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	TUMB 05/12 As Brownstone Agency is working out so well, James is thinking that he might want to develop his own BBQ restaurant. Not run it himself (he's not that good a cook), but still be able to go and putter in the kitchen if he wants. He liked the idea of having his own small barbeque kingdom.		TUMB 05/12 As Brownstone Agency is working out so well, James is thinking that he might want to develop his own BBQ restaurant. Not run it himself (he's not that good a cook), but still be able to go and putter in the kitchen if he wants. He liked the idea of having his own small barbeque kingdom.
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		+	TSONM 07/01 Married Shay during summer vacation, between books 6 and 7 of the series. It had been a simple, classy affair. The couple had looked happy. Their souls glowed with love and happiness for weeks afterwards.

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 '''Brownstone and Alison''': The bounty hunter had never intended to acquire a family. If anything, he figured someone as fucked-up as him should stay far away from other people, but now it was hard to remember what it had been like before Alison. Colder. Emptier. Lonelier. The fact that she was in his life gave him a reason to get up in the morning. (TUMB 04/1)
 '''Photographic memory''', and does not know the Ishidas. Always took notes of anything important. He didn’t need notes, but he couldn’t risk that some sort of injury or special magical attack might cost him that quality. A notebook represented a nice redundant intelligence source that he could always burn—and later reproduce.
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 TUMB 04/8 Asked Shay to investigate it for him, as he needed to know what its powers were, to better fight the Harriken assassins. Shay took pictures of it with a regular lens, and with a UV filter. Showed glyphs with a UV filter, which Shay could research in her Warehouse Four Library. Asked him about the language he had spoken when he was found. Mostly pops and clicks. Xhosa?(Africa) Remember anything about the jungle? Colors? Plants? Animals? Amulet?  It makes me tougher, improves my telekinesis, and...it hurts like fucking hell when I put it on. Does it make you stronger or faster otherwise? Still didn’t tell her about the voice whispering to him when he wore it. Shay went to her Warehouse Library, to look up the glyphs, which she had seen somewhere before. Found first reference in Sir Michael Garfield's expeditions to Egypt, where he had recorded similar glyphs, (1920) Found her second reference in ''Ancient Pyramids of Latin America''. Not Oriceran, maybe involving another planet.
 TUMB 04/11 Professor Armstrong, an academic archaeologist, confirms her theories, and recommends going to an Oriceran scholars, but but a number of historians and archaeologists who specialize more in that area have looked into these so-called Garfield Glyphs, and no one can link them to any existing or past Oriceran civilization. Seek an Oriceran scholar and see if they can help you.
-TUMB 05/20     Shay and Brownstone go to a small dig in Argentina, where Shay shows him glyphs that match the ones on his amulet. She has found the all over the world, but in different patterns in different locations. I collected all the data from the different locations and tried to figure out if there were any associations between the symbols and something about the location. The Japan trip finally helped the pieces of the puzzles slide into place. It is the locations themselves. Using algorithms to process seasonal variations along with the longitude and latitude of the different places, and putting that together with the symbols, I think I found out what they are trying to tell people. From what I can tell, these symbols are kind of an astronomical arrow. I think they point to the star system you’re from. “I figured it had to be in the '''star system Zeta Reticuli.'''” “Once I got going, though, the arrow wasn’t indicating that system at all. It’s somewhere in that general vicinity, but I still need to collect more information before I can narrow it down. It’s a big fucking galaxy
+TUMB 05/20     Shay and Brownstone go to a small dig in Argentina, where Shay shows him glyphs that match the ones on his amulet. She has found the all over the world, but in different patterns in different locations. I collected all the data from the different locations and tried to figure out if there were any associations between the symbols and something about the location. The Japan trip finally helped the pieces of the puzzles slide into place. It is the locations themselves. Using algorithms to process seasonal variations along with the longitude and latitude of the different places, and putting that together with the symbols, I think I found out what they are trying to tell people. From what I can tell, these symbols are kind of an astronomical arrow. I think they point to the star system you’re from. “I figured it had to be in the '''star system Zeta Reticuli.'''” “Once I got going, though, the arrow wasn’t indicating that system at all. It’s somewhere in that general vicinity, but I still need to collect more information before I can narrow it down. It’s a big fucking galaxy.''' Realize that Brownstone might well be an alien.'''
 TUMB 02/1 Never had a mother that he could remember. Believes that his life had gone south from the beginning.
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 Sesame Street was one of the few shows he’d been allowed to watch at the orphanage; that and old Fifties Lone Ranger episodes on DVD.
 Father Thomas’d had a soft spot for the show, but mostly he said television was a vast wasteland for the soul. As an adult, James didn’t disagree. He watched barbecue and cooking shows, but not much else. (TUMB 03/9)
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-Brownstone and Alison''': The bounty hunter had never intended to acquire a family. If anything, he figured someone as fucked-up as him should stay far away from other people, but now it was hard to remember what it had been like before Alison. Colder. Emptier. Lonelier. The fact that she was in his life gave him a reason to get up in the morning. (TUMB 04/1)
+'''Brownstone and Alison''': The bounty hunter had never intended to acquire a family. If anything, he figured someone as fucked-up as him should stay far away from other people, but now it was hard to remember what it had been like before Alison. Colder. Emptier. Lonelier. The fact that she was in his life gave him a reason to get up in the morning. (TUMB 04/1)
 '''Photographic memory''', and does not know the Ishidas. Always took notes of anything important. He didn’t need notes, but he couldn’t risk that some sort of injury or special magical attack might cost him that quality. A notebook represented a nice redundant intelligence source that he could always burn—and later reproduce.

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	TUMB 05/12 As Brownstone Agency is working out so well, James is thinking that he might want to develop his own BBQ restaurant. Not run it himself (he's not that good a cook), but still be able to go and putter in the kitchen if he wants. He liked the idea of having his own small barbeque kingdom.		TUMB 05/12 As Brownstone Agency is working out so well, James is thinking that he might want to develop his own BBQ restaurant. Not run it himself (he's not that good a cook), but still be able to go and putter in the kitchen if he wants. He liked the idea of having his own small barbeque kingdom.

−	~~'''~~TUMB 06/4 '''Personal Relationships''' Brownstone, being the OCD person he was, was cleaning house, surveying his side of the bathroom (all in order), and Shay’s side (a chaotic mess). Just then Alison called, just to check in, and he suddenly was aware that Shay and Alison filled a void in his soul he hadn’t even realized was there. His days before had been simpler but shallower, and all the barbeque in Las Vegas wasn’t enough to fill him with the satisfaction he felt now—not that he wouldn’t have minded a bounty or two.	+	TUMB 06/4 '''Personal Relationships''' Brownstone, being the OCD person he was, was cleaning house, surveying his side of the bathroom (all in order), and Shay’s side (a chaotic mess). Just then Alison called, just to check in, and he suddenly was aware that Shay and Alison filled a void in his soul he hadn’t even realized was there. His days before had been simpler but shallower, and all the barbeque in Las Vegas wasn’t enough to fill him with the satisfaction he felt now—not that he wouldn’t have minded a bounty or two.

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	TUMB 05/12 As Brownstone Agency is working out so well, James is thinking that he might want to develop his own BBQ restaurant. Not run it himself (he's not that good a cook), but still be able to go and putter in the kitchen if he wants. He liked the idea of having his own small barbeque kingdom.		TUMB 05/12 As Brownstone Agency is working out so well, James is thinking that he might want to develop his own BBQ restaurant. Not run it himself (he's not that good a cook), but still be able to go and putter in the kitchen if he wants. He liked the idea of having his own small barbeque kingdom.
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		+	'''TUMB 06/4 '''Personal Relationships''' Brownstone, being the OCD person he was, was cleaning house, surveying his side of the bathroom (all in order), and Shay’s side (a chaotic mess). Just then Alison called, just to check in, and he suddenly was aware that Shay and Alison filled a void in his soul he hadn’t even realized was there. His days before had been simpler but shallower, and all the barbeque in Las Vegas wasn’t enough to fill him with the satisfaction he felt now—not that he wouldn’t have minded a bounty or two.

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 Father McCartney always told him that he was part of God’s plan to fight evil, but he didn’t know what he believed.
-TUMB 06/9 '''Brownstone on sex and women''': He was a virgin—about the last thing he wanted to admit to two Marines and a cop.
+TUMB 05/9 '''Brownstone on sex and women''': He was a virgin—about the last thing he wanted to admit to two Marines and a cop.
 If sex was great, then it made more sense to spend a lot of time with one woman than fucking a hundred. Shay was still waiting for him to make a move and he hadn’t. Maybe she still thought he was gay, even if they were together. He didn’t know. Didn’t care. Sex would come when the time was right.
 “You light a piece of wood it burns, gives you coal, gives you ash. You talk to a woman, you have no fucking clue which way it will go.”
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 TUMB 05/2     Starts '''Brownstone Agency''', business to handle Low-level Bounties, so he doesn't have to. Trey and other gang members doing well with it.supports neighborhood, and gives young men somnething to look forward to.
-TUMB 06/12  As Brownstone Agency is working out so well, James is thinking that he might want to develop his own BBQ restaurant. Not run it himself (he's not that good a cook), but still be able to go and putter in the kitchen if he wants. He liked the idea of having his own small barbeque kingdom.
+TUMB 05/12  As Brownstone Agency is working out so well, James is thinking that he might want to develop his own BBQ restaurant. Not run it himself (he's not that good a cook), but still be able to go and putter in the kitchen if he wants. He liked the idea of having his own small barbeque kingdom.

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 TUMB 06/12  As Brownstone agency is working out so well, James is thinking that he might want to develop his own BBQ restaurant. Not run it himself (he's not that good a cook), but still be able to go and putter in the kitchen if he wants. He liked the idea of having his own small barbeque kingdom.
 ''Brownstone on BBQ flavors'' : You ordered the House Special ribs. Is Memphis style your favorite?” “I don’t know. I used to say Carolina styles, but now I don’t know. I’ve always loved all types of barbeque.”
 “Oh? Something change your mind about the Carolinas?”
 “All this Nadina stuff and a recent trip to Japan has got me thinking I shouldn’t limit myself that way. It’s like every time we taste barbeque, we’re tasting one tiny piece of the ultimate barbeque flavor but missing so much. Only by trying all possible barbeque can we approach knowing what the essence of true barbeque is.”

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 Father McCartney always told him that he was part of God’s plan to fight evil, but he didn’t know what he believed.
-TUMB 06/9 Brownstone on sex: He was a virgin—about the last thing he wanted to admit to two Marines and a cop.
+TUMB 06/9 Brownstone on sex and women: He was a virgin—about the last thing he wanted to admit to two Marines and a cop.
 If sex was great, then it made more sense to spend a lot of time with one woman than fucking a hundred. Shay was still waiting for him to make a move and he hadn’t. Maybe she still thought he was gay, even if they were together. He didn’t know. Didn’t care. Sex would come when the time was right.