Sunday, January 02, 2005
a good start
The gals were sure happy when I walked out of the house on New Year's Eve wearing boots. Boots mean Night Hike! Admittedly only Cookie is left of my old night hike crew but Rima will catch on some day. Down the valley, across the creek, up the hill and down the ridge, then cut East a ways until getting to the sittin' and thinkin' spot. Not much of a hike but it was where I wanted to be. The girls ranged around and gave some poor woodland critters a bad time whilst I savored the evening.
New Year's day was wonderful. Chilly, foggy morning turning off with full sun and low 70's. Did absolutely nothing! Read, fed, scratched dawg heads, should be sooo ashamed. Nope.
Today did my Saturday (yesterday) chores (kinda), then went grocery shopping and to 2 flea markets. The first was a bust, no vendors and no traffic. The second, a little bitty one out on a back road was cool! Books! My first book buy since June. All fiction, Dean Koontz, Michener (Poland, "loaned" it out 8 years ago, want to re-read it), Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Arthur Clarke, and James Herbert. The cool part of that flea market was the live band. They were playing 50's country and Elvis, damn well actually. The gal that runs the market also has a BBQ set up with free feed and I also ran into another gal I'd met a couple or 3 years ago when her younger son was in Russia assisting in the dismantling of their nuke missles. Nice babble. That kid is now in California, just got married to the "wrong" sort, bought a condo in LA, plus a new car! It was all I could do to try to keep from laughing out loud! Mama, he's 20-something, been a world-ranger for a bunch of years. Just wish him luck!
About the live band. How about a photo. Note the fellows strumming on the far left and right. They are GOOD!
Suzanne's 2 Jan thread on the Garden Party is full of flight. Those that know me know how involved I've been, literally since birth. My father took his WW II GI benefits to become a pilot. I was born 5 years later. For those of you so inclined, there is a site with some pretty wonderful video of the SR-71, the first couple are best if you have broadband but you can do a all night load on dial-up. The last 2 will kick you back about 40 years. It worked for me! Just for kicks and giggles, the soundtrack for the "Blackbird Tribute" is Kenny G with "The Sound of Silence" and the "Touch and Go" is Los Bravos and "Black is Black". It rocks!
I've got a hatful more good mil vids, some don't remain hosted very long and I don't own enough bandwidth to host them myself. With the p2p fiasco, don't wanna mess with that anymore either. I'll go check them out if any of you would like. When I find those I like, I promptly save them and burn them to disk.
Damn. I uploaded this stuff and forgot the link. I was enjoying the AC-130 Spectre video with AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" (perfect for THAT video) and small things like < a href = eluded me. Here it is:
SR-71 Video Archive
New Year's day was wonderful. Chilly, foggy morning turning off with full sun and low 70's. Did absolutely nothing! Read, fed, scratched dawg heads, should be sooo ashamed. Nope.
Today did my Saturday (yesterday) chores (kinda), then went grocery shopping and to 2 flea markets. The first was a bust, no vendors and no traffic. The second, a little bitty one out on a back road was cool! Books! My first book buy since June. All fiction, Dean Koontz, Michener (Poland, "loaned" it out 8 years ago, want to re-read it), Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Arthur Clarke, and James Herbert. The cool part of that flea market was the live band. They were playing 50's country and Elvis, damn well actually. The gal that runs the market also has a BBQ set up with free feed and I also ran into another gal I'd met a couple or 3 years ago when her younger son was in Russia assisting in the dismantling of their nuke missles. Nice babble. That kid is now in California, just got married to the "wrong" sort, bought a condo in LA, plus a new car! It was all I could do to try to keep from laughing out loud! Mama, he's 20-something, been a world-ranger for a bunch of years. Just wish him luck!
About the live band. How about a photo. Note the fellows strumming on the far left and right. They are GOOD!
Suzanne's 2 Jan thread on the Garden Party is full of flight. Those that know me know how involved I've been, literally since birth. My father took his WW II GI benefits to become a pilot. I was born 5 years later. For those of you so inclined, there is a site with some pretty wonderful video of the SR-71, the first couple are best if you have broadband but you can do a all night load on dial-up. The last 2 will kick you back about 40 years. It worked for me! Just for kicks and giggles, the soundtrack for the "Blackbird Tribute" is Kenny G with "The Sound of Silence" and the "Touch and Go" is Los Bravos and "Black is Black". It rocks!
I've got a hatful more good mil vids, some don't remain hosted very long and I don't own enough bandwidth to host them myself. With the p2p fiasco, don't wanna mess with that anymore either. I'll go check them out if any of you would like. When I find those I like, I promptly save them and burn them to disk.
Damn. I uploaded this stuff and forgot the link. I was enjoying the AC-130 Spectre video with AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" (perfect for THAT video) and small things like < a href = eluded me. Here it is:
SR-71 Video Archive
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That looks like a damned good band. Is that a coffee can sitting under his hat. For tips, I presume??
You know, Arthur Clarke was on my mind this week. Is he still alive? Sri Lanka was his paradise, he moved there in the '50's and truly loved the place. How sad his paradise was transformed to hell on earth.
- Suzanne
You know, Arthur Clarke was on my mind this week. Is he still alive? Sri Lanka was his paradise, he moved there in the '50's and truly loved the place. How sad his paradise was transformed to hell on earth.
- Suzanne
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: 11:53 PM
It is a good band. Next weekend I'll be back and if they are still there, do a little photo journalism stuff. Then, maybe go share a beer or three with the crew! ;o)
About Arthur C., yep. he's OK. Try http://www.appomattox.demon.co.uk/acca/tsunami.htm for up dates. He's my favorite socialist. BTW, I have and have read every book he's written several times. My favorite is "Tales from the White Hart".
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About Arthur C., yep. he's OK. Try http://www.appomattox.demon.co.uk/acca/tsunami.htm for up dates. He's my favorite socialist. BTW, I have and have read every book he's written several times. My favorite is "Tales from the White Hart".
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