Playing with the Blog...............again

..........and other tidbits from a shortened three day weekend.......
Saturday got ten hours of OT........$407.30 for the day. Not bad.
Sunday did some maintaining on The Missus' PT Cruiser. Got the wiring redone from the radiator fan to the switch I had to install a couple of years ago. Then did a lift support remove and replace on the rear door. Needs a few other little things to do yet but for her running around here and to the Commissary it is all up and up.
Today, did an oil change on the Titan. $44 and change. For a 7.5 Quart capacity not bad this day and age.
Finally got a new male Zebra Finch for the one we lost while we were in Vegas, yesterday.
Playing with the blog. I figured it needed some pizzaz. So, what the heck.
Did see the Ducks pull off another one yesterday evening.
We are headed down to the big towns to get wipers for both outfits, air filters and other sundry items not available out here in the desert scrub or at our friendly AAFES Base Exchange.
I do have a boring life at times, don't I? But it is all good.....................

From Primm to Bakersfield photo series - part one Continue reading on Examiner.com From Primm to Bakersfield photo series - part one

Was doing some goofing off and a bit of back and forth with a friend on Google+ about a place called ZzyZx Road. It really does exist.
Part Three of this article at The Examiner has some images of the exit signs for it.
It is out past Barstow, Yermo and Newberry Springs on both I-15 and I-40.
The article covers a trip goes by where I both live and work, in The Mojave Desert.


Continue reading on Examiner.com From Primm to Bakersfield photo series - part one - National America in Photos | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/america-photos-in-national/from-primm-to-bakersfield-photo-series-part-one#ixzz1mi6kB8tC








My Desert. I love this place.

The 'Pompeii' of the Western Front: Archaeologists find the bodies of 21 tragic World War One German soldiers in perfectly preserved trenches where they were buried alive by an Allied shell

Men were killed when a huge Allied shell exploded above the tunnel in eastern France in 1918, causing it to cave in

Engineers find trench network 18ft beneath the surface near town of Carspach while excavating for a new road

Scene likened to Pompeii after skeletal remains found in same positions the men had been in at the time of the collapse

From the Daily Mail in the UK. 

Good read for all.

I do hope that the Commission in Germany finds living relatives to whom the remains can be returned to. These men deserve to be laid to rest with full honours.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099187/Bodies-21-German-soldiers-buried-alive-WW1-trench-perfectly-preserved-94-years-later.html#ixzz1mCPj0aeH

Hundreds strip down in Washington, DC for charity ‘Cupid’s Undie Run’ [SLIDESHOW]

Mankinis and lingerie, red and pink body paint, and plenty of half-naked people — this was the scene of the annual “Cupid’s Undie Run” in Washington, D.C.

More than 800 men and women showed off more than their athletic capabilities Saturday for the 1.5 mile run on Capitol Hill. Many stripped down to nearly nothing, wearing only Valentine’s Day underwear, bras, stockings, tutus and speedos.

What started three years ago as just an idea between two roommates has since sparked a nationwide fundraiser that has spread to six cities and involved thousands of supporters.

Founders and event organizers Bobby Gill, 28, and Brendan Hanrahan, 27, collaborated to raise money for suffers of neurofibromatosis (NF), a disease that causes noncancerous tumors to grow on the body’s nerves.

The rest is at the link below............. 
Plus a pic to persuade you to check it out. Having had a go around with cancer, I am all for this. Good on em.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/hundreds-strip-down-in-washington-dc-for-charity-cupids-undie-run-slideshow/#ixzz1mCBBht40

Choosing Life and Beating the Odds: Accepting Down Syndrome

From Cassy Chesser at PJ Media.

"Ninety percent of babies with the diagnosis end up aborted. But that wasn't an option for me."

This is an excellent read. It is about what transpired and how Cassy and Matt are dealing with the situation.

I can't do it any justice. So read it yourself. 

Prayers and Positive Waves to Cassy and Matt, if you please. 

http://pjmedia.com/blog/choosing-life-and-beating-the-odds-accepting-down-syndrome/?singlepage=true

Canadiens–Maple Leafs rivalry

Tonight on Hockey Night in Canada is the game. Montreal at Toronto.
No longer played in such great venues as Maple Leaf Gardens or The Forum on St. Catherine's Street.
Now the rivalry plays out in Air Canada Centre and Bell Centre. Centre de Bell and Centre de Air Canada.
No Howie Meeker, Danny Galivan or Dick Irvine. Danny Galivan left us in 1993.
But the rivalry is still there. Not as important as it once was in the grand scheme of things. English Canada vs. French Canada. Barry Melrose said that and he is from Weyburn, Saskatchewan. Been there as a kid for an air show.
I am a Canadiens fan. Loved Jean Beliveau, The Flower, Mahovolich, Henri Richard, Dryden, Sevigny and Bunny Larocque. The Missus and I got to know Bunny's son, Stephan one winter in Wichita with the CHL Wichita Thunder.

For forty years, Hewitt was Canada's premier hockey play-by-play broadcaster on Hockey Night in Canada, the first radio program widely listened to in Canada. He coined the phrase "he shoots, he scores!" and was also well known for his sign-on at the beginning of each broadcast, "Hello, Canada, and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland." (Newfoundland was an independent Dominion before joining Canada in 1949.)


I remember that call on occasion in 68 on the radio when we first moved to Alberta. 
History..................yep. 
This is our game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadiens%E2%80%93Maple_Leafs_rivalry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_Hewitt

Want to stir the pot? You got it. (with several updates)

My friend Dbie Johnson at FB had this up. Dbie is an Army Wife as is my Daughter in Law. Seems the regular Army Wife has issues with the Guard and Reserve. The Eldest Son is a Staff Sergeant in The Army Reserve. His job requires this. It is a Military Reserve Technician position in the Civil Service. He has to meet all the same criteria as his active brethren.
I step down off the soap box and let this lady handle it. Awesome post and she is now on the blog roll.
....................excerpt for your perusal and to pique your curiosity...................

The Vermont National Guard is just that, they are State Militia. The Hubs is a federal soldier. The National Guard spouses around here like to refer to themselves as ‘Army Wives’. They aren’t. I respect their significant others for the things that they do, but they are not, by any stretch of the imagination, soldiers. That being said, the Hubs is not a Marine, he is not a Sailor, he is not an Airman. He is a Soldier. A dog is not a cat, it’ll never meow.

When you try to explain this to a Guard spouse, they get defensive, and often times throw a huge fit.

My husband is a soldier, he got deployed, just like yours!

I agree, your husband got deployed just like mine, but when he came home, he got to go back to a normal civilian life. When my husband got home, he still had to put on his ACUs and go to work, as a soldier.

I agree, your husband got deployed, just like mine, but when he came home, he knew he wouldn’t get deployed again for at least another four years, in which time he probably wouldn’t have re-upped his contract. When my husband got home, he knew he could turn around and get deployed again. Period.

My husband is a soldier, he has to go to drill!

Yup. One weekend a month, two weeks a year.

Now, having spent four years as an active duty Soldier, and four years in the Virginia Army National Guard, I must take issue with Precious Cupcake and her petty arrogance.

Just who the bleeding, snorkeling fuck does she think she is?

http://thelibertyzone.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/want-to-stir-the-pot-you-got-it/

Plane Pr0n again, part ?

The Cold War Air Museum in Lancaster, TX

Good set of pics for all to enjoy.

37 more at the link: http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2011/12/13/the-cold-war-museum-in-lancaster-tx-38-photos/?obref=obinsite

Update on The Missus

She is back here at the hotel, asleep. The surgery went well. The Doc said it went better than he anticipated considering the severity of the break.
So tomorrow, I should go to the line and do my thing in the morning.
Then it is get ready to head home and arrange for follow ups.

A picture is worth a thousand words

It has a great caption all of it's own.
I cannot add anything to it, at all.

Need I say more..............