Chiron

When I was a rookie sergeant the policy at the time was to assign you to supervise the place and shift you were least familiar with. That m...

And holes, now that I think about it. This Saturday I've been asked to drop in at a weapons seminar.  KJ is going to teach some basics- ...

I like it when people argue, sometimes.  They think they are demonstrating how they think, but more often than not they are demonstrating ho...

First day back to work in a while.  I've been out with pneumonia.  First time. Interesting.  Went to work less because I was feeling bet...

Kevin wants me to drop by the seminar he is teaching at the end of the month.  He'll go over a lot of weapon stuff and he had me look at...

There has been an internal shift lately.  It's been a long time coming, something I expected, but for the first time I'm noticing wh...

I don't have a fever, which feels strange. Soon it will feel normal again, but for right now it's a bit odd. And I'll miss the ...

An author (and very nice lady) once said, "The only reason people ever resort to violence is out of great fear, great anger, or great d...

C is without doubt my favorite violent schizophrenic.  At his worst, he smears himself with his own shit and attacks anyone who comes near. ...

Most people's dark sides are pretty pathetic.  The evil that people imagine is sometimes great, but everyone imagines an open season on ...

Everything is quiet right now.  The last batch of training is finished and the next two phases aren't things I'm certified in so no ...

A long time ago, with his kind permission, I posted some of Drew Rinella's poetry here .  A few days ago, Drew let me know about his web...

Synergy is a fun concept.  Sometimes the forces of the cosmos come together and linked things happen that could not have happened by random ...

Chaos is addictive on a lot of levels. Once you get past the fear and uncertainty it can be kind of fun. The adrenaline rush of surviving,...

It has literally been a crush for the last week. Writing has happened in snatches while waiting for other things. Some of those things mi...

Galleys are in and very quickly comes a message that there will be one more trade of copies with the plan that the manuscript will be at the...

Rhino has made the magical transition from manuscript to book.  That's cool. Received the galleys yesterday.  This is definitely one of ...

Sometimes people die.  Actually, everybody dies- but that's not the point.  Sometimes people die and you go over the situation examining...

My wife worries about me when I'm alone.  I rarely sleep ( being around people is about the only thing that seems to make me tired. With...

Before I came to this job, I'd studied a fair number of things in a fair number of styles. I'd sparred a lot and loved it and excel...