[300winmag]

Doing weapons testing. I'm kinda thinkin' I need to make a trip over there to see just what he gets to do! I think I could really get into watching him work there.

Ask if they give out any samples. :)

And Tom owes you the names and APOs of his brothers.

I've got 11 knives to go out today. Three to veterans, the other eight to troops in Iraq, or about to deploy. You'll be getting a spreadsheet from me, as soon as I can figure out how to go from a Palm Pilot database to excel, and still keep things looking decent.

[Wneighbor]

One of Tom's brothers is what I can't remember the name for.... where they're over there... but you can't know where they're at cause they're doin' somethin' secret or somethin'. His wife can't even know stuff. He calls the wife and mom as often as he can from a secure cell phone to let 'em know he's okay. What do you call that duty? I forget.

I asked 'em for the other brother's info. The one who's doing recruiting duty.... but I think they forgot.

[Wneighbor]

You know. I'm sittin' here almost sick to my stomach. School is over so just us instructors here. Lots of yakkin' in the faculty hallway and stuff. I'm used to workin' with only men so I let stuff go in one ear and out the other. (or burn their ears too) But, I just sat in my office and heard 2 of my co-instructors discuss that they have found their lives are so much better if they just treat wimmin like $h|t. (their words repeatedly) Uh, various stories were told which I can't repeat here. And I usually don't get disturbed by stuff like that. But, I'm hearing about lyin' and cheatin' and stuff and the reason their wives deserve this. One of the guys - I'm not surprised - I already knew that. And his wife is a witch. The other one... is a surprise. And he's got a very sweet wife. It's just depressing.