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XiXo
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I wouldn't call it 'thoughts' as much as 'observations inspired by the GI Joe magazine'.

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But aren't even said observation the product of thought?

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Well, relatively, as most human endeavours are the product of thoughts, but the text isn't thoughts in itself as much as the lack of thought. Is a kliché still a thought when it is uttered the 1000th time?
Then you should have called it 'words', it's less pretentious.

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Is a kliché still a thought when it is uttered the 1000th time?

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So when thought is always present, I'd say using the word as a title indicates some kind of novel approach to thinking, that could inspire further thought, instead of just synapses having fired.

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Don't worry too much about Coincidence, Xixo. His synapses are already stretched pretty thin.

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He doesn't seem so worried.

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He doesn't seem so worried.

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I knew you would be the jealous type. So what if I like army guys?

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So when thought is always present, I'd say using the word as a title indicates some kind of novel approach to thinking, that could inspire further thought, instead of just synapses having fired.

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January 24, 2003

Well, we were supposed to go #Direction to #City two days ago, and now they're saying that tomorrow for sure. We'll see, I guessw. From what I hear, #City is the wild west of the desert. Everyone carries a weapon, and they make contact on the perimeter just about every night. Supposedly we might spend all of our time in #City, rotating missions within the battalion. I plan to send a couple of #Deployment t-shirts home that I found here. Did absolutely NOTHING today - the last word was to have everything packed, ready to go...and sure enough we spent all day waiting, inside a tent, because it RAINED. Something I haven't mentioned yet - the food. Yesterday was steak and eggs for breakfast, and calzomes for dinner. I haven't had more than a powerbar for lunch, but that is my own doing. Interesting note, for some reason ( I think altitude adjustment) everyone is having to take a leak like every 10 minutes - what's up with that?


January 25, 2003

Landed in #City today. The town is in a bowl at about 1500m above sea level, and all sides mountains rise thousands of feet. I had only about an hour left of daylihg,t and about half of that was spent in a briefing, so I didn't see much scenery. The facilities (latrines, showers, etc.) aren't as nice as #Other City, but the tents are much better (rugs, shelving, tables, etc.), and the chow hall - we didn't eat this well back in North Carolina! Excellent food, and as much of it as you want. Apparently there was a rocket attack the other night that landed about 200m outside the wire - we'll see how the op-tempo is here. Lot's more air traffic -UH 60's, AH-64's, CH-47's, A-10's, F-15's, F-16's, AV-8B's, as well as many different armies. Just in my 6 hours here I've seen Italian, Czech, British, South Korea, Romania, and every branch of the US save the Coast Guard.

January 26, 2003

Super Bowl Sunday. The game should begin in about 4 hours.
...Found out that the pipes burst in the ceiling at home and flooded the master bedroom. Very distraught over that - I really didn't want #Wife to have to deal with that, even though #Friend is with her.

(ADDENDUM - Turned out that the sprinkler pipes in the apartment weren't built to code, and when #Wife left the apartment to go to her parents house, and shut off utilities [with landlord approval], the pipes froze. She got back to the apartement the next day to find a news crew in the apartment shooting footage. We were sued twice over this deal, the last of which was finalized a few months ago, and found not liable both times)

January 31, 2003

Another day in #City without much excitement. The clouds that have been hanging around for the last several days cleared out, leaving us with beautiful scenery and ass cold temperatures. Spent several hours in the attic above the TOC (tactical operations center) rerouting network cables and CAT5 cable, because the commo guys who are responsible for it said it couldn't be done, but we needed it.

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