Translucent

Translucent: allowing light to pass through but scattering it as it does, to give diffuse images My ‘dar is useless here. It’s always attached to whatever culture you’re operating in, and this one is much harder to re-calibrate for. FOD¹s are as obscured as looking through a 100 year old window, where the glass has [...]

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Pieces – Nov 10

There are probably 3 people besides myself with beards on base. There’s the porn ‘stache contingent, like something out of Tales of the City, the guys who look out of place in them, in their flight suits the colored of the most abundant resource around these parts. There’s the 5 o’clock shadow contingent, the slightly [...]

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Protected: Chameleon

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Chafe

The LTC asked why, and I said change. For now I’m still rather attached to home_DC, and still carry my house keys. I can’t decide if this is a good thing, or a bad one, or perhaps it is of no import whatsoever. My patience for silly people, or at least their exasperation for the [...]

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