Duke
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Learning to Fly in General
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 ...
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...
Nights in White Satin in General
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...
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...
Hackensack in General
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 ...
Watercolors in the Rain in General
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...
On the Turning Away in General
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 ...
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’...
Take Me Away in General
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...
F-16 dodging 6 Iraqi SAM launches on Jan 19 1991 in General
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 ...
June 6th, 1944 in General
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 ...
Song for Sonny Liston in General
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 ...
Crazy Life in General
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...
Peace to each soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth; Long may the fair and brave Sigh o’er the hero’s grave… -Thomas Moore
Being a creature of habit, Wednesday is usually go to Sam’s for the spaghetti meal. Spaghetti, meatball, salad and garlic bread for 6 bucks. Kinda hard to beat. About every third Friday I will ...
Gobuy Nupants in General
One of my friends from AOCS and flight school asked his friends on FB if they knew of a good dry cleaner in Pittsburg. He had spilled something on dress pants and needed to get them cleaned post...
Telemarketers in General
Random telemarketers start calling after 4pm. Earlier I read some advice on how to handle them. Ignoring has been my strategy for a long time, but I’m bored so I picked up the axe. A call came ...
Dad said it was coming. No one in aviation can escape it. Constant exposure to high decibel sound over years. It started a few years ago. Very random. Well above 1020hz. I know that tone w...
Stairway to Heaven in General
So the news tells me Led Zeppelin is being sued by some band called “Spirit” who claims the Zep ripped off the intro to Stairway. Wow. Way to wait almost fifty years to stake a claim. Morons....
Avast, Me Hearties! in General
It is time for the political news to go on hiatus. I am so tired of listening to all the crap, especially the politically correct shit on the news. Wake me up when this is over. George Will sa...
Go on My Child in General
The image embedded in the video for this song reminds me of a night in Kuala Lumpur. I wrote about that night, during my ‘99 cruise on the Constellation back in the bad ol’ OD days. The melanc...
Raining on Sunday in General
It is raining. Thankfully. I have always liked the rain, and the continuous fire warnings are getting old. A relatively dry winter, not much rain plus plenty of wind means this end of the univ...
Strange days indeed. The day started with me getting up at 430 in the morning because it was too cold in the bedroom. I had the window cracked, the fans were off. Turns out it was 22° outside. I...
I watched a video on FB where they were tearing an EA-6B apart to scrap her. BUNO 158807. The second prowler I ever flew. It was like watching a bunch of thugs go at your first car with baseba...
I haven’t heard this song in years, and truthfully had completely forgotten it. I was a teenager when it was on the radio - I had no idea what the words really meant, but I knew the feeling. We...
