>>507788894
thanks summaryanon. Good to have you back.

>>507031160
I have to go out networking so I can pay my bills.
Somebody call or text me if there's a happeing.
I'll leave you with this to contemplate:

Then the sound came, a long, deep, powerful rumble increasing in
crescendo until the windows rattled, cups danced in their saucers, and
the bar glasses rubbed rims and tinkled in terror. The sound slowly
ebbed, then boomed to a fiercer climax, closer.

Randy found himself on his feet, throat dry, heart pounding. This was
not the season for thunder, nor were storms forecast. Nor was this
thunder. He stepped out onto the upstairs porch. To his left, in the
east, an orange glow heralded the sun. In the south, across the Timucuan
and beyond the horizon, a similar glow slowly faded. His sense refused
to accept a sun rising and a sun setting. For perhaps a minute the
spectacle numbed reaction.

What had jolted Randy from sleep—he would not learn all the facts for a
long, a very long time after—were two nuclear explosions, both in the
megaton range, the warheads of missiles lobbed in by submarines.