Okay, so it occurs to me that I am not much of a writer in the technical sense. In fact I don't think I am much of a writer no matter how you dice it, but I seem to get credit from people for being a pretty good story teller. I hear "Tell the one about when you and the hooker had to split cab fair home from the cemetery and you ended up pushing the cab in the snow" a lot, and I promise I will tell that story another day. I am a firm believer in keeping a card up your sleeve, so just when things start to feel slow around here it is hooker story time (and in her defense she may not have been a hooker, but if I were a betting man....). I certainly hope that you folks enjoy what I have to say in spite of the spelling errors, punctuation oversight and the obvious grammatical shortcomings (mind you they are not obvious to me or I'd correct them). The sad fact is that I write what I write, then I edit it, spellcheck it, sometimes have a co-worker or friend read it over then post it. Then often edit it maybe 3 or so more times, usually this is rapid-fire. Like 3 or so edits in the first 20 minutes after I post the entry. So what I am trying to say is that the crap I ask you to read is the product of a considerable amount of blood, sweat, and editing. In the end what this says is I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, and in fact I might be as sharp and honed to a razors edge as a beach ball.

On the other hand readership is going up, our numbers are exciting, I am still always impressed by the global readership (both France, Nova Scotia, and Austria so far today) and of course the loyal readers here in the States. I only really know they are loyal because some are friends of The Warfare, some leave comments (again THANKS for that), and I see some cities on the list more than once a week and in some cases I can't imagine we have more than one reader in said city. Oklahoma City is one, I like to believe it is in fact Clay Bennett that is stopping by trying to keep abreast of the pulse of Seattle. Clay, if that is you reading, good luck with your team and I hope someone mails you an unexploded surplus mine from French Indochina. Mind you I want that mine to stay unexploded, I no longer want Clay dead but I would like his office building to be evacuated along with his bowels.

That brings me to the quote I used as the title, it is from The Wire, episode 1 of Season 5. I hadn't seen but one episode of Season 5 yet, but am totally addicted to the show and have waited far too long for Blockbuster to get its act together. Even what I saw of the first episode was just like half of it on my ipod. I recently joined Netflix since I can now stream movies right to my xbox360 and the first few slots of my queue are just The Wire Season 5. In that episode a grizzled old school newspaper editor pulls aside one of the new reporters and asks about a fire, the youngster explains that 116 (I think that was the number) people were evacuated. The editor explains that "you can evacuate a building, but to evacuate a person is to give them an enema". That line stood out since although I enjoy writing I am absolutely the one the editors would have to talk to about the differences between "their", "they're", and "there" (Yes I know their implies ownership, they're is an abreviation for they are, and there generally refers to a place or a point in a conversation or the like, BUT when I get to typing I'm like the Tazmanian Devil and all rules go out the window), my clear overuse of parethesis (what can I say I love them), and of course how "...you can evacuate a building, but to evacuate a person is to give them an enema". If you evacuate a person due to a fire you now have two problems on your hands, literally.

So all seems to be good at Warfare HQ, as per the norm we have big plans on the horizon, and if we would stop drinking away our start up money we would have product for you now. Be patient when this land mine goes it's going to be big, big, big.