No connectivity/TGM…

Is not necessarily a bad thing… 🙂 Spent the last week with for all practical purposes no connectivity due to work. And honestly it was kinda nice to NOT have to worry about jumping on the net and trying to … Continue reading

The detritus of aviation history…

Or another one of those things most people never see… Just a weird looking fabric hangar sitting off the end of a runway… Except for a little plaque outside the door…Kauai is the home of one of the busiest test … Continue reading

Russian Forts in Hawaii…

Fort Elisabeth at Waimea, Kauai… See the link above for more details. But the twist is, this was a RUSSIAN fort! Built around 1815, occupied until 1817 then finally ‘destroyed’ in 1864… Looking out over the approach to Waimea From … Continue reading

Willie…

Is playing my song again… Sigh… In lieu of real content, I give you Jace and his ‘horsie’… Vito’s got that long suffering look, “Mommy, there’s this BIG tick on my back, can you get it off PLEASE!”  🙂 Gonna … Continue reading

Road trippin’…

Taking a weekend off and getting the @#$*$^ out of NOVA for a few days… Go read the folks on the sidebar. I found a couple of pics for your ‘enjoyment’! I would question the ‘order’… But… 🙂 And the … Continue reading

All good things…

Must come to an end… One more bag drag and it’s back to the home 20 and reality of working for the man. While it’s great to see the kids, they are now grown (they sure as hell aren’t 12 … Continue reading

Recalculating…

There’s lost, there’s really LOST, and wherethefukarewe… I ‘won’ the third one last night… Make ONE simple wrong turn in central Naha, and you can end up so far down the rat hole, there IS no light… I swear I … Continue reading

Woo Hoo…

TWO good meals this trip…  And a trip down memory lane for those old Okinawa hands (Juvat, MSgtB, OldAFSarge, Frito, Woody, et al)… Sam’s Anchor Inn one night for teppanyaki and all the trimmings! Now I ‘know’ I stuck that … Continue reading

Apologies…

In my current location the Intarwebz connection SUCKS… I think we have about 90 rooms sharing ONE access point… It only seems to work for more than about 10 minutes as a time between 0400-0600 local. AND a bunch of … Continue reading

A little patience please…

I’m still working through some issues with the whole captcha thing and trying to get comments out of the spam folder and through the moderation folder into comments. If you don’t see your comment it is because I probably haven’t … Continue reading