It was 31 years ago today......

That's Oppo's own @Rusty-Vandura on the left, my Best Man.

Where things went somewhat off the rails. Fifty-four-year-old me would counsel twenty-three-year-old me not to have an open bar at the reception, or to at least make sure to eat plenty of food.

The getaway car, my 1988 Fox wagon. Don't have the car, but still have the wife. Good times for sure.

I posted earlier today that my son, touring with his college band in Dublin, tested positive for Covid and would have to quarantine in Ireland for 7-10 days. After his positive antigen test, he opted to take a PCR test. Well, the PCR test just came back NEGATIVE. Presumably, that means he can travel tomorrow and come home. Still waiting for confirmation, but this is potentially hugely good news.

From my neighborhood email group:

I got carded at a liquor store, and my Blockbuster card accidentally fell out. The cashier said never mind.

Always having a camera in your pocket can come in handy from time to time. We were playing concerts this morning for school kids, and I was walking back into the hall after a coffee break between shows and happened to look up. I thought the clouds and angles of the hall made for an interesting shot.

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@Rusty-Vandura

I think the average age is just about right, too.

Full size photo at Shorpy.

It's graduation day. My oldest is graduating from high school. He will be attending the University of North Texas in the fall, where he plans to pursue a degree in Aviation Logistics.

Taking up ALL the spaces!

A Christmas card from the Berlin Airlift

Thank you, Oppo, for putting up with all my airplane spam and giving me a place to exercise my passion for aviation and history. Thanks for reading.

Merry Christmas!

My wife is part of a neighborhood buy-nothing group, where people advertise the stuff they don't want and then give it free to those who want it. Today was the group's "garage sale," where people put all their stuff out in the driveway and folks can come take it for free. Sadly, we still have a lot of stuff left over.

Anyway, I was out doing some yard work when a mom came up with two boys, probably about 2nd and 4th grade. They were looking at the books when I overheard one of the boys say, "I really want a bike." Well, inside my garage I had my boys' old 24" bikes. I say old, but I bought them for Christmas a few years ago and my boys rode them maybe 10 times. They've been sitting in the garage for years unused. And they're really nice bikes, too. I had them assembled professionally, and upgraded the gear shifters to paddle shifters (or whatever you call them).

So I pulled them both out and said, "All I ever wanted was for somebody to ride these bikes. And if you'll ride them, they're yours." The mom said they had just moved to Austin from California ("Yeah, we're one of those," she said), and that they had to sell their boys' bikes when they left. So it was a win for everybody. I've got the bikes out of my garage, and they went to young boys who will ride them.

Made me happy.

@GibbsEmphasis said in Stupid Is As Stupid Does:

@ttyymmnn How am I supposed to realize I need to get out of the left lane when the kind reminder is written on the back of his truck?

That's the great flaw in his plan.

@MisterButtercup @FourMalibus

Bring back the Glow Puck!

@doodon2whls

@Skyfire77

Big bada boom!

@Rusty-Vandura

I felt the waste of it at the time myself. They sawed the bill off and dumped the carcass in the ocean.

@HammerheadFistpunch said in Everything is Fine:

@ttyymmnn You didn't see this with your own eyes did you?!

No, I found it on the internet. Had I seen it myself, I'd be going the other way.

"Irony" is a difficult word to define, but you know it when you see it.

@Noodles

On one trip, we met up with another boat that was out of bait. We gave them some and, as payback, they called us when they found a prime spot. There was a board floating in the water, and a massive school of mahi mahi underneath. We pulled in fish as fast as we could get the lines in the water, and the mate eventually started cutting up smaller mahis for bait. It was quite a haul, and we ate very well that night.

@Chariotoflove

Be sure you tow it outside of the environment.

@farscythe

The downward pressure on that hitch must be significant.