Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Today was a pair of SEAD/Force Protection sorties. Four of us jumped out in front of a four-ship of strikers and practiced weaving in and out of SAM rings and knocked a couple Red Air fighters back a peg or two.
Two sorties in one day! I’ve almost made [...]
Posted in F-16 Operations, USAF | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Wow! Here’s something you don’t want to see the day you buy a stock — a huge drop in price in high volume! Two days ago I purchased shares of a shipping company. The sector looks like it’s doing pretty well, and I picked what looked like the best of the bunch. [...]
Posted in Finance, Stocks | 1 Comment »
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
If you happen to be in the Pacific NW in late Oct/early Nov and like to write on the Internet, Anwyn‘ll be hosting a Blogofogorama in a couple weeks. I hear the main topic will be Saint Peters’ historic defeat of the Islamic Fundamentalist Balrog on the bridge of Lepanto-dûm. Or something [...]
Posted in Internet, Tolkien, What's Right | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Perhaps I should say "Landing of the Stork." Christina and I just welcomed a healthy baby boy into the family.
Mother and son are doing splendidly! Christina spent 2 hours, 19 minutes in labor. This was our first kid, and since I figured she was going to be in labor for a good [...]
Posted in Family & Friends, Homelife | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 5th, 2007
I haven’t written about investing for awhile. I recently sold my holdings in Apple, it gapped up about a week ago and the volume seemed to be drying up. I made my 20% gain on it, although not in the IBD-recommended eight weeks or less. So I sold, making a small profit. [...]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
The 13 FS arrived back at home station today. They flew 13 jets home. Go figure!
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Greetings to visitors from the Cox & Forkum website! I’d love to say to check back here for cartoons, but unfortunately for lack of a picture, a thousand words will have to do. We’ll have plenty of time for commiserating later, we’ve all got to learn to get along without their poignant talent. [...]
Posted in Weltanschauung Viewers | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Let’s see, what did I do today to top off last night’s divert to Hachinohe?
I had the brakes fail on taxi. Then after "New jet, new day" I had the engine fail shortly after takeoff, followed quickly by a successful flame-out approach and landing. Then I took off again [...]
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Tonight’s mission was the long-awaited NVG re-hack. It was the first time I’ve flown at night since June. June of 2006, that is.
The briefing and step were all routine, with the exception that both FNG F and I were out of NVG currency, so I got to be the lucky [...]
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