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Christmas Eve Surprise
Posted on December 24th, 2006 on The Daily Brief: Military Musings and Thoughts Less Filtered
Some few Christmases ago, when Blondie was still stationed at Camp Pendleton, and my personal economics allowed me to fly out to California to...

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Bad, Bad Toys
Posted on December 20th, 2006 on The Daily Brief: Military Musings and Thoughts Less Filtered
Ran across this little account of the Very Worst Toys Ever, and began to chortle…. Not so much at the toys themselves, although JP, and Pip...

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Anatomy of a Rotten Day
Posted on December 15th, 2006 on The Daily Brief: Military Musings and Thoughts Less Filtered
And I mean a day that sucked so badly it pulled small objects nearby into itself, a day that started off setting a new record for suckage, a ...

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Lifestyles of the Struggling Writer
Posted on December 10th, 2006 on The Daily Brief: Military Musings and Thoughts Less Filtered
Last week I nerved myself up to actually call the literary agent who was reviewing the entire manuscript of “To Truckee’s Trail”. He ha...

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Perfect Home-Made Pizza
Posted on December 1st, 2006 on The Daily Brief: Military Musings and Thoughts Less Filtered
With a great deal of tinkering and experimentation, Blondie and I have worked out a pretty damn good home-made pizza, starting with this lovely cr...

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Custom of the Season: Pt 2
Posted on November 29th, 2006 on The Daily Brief: Military Musings and Thoughts Less Filtered
Gift giving becomes a hassle when you don’t really know the person very well, and a gift of some sort is obligatory (bosses, co-workers) , ...

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Custom of the Season
Posted on November 27th, 2006 on The Daily Brief: Military Musings and Thoughts Less Filtered
I did, on one single occasion, spend the entire Friday-after-Thanksgiving in the mall and department store. Not because I had a yen for joining th...

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Zen and the Hopeful Writer
Posted on November 17th, 2006 on The Daily Brief: A Military Blog For All The World To See And Read
Still waiting to hear from an agent/publisher/deus-ex-machina/whatever, regarding the book. Another couple of weeks of this, and my fingerna...

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Indian Summer
Posted on November 10th, 2006 on The Daily Brief: A Military Blog For All The World To See And Read
Summer has been mild here in South Texas, and so has the fall been: unnaturally so, for today it was into the 90ies, which made it necessary to...

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Rumsfeld Steps Down
Posted on November 8th, 2006 on The Daily Brief: A Military Blog For All The World To See And Read

I suppose it was inevitable, depsite last week’s assurances to the contrary. I wonder how the active duty troops view this…


This is not original…
Posted on November 3rd, 2006 on The Daily Brief: A Military Blog For All The World To See And Read
… but I just had to share it. 2008 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION SCHEDULE 7:00 P.M. Opening flag burning. 7:15 P.M. Pledge of allegian...

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