Live in Taji, Iraq

Yeah what did YOU do on your Saturday? Play music in Iraq? I didn't think so. Well this is just neat. When I was between sets at the Downtown Artist Market today (translation: bugging the artists), I was chatting with Zoey who makes really awesome jewelry from maps and musical scores and a multitude of other things that I love. She lived in Washington, D.C. for a time and of course I found out that she TOTALLY got to see Mary Chapin Carpenter before she was...like...Grammy-winning Mary Chapin Carpenter. More like Plays-at-Bars Mary Chapin Carpenter. Too flippin' cool. But I digress... Zoey told me she was talking to her friend Kenny, who is actually Corporal Ken (idon'tgivelastnamesontheinternet) stationed in Taji, Iraq. And since I was folking it up on guitar while they were talking, Zoey held up the phone so Kenny could hear...all the way in Taji. That kind of blew me away. This technology thing the kids are using these days is amazing. I wonder what time it was there. Do Corporals ever sleep? Or are they like Chuck Norris, who just waits? So here's to the fine men and women serving in Taji and across the Middle East...now get some sleep! :)