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Going the Distance to Achieve a Dream

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Shelburne Fall, Massachusetts in Mid-April during shooting of Dexter Season 9 - (view from Iron Bridge) I have to preface this story by introducing the significance of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. I have been visiting this beautiful small town since the early 80's.  My father was born in the area and grew up there and my grandparents and uncles lived in the area before then.  That alone makes it an important place in my world, but having visited and experienced this town like it was my own second-hometown for decades solidified it as a significantly special locale. GOING THE DISTANCE TO ACHIEVE A DREAM . . . Standing on Iron Bridge in a scene for Dexter S9      I n this case "the distance" is literal and figurative... There are so many types of goals, long term goals you dream about for years or even decades - work towards and try your damnedest to achieve and then there are smaller simpler plans that become goals that you work into your every day. This one w...
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2020: Real Results - More Gray AND Less Hair!

  I got gas in my car for the first time in 7 months today.   I put only 301 miles on my car from mid-March 2020 to October 13 th 2020… [My wife and I have been using her car for some drives, but we’ve probably only filled her car up about 4 or 5 times in that same period.]   The bottom line is, we’ve traveled very little, gone very few places.   We have had more time together than ever before, so that’s a blessing mixed into a very difficult and mentally-damaging year.   As parents we do our best to shield our son from the exhaustion and frustration, disappointments and fears that have befallen so many in 2020, but he still knows what’s going on – I think that’s a good thing, maybe he’ll be going to college when he’s 15 – sadly it may be virtual so he’ll still be ‘making friends’ with spiders and birds… I needed to get gas in my car because I was asked to be at the office for only the 3 rd time since March – nearly everyone else returned to the office we...
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The Prague Antiquities Operation

In the back room of an old tailor's shop in the Czech Republic City of Prague, Agent Destiny Robbins sat at a video monitor for 12 hours a day. It had been her first foreign assignment and was meant to be more of a training experience than anything else. She had become familiar with art and antiques because of her interest in history.   She was selected for this specific job because of her knowledge of antique furniture. It seemed a strange job, but she was working for the Domestic Protection Group and could not have asked for more at that point in her career. The video monitor was a live feed of a pawn shop called “Darček.” There was a high-end operation of thieves stealing furniture and reselling it to fund terrorism. While she was operating outside of the United States, the case was immediately related to domestic security because there was a large level of intelligence that suggested the funds were supporting terror cells within the U.S.   They would remove the p...
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