{"id":17047,"date":"2010-01-28T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17047"},"modified":"2010-01-28T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:38:17","slug":"odds-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17047","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, so TSO is feeling better today, I left my cranky pants at home. Nothing major to write about, just a couple of things to ask\/write about, and rather do an omnibus post that a bunch of independant junk.<\/p>\n

1) Any of our readers play the board game Diplomacy? I am looking for a place to play online, and the place I used to go to play it seems offline. For those who haven’t played Diplomacy, it is a phenomenal game, sort of a thinking man’s Risk. It was allegedly the favorite game of JFK and Kissinger. Anyway, if anyone out there plays, or knows of a place that has online judges, kindly let me know.<\/p>\n

2) I was uber-psyched after work yesterday to go home and watch me some TV. Obviously I was a bit fired up yesterday, probably on account of the 4 bowls of Cookie Crisp I had at lunch…well, that and the fact that I am still offended by how that corpulent Oklahoma lawyer is fleecing folks. Anyway, Wednesday is my favorite TV night because my two favorite shows are on, although unfortunately at the same time. I usually watch Psych, and DVR Mantracker. Every time Caro and I get together we watch Psych together, and I think it is the best written show on TV today. <\/p>\n

But everytime I say I love watching Mantracker everyone always asks how often I watch the Gay TV station. Now, admittedly I have a bit of a mancrush on the Mantracker, but who wouldn’t? Dude is the shi’ite. Anyway, watch this quick video, maybe you will get hooked too. I own every season on DVD.
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Oh, and just to make yesterday a complete wash, I couldn’t watch Psych because my cable kept pixilating (sp?) the USA network. So don’t spoil it for me by telling me how Shawn and Jules hooked up.<\/p>\n

3) I am currently reading an outstanding book entitled The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan<\/a>, by Eric Blehm. The publicist very kindly sent me a copy to review, the first such time that has happened. Now, I haven’t read far enough to do a proper book review yet, but my preliminary statement is: Go out and buy this book.<\/strong> Seriously, it will give you a depth of understanding about Hamid Karzai that you didn’t have before. I worked on Karzai’s protective detail for a while in Ghan, and talked to some of the DynCorps guys that had been his guards for a long time, so I already knew the guy was fearless, but this book will show you how brilliant he is too. If all you read is how corrupt the Karzai Gov’t is, and how they are untamable etc etc etc, go deeper into the story and read this. You’ll get a stronger appreciation of just what he faces over there, and how dedicated he is to creating a free Afghanistan. My key emotional feeling when reading it is shame that I wasn’t tough enough to make the SF, but so it goes. You guys seldom listen to me, but you really ought to purchase and digest this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, so TSO is feeling better today, I left my cranky pants at home. Nothing major … Odds and Ends<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}