Powered Down

Writing this post is about the last thing to do before it's all packed up and I'm outta here. If you don't hear from me in a month or so, no worries, I'm just enjoying life checking off things on my checklist of life.

See y'all round.

L-day

Turkey? Ham? Couldn't decide which one I wanted for tomorrow, so I chose neither. I have declared T-Day this year to be changed to L-day. I decided on lobster and a small catering truck full of unconventional fixings. Thanksgiving only comes once a year!

And plus, all my kitchen stuff is boxed up.

I know I'm a little ahead of time here, but I may be boxing up my computers in the next 24, so I better yell a super Happy Lobster Day while I can!

It's not Rocket Science

Yes, as a matter of fact, it is.

Farewell Tomcat

The F-14 Tomcat.
An Era soon to come to a close around the end of the decade. Hats off for doing your duty and keeping the CBG, and of course America, safe. Ditto to the daring duos who commanded them, and likewise for all the mechs who kept them in the air, and especially for the designers who invented them with slide rules and computers the size of my house.

Bravo, Tomcat, Bravo.

The Can-Can't-Greatful-Dead list

Silly lists – usually never perpetuate them, but this one caught me thinking. From k_sra.

7 Things I Can Do
1. Kick Ass
2. Design aircraft
3. The splits
4. Influence Strategic Policy
5. Use a pick
6. Party all night and into the dawn
7. Forgive

7 Things I Can't Do
1. Forget
2. Get Stuck on Stupid
3. Not help someone in dire need
4. Change my being
5. Wait for nothing
6. Captain a Yacht
7. Be the bitch

7 Things In My Life I Am Grateful For
1. Oxygen
2. Loyal Friends
3. Bullet Proof Vests
4. Investment Bankers
5. Differential Equations
6. Freedom
7. Cows

7 Things I Would Like To Do Before I Die
1. Earn my Astronaut wings, and live on Earth
2. Get shot out of a cannon, and live uncharred
3. Find a Soul Mate, and live happily ever after
4. Save a Whale, 1st hand, and live on land
5. Drive in a Formula 1 Race, and live in one piece
6. Know the secret, and live to tell
7. Preserve my DNA for use when cloning historic people is the thing to do and live another day.

7 People I Would Like To See Answer This Stupid List
1. N
2. o
3. b
4. o
5. d
6. y
7. .

Tons of Change

I got a second opinion, but I'm still over 30 tons. THIR-TEE TONS. Tons. Looking down the estimated itemized packing list, I guess I can believe it - a few of the highlights:

1. 26,000 lbs of on/off road vehicles
2. 8,600 lbs of misc. antiquities (yes W, this includes a cannon)
3. 3,800 lbs of machining/lab equipment
4. 2,300 lbs of rocks/minerals (could have sworn they were under 1/2 ton)

Just these four were 2/3 of the total, I think now they might be underestimating. Damn they're gonna need two trucks.

Where and why did I get all this stuff? I think I'll have a yard sale.

Also, in case y'all haven't noticed, there are big changes going on in dagworld. Had chat with myself last adventure and liked what I heard. What’s new:
1. I’m moving – Property Secured, should be mountainside by Dec 01
2. I'm retiring – Sold my biz, never work again, I’m officially silly rich.
3. I'm courting – Soul mate here I come.
4. I'm shaving my face – it can always grow back.

Up and Away

Soaring is the closest thing to being a bird.

Pack Rat

Damn. A moving service just left and gave me a quote on the logistics of my relocation. The list totaled out at 64,000 lbs of stuff. I'm going to get a second opinion. There's no friggin' way I have that much stuff.

RoadRage

Finally going through my pics of the last year. I suppose it's about time to share some.

While sitting in road construction and proceeding at the break neck speed of 3 miles an hour, this sign was not a welcome sight.

Paul

Piss me off and I'll send in the heavy..

Evening Nuke

Back Again, Again.

Tired. Seems like I have a lot of catching up to do with recent events.