Specifically for MSFS & X-Plane 12. It had BETTER do the VR/Oculus things I want to do!
But I still hate Windows.
Jul
08
Ordered A Spendy Gaming Laptop. Waiting. Waiting.
Jul
08
It’s Just Freakin’ HOT Around Here! Finally!
Jun 22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 Jun 22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 Jun 22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1910 Jun 22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964 Jun 22 The June Days Uprising in Paris begins, 1848 Jun 23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 Jun 23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 Jun 23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 Jun 23 Harriet, Darwin’s turtle died at the age of 176 years, 2006 Jun 23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772 Jun 24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970 Jun 24 The capital of Jamaica, Kingston, is founded, 1664 Jun 25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 Jun 25 Custer’s Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876 Jun 25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950 Jun 26* Social Security Check! Jun 26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 Jun 26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959 Jun 26 Toothbrush invented, 1498 Jun 27 Helen Keller (Author. Survivor) born, 1880 Jun 27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915 Jun 27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971 Jun 27 The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield, London, 1967 Jun 27 Stanley Ingram King born this day in Memphis, Tennessee. (1952) Jun 28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in Sarajevo, marking the beginning of World War I, 1914 Jun 28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Allan Bakke, 1978 Jun 28 World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919 Jun 29* ARRL Field Day! You should have been ready for it by now! Jun 29 The Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom, 1976 Jun 29* ARRL Field Day! You should have been ready for it by now! Jun 30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC Jun 30 “That” explosion in Siberia at 7:17 local time, 1908 Jun 30 Albert Einstein publishes his theory of special relativity, 1905 Jun 30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960 Jul 01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 Jul 01 Hong Kong becomes a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China, 1997 Jul 01 The first day on the Somme marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, 1916 Jul 01 Warsaw Pact officially dissolved, 1991 Jul 02 Vermont abolishes slavery, as the first state, 1777 Jul 03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 Jul 03 Dog days begin Jul 04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 Jul 04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 Jul 04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863 Jul 04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 Jul 04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 Jul 04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845 Jul 05* Date Day! Jul 05 Bikini demonstrated for the first time, 1946 Jul 06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 Jul 06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 Jul 06 First `talkie’ (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928 Jul 06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 Jul 07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 Jul 07 First radio broadcast of “Dragnet”, 1949 Jul 07 Terrorists detonate four bombs on London public transport, 2005
Jun
28
Wet Windy Home Bound 72nd Birthday Celebration Today
Didn’t do anything particularly special. Trimmed back the rose bushes and other plants around the house. Fed the Missionaries (re hydrated pulled BBQ Chicken sandwiches & potato salad. Freeze dried ice cream sandwiches for desert). NMARES (Ham Club) meeting was cancelled so I didn’t have to get out for even that.
Have been out “playing” with my new land plane the past couple of days. Nice! There’s actually some gravel on my driveways. I think this thing will actually be worth the price over the next 20 years or so.
SWMBO’s new door is looking fantastic. Stops me cause it looks like a giant hole where the old door used to be. No mullions or frosty glass in the way of the view.
Jun
21
The First Movie I Ever Watched On HBO was …
1977? We (the Ex- and I) were stationed at the Naval Radio Transmitting Facility just outside Dixon, Calif, (just west of Sacramento and out in the landing pattern for Travis AFB sorta), living on base, and a friend that lived “in town” invited us over to watch “The Car.” James Brolin faces off against Satan’s car from Hell. Still one of my go-to Saturday movies.
I know; HBO started out in 1972, but things worked out such that the above was the first time we saw it. Sucks being a (poor poor) HM3 (E-4) married with children. And all our friends were in the same boat; as it were.
What was yours?
Took all those old cabinets to Habitat today. Brought all of them back. They wouldn’t take them because of “mold” on the outside. I didn’t see it until the guy pointed to several really teeny tiny ‘spots’ on the tops of the cabinets. Sure. Little bit of chlorine mixed in a gallon of water and soaked up in a rag and ran across the tops would have taken care of that problem. But, NOoooooooo. We Can’t Accept That!
So, they’re going to the dump tomorrow. And that’s almost okay with me as long as they leave my house. So I’m chucking a lot of other things I’ve been meaning to get rid of in the trailer also. Might as well be as thorough as I can. Make one trip.
Hate dumping some of this stuff but it’s been laying around the house for ‘just in case I neeeeeed it’ for 15 years in some cases. Time to let it go.
It’s Thursday now and: speaking of movies. Jaws was released this day way back in 1975. I was going to SAR Wetcrewman’s School in Jax, Florida (where they were teaching us to jump out of helicopters into the ocean to rescue folks) and the class advisor advised us NOT to go see it. So we all went and saw it. And wished we hadn’t. Scared the beezeebers outta us!
We got over it, but, daym!
Went and visited the only other Ham in our club that was going to actually do Field Day this year. We decided that since it would be only the two of us we’re not going to do Field Day this year. Especially over at the other Ham’s house when he isn’t even going to be home. So, I’ll tune in from home. Probably drive over to Shelton and visit the South Club’s Field Day and take some pictures for the web site.
Dump sun went well. Dump trailer worked just fine after charging the battery for a couple of hours. Man, that dump trailer makes a dump run easy. I picked the busiest time of the year to go to the dump though. Cars backed up in both the manual unload and dump trailer lines. About 15 cars/trucks in each. Was there about 30 minutes before it was my turn.
Anywho: things to do before hitting the rack!