If I haven’t said it before, having a membership in an airline club is worth it’s weight in gold… In this day and age of packed flights, delays, etc. That club membership CAN pay off multiple times over… In the … Continue reading
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Pretty good (and short) video of the P-8 from Farnborough Airshow… Biggest ‘real’ selling point to the aircrew??? A working toilet… 😉 Screw all the rest of the stuff… THAT is what counts! h/t JP … Continue reading
Grumble… Anybody that thinks travel is fun is @#$*& nuts!!! PER to SYD today, shoehorned into the back (and I DO mean back) of the bus… Row 54 middle. The two guys either side of me were BIG! We had … Continue reading
Sigh… There really ARE people that have more money than sense… Solid Teak four poster bed with two solid teak night stands… $4500 US!!! And it’s not even a queen size!!! Apparently you CAN get a queen or king made, … Continue reading
South Dakotan sculptor John Lopez creates life-sized scrap metal sculptures with a uniquely Western American twist. In his hands, old discarded farm equipment is recycled into sculptures of iconic creatures from the American West like a bison, a horse plowing … Continue reading
Some days are just NOT fun… And this Monday was one of them… Little sleep, long meetings and WAY too much coffee… Instant coffee at that… Note to self, BRING GOOD COFFEE next time… Just trying to hang on a … Continue reading
Snuck out yesterday and had lunch with Julie and her family. We met at a nice little local winery and had some nice little lunch ‘plates’ that we shared among the table. I passed along greetings from the usual suspects, … Continue reading
This one HAD to have come from California… When you go read the first petition, just think about what it would do for those of us who believe in training our children… It would make us felons!!! https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/enact-child-and-firearms-safety-act-establishing-minimum-age-18-handle-fire-or-possess-firearm/lMw7Fh71 Consider signing … Continue reading
Civilians kicked in an tremendous amount of money in the form of War Bonds to support WWII, there were at least seven bond drives, and the one I could find info on, the 2nd bond drive, raised $13,000,000,000 dollars. They … Continue reading
This is simply an amazing story… It is the story of Louis Zamperini, from his childhood through his running the 1500M at the Olympics, but the real guts of the story is that of he and his pilot surviving ditching … Continue reading