happy birthday, soldier girl

Jeff Percifield of Beautiful Atrocities has done yeoman's work in blogrolling and otherwise following the webblogs of deployed U.S. military servicemembers. (Well, not literally yeoman: if I understand his bio in pictures aright, he's a veteran of the Air Force, not the Navy.)

Today, by e-mail and post he is spreading the word that one of our finest is celebrating her 25th birthday in Baghdad.

Today has been pretty good, considering… it's Iraqi Army Day, Epiphany, Orthodox Christmas Eve, and my own, personal, Quarter-Century Day. My co-workers gave me a plaster tablet copy of (I think) Hammurabi or something Babylonian, and I got some books (I love Bill Bryson). After work (we're getting off “on-time” tonight, which is early) we're going to the Camp Slayer Lion's Den for “karaoke night.” I haven't been yet, so I have no idea what it'll be like, but my whole team is crashing the event. It'll be glorious, except for the making me sing in public bit. Are we at war, or are we singing? For today, I'm glad to forget. Of course, I am still working as usual and not letting up on the effort.

Jeff suggests that blog readers drop by Amber's site with good wishes. Sounds good to me. It's the day after in Baghdad now, but at the moment she only has five comments on her birthday post.

There'll be six, after I get this published.