JamesSavik

I have something cooking ready! Boyfriends for Christmas It should be fun. Boyfriends for Christmas

My experimental stream-of-consciousnesses project The Company often seems a quixotic quest, but it has been a lot of fun to write.

With five spoiled cats, I know all about mewling.

Tequila!

Lunch (Naked Lunch)

Huntington Beach (Surf City, USA), California

Reefer ships, short for refrigerated shipping, are designed for taking perishable cargos that require controlled temperatures over oceanic distances. The first reefer ship route was between New Orleans, LA and a port on Matagorda Island, Texas in 1869.

Pacific (I love that one)

"Darling, you must know at least half our guests will be spies." "Theonia, it's rude to call them spies on this planet. Thracians call them the press." Her Slavic smile always won any arguments, "Sorry Senator Harry. You shouldn't have married a daughter of New Moskava." The couple's twins arrived from the stairs that went up to the residence. Senator Harry Hanson looked up and motioned for them to come down, and they reluctantly approached. Bryan and Ryan, who were at 16 a pair of the youngest of the Gemini Soldiers liberated during the Corporate War, were not thrilled to be here. There were many more interesting things for teens to do during the week-long celebration of the end of the Rim War than a stuffy old press conference. Theonia and Harry were filled with a huge swell of pride in the boys. Harry said, "Thanks for being good sports about this. I know you hate this kind of thing. How is your buddy Jeff?" Bryan said, "It's important, but I hope we can get back to the Ski Lodge soon." "Jeff is pretty nervous. He wants to get back, too," Ryan shrugged, "You would think he had never been on a holovid before." Theonia said, "Some people don't like having their pictures all over the galaxy. Do we know who the interviewer will be?" Harry said, "Jessica Sang, Landing City Times." "Ohhh... an actual serious journalist," Ryan cracked. Bryan smacked his brother and said, "At least our pictures won't end up on the teen boards like last time." Harry's personal assistant chimed and said, "The News conference will be ready in the Mesa Room in fifteen minutes." "Call your friend. We need to start now." The two teens quickly disappeared back up the stairs.

i. We got to bed a little after one. Tuck and Howie retired to Kelly and Jo-Jo’s room, and Stacy joined Gene and Scotty. Patrick and I were dog-tired, so he took the middle between Frank and me. Sleep quickly overcame us. Seeing Jonah and his boys again inspired a dream that took me back to a hunting trip to Arrowhead years ago. I turned thirteen last July and passed the NRA Hunter Safety Course. I was excited to finally be able to join the hunt. Dad drove his truck,

At the time (~1910) the Royal Navy was the largest fleet in the world with a long tradition of winning. The names are meant to inspire. Many of these names were recycled over and over. In 1784, Indefatigable was a 64 gun ship of the line. In 1909, she was a battle cruiser (which was ended badly). In 1944, she was an Implacable-class aircraft carrier. The name appeared three more times in the RN's history on less prestigious hulls. Their fleet was large because the lifeblood of the British Empire was trade. They had hundreds of ships in commission at any point, and had to come up with names for all of them. Some might arguably call them pompous, and it wouldn't surprise me if there was a 4th rate schooner back in the day named HMS Flatulent.

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The British built the three Indefatigable class battle cruisers between 1910-13. It was an upgraded design of the previous Invincible class battle cruisers. Indefatigable, Australia and New Zealand all joined the fleet just before the outbreak of World War 1. Battle cruisers were a special class of ship which sacrificed armor protection for speed, but packed an armament similar to heavier and slower battleships. They were supposed to be able to gun down almost anything and be fast enough to run away if they ran into something they couldn't handle. Unfortunately, this theory had a wicked encounter with reality at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Battle cruisers were used for scouting for the German fleet and came under fire of battleship gunnery. Three battle cruisers, Indefatigable, Queen Mary and Invincible, were sunk due to magazine explosions and sank with all or most of their hands. HMS Indefatigable, 1909.

Elvis voice: ESG is Kang, baby!

Sure. They are some, but not nearly as many as WW2 inspired, which many seemed to think was "the good war" where the morality of the conflict was unambiguous.

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There's a good reason there are so few stories about World War I. It was such a shitshow, almost anyone who had anything to do with it desperately wanted to forget it. Millions were killed as Europe's armies trenched and retrenched, after heavy losses, their way across the continent as they slaughtered each other with machine guns, artillery and poison gas. Any accurate histories of the conflict may accurately be placed in the horror genre. Having happened a century ago, most of the survivors are gone now, and most historians seem to want to avoid the subject, but the lesson we must learn is clear: humanity must never allow another gigantic atrocity like it to ever happen again. The men are gone but, even after a century, the scars are still on the land. A battlefield in France, c. 2014.

Truck stop hussies, they are.

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