Hello, my name is Jack

by on December 6, 2014 at 12:01 am
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We played all over Minnesota, Ontario, and Manitoba for years. We played in everything from ice castles to sandy beaches and I learned to love the sound of a crackling bonfire. It made my day to sing and play with the sand between my toes. And if you’re crazy enough to live in northern Minnesota or central Canada, you are crazy enough to party outside in the middle of January just to show you are stronger than those southern sissies who think 0 degrees is cold. That’s t-shirts and shorts weather where I come from.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on December 5, 2014 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The long-joked about Great Firewall of China gave them an advantage when the networks first began to fracture. Russia’s Quantum Curtain slammed into place soon thereafter, though nowhere near as effective then as it is today. Even South America, the various Islamic alliances, and most non-aligned nations put their own firewalls into place and the worldwide communication possible when the century began ceased to exist.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on December 4, 2014 at 12:01 am
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The Korean War had once again turned to the favor of the United Nations forces and even the combined forces of China and North Korea could not stop the northern tide of war. That was when China asked for aid from Russia and that aid came in the form of Russian air force and anti-air divisions. That signaled a new phase in the war. No longer was it merely a fight for the destiny of a single small nation. The Cold War between the socialist and capitalist ideologies had begun.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on December 3, 2014 at 12:01 am
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We performed country music mostly, making that my first time running into cowboy boots. Man alive, the first time I wore those on stage I couldn’t walk right for a day afterwards. Julie said they were better than high heels. If so, I have no idea why ladies wear those torture machines. But I got used to the cowboy boots. Made it a lot easier to adjust when I joined the Republic of Texas Marine Corps a decade or so down the road…

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on December 2, 2014 at 12:01 am
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We entered the Twenty First Century with boundless enthusiasm and faith in our ability to control the technologies we had created. The Second Cold War, the Second Great Depression, and the Islamic Jihad changed all of that. Hackers and AIs from every nation dueled with each other for control of the networks. Systems burned out in the wars, and the Great Firewalls began to separate us as completely as the oceans and mountains of previous centuries had.

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