March 2012
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Sad day for the Hecht family.
They found the body of Tom Hecht today, floating in the Milwaukee river. My condolences to his family and friends. Can’t say I’m surprised that’s where they found him though — bodies of water and lone drunks don’t mix well and Wisconsin’s had far too many incidents that we’re all too accustomed to these deaths.
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Dude walks off base alone, breaks into three... →
i-have-nightmares:
I lose more an more faith in humanity with each passing day.
The repercussions of this incident will make life a little uneasy for the next few days. Rocket attacks on the base, threats of vehicle born IEDs blasting through the gates, sniper fire from the surrounding hills, increased force protection measures on base. Also explains the comms blackout for the last 36 hours.
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Sense of Smell
There is a deliberate reason why over the last 24 hours my Tumblr and Twitter feeds have had lots of shots of our basset hound Belle. Yesterday I received some bad news about her. I woke up to find an email from my mother that Belle had been having trouble breathing, walking, seeing, eating, drinking — pretty much the only sense that we’re not absolutely certain has failed her is her...
Letters
The Perfectionist
Let me be clear, I am not a perfectionist. A perfectionist is someone who makes everything that they touch into some excellent. There are plenty of things I touch that I couldn’t make myself care about if I was put at gunpoint.
The things in my life that I [appear] to care about the most tend to be about work. Not because that’s true, but because work is something I...
