Mullfoto of the Day

My room at the Holiday Inn Express in Great Barrington, Massachusetts come with a Jucuzzi. I know it looks like lips but it is really a Jucuzzi.

Dear Mr. Mullings:
Are we mistaken, or is there WATER in that Jacuzzi?

Yes. That is water. It had been a long drive from Virginia to Western Massachusetts and I ... Oh, hey, look at the time!

Jacuzzi, by the way, is a brand name for a line of whirlpool baths. Who knew? Click here for a history of the Jacuzzi.

Catchy Caption of the Day

The photo on the left was taken on Thanksgiving Day, 2003. As I wrote in the Travelogue, I had been in Iraq for about 19 days.

The photo on the right was taken about mid-March 2004. I had been in the war zone for about four months - at this point I still had two months to go.

Not withstanding the 9mm pistol tucked under my left arm (I am left-handed but, I learned, I can shoot with either hand) and the portable GPS device attached to my flak vest, do you detect any differences at all?

As, in attitude?

Congressman Jack Murtha notwithstanding, I would go back to Iraq tomorrow.