At least you're not "wine-ing" about it. Ohhhh! I'll be here all day. Actually, no I won't, I have an EKO on my heart at 0715 this morning.Good morning from ATX. Happily still counting myself amongst other upright walkers.
Have a good one
I can't play music except CD or phonographs et.al. but if I could a sax would be in the top three. Piano and guitar are the others.
I probably read that article when it was written. I remember reading John Fetterman's articles.Ahead of Memorial Day I think this is something all you folks, especially the veterans, will want to read.
A quick aside: Yesterday a woman I know who is an accomplished Washington-based journalist called me to tell me that her father had been inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, and while touring the building where it is housed she saw my plaque, unaware I was a member.
The fact that her father, John Fetterman, hadn't already been in the HOF was a travesty, because all would-be newswriters back when I was a kid grew up admiring his work. Here a piece for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968: The story of a young Kentucky kid killed in Vietnam being brought back to his hometown for burial:
Look back | PFC. Gibson comes home
The family hoped the story would show the story behind each statistic of deathwww.courier-journal.com
There are a thousand what ifs. You might be alive because you were standing a foot away. You were on a chopper today instead of yesterday. You made a mistake, but got lucky and the other guy didn't.Ahead of Memorial Day I think this is something all you folks, especially the veterans, will want to read.
A quick aside: Yesterday a woman I know who is an accomplished Washington-based journalist called me to tell me that her father had been inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, and while touring the building where it is housed she saw my plaque, unaware I was a member.
The fact that her father, John Fetterman, hadn't already been in the HOF was a travesty, because all would-be newswriters back when I was a kid grew up admiring his work. Here a piece for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968: The story of a young Kentucky kid killed in Vietnam being brought back to his hometown for burial:
Look back | PFC. Gibson comes home
The family hoped the story would show the story behind each statistic of deathwww.courier-journal.com
The sax sound is so cool. Only reason he chose to play it is because older sister stopped playing & it was the instrument laying around the house. Family had bought 2nd hand for $120. LOL. He volunteered for the jazz ensemble which is where the solos were. Only four total solos. Goes to school early couple days a week to practice. Oh yea, I'm music & playing clueless.
Or like my former BIL not getting on that first helicopter but for some reason getting on the second. That decision saved his life.
Yep. A chopper that made a regular run from my area to DaNang was shot down and everyone aboard died. I was on the next day's run. They had trouble getting enough chopper pilots.
Bigger than my biggest ever. My biggest was just over 6lbs. Biggest fish I ever caught was a 13 1/12 lb catfish while bass fishing.
My brother in law was an excellent guitar player. He chewed his finger tips and then he would use a nail file to grind them down so he could feel the strings.
Several years ago, I was having spells where I passed out. They sent me to heart docs with all kinds of tests, including stress tests. I guess they figured heart problems were the most serious, so they wanted to go there first. Good heart, but still passing out. Then they sent me to a neurosurgeon who told me I had a growth on my brain and he wanted to do surgery. I told my family doc, if I'm going to have brain surgery, I want a second opinion from a top of the line guy. He sent me to Memphis to a world class guy (who knew and acted like he was extra special). He called the first neurosurgeon a clown and told me to go home and see an ENT, and quit wasting his time.
MORNING LEGIONNAIRES!
64° this morning with a high of 82° expected.
Had the EKO yesterday and ask the person doing the EKO how it came out and he said that I will be told at the end of all of my testing's what the results are. Have had about 4 appointments so far, doctor's first direct checkup, an EKG (3 of them), and the EKO yesterday. Tuesday is the stress test. Not sure if that will be the final test before they tell me anything so...All of this since my March 2nd chest pains. Sure takes a while to get any real answers around here. I guess if there was any real problems, they would have already notified me (one would hope).
Stopped by my old office yesterday after the EKO appointment and my old co-workers were asking me when I was returning. There is a rumor that I was coming back to take the now vacant supervisor's position. "News to me" I told them. My last supervisor (before they hired the new guy when she took a higher position) was there helping out, and the next level supervisor was also, and they ask if was I ready to come back (semi-joking I now suspect). Apparently, there are some issues with taking care of the AIT (Advanced Individual Training) and BCT (Basic Combat Training) units with the current workers and issues with the CTO (Central ticketing office) and those workers. I told them before I left that the new supervisor they hired was the wrong hire. He is now in another job. He was/is a jerk and is the reason I retired at that time. They offered the job to me before I retired but, I had plans of retiring a few years after the hiring so, I deferred hoping they would give it to the lady who had been there for over 15 years and was very knowledgeable. Nope, so as soon as they hired the "Jerk" (apologies to Steve) I dropped my retirement paperwork.
Well, enough of that, Happy Friday to all of you (especially you grinders) and God Bless.
You impressed the hell out of me for putting in the two hours!
That looks painful.Good Noon Legionnaires!
64° earlier this morning so, I went fishing. Fishing Report Follows:
Both good and bad report. Bad first: Bass won the day as I hooked 6 and only landed 2. No doubt there would have been personal best sizes today as the pull from a couple that got away rivaled the one pictured below.
The good: The one pictured below. 6.9lbs.
Good Noon Legionnaires!
64° earlier this morning so, I went fishing. Fishing Report Follows:
Both good and bad report. Bad first: Bass won the day as I hooked 6 and only landed 2. No doubt there would have been personal best sizes today as the pull from a couple that got away rivaled the one pictured below.
The good: The one pictured below. 6.9lbs.
