The plan was to fly dad’s plane (a.k.a. the “Hangar Queen“) up to Washburn so that I could practice a few landings at that airport. During the preflight, I noticed the gas gauge for the left tank was completely at empty. This shouldn’t have been so, since it had been topped off when we used [...]
May 30, 2009 Leave a Comment
May 28, 2009 Leave a Comment
A poem about Patrick Duffy.
I was asked (for $5) to write a poem about Patrick Duffy and his work in the TV show Dallas. I’ve never seen Dallas, so I grumped about the impending Google “research” it would require to pull that off. Here is the poem: Patrick Duffy Poem Patrick Duffy hopped out of the shower rendered a [...]
May 27, 2009 Leave a Comment
The difficulty with signage, Part 2.
Well, first there was this post, discussing signs. This past weekend I was able to spend a lot of time with a friend and his parents, and one of the things we did was go to Ft. Abraham Lincoln State Park. This site features some reconstructed fort buildings, the Custer house, and a replica of [...]
