Stand down

This is my own stand down, because - yes, I'm sick again. This time, a particularly hellish stomach flu, which started around 5 am Friday morning. I'm still queasy. So I was going though a really awful morning on Friday, what with the flu and all, and then I was convinced I would get a package in the mail that day. And I did - Welcome to Vietnam and Stand Down by Zack Emerson. I hadn't had the opportunity to read Stand Down for about seven years - for a while, it was over $100 on abebooks.com, and no nearby libraries own it. So I've been re-reading the Echo Company series and The Road Home this weekend, and wondering whether this flu was the karmic price one has to pay to own books one has wanted for so long.