Well imagine that, i was deployed on Wasp back in 1996 when in the Corps. 6 months deployment into Mediteranean Sea. Back then the USMC was just beginning to flight test the "Ospreys" (VH22). My squadron was still flying CH46 "Phrogs", with some of them in service since Vietnam.
Willie, Elon the Huckster has also definitely worn out his welcome in eastern Travis County. He promises things but does little or no follow up and since Tesla doesn’t have a PR division there really is no one to question.Good Morning All. Clear here and 71°, headed back into the triple digits today with 103°. After that, 9 days in a row (maybe more) with 104° predicted. This is getting old. Pool temperature however remained at 84° all day yesterday. Felt great.
Idle thought: It's been reported that the world's oceans are rising. Could it be the displacement from all of the cruise ships that David has been posting???
Out in the train shed yesterday, I started another of those minor small projects to fill in areas that I had skipped initially when getting trains running. Here's the scene behind the Stone Bakery, a DPM kit.
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First run through looks a bit rough, I think that I'll go back with some spackle and redo the concrete area.
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Note the lady in blue and the three people next to her. They're visible here but they're inside the structure. When I originally did the building, I had planned to orient it differently so they would be seen. Now the back faces the aisle and they are hidden. They will be removed.
Another problem, and it is a severe rookie mistake. The bakery was dull-coated, and it was in place when I sprayed the IPA/water mixture on the ground foam to the right. We all know what happens when you do that!
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The picture looks more extreme than it really is. But it's an easy fix by spraying the dull coat over again.
Sherrel - I honestly don't understand how you and Kate have been able to tolerate a two-story house for so long. I guess that it can be done if you're used to it. I am not! When we vacation in Gulf Shores AL, we always rent a condo with an elevator, instead of staying with her sister & friends in a beach house with stairs. Still have to use stairs to get into her place.
The Surf Line will disappear into the ocean before folks out there can agree on a solution. By then, the cost will kill the project. Just look at their attempts at high speed rail.
Scary to read about the UTI! May you have a quick recovery.
Tom O - Elon is beginning to wear out his welcome in parts of Texas, especially on the coast around the Space X complex.
Curt - El Paso is almost a forgotten region of Texas, it's just so far away from the rest of the state. Being such a big state, we have several (5) distinct regions, all with their own unique weather patterns.
Troy - Pretty spooky warriors.
Hmmmh! I don't use Twitter, never have. But do parents want their kids looking at an X site?
Everyone have an excellent day.
Joe - I am seriously thinking of just leaving it. I have seen that kind of weathering many times before on older buildings. And as I posted, it does not look that extreme in person.
In my opinion only, he needs to give up a few companies and work towards patching up relations with the ones that he keeps Let's see, there's Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink, Solar City, Starlink, Twitter, and I think that he has a lithium battery company as well.
He's a money man, and not a good idea man.
I just use Safari for 99%. Occasionally you have a website that was written for Chrome. Then I use Brave, a Chromium based browser that has more privacy built in.
Went to Sams Club and spent way too much $$$.
Nice scenes. It sure seems like the DOJ wants to ease the way for illegals to get into TX. They're not migrants no matter how many times the news calls them that.
All Locomotives have quirks. EMD, Alco, GE, Baldwin et. all. Electric motors have more quirks than diesels and are more likely to trip out, for some passing fault.
Semper Fi! My youngest was in an HLMA Squadron, doing avionics on the "skids" UH-1 and AH-1 aircraft that dated back to Vietnam. USMC is still flying UH-1 Y and AH-1Z variants, with twin engines, and 4 blade rotors. Awesome aircraft.
Good Morning all. 11 am and 103 here, going up to 110. But, it's a Dry Heat, come winter, But It's a Dry cold, come Spring, But It's a Dry Rain!Other cruise hacks. Unless you have to travel on the suits on the upper decks, lower decks and mid-ship have less motion. I'm familiar with Norwegian Cruise Line, so I'll use their terminology. Judging by your travel frequency and what I assume Terry's tastes would be, you'd probably end up in a suite or "The Haven" (Upgraded suites that share an upper deck pool and sun area).
You can still get midships, but not as mid as if you slum it in "steerage" with my wife and I. We travel cheaply, to do and see more for less $$. Though we are starting to bump up some conveniences.
When it comes to cruising, we'll take an inside closet... er cabin because we only use it for showering, sleeping, and locking up personal items. We're out and about the rest of the time.
As for motion sickness, avoid hurricane season. Alaska is good, because you've got the barrier island to the west as you climb the inside passage.
I love cruising, but can get motion sick with violent motion... One cruise had 15-foot seas. That was making me queasy-ish. But not sick. It was worst when I was inside and couldn't look out. But, that was only about half a day.
Cruises to Alaska usually depart from Seattle or Vancouver BC. Most often they are 7-day round trip. But some have a 14-day itinerary (two back-to-back 7 days). You can do the same trip twice, once in reverse. Or do just one leg of it. That's my preferred method, but then you'd be flying home from Alaska. If only you knew a pilot with a plane?
David I got very sick during a storm in the north Atlantic while I was in the Marines. You could see the propellers of other ships come out of the water. It reminded me of the Victory at Sea episode where the fleet was caught in a Monsoon.
Curt - I did not think it was that bad - excepting it scared me. Sunday the Urgent Care was very light.
That would keep me off ships forever.
Ane the ship bows were almost diving under water. No one was on the deck that day.
. It was January and pretty rough seas for the over night and I was uncomfortable both there and back -- feeling quite sick but never actually having anything come up... The ferries are quite big and heavy but not as big as a cruise ship. Plus I just had deck passage (free with my Eurail pass) and so had to use the little deck passage cubbies or the sitting rooms to try and sleep.
Semper Fi. Looks like there's even more Jarheads here.
