The next time I contacted him I asked him how the fan arrived and was it working, and he told me the fan had arrived in good shape and, yes, it was working.

Now, he asks for school supplies, soccer balls and Beanie babies to hand out to the Iraqi children. He is always putting the soldiers or the Iraqi children ahead of himself.

The other day, I wrote him and asked 'How's the air conditioning? Are you keeping cool when you're off duty?' and he said 'Not so good'.

Every time we're here they're cleaning and working.

I want to have a million by the time I'm 45, or more of course. But the only way I can achieve that is by either finding a higher paying, more challenging job or changing my investment portfolio. I am currently not where I should be, salary-wise.

With some of these tools, by the time I figured out what color blob I was looking at, it was just easier to look at a table -- I could get the information I needed faster that way. It gives you a lot of information, but it's like topography as opposed to a street map. In some cases the technology didn't help and didn't have the right type of navigation.