First of the Month greetings
So, okay, it’s been awhile since I posted. This being the beginning of a new month, it seemed a good time to update.
Recent developments:
They’re still imposing a news blackout on my single-handed capture of Osama Bin Laden. Nobody wants to make a premature announcement until his identity has been absolutely established, plus I’m not their ideal poster boy for American heroism. It’ll get out eventually, and I want to make it clear in advance that I only did what any other soldier would have done.
(On the other hand, I will take credit for the whole SuperGlue wedgie idea. I was inspired that day, and the look on his face … priceless.)
Because of the preceding, they’re almost certainly going to drop the whole business about the hookers. Drop it, bury it, make it officially not exist. I’m naturally relieved, but at the same time I feel that I would have had a decent defense. Come on: Twins? Asian twins? Blonde Asian twins? Everybody has his breaking point, and that was definitely mine. And they weren’t underage … just under my daughter’s age.
In ficwriting news, my Giles/Xander/Spike/Oz four-way is almost finished, but I think I may be losing steam. Sure, it’s close to the end of the deployment and I deserve to relax a bit, but it still seems to me that I should have attempted something … I don’t know … less ordinary. Even adding the electrical attachments didn’t seem to put any zing into the narrative. I may have to let that one go entirely. Just not edgy enough.
I’ve got the false bottom installed now on the third of the big toolboxes. Put in enough foam padding, the difference in linear dimensions doesn’t show at all from the outside. That should give me space enough for nearly half of the little extras I’ve managed to accumulate over the past ten months; I’ll have to decide what to leave behind, and then there’s the matter of locating the right buyers once I get back to the States (Which is the best way to go? Archeological wholesaling, or straight currency exchange?), but either way I don’t think I’ll need to be worrying about my retirement.
Basically, same old, same-old.
Happy First of April to everybody.