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Are you tired of holding up the sky? Of teaching birds to fly? You’ve done it all your life. That is a depressing as shit song! Holy cow. Things that people shouldn’t do when going through a d...

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I finally decided to pull the trigger on the industrial security job. It really isn’t something I want to do, but I am at that point where I want money. I don’t NEED money. I WANT money. I wan...

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Last night the crew of the Flying Dutchman were playing Nine Pins for most of the night. It rained about 20 minutes, but the thunder was remarkable. Nothing from the hottie from upstate. She r...

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I was on the phone with Sandy when she had to away. Cops! Always getting called away. A few minutes later there was an explosion outside. And I did drop to the floor. First big clap of thu...

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Hot and humid. Whatever, nothing like Louisiana this time of year, but everything is relative. We still appear to be in a bit of a drought. Gardeners seem to be loving it because of all the s...

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I slept late today. An oddity for me as I am naturally awake no later than 7am. I am glad I got the trash to the curb last night because I would have missed the pickup and would have been stuck...

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Dust in the Wind Funny that Evel randoms up two songs in short succession that (or so I have read) started as warm up exercises. Aerosmith’s Dream On and Kansas’ Dust in the Wind. The older of ...

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My first reaction was “incredible abs!” I have a weakness for female abs. Then it was “great rack!” Then “Pretty lips!” Then. “Wait. Is that a litter box?”

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The World Famous Scorpions’ Centurions. Second cruise, 1994. I’m in the back in the green flight deck jersey. I was the AVARM (Avionics and Armament) division officer and had about 50 guys work...

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Dearest Esmerelda I slept one rainy night with you in Paris Made up for a thousand wasted years Dearest Esmeralda, you are magic I close my eyes and you make love appear Saturday I made my way o...

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“Let’s keep triggering the little shits, because it is hilarious!”

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Learning to Fly Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back A flight of fancy on a windswept field Standing alone my senses reeled Fatal attraction is holding ...

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Talk about a blast from the past. From, right to left: JQ who lives in San Antonio and has no internet footprint so is impossible to track down, RL who I helped move to Las Vegas last year, and...

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Justin Hayward wrote that song when he was 19 years old. It rocks my soul every time I hear it. When I was stationed in South Carolina I managed to drive home a few times. Once when my best fr...

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I now have three surveys on my desktop. So in the interest of cleaning off my desktop, here goes. What is your middle name? Steele How old are you? 53 When is your birthday? August 6th - Hiro...

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I actually like Fountains of Wayne’s version better, but the talking intro by Katy makes me get it. I now get why she is so popular. It is impossible to not fall for her just a little bit. It ...

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One of the CDs I had during my 1992 cruise on the USS Saratoga was Roxette’s Joyride. Seems this tune was about halfway through the album. There is also a Spanish version which is kind of pret...

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Funny how the brain housing group works. I was in the process of “the throwing away” - I have two old computers, a monitor, a broke printer and a broke keyboard. Dozens of ink cartridges for ...

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Brandy, you’re a fine girl What a good wife you would be But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea… Weird juxtapositions. I was out and about, getting gas and groceries. I looked at the robin’...

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Out and about today, Evel the evil iPod ponied up this one. It was 1978. I was 16. Kiss had put out four solo albums. Since we couldn’t afford to buy all 4 individually, my brother and I de...

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The scale on the left is airspeed in knots, the scale on the right is altitude. The scale across the top is heading. The circle with wings is the flight path marker which tells the pilot where ...

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June 6th, 1944 72 years ago my maternal grandfather was on a glider heading into Normandy. My paternal grandfather was on a troop transport in the Pacific. My mother’s father came back from the ...

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Song for Sonny Liston Mark Knopfler is such a master of story telling. Everything on his album “Shangri La” is amazing. “Boom, Like That” about Ray Kroc; “Sucker Row” about Las Vegas; “Don’t ...

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In San Diego I was listening to a lot of TtWS. CDs of course. When I was still living with X1 this song always came on - on the way home - right as I made the transition from I-8 to I-15 on my...

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