Yeah yeah
I'm only all over the F^%$ing forum!
Must get an avatar...calling 14 yo ds#2 to the electronic rescue!

We are too much in range now and I didn't want to go out in *that* thank you very much. Yesterday was quieter; and I thought there was a ceasefire of 48 hours but turns out it was a figment of Condoleeza Rice's imagination. All the tv and 1/2 the internet reported it, till the Prime Minister got himself organised in an appropriate tie and nicely decked out press conference to tell us all that it was war-business as usual. We shoulda noticed of course with all those funny boom's and the fact that the 5000 men that suddenly disappeared on Sunday in a Reserves call-up didn't equally suddenly reappear.

Speaking of testosterone (which is on all our minds lately)... It is a little unclear how efficient a Reserve soldier will be. Gung-ho at 18, by about 25 he has forgotten a lot and his reactions are slower too. As the years go by add on 10+ kg, a wife and kids, other responsibilities like job, and an appreciation of life in general (as opposed to the alternatives for example death by traffic accident or cancer) and your lean mean fighting machine has become a human being. The thing that keeps him in the Reserves is seeing "the guys" a few weeks a year and now the almost unbearable costs of refusal to respond to a call-up.

My bursitis-prone knee was a bit iffy for a few days so I swam. I also post a bit erratically Friday-Saturday

I will ride after this and give you-all some detail of nature upon which to concentrate your prayers,meditations, spiritualities (pms for short geddit? geddit!).
Keep us all in mind but after you have felt sad and sorry don't worry about us for long. Move into a hopeful and positive space.What is here and what could be

Love you all
shalom, salaam, peace, pax

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