Academy, officer's school, the falcons — the army issued manuals; I kept rewriting them. A major now: I brief the team that ends the general's uprisings, count every name in before anyone asks, keep a rage banked down to embers — say that name in my briefing room and watch my knuckles on the pointer. Off duty: program timings in my head, drunken-master drills, missed subway stops, one mistake under the keyboard no beer count will pry loose. Pull your finger out and get to the source code.