The best thing anyone's ever said to me came out of the blue, in May 2008, 16 months after my Mom died. Roger (my dad) and I were on their everyday walk up on "the hill". As is typical, we encountered some of their friends, and this time it was three middle-aged ladies Roger introduced by their connection to my Mom. An odd, prolonged quiet followed ( Read more... )

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One of my favorite Republicans is David Brooks. He has a different and as usual, very good column this week. It is a good read for one,like me, who has benefited from ample technical and scientific awareness in the formative years. I thought it might be of interest for LJ Idol buffs, as it points to what often are the most compelling things about ( Read more... )

For months, and months, the back burner of my brain has been trying to figure out and decide what kind of landing gear spring system I should have. Tonight, I've finally figured it out. Yay!

I'll basically copy from a Hatz Biplane. Trust me, it was not easy finding info on how these work, or even enf pictures to figure it out. But I did finally ( Read more... )

A month ago I stumbled across http://chinesepilots.com/default.aspx, a blog from a guy named Jay Yau. Jay bought the same kind of plane I'm building, lives near where I first soloed, flew to Alaska last October, and is doing so again starting Memorial Day wknd ( Read more... )

For the past 48 hours I've been cobbled from my normal high paced life, due to actually taking proper care of a bad cold, and well, feeling awful enf that very few activities seemed doable. It's been weird. The most doable thing was to focus on some work programming projects, and these are things that are normally very difficult to find time for ( Read more... )

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I took my Kolb out for some air time today -- first time since September for both of us. I felt like an idiot for letting a perfectly nice sunny Sunday get past me last week, but this one was just as good, plus daylight savings time seems like a good point to make sure I'm able to get out flying without too much hubbub. My plane still seems like ( Read more... )

Never imagined work could be so different. In the last 12 months our department staff has gone from 11 to 3.5 people. I form the 0.5 part of that as my other 0.5 has been recruited into our parent College ( Read more... )

I used to browse this stuff all the time. I got over it, but some 'favorites', still unsold, pop up in my email occasionally.

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