Are you there, Brent?

My roommate has been gone for about four days. His side of the room looks neater than normal, like he knew that he was leaving, but I wonder why he didn’t say anything? Usually we leave each other notes, just so the other won’t worry. Last time he was in Kirkuk for five days, doing who knows what. He’s a secret squirrelly type of guy (that’s what we call the guys whose job is to sit and listen in on the bad guys), so he can’t talk about a lot of what he actually does.

I suppose he’ll be back soon.