JamesSavik

I study kalology in the gym. Others may call it eye candy, but I have more refined tastes.

The city of Jackson is a messy old town at the junction of numerous railroads and two major interstates. The cities kenspeckle is the Pearl River which forms the cities eastern border with Rankin county and was immortalized by Kid Rock's Jackson Mississippi. The song does an excellent job describing the poverty and addiction so common here. Facing North, Jackson is on the left, the bridge is over the Pearl River is Lakeland Drive and to the right is Rankin County.

I love delinquents. Some of us are just older. 😜

This was fun. I especially like the protagonist's snarcasm. I'm glad to see the subtle art of mixing snark and sarcasm is still being practiced.

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E-bay

Summer nights in the South should be pleasant with the canorous songs of night birds. Instead, we've got cicadas and frogs raising hell.

Unoccupied churches are a little creepy to me, day or night. In daytime, they are lit by light filtered through stained-glass. At night, they are dark as pitch. At any time, they are quite, still caliginous places.

No Presidents or Prime Ministers for me either. Never have I ever used a nail gun.

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Don't tell me to stick to my bailiwick. That would be boring!

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Because writing a 90K word novel as a wall of text without any breaks would drive authors insane and readers would flee?

Acetaminophen

Anyone who has ever worked in Tech has seen bafflegab in action. More commonly known as technobabble, this is how sharp computer salesmen sell incompatible garbage to suits who expect techies like me to make it work. It did not take the suits long to discover that they needed a tech to accompany them and shield them from slick sales propaganda and ask pertinent questions like is this compatible with our installed base?

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Inflation seems to be the only thing burgeoning in this economy.

How would a character with PTSD act? That depends on numerous factors. Age, type of trauma, severity and the length of time. A little girl in a car accident with injuries will present differently from a combat veteran or survivor of a tornado outbreak. However, there will always be a core of symptoms. Celeste Carlson is 15. When 13, she was in an accident that broke her arm, ribs and punctured a lung. She was in for an unpleasant hospital stay and almost had to repeat 7th grade. Compounding the accident, the girl driving was killed at the scene. Celeste refuses to ride in small cars, will only ride in SUVs and straps in like it's the space shuttle. She cries easily, is triggered by traffic, and often has nightmares. When Celeste gets rattled, it can take a good while for her to get back on balance(minutes to hours). She may often be seen as distracted. Nick Morrison is 44. When he was young, he decided it would be a good idea to join the Marines. Then Iraq, part 2 happened. Nick was part of the Mean Green Machines' Shock & Awe campaign. Iraq part 2 was a different war than the original Desert Storm. They tried to do it on the cheap with a Coalition of the Willing so they saw very heavy fighting. He was probably going to do OK until Fallugah and an Improvised Explosive Device that put him out of action for six weeks. Twenty years later, Nick works as a field engineer and travels a great deal. He's married, but it's rocky. He's jumpy, loud noises can rattle him, and he has nightmares. His wife suspects he is cheating on the road, but the truth is he's faithful and uses the alone time to drink. Scooter McGee is 25. When he was 17, an EF-3 tornado smashed into their rural Arkansas community at three in the morning, killed 22 people and blowing him into a tree on a mattress and breaking his arm. Scooter started drinking before the cast came off. After graduation, he became an apprentice electrician. He's a functional alcoholic. Bad weather gives Scooter the shakes. His old friends wonder what's up with him because all he does is work and see his girl, and go hunting and fishing to cover up his weed and alcohol hobby. The hypervilligence part of PTSD is exhausting. It's like you are constantly on red alert. This is why people with PTSD are often described as twitchy. They may be too tired to sleep (insomnia).

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