Well by the title of my post you can probably guess I am in Iraq. A sitrep is army lingo for situation report. But at least it is not an acronym . My conversations now are about 80% acronyms and I only know about 5 and what they stand for and I feel guilty about it because I will be getting these long string of orders from somebody and when they finish I am going make them go back and translate all the acronyms for me.
My thought was that once in Iraq I could give an eye witness insight to what is happening here, but now that I am here I see that I am an eye witness but it’s a worms eye view, and not even a free range worm, but a worm in a jar, so my on the scene blogging will be of little significance. But the good news is that still leaves me with a wide range of insignificant things to right about. Like this wasp, I was as big as my thumb which you could have seen if I was brave enough to put my thumb next to him.
The Ryskind Sketchbook 
OK, so the only way your friends and family are able to keep updated on your whereabouts and well being is is by visiting your blog? Hey man, I don’t get a lot of visitors to my blog either, but you don’t see me reenlisting after 20 years, and shipping out to a combat zone just to drive up my page hits. I mean, you know that’s F’d up, right?
It’s a little messed up, but I got 3 extra hits last month so it’s been totally worth it.
Awesome wasp! There’s now way I would have even got close enough to that thing to take a picture, let alone even consider putting my thumb up next to it.
Looks like one of these. If so, it wouldn’t sting you.
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