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, June 21, 2012

Hot and tired

Pretty much sums it up. The week has seen temperatures top the century mark or be in the high nineties!

It is summer in the Mojave Desert.

Yesterday it hit 102 on the flight line and the day before it was 100. We got a reprieve today, only 97. All three days had that blast furnace wind with it. I take a half gallon jug out on the line with me full of ice water. I have to refill it. I also have a Powerade, Sour Melon Flavour during the morning to load up on the potassium and the other stuff to help me out.
The heat is amplified when standing next to a jet at start. The F-16 uses a Jet Fuel Starter to fire up the engine. Where the crew chief stands is in the exhaust flow of the JFS. It gets hot! Then the running engine makes things warm as well. I have areas on my calves that the hair is completely gone from and will never come back!

I can hardly wait for July and August!


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Buck said...

This is one of the PRIME reasons the Ol' Man told me to stay away from airplanes. There's no such thing as a comfortable flightline... it's either hotter than Hades or colder than the proverbial witch's mammary glands.

I feel for ya.

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:45:00 AM

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