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I ordered the NYPD Blue TV series for C company at Baghdad.

They had a deal on getting Seasons 1-3 for the price of 2 so I got the first three seasons.

I should be able to mail them out by this coming Saturday.

Noticed that I had already posted the email from Ramadi...I'm a bit dingy still from the flight home.

The fifth season of Smallville for A company came to me while I was in Texas, but I never got to the post office to mail the care package because of the unexpected medical news about Mother and the extra running around I had to do to get her a handicap placard and a photo ID so we could put her on a plane in November and bring her here to live with us, which took four days of bureaucracy battling.

Anyway, I put the care package in my luggage intending to mail it from here Monday, and when I got home I found that the TSA had drilled the lock on that suitcase and opened the care package to check it. I guess the jar of peanut butter in it made them nervous. I had bought it for Mom, and then found out she shouldn't have peanuts on her new restricted diet.

Probably the peanut butter alone wouldn't have scared them but my alarm clock and its wire for radio wave reception was the final freak out factor. (I had removed the batteries...)

I'll call the suitcase company and see if I can get a TSA approved lock from them to replace it or if that suitcase can't be repaired and is another victim of the war on terror. There was no TSA when I bought the luggage 25 years ago.

Thanks so much for all the Hallowe'en candy organizing. Let me know if your current personal chores make it hard for you to continue that. I'm not sure who's sending what to whom. If you let me know, I can help fill in any gaps as I am going to be sending some DVD's out and can fill boxes with candy.