Good early morning, everyone.
Mikey, you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too. I still have to get Birmingham to see the layout. You're right, this is a good time of the year to assume that the guy coming at you at night is drunk.
I remember the days of office parties and we could sit outside some large offices and pop three or four DUI's at 5 in the afternoon. I think things are a little better than that now.
Rex, I got my raise too but my check doesn't come until the end of the month so you're buying.
When I worked in San Fransisco, we had the Blue Angels every Ocotober as pert of Fleet Week. They would practice a couple of days in advance and would scream up Market Street, the main drag in the financial district. I worked on the 31st floor and I could look right in the cockpits as they went by. They are fantastic pilots. I'll sure do my best to get up there for the show. Check out this link: http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/. Some of the most amazing Blue Angel Photos I've ever seen, taken during Fleet Week.
CJ, you must have seen the Golden Hawks if it was 1964. They were amazing flyers also and pioneered a number of manuevers that are standard practice for most aerobatic teams today.
Chris, glad to hear your coworker is recovering. Whatever the cause, I'm glad he has the guts to get up and get moving. Maybe next time, he'll listen when being given advice.
Ken, I hope they really weren't poking holes in your elbow. That's the wrong place to get blood from the human body. Rex will be happy to pick up you linch tab as long as it doesn't inlcude anything other than $1 menu at McDonalds ($2 menu in California and NYC).
Phillip, glad to hear the ice storm never really developed. You were just far enough south to escape it. Chicago really did get walloped.
Jeffrey, an 8 ounce steak and 1/2 a rack of ribs? Man, you can pack it away. I'm only going to take you to places that serve salads.
Those danged owls can do an amazing amount of damage and they just come out of nowhere. I was enroute to a missing person search way out in Sea Ranch, which is up Highway One and is nothing but 35 miles of curves and cliffs that go 600 feet straight down to the ocean. This was at just about 0100. A Great Horned Owl flew directly into my windshield. Never saw him coming and I was lucky to get the vehicle stopped before I went off the edge. I don't know exactly how much he weighed but I'd guees about 35 pounds since he ended up right in my lap. Took out most of the windshield and there was blood and guts everywhere. It took me a while to work out if it was my blood and guts or the owl's. Luckily for me, it was the owl. He somehow took out the ignition switch on his way in since I couldn't get the Explorer started again. I had to radio dispatch for a tow and that was good for about three days worth of laughs all around. On top of that, I had to fill out a Fish and Game form explaining why I killed the owl because he was on the endagered species list. 
Mikey, you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too. I still have to get Birmingham to see the layout. You're right, this is a good time of the year to assume that the guy coming at you at night is drunk.
I remember the days of office parties and we could sit outside some large offices and pop three or four DUI's at 5 in the afternoon. I think things are a little better than that now. Rex, I got my raise too but my check doesn't come until the end of the month so you're buying.
When I worked in San Fransisco, we had the Blue Angels every Ocotober as pert of Fleet Week. They would practice a couple of days in advance and would scream up Market Street, the main drag in the financial district. I worked on the 31st floor and I could look right in the cockpits as they went by. They are fantastic pilots. I'll sure do my best to get up there for the show. Check out this link: http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/. Some of the most amazing Blue Angel Photos I've ever seen, taken during Fleet Week. CJ, you must have seen the Golden Hawks if it was 1964. They were amazing flyers also and pioneered a number of manuevers that are standard practice for most aerobatic teams today.
Chris, glad to hear your coworker is recovering. Whatever the cause, I'm glad he has the guts to get up and get moving. Maybe next time, he'll listen when being given advice.
Ken, I hope they really weren't poking holes in your elbow. That's the wrong place to get blood from the human body. Rex will be happy to pick up you linch tab as long as it doesn't inlcude anything other than $1 menu at McDonalds ($2 menu in California and NYC).
Phillip, glad to hear the ice storm never really developed. You were just far enough south to escape it. Chicago really did get walloped.
Jeffrey, an 8 ounce steak and 1/2 a rack of ribs? Man, you can pack it away. I'm only going to take you to places that serve salads.
Those danged owls can do an amazing amount of damage and they just come out of nowhere. I was enroute to a missing person search way out in Sea Ranch, which is up Highway One and is nothing but 35 miles of curves and cliffs that go 600 feet straight down to the ocean. This was at just about 0100. A Great Horned Owl flew directly into my windshield. Never saw him coming and I was lucky to get the vehicle stopped before I went off the edge. I don't know exactly how much he weighed but I'd guees about 35 pounds since he ended up right in my lap. Took out most of the windshield and there was blood and guts everywhere. It took me a while to work out if it was my blood and guts or the owl's. Luckily for me, it was the owl. He somehow took out the ignition switch on his way in since I couldn't get the Explorer started again. I had to radio dispatch for a tow and that was good for about three days worth of laughs all around. On top of that, I had to fill out a Fish and Game form explaining why I killed the owl because he was on the endagered species list.
Last edited by a moderator:
Looks
though!
