His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
-James Joyce, The Dead
Tea is my drug of choice. My idea of a party is a rousingly good wargame with my friends. I finance my tea, miniature soldiers and book addiction by using chemistry to coat precision machined pieces of steel. I am recently retired from the Canadian Armed Forces after serving 15 years as a Cadet Instruction Cadre Officer developing the next generation of Canadians.