Airborne Infantry. USAR tanker/drill sergeant/instructor. DA civilian logistician. Sometime manufacturing chemist. Left-wing radical by Republican standards
Joined February 2014
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20 Jun 2024
If your plans for the evening don’t include getting together with your best friends to dance naked around a bonfire in the glowing moonlight, can you really say you’re putting your best efforts into celebrating the Summer Solstice.
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6 Jun 2024
This is the draw in the bluffs behind Omaha Beach, where, on June 6, 1944, soldiers from E Co, 16th Inf, and E Co. 116th Inf, forced the first breach in the German defenses on Omaha. This shot was taken from the US cemetery at Collville-Sur-Mer, which sits at the top of the draw.
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17 May 2024
Why can people not understand that cancer is NOT one disease, but several thousand different diseases that have similarities to one another? Every patient's response to their disease is different. Everybody's treatment and their response to it is different. 1/2
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17 May 2024
You cannot generalize from how one patient reacts to their treatment to how any other patient reacts to their treatment.
So, quit doing it, dammit.
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17 May 2024
Dear FB Messenger,
Just because someone on my FB friends list sent me a message does not mean I need to (or will,) look at it as soon as it arrives. Multiple chimes at 10 min intervals are not needed.
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15 May 2024
If you see this, QRT with a picture you feel pretty in.
Not sure "pretty" is the best term, but here's a picture Carol and myself at an SCA event several years ago:
15 May 2024
If you see this, QRT with a picture you feel pretty in
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15 May 2024
Somehow the National Weather Service warnings seem more threatening in Spanish than in English. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch translates to "Vigilencia de Tormena Severa."
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9 May 2024
Real bumpy last night here in North Alabama. WAY too many tornadoes for anyone’s peace of mind. And after the worst of it passed to our east and was no longer a proximate threat, the weather radio kept waking us up with warnings about heavy thunderstorms and flash flooding.
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4 May 2024
Part of a healthy, balanced breakfast: cheese omelet smothered in lecso.
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2 May 2024
Why is my feed full of ads for hair-growth nostrums today?
Dammit, I came by all of this decrepitude honestly, through fast living and being rode hard and put up wet. I *LIKE* not having to worry about caring for what hair I have left.
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Blake Kirk retweeted
28 Apr 2024
I wonder how many early ttrpg players were SCA members? How old is the SCA? Does anyone know the history here?
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28 Apr 2024
Ah.
I suppose it depends a lot on your players. Most of mine these days have been fencers or have fought or currently fight in the SCA. They want/demand a combat system which they can influence by their choices. And the homebrew system I use is semi-optimized for that.
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28 Apr 2024
Question for the hive mind: which is the safer way to be an adrenaline junkie:
BASE diving or storm chasing?
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Blake Kirk retweeted
27 Apr 2024
Kristi Noem is the Ted Nugent of Sarah Palins.
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19 Apr 2024
In order, where you have lived:
Arkansas
Indiana
Missouri
Iowa
Texas
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
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27 Apr 2024
This does not count things like spending three weeks at the Marine Air-Ground Combat Center at 29 Palms, California.
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26 Apr 2024
You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me:
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Blake Kirk retweeted
22 Apr 2024
This is how I feel, even though schools are an absolute joke now.
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23 Apr 2024
Well, it is the predicted day of the Rapture.
Again.
And once again I am sorely disappointed that Certain People are evidently wholly incapable of comprehending Matthew 24:46 -
“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only”
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