So I come home from work and begin my daily morning ritual (shower, Skyrim, morning news check), and lo and behold, I catch sight of a headline on msn.com (my default homepage since I use Hotmail, now Outlook): "Author Tom Clancy dies at 66". And for a moment, my brain just kinda shuts down.

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This is just a quick hello to any lost soul that happens to wander onto this page. I'm a bit of a social recluse and I've yet to realize the size of the hole I've dug for myself by even putting something up on this site, so if you act now you may be able to trap me! I've been told that new, fresh-off-the-press books on various historical subjects do the trick quite nicely at times...

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