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mininghorn88

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  1. Looks like a bunch of $1 bills. Still though. Be careful of the path.
  2. You can take the Grand Canyon Railroad from Williams to the Grand Canyon. Once there you can take the shuttle to the major overlooks. You will be on site for two to three hours before the train takes you back to Williams. The train and shuttle can be booked together. My GF and I did this a couple of years ago and will be doing it again late October.
  3. BL, please go on and tell us all about it so that we do not have to watch it.
  4. Somehow it is going to be the bull’s fault for not listening to her.
  5. I have watched and shared this video probably a dozen times. It cracks me up and makes me smile every time. He speaks the truth.
  6. As if there aren’t already enough reasons to remind me to stay out of the ocean.
  7. Delta Airlines does it too. Right now they are showing a short 3 minute and an 8 minute clip of WW2 vets going to Normandy on their in-flight entertainment. It is amazing how dusty it can get at 35,000 feet.
  8. A couple of 9th AD uniforms from my collection. The officer uniform is from a soldier that received a battlefield commission as a 2nd LT and served in the 193rd Field Artillery. I am not sure what unit the enlisted 9th AD soldier served in. I do have the names of both soldiers.
  9. I have to use this phrase way too often.
  10. Just watched this today on a flight from ATL to Seattle. Like posted above, the Tom Sawyer song brought back tons of memories of my youth watching the Von Erichs and also local wrestling from the Hirsch Colosseum in Shreveport on tv. I enjoyed the movie for what it was able to deliver in the amount of time. Would like to see a mini-series too.
  11. The Cadillac was the last one to park.
  12. I am celebrating a major anniversary at work next week. I told HR a couple of months ago that if the name that I go by wasn’t on the certificate then I wasn’t accepting it. The certificates come from our corporate office so who knows what will be on there. I further told HR that I didn’t care if they had to white it out and hand write it in. We will see what happens but I feel like I am going to be disappointed since I most likely will leave the reception without a certificate.
  13. I am not sure where to put this? Either here are in "Trivial Things That Make You Surly". I went to Hobby Lobby this past Saturday looking for some bookends. I looked in what I thought would be a logical location for them but did not find any. I found two young employees and asked them if they had any bookends. Neither one of them knew what bookends were. I found myself describing to them what bookends were and what they typically look like. You would have thought that I was describing quantum physics to them. Does anyone read or keep books anymore?
  14. Going with the typical theme of Surlys, the inspection is past due, therefore, I would not drive it.
  15. My base airport is the same airport as a prominent sportscaster and US Congressman. I see both of them often enough that we recognize each other and pass casual comments or if we sit next to each other on the flights we converse a bit during the flight. One of them is Tim Brando. I know, I know. He does like Sark and the Horns in general. I guess the effect of his usual OU broadcast partner has some voodoo on him during the games. The other is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Of course he is not flying commercial anymore I guess since I have not seen him since the week before his appointment.
  16. I don’t think that is a function of this one either. That may be the super deluxe model.
  17. This series reminded me of Christmas growing up; it took forever for Christmas to get here and, once here, it was gone too quickly. You were happy with the toys that Santa brought but were always wanting more. I do hope for more mega projects like this centered around WW2. Loved it.
  18. Yes, I have spreadsheets and “values” of most of my collection. All of my uniforms are well documented with whatever history I could find on the respective soldier through family members, unit histories, Ancestry.com, Fold3, and Newspaper.com. I have heard horror stories about donating to museums. Unless you have Eisenhower’s uniform or something like that it most likely will end up in the basement or some other storage area only to be sold at a later date by the museum. I would prefer my kids and grandkids get the money if they elect not to want it. They can sell it off or I will liquidate it one day. I just want to make sure the groups stay together and that we keep the family stuff.
  19. I have been traveling in India and am now just finishing up the MOTA. If anyone saw a middle-aged man crying like a baby in the Delta Lounge in Concourse D of the ATL airport earlier today that was me watching the last two episodes. No apologies. The below uniform is one of several that I have from the 8th, 9th and 15th USAAF. It belonged to a waist gunner that was WIA during a bombing mission over Karlsruhle, Germany on September 5, 1944. He was originally assigned to the 492nd BG before tranferring to the 466th BG, 785th and 74th Bomb Squadrons, 8th AF. Plus some assorted flight gear:
  20. Not sure about WWIII but if we go to war with India it is probably my fault. I just pissed half the plane off while I was de-boarding in a proper manner from Raipur to Delhi. A casual backpack adjustment sent the multitude shoving me forward into a startled reverse domino effect.
  21. I am currently in India so this hits close to home.
  22. My ex is a type A with big mood swings to begin with. Menopause comes along. The doctor puts her on hormones that were in the form of pellets that she would get inserted in her hip ever so often that seemed to work for the most part. She decided that she did not want to keep getting periodic incisions so the doctor prescribed some different medications which was a trial and error which, IMO, was more error. We got divorced.
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