Home on R&R…
Landed in Orlando, Florida just before noon and was picked up by my wife. It was great to see her after being away from home for so long. We spent the day and night in the city reaquainting ourselves...
View ArticleBadass of the week- Abram Heller
Coasties get a lot of ribbing by the regular services, but these are the guys that are patrolling our shores and putting their lives on the line to save anyone who gets in harms’ way. From drug...
View ArticleBadass of the week- Nikola Tesla
Image courtesy of Wikipedia If there was one man who could have been a real life super villan, he had all the tools to do it. Tesla was an undisputed super genius (possibly to the point of insanity)...
View ArticleWow!
I saw this and had to pass it along: Meet Jarno Smeets, a mechanical engineer who has invented a device that allows him to takoff, fly and land like a bird with what he calls a “semi human powered...
View ArticleStory interrupted…
Been home for a while now and haven’t blogged in a while. Writing has been displaced by a normal life full of the normal distractions. I think about writing of our Costa Rican vacation that we took...
View ArticleFinding time to blog back in the real world
Jeez! SO much to write about but no time to do it. I don’t think I’ll catch up with everything that went on during my leave and return to Afghanistan, but may do it as more time is freed up. I was...
View ArticleChristmas Eve preps if described by NASA’s Mission Control
The link below is an audio file I preserved from my days working at Kennedy Space Center on the Space Shuttle. Don’t remember where I got it from, but I choose to keep it alive by posting it every year...
View ArticleTurned 50, not acting like it
What kind of idiot has two thumbs and would run a Spartan Super obstacle race on his 50th birthday? This guy… It was the most fun thing I have done in a while and I felt good afterwards… just one small...
View ArticleFirst how to video
I just posted my first how to video on changing the brake pads on the Phoenix motor glider. I will be making new videos on maintenance procedures for the aircraft in the future, so watch for them.
View ArticleWhat drives your inspiration?
I’ve always been a fan of horror- now someone I know is helping to make a movie in one of my favorite genres. My nephew is co-producing an indie horror movie called Muse. Want to get in on it? Click...
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