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

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Morning Bike Ride

After 8 miles this morning. It is a bright and sunny day in The Kern County Desert.
The BP was 121/77 after the shower and other tasks for going to work.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

From the Old AF Sarge.
And so they gathered
It does tug at the heart......................................
A group of friends, no that's not strong enough, a family gathered...

One of these days................................I gotta make it to one...........................
The link will take you to the full post at http://oldafsarge.blogspot.com/

Friday, October 18, 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013

ND farmer finds oil spill while harvesting wheat

Found this on Yahoo this evening. It is an amazing world we live in these days.
http://news.yahoo.com/nd-farmer-finds-oil-spill-while-harvesting-wheat-050659313.html

A North Dakota farmer who discovered an oil spill the size of seven football fields while out harvesting wheat says that when he found it, crude was bubbling up out of the ground.
Farmer Steve Jensen says he smelled the crude for days before the tires on his combines were coated in it. At the apparent break in the Tesoro Corp.'s underground pipeline, the oil was "spewing and bubbling 6 inches high," he said in a telephone interview Thursday.
In this Oct. 8, 2013 photo provided by the North Dakota Health Department, a vacuum trucks cleans up oil in near Tioga, N.D. The North Dakota Health Department says more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil have spewed out of a Tesoro Corp. oil pipeline in a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota. Officials say the 20,600-barrel spill, among the largest recorded in the state, was discovered on Sept. 29 by a farmer harvesting wheat about nine miles south of Tioga. (AP Photo/North Dakota Health Department)
The repair process has begun in the photo above.

Rant-Shutdown Could Halt VA Checks by November-Shinseki

Got no use for this individual, what so ever. Our Eldest Son, SFC, US Army Reserve was in the Regular Army when Shinseki was the Chief of Staff..................

We paid a visit to Fort Drum in the Summer of 2001 to pay a visit. The feeling I got from the grunt mechanics in the Vehicle Maintenance Battalion was more of the kind we in the Sea Service hold for Elmo Zumwalt and many of my Air Force Brethren here at Edwards have for McPeak............................That bad it was.
The part that really sucks is that after coming out of the 88 hour furlough, my disability was raised to 60 percent. That was helping make up for a few items that were put aside......................................

Wednesday, October 09, 2013

I am still around---------------Morning Bike Ride

The Missus and I took a few days and wandered off to Oceanside to visit the Sister in Law and Brother in Law. I was going to the MCAS Miramar Air Show on Saturday the 5th........................................it got cancelled...............................
The pic is from this morning after my ride......................Low 50's with winds at times gusting to 35 mph................Only did six miles but I rode into the wind for three of it and came back to the house with the wind. It was a good ride even for just six miles....................BP after the shower and prepping lunch for work tonight was 123/70. I did see my doc for a follow up yesterday on the new BP med. He says I am doing fine.

Looking like a bit of a scalawag..................................................................................

Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Pro Super Goes To Supply

For all my Air Force Buds and all of you in Armed Forces Aviation is this little ditty. Saw it earlier at work when a friend was watching it............................
I think all of us Airdales can relate.........................................
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)