Iraq Lists
Work In Progress
Tech Stuff to Bring
- A huge external drive. I won’t have
aeneaand her 1TB of storage with me, so I’ll need some other way to port my warez and music collections. My shitty Latitude D600 company laptop won’t cut it, and whatever the dev workstations are like, I’m sure they won’t have decent storage capacity. Thus, I give you the Western Digital 400GB USB/Firewire drive. - Keyboard
- Mouse
- Spare video card, just in case I can find a spare monitor
Stuff to Bring
On Person
- Gay neck wallet to store stuff
- Passport
- DoS, DoD credentials
- Rome neck lanyard for ID
- Country clearance number
- Personal credit card, check card, AmEx, check book
- Phone card w/ Jordan support
- Contact info for state-side and in-country project staff, Jordan travel coordinator
- Paper tickets
- Baghdad Flight Info
- At least
USD100USD 200 in small bills; min USD50 required for Jordan cab ride both ways - At least JD40 for transit visa and other graft
- Alarm clock w/ battery
Carry-on
- Backpack/laptop bag, ala The North Face Bandwidth
- Laptop
- MP3 player loaded w/ music, lectures
- Reading material
- Food & water for two days
- Clif bars
- Nalgene bottle
- Maybe a couple water pouches
- Minimal change of clothes in case of luggage loss
- Space Pen
- Notebook
- SureFire light w/ spare batteries
- Krill light w/ spare batteries
- Sunglasses
- Digital camera
- One or two European voltage adapters
- Purell hand sanitizer
- One pair of earplugs
- A few ziplock bags
- Headset microphone
Checked Mailed ahead (Warned that checking == hassles)
(Note, to ease transit from BIAP to IZ, minimize luggage load. Ship ahead to the extent reasonable)
- Towels: bath, hand/gym, and washcloths
- Gym clothes
- Heartrate monitor
- Gym shoes
- Work clothes for ~7 days
- Suit, shirt, tie
- Dress shoes
- Jacket for ~50 degree nights
- Pocket knife
- LeatherMan
- Webcam
- Additional batteries for SureFire, Krill lights
- Toiletries
- Razor, cream, and blades
- Toothbrush
- Beard trimmer
- Hairbrush
- Shampoo
- Conditioner
- 1.5 month supply of hair wax
- Lip balm
- Vitamins
- Deodorant
- Acne treatment
- Additional Ear plugs
- Basic cold & diarrhea meds
- Step-down transformer, additional European and UK adapters
- Minimal tech books
- More ziplock bags
- First aid kit
Sewing kit- Padlock for footlocker (go w/ small bar size, just in case it doesn’t fit)
Paper & envelopes for mailing home- Sunscreen
- Insect repellent
- Hat
Extra pair of glasses- USB desk light
Shipped ahead
- Ergo keyboard
- Trackball
- Big external drive
- Copies of important software tools:
- VS2k5
- Visio 2k5
- Office 2k3
- SlickEdit
- SQL Server 2k5
- MySQL 5
- Windows XP Pro
- XP SP2
- VMWare Workstation 5
- Skype
- Music, ebook collections
Stuff to do before leaving
- Establish will and durable power of attorney. Leave Aeron to Poke.
- Obtain life insurance which includes coverage for acts of war and terrorism.
USAA is first choiceUSAA won’t cover me in Iraq. My employer permits me to buy life ins up to 6x my annual salary. - Set up direct deposit for pay checks
- Brief Rebecca on fincial stuff pertaining to us both, including:
- Account information for all utilities
- Alert credit card and check card companies of activity in Jordan at least, and possible shipping address in Iraq
- Get a hair cut
- Top up SkypeIn and SkypeOut
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