[OT] Aussie Fires, Fiery Atkinson, etc....

1) Someone compared combat to firefighting. 
Both have paratroops and bombers too - 
many a Smoke Jumper knows all about Final 
Protective Fire (or in their case, Fire Retardant). 
And both combat and firefighting take a lot of 
guts to go at time after time. Firefighters and 
cops and EMS types all too often don't get 
enough credit for the amazing job they do! 

As someone who lived in Northern Ontario 
during some key fire seasons (missed school 
trips, nearly had to evacuate, etc), I can 
empathize with what is happening in Oz right 
now. Lots of rain and low winds is what I'll be 
praying for.... 

2) John A, I look forward to posting some of 
what we discussed (re:engineers) and some 
other stuff we talked about too, in due time 
(have to assimilate the engineering FMs that 
you pointed me at and laserlight burnt). 

It takes a while to produce content (even if the 
only excercise is format translation and making 
it look nice from prior information), and I have 
a whole pile halfway produced.... (the story of 
my life). I just got a Digital Camera, so now 
some building and photos are a must - then 
you'll REALLY have something to see (no, I'll 
resist the urge to put up pictures of my own 
magnificent visage...). 

As it is, I've added some book reviews and a 
scenario over the last couple of days. I'm 
working on a second scenario in the 
background now..... 

3) Owen, thanks for your Orbats. And thanks to 
Rick Rutherford for some of his work. As we get 
these edited to fit our format, we'll post them 
with due attributions.

4) When John was talking about Mithrasan 
Bloodpits, I kept thinking of Magic:The 
Bilking(TM) - that sounds like the name of a 
magic card (or should be one!). 

5) Alan, nice piece (well, nice isn't the right 
word....) about the Russians in Chechnya. That 
was just a lovely little war.... 

:) Tomb
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Thomas Barclay
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