Happy Hour

"IF A LIFETIME CAN BE LIKENED TO A DAY, THEN THIS IS HAPPY HOUR!"
BUCK PENNINGTON

Mother, Mother Ocean

Mother, Mother Ocean, I've heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
In your belly you hold the treasures, few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred year's too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

Yoda

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

Counted the Stars

Counted the stars on the 4th of July
Wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind
I have these pictures and I keep these photographs
To remind me of a time
These pictures and these photographs
Let me know I'm doin' fine
We used to be so happy once upon a time
Once upon a time
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
And the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line


""SOME SEE A GLASS AS HALF FULL, SOME SEE IT AS HALF EMPTY, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO’S DRINKING MY RUM."
Rumbear

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Summer. Here. Now.

If you scroll down to the bottom of ORPO to my weather thingie, you will notice that it is a balmy, pleasant 103 degrees! Tomorrow it is forecast to hit 105. The flight line should be interesting to say the least. Concrete. Reflecting. Got a large water bottle. We have two flyers for sure. One of them is mine. I would prefer the early one but my jet is on the schedule and it is a later go.
Hot. Desert Wind. Hot.

3 comments:

Parrothead Jeff said...

Keep cool out there, Glenn! I feel your pain - we're supposed to really warm up soon, too ;-)

MUD said...

Spent one August at Fort Irwin. I spent a lof ot that time as a safety officer with a 175 Gun Battery training for Vietnam. Drank more water than I could believe possible. Then a shower, a short nap and Beer. Great life of a single young officer in the desert.

Buck said...

The last thing my Ol' Man told me before I left for Lackland was "stay away from airplanes." And he was right: there's NO such thing as a comfortable flight line, it's either too hot or too cold, and sometimes it's both, in the same day.

But God love ya for what you do. Someone has to do it... I'm just glad it ain't ME.

I will not go down and tell my children I didn't have the courage, the conviction, the commitment or the character to fight for this country...Don't go home and let your children down~~ LTC Allen West

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

‎"Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.("Therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war")" from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)