Grandma Carter is one of the small number of American military veterans who have purposefully and deliberately shot down fellow Americans in order to protect her fellow Americans. When the survivors of Cannon Air Force Base’s brief but bloody civil war officially declared their alignment with the Republic of Texas, she had the highest number of combat kills of any Osprey pilot on the Old Mexican-American border. That made her a top pick to join the Texas offensive against the Mexican Drug Lords, where she racked up more aerial kills. She gunned down a lot of defense drones while delivering strike teams to some of the hottest landing zones in Old Mexico. And she shot down more than one drug runner making for the old border before all was said and done.
Grandma Carter only had three kids, making her a bit of an underperformer compared to the rest of the family. It was about the ONLY way she underperformed. She joined the Air Force back when it was still a thing and flew Ospreys transporting Special Forces teams throughout the brushfire wars that paved the way for the Second Great Depression. She was on Ready Five when the Second Civil War came for Cannon Air Force Base, and she took to the air rather quicker than five minutes. That was a good thing since the “black helicopter” team coming for her base commander was hot to trot and ready to shoot without warning. She took down eight “enemy” Ospreys in fifteen minutes and saved a lot of good people. That was not the end of her service.
I will be demoing BattleTech Alpha Strike this coming Friday, 5PM, at Gamez and More in Rochester Minnesota, on the west end of River Center Plaza across from Silver Lake Shopping Center on North Broadway. Come on over if you want to play a quick game or two of Alpha Strike. I bring everything needed to play, so just bring yourself.
I went to the Minnesota State Fair with a friend this weekend. It was a lot of fun. I walked every street in the fairgrounds, and actually managed to get out with only a little bit of pink on me. I wore a nice Hawaiian shirt, a good hat, blue jeans, and everything it took to keep me shielded from the sun, so my nice Scandinavian skin managed to survive the experience. I ate a lot of food on a stick, checked out a lot of exhibit halls, and did a lot of people watching. There were a lot of people to watch, and I now find myself rather well peopled out. It was a good time. I’m glad I went. And I’m glad I got back home where there are less people to do peoply things.
Grandma Carter came into the world ten years after her older siblings, and she decided it was her job to follow their example. The stories she tells are truly amazing. A boy could almost believe that Minnesota really was a land of wild animals and dangerous creatures back then. Where things that went bump in the night were actually trying to kill you. Personally, I think she just enjoys pulling the legs of impressionable young children. Like the boy I was back then. But Grandma Carter truly grew up cleaning and maintaining their weapons as the twins tracked down every report they got of animals attacking humans. They even went into Russian and Chinese territory. That kind of permission was hard to get back then, but it made them real world travelers.

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