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Sunday, November 18, 2018

This Blogging Thing


So, I took that opening photo Friday near sunset. I was getting something out of the fridge when I noticed the light shining through those vases The Missus Herself has stowed up there. To my eye at the time (and in my memory) the light had a more reddish tinge to it. But the camera in my cell phone captured it as you see it. I found it most pleasing in real life, and it ain't that bad reproduced electronically.

It's been an odd week. Most of you may remember that I was feeling rather out of sorts the week before, I even took a day away from work (a Thursday) in the hopes of recovering from a rather vicious cold. Well, I also felt bad for the lads and lasses in the lab at work, we were all a bit concerned that I'd infect the lot of 'em. One of the lads did develop a runny nose but as he himself said, he could have picked that up from his wife.

Still and all, I felt like crap last weekend. Though by the time Monday rolled around, I was feeling much better, thank you very much. Then had a bout of that wretched insomnia which has plagued me on and off for years.

Seems that once the gears and wheels in my head get to spinning, I have trouble shutting them down. It's not a too much caffeine thing, it's not a too much to drink thing (non-alcoholic mind you) which has the result of getting up to commune with nature periodically, that's more of an age thing. I swear that I could have a sip of water at noon, and naught else all day, and still need to get up and "water the flowers" every couple of hours. And dinna be concerned about my prostate, my doc says I'm fine and all the tests confirm that.

But I confess to having a pretty weak bladder, if I may be so bold. On a day long tour of the Ardennes in December of 1998, my two fellow sergeants did remark on my need to "mark my territory" nearly every hour on the hour. In truth though, when nature calls, one cannot but answer.

But the insomnia thing comes and goes. When my mind starts trying to puzzle something out, there's no stopping it. Usually though, my subconscious will be churning through a problem and leave my conscious mind out of it. But from time to time both brain cells deem it necessary to work in concert on something.

And it keeps me awake, or, and this is far worse, I wake up at some absurd hour and can't go back to sleep. Tuesday night was such a night. Woke up at 0230, 0330, finally at 0430 I said the heck with it, got up and went to work before 0700. Usually I get there at half past that hour.

When it happened again on Wednesday night, even the guards at work were a bit surprised to see me twice in one week at such an uncharacteristically early hour for Your Humble Scribe.

Succumbing to the need for sleep Thursday night, I took something for my lingering head cold, and slept like a log. (The Missus Herself said it sounded like someone was sawing on that log, all bloody night. Yes, I snore, probably because I could stand to lose a pound, or twenty. But hey, I'll work on that. Someday.)


The picture above was the scene out the kitchen door on Thursday night. The Missus Herself had gone to put the trash out when she cried out that I should, "come see this!" Which I did. While it seems a bit early for the white stuff in Little Rhody, it isn't that unusual, so the inhabitants assure me. I've been here nineteen years and still feel like an outsider at times. I guess my 24 years in the military tore up my need to have roots in one spot. I have no idea where I'm "from." Vermont has changed so much since I left that I don't recognize it anymore. I guess I'm just a "child of the regiment." So to speak.


The light pole, its shadow, and the corkscrew tree combine to confuse my eye every single time I look at this picture, taken shortly after the preceding one. This one is out the front door, which we had open and which excited the feline staff. Until they felt the cold air blowing in, weather not fit for man nor beast I tell ya!

By Friday afternoon most of the snow was gone, except where it had been plowed into big piles at the local shopping emporiums.

Talked to the DIL on Saturday, while the fires in California are miles from where she and my son and grandkids live, the smoke in the air make it seem as if the fires were very close by. The air quality has been so bad that my grandson's school has recess indoors. It's too unhealthy to breathe that crap for very long.

Way to go, dumbass California government and their idiot "environmentalists." When humans mess with things they don't understand, they make it worse. Settled science, I'm sure. A pox on their houses.


Oh yeah, the post title, what's up with that you may ask? Well, truth be told, I was thinking of going sinker for a week, maybe more. But, whenever I think of doing that, the Muse hangs out and insists on giving me good ideas for things to write about. But this is a holiday week coming up, we'll be busy, as I'm sure most of you will be.

I might write, I might not. I haven't really decided yet. As with most things, I'll just play it by ear. Also, I'm going out of town, to the land of no Internet, the land that time forgot, Yes, my Mom's house. So that will keep the posts to a minimum

But we shall see, y'all have been wicked awesome in the comments lately and I enjoy that. There are days I want to chuck it, but I'm not ready to hang up my electric quill just yet. I have more stories to tell and more history to cover.

But ya know, that book ain't gonna write itself and if I'm digitally scribbling here, it takes time away from other things. Sigh, somehow, I'll strike a balance.

Until then, I soldier on.



68 comments:

  1. Ya, some mornings sleep slips quietly away at 3:30 or 4:15AM, never to return. If it does return and the next time I look at the nightstand clock if the result is AFTER 6AM.......HALLELUJAH! Snowfall this early......chances are good it melts, away vile white! Now Sarge, when that book is finished you realize that AUTOGRAPHED dead tree copies will be needed, neh? Lessee, family, work, felines, drums, blog and book project.....those will keep you busy, yes?

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    1. So true on the "Yay! It's after 6 AM."

      Autographed copies, aye.

      I daresay I'll be quite busy after I retire!

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    2. Nylon12:

      Do you have to get up GA early to go to work or what?

      Paul

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    3. Sigh, I look forward to the day of not having to get up early. I don't mind getting up early on my own, but have to? That's the biggest joy of retirement from what I understand.

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    4. OldAFSarge:

      "I daresay I'll be quite busy after I retire!" Didn't you mean to write ' retire again '? The first time didn't stick, do you think the second time will? What will the Missus Herself think? What will the feline staff think? Best of luck with that plan of operation.

      Paul

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    5. Very true, very true. This time it should stick, more assets to rely upon.

      The jury is still out on other opinions. The cats would love it, they don't like me going to work. As for the love of my life? We shall see!

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    6. To Paul at 11:13AM, been retired for a few years now, time posted is I think 2 hours earlier than what shows here, this post is 5:27PM Central time.

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    7. All times on the blog are Sandy Eggo local time.

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  2. I do that too. My head starts clicking, and sleep won't come back. I've tried the scribble pad next to the bed, it usually fails (what did I write? "Mas mood didly thing??" Ugh, can't write in the dark.)

    A hiatus may be just the thing. Just be sure to do your scheduled maintenance. Don't want any sticky gears or dry bearings when you return.

    Have a merry Thanksgiving! be safe on the ice rink when you head to Vermont. I had an uncle that lived up there. He worked in a quarry if I remember right. Uncle Alcy Penrod, I think it was. WW1 vet if I remember. I don't know why he lived there instead of Oklahoma / Texas area, but my Grandma went to visit once that I remember.

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    1. A quarryman? Back in the day there were a number of quarries up around Barre, might still be.

      Thanks STxAR, have a great Thanksgiving.

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  3. I hear ya about the sleeping issues. I have the same problem with slowing down the engine of the mind for a bit of rest. I've tried reading books, but it doesn't seem to help much. I generally end up getting quite interested in what I'm reading about and don't want to put it down. Maybe I should try reading some pages from the Code of Federal Regulations instead.

    I also can pretty much never get back to sleep once I'm woken up. Had the express joy of waking up about 3:45 a.m. a few days ago and wandering about the house for a few hours until I could head into work early. Fun times.

    You've written some wonderful pieces lately, from the First World War to the American Revolution. I always enjoy your history tours and your musings on life, &c. So I'd say a holiday is in order for you. A little R&R never did anyone wrong. But, of course, if you do find the inspiration to scribe a bit, I'll be among those who count ourselves your grateful and loyal readers.

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    1. I'm not sure the Code of Federal Regulations would work. Might get the Blood Pressure up too high. "They can do THAT?".....

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    2. Thanks David, R&R is looking mighty tempting, up north it's enforced, no Internet at Mom's!

      We shall see.

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    3. Juvat - you've got a point there my friend!

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  4. Re: waking at night

    Getting on CPAP greatly reduced the night-time trips to the Head. YMMV

    Apparently when the you ate under hypoxic stress your body uses urination urge to wake you for air.
    Or something like that I don't know, I read somewhere...

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    1. Interesting, something to keep in mind. Thanks be603.

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  5. Adjusting the nurse's cap:
    For frequent watering of flowers during the night: Avoid salty foods (not just throw out the salt shaker, but salty foods, put feet up for an hour or so in evening (think recliner up at full recline) as when we sit with feet down all day, gravity pulls extra fluid down to toes which do not get back to level with heart and kidneys until we go to bed. And try not to drink too many fluids after 7ish in the PM.

    Yes, losing a pound or so helps, helps with the snoring also. But the thing that helps the most with losing weight is to "exercise" (Boo, Hiss)...So when you get motivated to begin a weight loss program, I bet there are a few of us here who would probably need to join in.

    Insomnia: Must have been something in the air Tuesday night---I woke up at 3am, to go water the flowers, and could not get back to sleep til 4:45am. Stupid alarm goes off at 5am. Usually I can "meditate" my brain to sleep. I try writing a book in my head, if I pull out a book to read, I get involved in the story, and am up all night. If I am trying to figure out a story, it puts me under. Usually. Not Tuesday tho'.
    Taking off cap...

    Have a great holiday week, and be careful driving up to Vermont as it looks like snow is in your forecast. We will be here when you get back. And yes, I have enjoyed the "Sarge's Notes on History" lessons. I never really thought about our Revolution being a cause for the French Revolution.

    I go pick up #1 son at midnight from the airport, he is staying for the entire week. :) Now I am off to do battle at the market for supplies for the week...

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    1. Might be something to that gravity thing. Back when I had more time I would kick back and read before going to be, feet up, the whole nine yards. Seldom had trouble sleeping.

      I do the writing a book thing in my head as well, I try and compose an elaborate tale (usually involving warfare) and that often does the trick. Lately if I do that, I want to write it down.

      Ah well, I will try the feet up thing, gravity can be your friend!

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  6. "Way to go, dumbass California government and their idiot "environmentalists." When humans mess with things they don't understand, they make it worse. Settled science, I'm sure. A pox on their houses."

    Having lived in Chico, CA for 30 years, a resounding +1 on your sentiment. However, I beg to differ on the point of "don't understand". They understand perfectly. They just. Don't. Care. In this regard, California is a minature USA. Everything outside of Sacramento, San Francisco, and LA is flyover country full of deplorables. Just one more reason we now live in Texas.

    Jack Lee is a retired Oroville CA police officer and a personal friend of mine. He is a co-author on the blog “Post Scripts”. He has done a pretty good write up of the Camp fire.

    http://www.norcalblogs.com/postscripts/2018/11/16/build-build-question/

    Here is my dad bragging moment. Our oldest son is there now volunteering to help out. He flew out of DFW on Friday and will fly back on Monday, all on his own dime. Except that the VP of the construction management company he works for heard about it and called him. "No, we are paying your airfare". Then the company president emails him. "No, we're paying for the whole trip. Give us a bill when you get back". Our son has sent pics and video of the vast tent city and mountains of donated clothes in the Wal-Mart parking lot. It just takes your breath away.


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    1. I did engage in a bit of shadenfreude when I found out that Alysa Milano and some other lefty dirtbags lost their homes. Not enough shandenfreude to make up for all the deaths and losses of good people, but enough to make the German side of me very smugly happy. After all, for the last 40 odd years these jerks have been saying I was an idiot for living in "OMG HURRICANE DEATH ZONE LEVEL 2,000K!!!!" Ah, Ahhaha, Ahahahahhahhahhahaa, chuckle chuckle chuckle....

      Now many counties in Cali are openly defying state government and starting to log! Now if that isn't shaudenfantastic, I don't know what is. Logging, in California, OMG, the End of the World....

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    2. An interesting tale by Mr. Lee. I had no idea of the size of the problem. Rebuilding doesn't seem like the answer, but if it was my home? I just don't know. Thanks for that link.

      Give your son my thanks for his can-do spirit and willingness to pitch in to help his fellow man. And kudos to the company he works for, well done all around.

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    3. Beans - Sounds to me that some in California are waking up to the celebrity-stupidity which has been all the rage as of late.

      Openly defying the California state government? Perhaps the good people of California are having their Lexington-Concord moment. Good for them!

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    4. From what I understand, most (surface area) of California is actually still quite conservative, or even right-wing democrat. But the major cities control everything, which is why I thought most of the balkanization plans for California were just left-wing power grabs (all but one of the plans had a major Dem controlled population center as part of one of the partitioned states, d'oh!)

      Mayhaps the greater population is finally learning. Too little, too late, but there's always a chance...

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    5. Indeed. I saw a map after the last election showing why an Electoral College approach at the state level would break the power of the cities, where free stuff and left wing politics is the modus operandi.

      Hey, we can dream...

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    6. Not to beat this topic to death, but I thought many here might find this interesting.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0XQI525UE

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    7. Aircraft videos are always welcome.

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  7. Okay, okay, yeesh, get to feeling bad mal-a-tete and someone has to eloquently guilt trip me for not posting. Gahhhhh! What's family for, except to serve Guilt as a main course... (Please accept this as a random joke-y thing and an apology for not posting, because I had to do a Sinatra (let's see if anyone understands that statement.)

    I, too, have suffered off and on with insomnia. Usually due to too much stress. I suggest a nice talking session with the wife or pastor or whomever you can bare the bottoms of your soul with to discover whatever is niggling at your brain late at night so you can address the issue. If the issue is work related, then retirement will solve it. If the issue is worries about the future, then you need some sort of therapy, professional or not, or just someone not involved to talk to (sometimes even the strongest person needs a comforting shoulder to cry on, who won't judge, and isn't involved in one's life daily. One of the original reasons for Confession in the Catholic Church. Priests used to fill a larger mental health need back in the day before secular humanism became, well, a religion by itself.)

    To the snoring. While you are on good insurance, get a sleep study. Part of the insomnia may be linked to sleep apnea, which is a real thing. Plus, if you do have apnea, getting a CPAP machine will better allow you to pretend you're a fighter pilot while sleeping. Yes, they are somewhat annoying and bothersome, but they really do help, once the user gets over the whole face-hugger thingy and one sorts out the humidity issue. Cats may be annoyed, but being cats, when aren't they annoyed about changes in their environment.

    As to tiny bladder syndrome, if your doc says your prostate is okay (you have brought up the frequent urination thingy, right?) then don't worry about it. I am on a 2 hour schedule, maybe 3 hour during sleep periods. But then again, I drink at least 4 liters of liquid a day, since the great lack-of-mucus-in-the-pee-pee incident. I prefer more frequent peeing to painful peeing any day. Again, talk to your doctor, right? If you have problems talking to your doctor, give your wife a list of all the issues you are having and/or want to open a discussion about and take her with you to the doctor. After all, you're an idiot and she sounds very much more straightforward than you.

    Again, do all this crap before you retire. It's what accumulated leave time is for, after all. You don't, trust me, want to spend the first year or so of your eventual freedom from work tied up slogging to this or that doctors' offices. That will happen soon enough.

    Oh well, was watching "Live PD" and the Warwick, RI, coppers were dealing with 2ft of snow on the side of the road. Looked positively lovely to drive in, not. I will stick with my humidity and mosquitos in order to miss driving on snow or ice, though the latest weather brains are now talking about a Maunder Minimum of sunspot activity resulting in a mini-ice age, or maybe even something a little more than just mini. Hah. Wouldn't that be something. Which would actually match all the actual data regarding cooler winters, more polar ice at both poles, cooler ocean temps overall (except where fueled by volcanic activity, of course, which the left says mankind cause somehow, must be the rise of Wiccan as a 'religion' as the cause, right?)

    Ah, well, thanks for the test-guilt before I enter into a week of holiday-guilt from my family. (Gee, why don't you come down? Gee, why did you and the circus come down? You don't write, call, smokesignal enough! You talk too much! Family, like the Tsar, love them and keep them, far, far away...)

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    1. Most excellent advice, I've done the talk to doc thing, this is an occasional issue, has been off and on my whole life. Every now and then the brain box gets too busy, ah well.

      Sorry you took my whining for a guilt trip, wasn't meant to be. I remember the days when it was just me, having the occasional post from somebody else is a gift I don't take lightly.

      Snow, it's very much an acquired taste, most people shouldn't be driving on clean and dry roads, they don't have the attention span for it, get them on snow and ice? Geez!

      Anyhoo, stay sane Beans, hoping the Tsar leaves you be.

      ;)

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    2. AW:

      "...though the latest weather brains are now talking about a Maunder Minimum of sunspot activity resulting in a mini-ice age, or maybe even something a little more than just mini. Hah. Wouldn't that be something. Which would actually match all the actual data regarding cooler winters, more polar ice at both poles, cooler ocean temps overall..."

      Kinda makes you wonder if we are living in a John Ringo novel, or something, don't it?

      Paul

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    3. OldAFSarge, no, you didn't guilt me. I am guilting myself. I don't need anyone else... :) I just thought it was a cute(for me) way of twigging you over your comments.

      And the Tsarina (my mother) can manage to send a full 7 course meal of Guilt, with side orders of Guilt, with guilt-gravy, guilt-butter, and a dessert of guilt topped by guilt, over a phone call. Actual physical presence causes me to have to hitch a trailer to the van to carry all the guilt home. Oy vey. Love her. Love her very much. Love her, far far away.

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    4. Paul,

      When I read "Fallen Angels" I thought the world had ended, because sci-fi was actually talking about real science and the consequences of fake science.

      Hmmm. Solar Maximums and Minimums.

      Solar minimum is one of the suspected causes of climate change that forced early North Africans to become the Egyptians.

      Solar max may very well have ended the great Egyptian dynasties, while allowing the Roman Empire to grow.

      The Dark Ages were brought about partially by a solar minimum. (When the hordes of barbarians sweep from the north because they're being chased by other barbarians who are fleeing ice and cold...)

      Solar maximum brought out the Norsemen exploding from the North (due to warming temps allowing max food production bringing out surplus populations (especially of military age males,)) and the early Middle Ages 'renaissances' (including the Norman Renaissance - a real thing - who would have thought rich people with disposable income would fuel a period of free thinking and scientific advancement, starting around 990AD?)

      Solar minimum brought out the Little Ice Age that saw the colonies on Greenland (which had huge amounts of greenery during the previous solar max) be basically covered by ice (the Fimbul Winter, for reals,) and such issues as the Bubonic Plague sweeping throughout Europe (due to more people being crammed into buildings due to it being freezing outside, duh.)

      Solar maximum coincided with the later renaissance periods (Italian, German, French, English)

      The next big Solar Min (the Maunder Minimum) coincided with the Plymouth Colony almost not making it, the Thirty Years War sweeping western Europe, and the English Civil War. Icelandic volcanoes going 'blooie' bigtime also contributed to the rather cold temps and bad growing seasons.

      And so forth, and so on. Almost like it's a cyclic phenomenon, known and written about in the history books since, well, history was first written.

      But all of this is caused by Man-Made global warming, right?

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    5. Paul - So I should read this Ringo chap? (I am aware of him, just haven't got there yet.)

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    6. Beans (1) - Your mother, the Tsarina. Ah, life like a Russian novel...

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    7. Beans (2) - The Maunder Minimum, something I hope doesn't occur. They say that the Thames used to freeze over in winter (and the Thames by London is a big, fast flowing river) and Napoleon's disaster in the Russian winter of 1812 may have that as a cause. Valley Forge ditto. What we puny humans don't know about climate would fill many a book, and cause Algore's head to implode.

      Weather and history, they go hand in hand, too bad so many people can't be bothered to learn.

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    8. re: Solar minimums. Also in effect in 1942-45. The Germans thought the Russian winter was going to be like it was in 36-40, but, noooo.

      The end of that particular minimum was around 1952, which would explain why the Chosin was so Frozin (even more than normal from what I have read, yes, frozen Korea can and is miserable, but the K-War (shooting) years the winter was especially bad.)

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    9. And, yes, you should read this Ringo chap, along with the Tom Kratman chap, David Weber (though some of his books get, ah, a tad loooong,) and, well most, if not all, authors published by BAEN. David Drake, for his dark history-inspired sci-fi (he served in an armored Cav unit in Vietnam, so he's seen stuff, and writes like it, too.)

      There's more to life than history books, or Clavell, or Clancy. Come on, just one book... (I recommend "The Last Centurion" for your first book as it deals with Solar Mins, Super-Flus, Politics AND the news media in general, plus it's a rollicking good read. Just do it. Bought it for my nephew when he graduated boot camp, and it helped him with his reading, a lot, contributing to him being able to pass what written exams he had for his various ranks.) Oh, and Larry Correa, who is a politically incorrect gun-nut who has pissed off most of the 'elite' in sci-fi-dom for not being a SJW while being a non-English-white person. And his books are fun to read.

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    10. Where we lived in Korea (Kunsan, west coast, Yellow Sea) was fairly mild compared to the inland parts of the peninsula. But it did get bitter cold from time to time. The climate here in Little Rhody is much milder. Mother Ocean keeps us warmer than inland.

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    11. And the Ringo book Paul is referring to is "the Last Centurion" while the book "Fallen Angels" by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn, is all about dealing with an Ice-Age United States, and our pre-SpaceX failed space programs, and...

      Both are good books. Worth reading. Both will stir you to search the interwebs for more factual information on various topics. Fiction books that make you think. Kinda like Heinlein's earlier works.

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    12. As to the books, I will give them a look-see.

      And I'll ignore the heresy of "more to life than history books."

      ;)

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    13. OldAFSarge:

      "And, yes, you should read this Ringo chap, along with the Tom Kratman chap, David Weber (though some of his books get, ah, a tad loooong,) and, well most, if not all, authors published by BAEN. David Drake, for his dark history-inspired sci-fi (he served in an armored Cav unit in Vietnam, so he's seen stuff, and writes like it, too.)"

      I, too, endorse all of the authors AW cites here. For light reading, one might try Robert Asprin. Also, one should not fail to mention Harry Turtledove. If, after five or six years of reading, you should require more suggestions, I'm sure there will be a helpful commenter here to lend a hand.

      Paul

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    14. By the way, AW, have you gotten ahold of the new Honor Harrington novel? As you wrote, rather long, eh wot. Because I got it from the library and will not be able to renew it; I didn't follow my standard practice of re-reading two or three of the previous books in the series first. So the flow is not what I'd like as I don't remember the details of the backstory as well as I'd like.

      Paul

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    15. OldAFSarge:

      "And I'll ignore the heresy of "more to life than history books." "

      Just look upon them as history that has not yet happened.

      Paul

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    16. A couple more names for you, Eric Flint and Robert Conroy. Unfortunately, Mr. Conroy up and died on us, so he wasn't able to write more of his very entertaining books. The ones he did write, I find to be quite enjoyable. Mr. Flint's 1632 series should be right up your alley, being history as it might have been if....

      Paul

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    17. Conroy I've read, Flint is on my list.

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  8. "...I had to do a Sinatra..." My way?

    Paul

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    1. Yup. It both makes me happy and scares me that other people think like I do...

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    2. There are lots of folks who think like us Beans.

      Scary innit?

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    3. Hmmm, scary yes. Which makes me wonder how many more people out there have a sword hidden in their house and are ready to use it. (Yes, I know about your blade, a very nice one, too, but get yourself an artilleryman's falchion or short blade for in-house work...)

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    4. U.S Navy cutlass for close in work.

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  9. While the photos of the white stuff outside your home are very lovely, please keep it up your way, I am not all that fond of it in my yard. It is perhaps a genetic thing; when my father retired from the USAF, we moved to California because, he said, " If I want to see snow, I can go visit it, it will not be coming to visit me. " Of course his having grown up in North Dakota may have had somewhat to do with his attitude.

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    1. I understand the desire not to see the white stuff in one's own yard. But the stuff is part of who I am.

      As long as I can pay someone to clear the walk and the drive, I'm okay with it.

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    2. "As long as I can pay someone to clear the walk and the drive, I'm okay with it."

      That's great that you can find someone ( young person? ) to do that for you; around here, we can't even find anyone to mow the bleeding lawn.

      Paul

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    3. What, Paul? You don't want snow-bound people to mail you packages of snow? Kinda like: But there's starving children in Africa! So, you can mail them my (insert hated food!!!!)

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    4. Paul - Young fellow next door is a huge help. His mom is our cats' Godmother, as we call her. A great family, lovely neighbors. We are blessed to have them next door.

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    5. Beans - I offered to pay for the liver and onions that dear old Dad loved so much to be shipped to the starving in China, at least my share of that fare. I did try the dish later in life, thinking perhaps my tastes had changed.

      No, they had not and no, the post office wouldn't accept them for shipment to Africa (I guess all the starving Chinese my mother always cited had gone there?).

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    6. "...liver and onions that dear old Dad loved so much..."

      Done right, that is a great meal. One of the things my mother nailed.

      Paul

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    7. I'll take your word for that. Can't even stand the smell. Don't know why.

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  10. Yes, read John Ringo...my favorite set to start with is Black Tide Rising. It's a 4 parter (trilogy +1?) So the first one is "Under a Graveyard Sky". However, do not start any time near bedtime, cause you will want to read that sucker right straight through.

    And I second anything by Larry Corriea. I started reading his Monster Hunters International. Any book that starts with:

    "On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window."

    is definitely someone who is fun to read. As long as no one else minds you giggling when things get funny. You have been warned!

    Also second using the full benefit of your healthcare insurance while you have it! Make sure the doc makes sure the prostate is behaving itself and not overgrowing.

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    1. Suz:

      I shall have to give Mr. Corriea's monster hunters series another look. Monsters are usually not my cuppa, but I enjoy other books by him. So I should give it a fair shake.

      Thanks,
      Paul

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  11. One day I might start a post with just, "Commenters, ready, steady, GO!"

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  12. Take what time you need, we shall wait, and read posts by Juvat, Tuna and Beans.

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Just be polite... that's all I ask. (For Buck)
Can't be nice, go somewhere else...

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