Technician

“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.” —Slaughterhouse-Five

Chainsaw technician.

If you wanna join a doomsday cult right about now, I totally understand.

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.” —The Things They Carried

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.” —Blood Meridian

This refugee from Sesame Street loves playing in the snow and demands I go out and throw snowballs for her at all hours.

Got enough snow to break out the thick boys.

Me: Should take it easy because both of my hip flexors are still injured. Also me:

Somebody told me Washington states’s proposed 3D printing legislation is not a first amendment issue because G-code is not real code, and they can fuck off with that nonsense.