Actually, quite well written. And if you can handle the third person like that, then step on over to alt.callahans on Usenet, the best (virtual) Irish pub you'll find. We all tend to talk at some point in the third person, speaking from the point of view of the character we adopt when we step into the Place. (Technically Callahan's Place, because the Place was two bars later, after Callahan's was nuked on the Night of the Cockroach. Read the books of Spider Robinson for a fuller explanation.) As for the blankets, such methods of "acquisition" are quite traditional in such places as the Army; sometimes you just need to get that jeep, you know....