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Some of the most recent developments in my family’s life:

My son is now a full-fledged college graduate (double, actually: he already had an associate’s degree, and has completed his bachelor’s), and has been hired by a Canadian company to work in China. When did we turn into international people?

My daughter is talking with Army recruiters. She has to lose a considerable amount of weight, but her preliminary aptitude scores show that she could choose almost any of the various military occupational specialties. My hope, with which she appears to be in agreement, is that she can join my own Reserve unit and accompany me on what will almost certainly be my final deployment.

Once we finished with the Army recruiters, my daughter’s visiting friend from Ireland (and now sorta-semi-boyfriend), put in a preliminary inquiry with the Marine recruiters at the station next door. No immediate decisions, but definite possibilities.

And my wife, after three previous attempts (one of which bulked almost 83,000 words), has finished and posted an Army Wives fanfic, “A Turn on the Floor”. This is the first fic she’s ever put out for public viewing, and I strongly encourage all my LJfriends to visit, read, and comment.

And that’ll do it for now.