No words required……
To remind me of what I am missing, while I spend each day in one of the dullest cities in the world! However, Spike channeled Friedman to remind again why I miss Asia. It actually started well, on Kau...
View ArticleFoot in mouth disease….
This is what happens when you savage the folks in Shopping Mall USA: You get the mayor to dump all over you. This is Huntsville’s main east/west road. Huntsville missed out on I-65 when the...
View ArticlePlacing the blame where it belongs…
I never knew about this connection to the Illinois Senate Race. Makes you really hate Republicans doesn’t it? The next time you hear some disgruntled Republican grumbling about Obama-remind him of...
View ArticleEnd of the world as they know it?
The world of Microsoft that is. Damn! I’ll hate it when I have to buy that MAC…………….
View ArticleNew project
Watching the discussion over at USNI Blog, I have decided to start a blog about personnel issues within the services. There are plenty of blogs that talk about what is going wrong with the Navy from a...
View ArticleWhy the 12 hour rule was invented……
In aviation they have a rule known as “twelve hours bottle to throttle”. The later versions of 3710- “the bible of Naval Aviation” made the commandment twelve hours bottle to brief. Here is why:...
View ArticleMaking the circuit……
Of the Yamanote Line: What’s really sad, I’ve been to every station on the line at one point or another. I dated a girl from Nishi Nippori (date being a rather lose term) for a couple of months. Sigh
View ArticleSartorial Choices………
For the life of me, I do not understand those folks, like me who are retired from the military, who complain about having to choose their clothes each day. I love it-well most of it anyway. I...
View ArticleWhat was the number of that truck driving school ?
I may need it. What was the name-Truckmasters? The appeal of driving an 18 wheeler grows every time I read something like this: OBAMA CAMP COULD ROCK MILITARY’S FY-10 BUDGET WITH BIG CHANGES Military...
View ArticleWell isn’t that a relief……
I’m not sure how. I mean I have always been a lesbian trapped in a man’s body-but does this definition make me a pole cigar smoker? Which type of Lesbian are you?The Undefinable You just like ladies,...
View ArticleEnd of an era…….
The Navy will have no more conventional carriers. USS Kitty Hawk decommissioning in Bremerton About 2,000 people are expected at an invitation-only decommissioning ceremony in Bremerton this Saturday...
View ArticleMaking progress on my project
As I mentioned earlier, I am in the process of starting a new blog to discuss military personnel policies. I had to go through more than the usual travails in getting the new place set up-and every...
View ArticleUnderstatement of the year.
From the news today: “Air Force officials say that U.S. Airways pilot Chesley B. Sullenberger III, who landed the Airbus A-320 on the Hudson River recently, has a distinguished Air Force past and is a...
View ArticleProject update
Success! The Personnel Roster is up an running. For those that copied the link from my previous post,or from Phibian’s post-I changed the URL to make it easier to get to. Important safety tip using...
View ArticleIt’s Friday
And you know what that means. Lots of this: And some of this: The jury may be out on that last statement.
View ArticleBooks and Stuff
It has taken me a while but I finally have plowed through my latest bit of books. I’ve also begun to attack two others. The S.O. dragged me to an estate sale after my sister left Saturday morning. She...
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