Done!
March 19th, 2009 in Uncategorized by fin flipper
The last of the triad of workers enlisted to repair the puffback damage has left FTN. I am very glad and very weary.
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My Day So Far
March 14th, 2009 in Uncategorized by fin flipper
Sitting way high up on a shelf in the kitchen in Fin Towers North, up above eye level, is a stack of newspapers which has been sitting there for quite awhile.
Well, more than quite awhile, as the front pages show dates from the early and mid 1980’s. I am pretty sure I put them there for a reason, and I am pretty sure that they need to be “dealt with” as painters are descending on FTN in the very foreseeable future.
S0, “oughta do something about them” morphed into “gotta do something about them” and accordingly I have been carefully thumbing through all of them. Some nearly crumble in my hands, but the ones that do not crumble, show that in the day – I got my name and photo in the paper on a somewhat regular basis, both as a result of my full time job back then, and in association with my decades-long association with a fairly talented Dixieland Jazz band.
Not a totally terrific day
March 9th, 2009 in Uncategorized by fin flipper
This is a fairly rough day. I think I am having a delayed reaction to some of the upset caused by the puffback which is now two months ago. Painters are supposed to arrive at FTN this week to repaint the entire interior. This should be good news.
In an earlier blog I posted a few photos, such as hundreds of postcards from travels around the world, and another of a garage wall basically covered with baggage claim checks and boarding passes – literally hundreds of them.
In my earlier days of private flying, most local FBOs (Fixed Base Operators) had distinctive bills when one purchased gas, a chart, a hat, tee shirt or anything else. I soon had quite a collection of them, from Maine and New Bruswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, to all up and down the East coast as far as Key West, and many on the west coast as well. Some were from Hawaii and some from Alaska, and once I rented a seaplane and instructor near Seattle.
These days, for the most part, like interstate highways, most bills from “away” FBOs look alike; they are a visa tape with perhaps the company name imprinted on the top. Not very collectable nor photogenic. However, as the attached photo* shows, I did, until recently, have a rather colorful collection of the various FBO bills alongside a flight chart on a wall which showed many of my older solo journeys to places I had never been.
Bottom line is, they are likely going to be history. They will need to come down for the painting, and I have no idea whether I shall ever feel like replacing them.
* Well surprise - the photo is unusable on this website. For those interested, please go to my ‘other’ blog on blogspot and click on the photo (one) which will be there with little text.
And here is the text for the top of the two photos on blogspot which are dated today.
Even greater effort has been made in the attached world map which is filled with pins representing my trips, my parents, my children’s. Although the yellow seems not to show up for me in the photo, there are again well over a hundred of these, each representing excitement and adventure as someone close to me or I undertook another journey to a place hitherto unvisited. The same doubts exist as to whether I will bother to reconstruct it. There is yet another similar map of the US only, but the pins are clear top and do not show in any photo. Every state has been visited at least twice, and virtually all of the major cities in the US.
Dreams
February 19th, 2009 in Uncategorized by fin flipper
I have ‘em most every night, and most times I remember them, often with a good deal of detail. Fortunately, I almost always enjoy them.
Because a computer is on a table by my bed, I almost always write them down. Not infrequently, the entries will be quite lengthy and very specific about what had just occupied my subconscious, and the accounts can sometimes run to several paragraphs.
What is interesting to me, however, is that when I read such accounts a few months or a few years later, I can remember NOTHING of what I had written down. The words are there, coherent, vivid and explicit, but the dream ….. is gone.
cut n paste
February 10th, 2009 in Uncategorized by fin flipper
Taoism:$hit happens.
Confucianism: Confucius say,,$hit happens.
Calvanism:$hit happens cause you don’t work hard.
Buddhism: If $hit happens, it really isn’t $hit.
7 Day adventist: No $hit on Saturday!
Zen: what is the sound of $hit happening?
Hedonism: Nothin like a good $hit happenin.
Hinduism: This $hit happened before.
Mormon: This $hit is gonna happen again.
Islam: If $hit happens, it’s the will of Allah.
Moonies: Only happy $hit really happens.
Stoicism: This $hit is good for me.
Protestantism: Let the $hit happen to someone else.
Catholicism:$hit happens cause you are bad.
Hare Krishna:$hit happens, Rama Rama.
Judaism: Why does this $hit always happen to US?
Zoroasrianism:$hit happens half the time.
Christian Science:$hit is in your head.
Atheism: Sheeit.
Existentialism: What is $hit, anyway?
And another thing
February 4th, 2009 in Uncategorized by fin flipper
While I think I have been fairly patient about this new journalspace and its many foibles, sometimes I am just not in the mood. It snowed here again today and on a few other websites I was able to post pix of the new snow, and when I went to post a pic here, it whined it was “too big”.
Screw it. Deal with it damnit.
Good Morning
February 1st, 2009 in Uncategorized by fin flipper
This is the first time since January 26th that I have been able to log onto this website. Instead, I have been using the favorites function of Internet Explorer Version 6 to visit the blogs of the people I read no matter where they have come to rest.
Yesterday I had more computer problems and, while dealing with them, I loaded IE 7 which now means I have to reclick the favorites link to see each new entry. The warrenty on my Dell expired eight days ago and Dell wants $49 to even talk to me about the problems which are besetting me. The most serious one is the computer instantly shutting down without warning while being used. When re-started, it doesn’t make the usual whine about having been stopped in an unusual fashion nor suggest safe start or reversion to a prior time as happens sometimes.
Although relatively new, this laptop has been heavily used. I noted that I have written over a million and a quarter words in my private journal 2005-2008, or about 910 a day. I have taken, scanned, copied or otherwise aquired over twenty four thousand photos (which are duplicated on an external drive) and my webcam links can take me to streaming videos with sound all over the world. Girlblogger and I had exchanged over three thousand five hundred Private Messages on the old Journalspace, and I have email contact with many other internetters from six continents.
Girlblogger’s sister has a Toshiba which is twice as old as my Dell and one twentieth of the problems. I would like to get one when I can afford to, but meanwhile I will try to keep this one going as long as possible. I am very glad I had the foresight to have the cord, keyboard and screen replaced before the warrenty ran out. ALthough this is my second Dell laptop, I would not in good conscience recommend one to any of my friends.
SSDD
January 15th, 2009 in Uncategorized by fin flipper
Cold and snowy. Getting a bit old. Grateful for chili and internet and phone chats with a librarian.
