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Linus, AKA "Whinus", or "Whinus the Chickenhearted" passed away earlier this evening. He was 14. He took ill last Tuesday and was diagnosed with FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis) last Thursday. The vet didn't give him more than a week to live.

He was greatly loved by all of us and shall be greatly missed.


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While I enjoy the bands that Armed Forces Entertainment and the USO bring around, the places they perform leave a lot to be desired. Last week, Montgomery Gentry played at the MP Hill gymnasium. What happens when you put a high-powered country band into a basketball court with high corrugated metal ceilings and bare walls lined with bleachers, then ( Read more... )

I get my mail in a military combined unit mail room. They used to pool all their resources. Unfortunately, the unit i am used to getting my mail at decided to not only withdraw from the combined mail unit, they are also dropping those people who are not specifically part of their unit. Since I was there under an agreement dating more than 5 years ( Read more... )

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It's no secret that I had been a friend of a writer, Andre Norton, since my teen years. Over the years, we had written a lot of letters to each other, and she had sent me a lot of books, while i sent her a few things I thought might interest her. One of those things was a design for a sword made of dragon scale. I had gone into great detail on how ( Read more... )