Well, apparently, Sarge and I are singing the same song.  You know which one . Skip the commercial at the beginning if you wish to watch. ...

OAFS Photo No new fiction today. Had a glaucoma shunt installed in the left eye on Tuesday. While not really painful, the procedure was tedi...

H/t to Andy N. Source I think I've been looking for that description for a very long time. Disappointment sleep, it's not an extra f...

(Click to embiggen, or chase the link) Source So JB sent me this excellent graphic (above) a couple of weeks ago, and as I'm feeling ext...

Source The heat of summer can be enervating, especially when one is in trail with a lawnmower. After three weeks of lots of heat and not a l...

Grass? What grass? OAFS Photo A brief pause in the tale of 1870 is in order. Thursday required a trip to the dermatologist, regularly schedu...

Interior of a library, from Boethius So if no one reads it, why bother to write it? I do appreciate the few who actually stop by here daily²...

Neuville défense de la porte de Longboyau Alphonse de Neuville Source Just when I think I know where I'm going with a story, I start rea...

Battle of Mars-La-Tour, August 16,1870 Emil Hünten Source Okay Sarge, wait, what? What does grass cutting have to do with the Franco-Prussia...

OAFS Android Screen Capture Just a quick note ... First Communion is this morning, the granddaughter is rather nervous about the whole thing...

Midway airport, Chicago OAFS Photo Flew out to California on Monday for granddaughter Li'l Sweetie's First Communion. Which is, as ...

Total War: Rome - In game screenshot From commanding tanks to commanding the legions of Ancient Rome, it's all in a day for me. Do I hav...

Panzer Elite In game screenshot After a few days of perusing well-written (sic) government instructions and filling in numerous pages of tax...

Source Not only am I in the midst of doing my taxes (Feds are done Little Rhody is in work) but I had a recent notice that my driver's l...

Source There will be a brief pause in the action, a day maybe two, while I fill out my tax forms. Federal and State. I owe, I owe, it's ...

Source Yup, that's where I'm at, writing-wise. I'm at the edge of something, but I'm not sure what it is. I started this blo...

Me-410 Hornisse Screenshot - IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad I finally got around to hooking up my old Saitek X52 Flight Control System...

Saturday, 07 February 2026 OAFS Photo I am taking a snow day. Maybe I'll make up for it in the spring with two posts on the same day. Or...

Source As I mentioned, Monday was the anniversary of The Missus Herself  and Your Humble Scribe  getting hitched forty eight years ago in th...