Archive for April, 2008

Serious Thought For The Week

April 28, 2008

If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a big weapon and a friend with a big weapon.

Serious Thought For The Week

April 19, 2008

If god wanted us sober, he’d knock the glass over…

This Is Your Wakeup Call(s)

April 18, 2008

(As well as additional proof that I’m a Sweet Guy)
Wakeup calls this morning seemed to come pretty regular - and repeatedly - and early.
First call from Charles Richter at 4:36 AM was enough to get us all up and going as his call coordinated shaking of our bed with Nan’s jumping up and turning on [...]

Take a Ludovician to Lunch Day

April 11, 2008

This will have to be a short post, as I have to get out and buy a supply of AAA batteries for the tape recorders I am using in my non-divergent conceptual loop. I should probably replenish our supply of Tylenol while I’m at it, too.
Yesterday I read Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts.
I started [...]

Crosswind Component

April 8, 2008

In my pilot’s logbook, dated 16 October 2004, is the Clint Eastwood of logbook entries. It simply says: Poker Run, winds 270 at 25 - gusts to 34
Here’s what it doesn’t say.
It doesn’t say that I arrived at my hangar at Carbondale airport early that Saturday morning and preflighted the Acro Sport in preparation to [...]

I need a temperature thingy

April 6, 2008

It’s supposed to be Spring, and yet I’m sitting here typing this instead of riding the Aprilia or flying the Acro Sport, both being activities I have planned for today.
I have never liked cold weather, and the older I get the less tolerant of it I am. I don’t even like chilly and come to [...]

*Sigh*

April 1, 2008