The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

GAH THE BRAC LIST IS OUT AND I CAN'T FIND A COPY OF IT MUST SEE!

All I can find thus far are small news clips that list only one or two of the bases on the list.

[EDIT] Hokay, found it, not as bad as it could be. Dahlgren is "realigning," which means we're going to lose 503 civilians and 17 contractors, we'll gain 169 civilians, for a total net loss of 351 civilians.

Now, to chew on my fingernails in anxiety for the next (*counts*) four months to find out if I'm part of the "realignment."

Dear god, I'm actually seriously considering a pair of these. Luckily, where good sense will not prevail, my terminal indecision will, because the order form contains far too many choices. I really like this pair, and this one, too. This pair is pretty damn slick, too, although it's not likely to work with any costume I'd wear. And the purple and blue knotwork boots on the main page are quite nice, if a bit too bright for me.

I would so wear a pair of these everywhere. They'd work for hiking, too - my current hiking boots are too narrow for my deformed feet (Dani: Refusing to go to a podiatrist for a decade and counting!), so I usually end up wearing tennis shoes that provide no ankle support - after my little incident in January, I need ankle support. Damn thing still wants to swell up unpleasantly...These are custom-fit to a molding of your actual feet, which is...quite nice. He resoles them, too, for a resonable price.

Luckily, I have an attention span far too short to make all the necessary decisions and get all the way through the order form.

Ok, what the hell is it with Baen books having scenes set in or around Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania? The last thing I expect to see when I open a futuristic sci-fi novel is a setting in good old Spotsyltucky. There's nothing here! Oh, there are farms and cows and horses, and more unpleasant fauna than you can shake a stick at, and even a fairly nice lake and some decent hiking, but...this makes the third book in a week that I've read that had at least one scene set here. At least two were published by Baen, who also published the book that had aliens landing on my old hellhouse. I don't remember who published Darwin's Children.

It's just strange.