I'm grateful for all the friends here, and as long as I have internet access (that comes before food), I'll be here to share in the frienship and insanity.
Let me take this opportunity to blame everything on Jimmy Carter and BillHillary Clinton. If they didn't screw up everything they touched, we wouldn't be at war now, and we wouldn't be facing a couple of new nuclear powers that we helped arm, in one way or another. Therefore, we wouldn't have as many troops in combat, and not as many needing pocket knives and other gadgets.
Gadget evaluation will continue. And, of course, if anyone in the Hobbit Hole knows of someone in the military, we can come up with an appropriate gift to express our thanks.
Charlotte (in the kitchen window) had a boyfriend for a couple of days. Apparently she got tired of him, because she ate him for breakfast this morning.