• Never underestimate the utility of intercepting someone outside the men’s room when you desperately need information or a decision and they desperately need to get in the men’s room.
• It takes a very special woman to let her husband go out and play Jihad Joe on Valentines Day.  Luckily,  I have just such a wife.
• A sliver of moon and the stars provided plenty of illumination to not knock myself silly or break my leg last night.  This may be the first time I’ve come back from night-time training without a self-induced bruise.
• Fire hot.  Fire from exploding junked-out car very hot and loud.
• Zip ties are a great way to control someone’s arms and gives the person holding the prisoner an easy handle for when they want the prisoner to move.
  • One note – When using zip ties as a handle to pull a prisoner up to his feet, make sure you don’t grab the end of the zip tie that pulls it tighter.  Lifting a big Norwegian up by that end of the zip tie will make his wrist and hand turn all sorts of really cool colors.
  • Note to self – cut off the zip tie before going into the Stop-n-Stab.  It makes the clerk nervous when you walk in wearing a pair on your right wrist half an hour past midnight.
  • Note to self – send note to manager of the Stop-n-Stab thanking him for his employee’s help with a pair of stout scissors to remove said zip ties.
  • Note to self – Find the pocket knife that is supposed to be in the truck.
• Did I mention that I have a wonderful wife?  She waited up for me, gave me a hug when I came home smelling like burnt rubber, and even made me a snack before we went to bed.
• Wake-up time came way too early this morning.

Update – One I forgot but which kicked over my giggle box last night:

• When detonating left-over pyrotechnics, it might be a good idea to check the port-a-potties underneath them to make sure that young ladies are not using them.