyway, I have over 50 pictures up now. Enjoy and please post here if you have any comments or questions about the pictures.
posted by Ray at 3:28 AM

The fires in SoCali are still out of control. Strangely, the mountains behind where we live are still ok (San Gabriel Mountains), but that is probably because there have been like 3 fires here over the last 10 years that cleared out most of the old dry brush. Pretty much every other mountain is on fire though, including the area around Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead. Hopefully they are able to save homes because I think 1100 have been lost so far. What a mess. I guess Gov.-Elect Arnold will raise taxes after all since he said he would if there was an "emergency" and this probably qualifies as one since the talking heads are saying it is the worst disaster California has ever faced...
posted by Ray at 9:54 PM

Hey folks,

Sorry for the scant updates since I've been back. Ok ok, sorry for not updating *at all* since I've been back. I've just been relaxing so I haven't really wanted to spend too much time updating the website, but I'm going to get back into it now.

Well, it's been about two months since I've been back and there are a few things to update people on. First of all, I am now engaged to the beautiful Valerie Chu. Yay! :) Thank you thank you, I'll be signing autographs outside. No date in the near future for those who are wondering though.

As for school, I unfortunately am unable to return for Spring semester because I was in Kuwait/Iraq when the FAFSA was due and wasn't able to get the loans I needed to go back to school. So I guess I will have to go get all my things from the East coast and look for a job around here for now.

Let's see.. what else.. oh, I've noticed that I'm getting a lot more hits from other countries and many searches for my "Operation Iraqi Freedom Pictures" page. So to keep up with demand, I will try to put up some more pictures from the war and make it a little more navigatable and maybe put up some commentary on the war and the post-war events.

Ok, that's it for now. Thanks for all the support over the last year or so. It's definitely been a very interesting time and a year to remember.

p.s. I've fixed the comments section below, so y'all can start leaving comments again. :)
posted by Ray at 1:17 PM