Another upside of this trip is I finally got to meet Everett from Island Voice in real space. We’ve been emailing and going back and forth for about 4 years. He’s another old retired Navy guy, from Block Island, RI.
Have you ever had a mental picture of someone, and had it be dead on??? Everett (in my mind) was going to be a typical retired Chief; Crusty, curmudgeon, and a character…
AND HE WAS, to a damn T!!! 🙂
We grabbed lunch and compared notes over our careers, finding we were in the same places (but at different times), and both of us had ‘unusual’ careers. Turns out he is also one hellva historian about Block Island, and and shooter too!
Ev doesn’t post a lot, or email a lot, because of carpal tunnel but he doesn’t sugar coat anything in either of the comms 🙂
Sadly they don’t have any ranges on Block Island because of all the “@#@#&^” tourists (you can fill in that blank), so if they want to shoot, it’s a full day trip to go to a range on the mainland. It was a fun interlude before having to get back to business.
In other news, Double Trouble’s cannon was a bit smokey, but I didn’t think it was THAT smokey, however photos DO affirm… See the red circle below 🙂
Have you ever had a mental picture of someone, and had it be dead on??? Everett (in my mind) was going to be a typical retired Chief; Crusty, curmudgeon, and a character…
AND HE WAS, to a damn T!!! 🙂
We grabbed lunch and compared notes over our careers, finding we were in the same places (but at different times), and both of us had ‘unusual’ careers. Turns out he is also one hellva historian about Block Island, and and shooter too!
Ev doesn’t post a lot, or email a lot, because of carpal tunnel but he doesn’t sugar coat anything in either of the comms 🙂
Sadly they don’t have any ranges on Block Island because of all the “@#@#&^” tourists (you can fill in that blank), so if they want to shoot, it’s a full day trip to go to a range on the mainland. It was a fun interlude before having to get back to business.
In other news, Double Trouble’s cannon was a bit smokey, but I didn’t think it was THAT smokey, however photos DO affirm… See the red circle below 🙂
And this is probably a once in a lifetime shot… NASA 911 and 905 in “formation” as much as two 747’s can fly formation… These two airplanes are what transported the shuttles back and forth over the years.
I’m trying the timed post thing again, so I’ll see if I’ve got it figured out… This thing is supposed to post at 1430 tomorrow… I’m off to bed.
It worked!
Nice post and nice timing, you will have to teach me that!!
Timing worked!
Love that schedule option! I usually have stuff racked up a couple days ahead now, and just reschedule when something else pops up.
Gah… it worked but where in the hell did the white background come from… Dammit… one thing right, two things wrong…
North/Keads- thanks
Danny- Thanks, look at posting options at the bottom of the post and select schedule, then go to town
PH- I’ve tried that but the post actually flops up BEHIND the current post if I interrupt the sequence.
Watched the first Shuttle carrier being converted at Boeing field. My employer had offices on East Marginal Way. Interesting stuff. The YC-14 was parked across the street. Next door was a Kenworth plant. We had excess warehouse space that we leased to Boeing. Lots of anonymous wrapped pallets coming and going.
Least fun part was getting Boeing to pay their bills. Their bean counters believed in just in time, as in, just before court ordered seizure.
Ha!
That “smoke” pic is a hoot.
I better use a little less powder…
WSF- Yep they are ‘notorious’ slow payers… But God forbid you wait 30 days to pay them…
DT- That one was just TOO good to pass up… 🙂
I like the random things posts. Always excellent.
“Have you ever had a mental picture of someone, and had it be dead on???”
You look at him every time you shave! 😉
Like the 747 pix indeed!
BZ
Um, I’m one of those “@#@#&^” tourists, I love Block Island.
I’ll show myself out.
ADM- Thanks!
Weer’d- Don’t know if that is a compliment or a curse 🙂
BZ- This is the only one I’ve ever seen of both of them airborne at the same time.
Mrs. C- YOU are a class act, not like the ones he was describing… And knowing you, if you heard shots, you’d be going “Can I shoot it?” 🙂
Well Mrs. Crankiepants, show yourself right back in and stop by my abode next time you are out this way. I’ll treat you to one of those lunches like NFO ‘made me eat”!! Ask any taxi driver how to get here or look me up in the book under Littlefield.
Jim, sorry about usurping your thread here, but it never ceases to amaze me to learn the locations,generally, of a lot of your respondents!