A hot day with still air, I poured gas on a brush pile and opened the valve on an old propane tank, the brush pile was slightly up hill from a wall and I was between the wall and brush pile in what amounted to a large cloud of mixed gas vapors.

I lit my zippo, I realized I fucked up when I saw the horror on my wife’s face and at that moment I understood how much she needed me and I had better try to live through this.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me… (Sonnet 14)

If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love’s sake only. Do not say, “I love her for her smile—her look—her way Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day”— For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may Be changed, or change for thee—and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry: A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby! But love me for love’s sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love’s eternity.

The autistic person in me who has spent days trying to figure out how to get troops into Iran without insane losses kinda wants to see how this plays out.

But I can’t find a “good” way to accomplish the task, so I’m really hoping it doesn’t come down to it.

So far the only way I see it being done without extensive US casualties, calls for completely destroying Iran’s energy network and waiting for them to capitulate and that will come with enormous loss of civilian lives.

I hope I’m wrong or that we find a diplomatic solution.

That’s what we would do normally, insert a relatively small group on the airport, take control then bring in all the other troops. But Iran isn’t stupid so they have covered the runways with shit. Dropping guys on it would be risky and it would be very hard to clear with a small force.

There is probably something I am missing but I don’t see a good way to get troops on the ground.

Edit: I have spent the day looking at this the only viable solution I see is send cruise missiles to completely knock out the electric system while also sending in a massive air asualt, but then you have the issue of staging all the choppers somewhere.

This is going to be a nightmare.

Can’t take the airport because it is literally a parking lot, Can’t realy stage forces anywhere, without them eating drones and rockets so it’s either a drop or beach landing.

I can see Hegseth pushing for a drop so his name would be tied to an historic event.

But God damn I don’t envy the guys that jump.

You know what’s cool about bunkers? They have fresh air intakes.

You know what’s cool about me? I know how to use expanding foam insulation.

I once thought people who corrected spelling without being asked were just pompous twits. Then I read a paper that explained how people with low reading comprehension have trouble parsing sentences with spelling errors, so now I feel sorry for them.

I told my now wife everything as it came up, I never hid anything from her. Also I had already cut ties to almost all of my family.

When people tell me " your parents raised you right" I respond with " no the family dogs did most of the raising, my parents served as a bad example"