Into my bag of topics.....

So every so often I'll write down a list of topics to write about when my day is a blur and I have nothing great (or even mediocre) to write about. Today is one of those days! Lucky you!!

Basra is rat free. Now it's not just sort of rat free; it's completely rat free! No rat holes....nothing. This is good right? Well, yeah. But as I walk by Basra on my to and from Starbucks every morning, I find myself habitually looking over at Basra for holes, traps, etc. Of course, I haven't put out my traps, so there's nothing to see. There could be new holes I guess, but the exterminator really did a good job and his bait stations are still deployed and keeping rats from moving back in to Basra. In concert, the tuckpointer who nearly killed me, did a good job with extending walls at various points into the ground where rats previously would have taken up residence by our stoop had I not been fighting them off.

So the weird thing is: I kind of miss fighting the rats. It's weird and I shouldn't feel that way, but I do. Sigh. I know. I should just count my blessings.

Hey, no matter how you feel about warfare, this puppy is really awesome. I actually saw it on a show which I think was called Future Weapons. At the time I said to myself, "Why the hell don't they get this thing out to our troops TODAY???!!??!!!". It actually pissed me off. Now I'm happy!