Jesse

by on March 16, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Jesse James retired after War’s End. He took two decades of wages and winnings and anything else he could scavenge and went back to Kansas to rebuild his farm. Many of his people retired with him. They’d all seen a lot of things they wanted to forget, and he built an extra-large farmhouse for them. Basically a Cowboy Country of his own, where his people are always welcome. The rest of us can come too, but I always feel like a visitor there. Dawn on the other hand, that girl spends more time on the farm than she does back home on Camelot. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that her home is Kansas now. Jesse’s never complained about it, let me tell you. A more unlikely pairing I have rarely seen, but they still work well together.

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Jesse

by on March 15, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Jesse James and his minions became our primary team for dealing with shady operations during the Hyades Campaign. If we thought someone was dirty, we called him to let out some rope and see who grabbed it. His team became the best little firecrackers we had when it came to searching out conspiracies and connecting with the various gangs and mafias and whatnots that often ran the streets. It was those extracurricular activities that they became known for. And if I’m being honest, Jesse and his minions really were the trendsetters when it came to the whole bad boy reputation my Cowboys got credited with. Not that I ever tried to pull him back, you understand. I joined in the festivities myself whenever I could. We all did. It was great fun, and it was effective. Jesse was amazing at mixing the two as often as possible.

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Cancer

by on March 14, 2022 at 12:01 am
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My mom has been doing the cancer thing for a while now. She did breast cancer a couple decades ago. Skin cancer five years ago. Blood and bone cancer last year. And this year she has skin camcer again, though it is on the inside.

The Mayo Clinic gave her a couple new drugs that kick cancers behind good and fast and brought mom back to normal. Able to walk and use the computer again. And cook. Everything. But one of the possible side effects is reducing neart function. Guess which sode effect she got.

So they took her off that a month ago to let her heart rest, and then put her on another drug. Side effects? Among others, long term bad headaches and confusion of the mind. So now mom’s pain levels are going up, plus she has bad headaches, and she cant concentrate.

So today we have an all day run at the Clinic for tests and consultation. Time to talk to the doctor and get another plan in action. Because this one doesn’t work.

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Jesse

by on March 13, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Jesse James was rather unique in the time leading up to the Hyades Cluster campaign. His cybernetic intelligence had taken on a physical avatar in direct contravention of all United States military regulations. He encouraged her because of the nature of many of their missions, and Dawn DeMarco’s cyber followed her example. The number of weapons they could carry into a questionable situation was impressive. We Cowboys “did not notice” what they were doing at the time, and that quartet was so successful at completing their missions that the military brass “forgot to inform themselves” of the matter when the information absolutely did not come to their attention. The Fox and his minions truly did stand a great many policies and regulations on their heads. And many of the things we later did in the Hyades Cluster were a direct result of their actions before it.

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Jesse

by on March 12, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Jesse James led some of the most interesting Cowboy operations before the Hyades Cluster captured all of our attentions. Part of that was because Dawn DeMarco pulled him into all kinds of associations that a Kansas farmer would normally never see. He learned how to dress up in the highest fashions and mingle with the richest of Familyborn humanity from her, and it made them a perfect team for dealing with that crowd. I can’t tell you how many planetary governors or other rich and powerful members of society they brushed hips with at planetary balls, or how many they arrested for embezzling War funding. Seriously. Can’t tell you. Still classified. But they were instrumental in the effort to fund the rallying of the fleets at Sunnydale so we could launch against the Hyades Cluster.

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