tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55800522011-07-14T20:40:31.577-04:00Bob BairdHow can you speak of love if you have no money? --Kiko
Shinagawa, Okinawa 1968Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.comBlogger5571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-63576075969912704332007-05-21T12:31:00.000-04:002007-05-21T12:34:26.428-04:00~POSTS~Maybe I'll try to contact Katie via the B loggeer line. Let's give it a try.BobKatie... you there?Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-21967037927747079482007-05-21T12:26:00.000-04:002007-05-21T12:29:46.681-04:00~NEW DAY~Well, here it is... a new day breaking.The idea is to go check out the guy at Myers Tansport and maybe spend my free time this year running a cab. We'll see. Wish me luck.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-73779453347445885862007-05-19T11:16:00.000-04:002007-05-19T11:17:26.621-04:00~I"LL TRY AGAIN~Well, lt's try Katie again.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-71643553861635080482007-05-19T10:46:00.000-04:002007-05-19T10:57:25.193-04:00~WELL~The computer drones have discovered the wifi in Sanford. I guess that's a good thing. One thing that I've noticed is that everyone has a bigger and nicer computer than I do. And the lady aross from me has a micro scanner and printer and has enough junk to carry around that she has luggage (!) I guess she's happy but my goodness... this is the "personal"computer. Yikes.Well, I'll stick with Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-48308157017326995692007-05-18T12:43:00.000-04:002007-05-18T12:50:03.747-04:00I'm still sitting in the Sanford librarysoaking up the free wifi. It's amazing to see what Americans have done. Where else could we develop a place like this.... a place full of promise where bums sleep in the lobby while air conditioned. I'll admit it... that's the biggest reason why I'm here: air conditioing. Where else can coolness ever dominate? I love it.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-83713960247221118342007-05-18T11:37:00.000-04:002007-05-18T11:46:25.336-04:00~WELL~Here's a first... I got on to Blogger without a hassle. Amazing what you can do if you remem ber all of the arcania that is associated with blogging.I'm killing time in the Sanford library and sending a email to the kidlet. I don't think that it'll work We'll see. I still haven't found the memory stick with the first six chapter of that most recent book on it. This has tuned into a mysteryBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-29426130767783907182007-05-17T13:10:00.000-04:002007-05-17T13:20:23.733-04:00~POST~Well, I guess that I finally remembered my username.God, maybe I am braindead. I'm just hopeing that Kathryn checks out the post to see if I'm trying to talk to her. I phoned the lady at workers comp this morning and she said that she would call me back this afternoon. Doesn't seem like such a high priority does it? We'll see. In the menwhile, the Sanford library is air conditioned, right? Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-53675426051233795382007-05-15T12:11:00.000-04:002007-05-15T12:25:11.889-04:00_STRUGGLE#Well it's a struggle to get anything through. I called the numbr for Katie and got Stan. Well. Her address over there is no good. Endless hassles. Hmmm. Seems to be working now. I'm sure that it is my fault somehow I'll keep plodding forward. Surely there is an end to this eventually. Anyhow, I'm pretty sure that it is OK over there and the kidlet just neds an infusion of daddyness. Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-59705143430397317072007-05-10T13:52:00.000-04:002007-05-10T14:04:49.500-04:00~WELL~I'm sittting in the Sanford library. Nice plaace to camp. They have a very accessible wifi system. At first I wanted to go to the Orlando downtown library but this is handier. Originally I went into the Gook section of Orlando so that I could get a beard trim but the guy that I usuallly go to wan't working today so I have to put it of until tomorrow. Oh, well.I think that I'll research theBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-64292486041351915012007-04-24T13:55:00.000-04:002007-04-24T14:03:26.699-04:00- QUIET LIFE -I went in to Sanford Middle this morning for the morning. Now I'm sitting in the library this afternoon doing some writing and using the wifi facilities here in the Sanford library.I've been going through the craid list for Orlando and for Saford looking for a cheap place to camp. No rest for the weary.I figure that I need new digs.I need Tommy... and some distance. I think Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-31206842030630675422007-04-21T14:09:00.000-04:002007-04-21T14:24:36.202-04:00-- WELL --It's been a while. No good news. I've been winging it solo for a while. I'm just slogging along. Kathryn has moved to the west coast... they seem to like the gulf coast,god knows why, but thats the new mantra. Maybe they just got tired of the dad.... anyhow.Anyhow... Tommy and Sandy are off for a visit to Italy so I'm on my best behavior. The redhead watches over me... and I got oneBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-43016136662477738572007-03-19T22:21:00.000-04:002008-12-09T04:14:26.561-05:00~OOPS~I know a guy who flew his experimental plane into oncoming highway traffic yesterday. Hwy 441 runs right alongside the fence to the Leesburg airport and this guy did a loop and hit a car... yow!Oops! Look at that thing. He left that thing over at Leesburg... hanger time is hard to come byI guess. And I'm a guy who knows how much the liability coverage for one of those things costs. Ouch! Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-56761143533694615982007-03-18T23:42:00.000-04:002007-03-18T23:55:04.360-04:00~ARM?~Here's something that'll scare the pookie out of you. Here's the link:http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=20982Oh, dear.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-37791958271148585742007-03-17T22:54:00.000-04:002008-12-09T04:14:26.734-05:00~JOHN MCPHEE~I started thinking about a special writer tonight after a Clancy novel got put on TV... about a terrorist's deployment of a small nuclear bomb. The story resulted in a "happy" ending, but it got me thinking about a more realistic story line... and about a book that was written when my friend John McPhee wrote in the 70s about the father of micronukes Ted Taylor: "The Curve of BindingBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-9706398387733054722007-03-16T02:42:00.000-04:002008-12-09T04:14:26.747-05:00~DUKE~ My favorite gung ho movie was on TV last night - Green Beret. Interesting that this is perhaps the sole pro-American movie in a whole culture of Americans-are-badguys movies... but Wayne has a whole bunch of guys like George Takei (Sulu on Star Trek who took time off of his money maker to follow the Duke in starring in this) Face it... my generation saw Duke as The Man they wanted to be Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-19647224428349889782007-03-14T13:50:00.000-04:002008-12-09T04:14:26.889-05:00~THE WHO~ The redhead is a big Who fan so we went over to the Tampa Fairgrounds to see The Who last night. Nice ride but the concert was a nogo. We went to have a good Cuban meal and made a night of it when the concert was cancelled. Daltry got sick. They came out Daltry couldn't make any noise. A few moments later Townshend came out and explained what was going on. I guess they figured that if Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-19433605131054436682007-03-13T02:00:00.000-04:002008-12-09T04:14:27.028-05:00~STEPH THE TUNA KILLER~ Well, we went to Destin last weekend to open up the season. I got four fair sized grouper and three reds. Steph got a nice tuna promised to feed everyone.The big queen redhead actually managed to go fishing without getting seasick That in itself made the day a success. Interesting... for the first time we took the redhead's three pound yorkie with us and the tiny thing Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-11584037447233199382007-03-12T00:34:00.000-04:002008-12-09T04:14:27.215-05:00~CT g2 50 cal~Hey, I've been a good boy. Well, fairly good. Got myself a new toy... a fifty cal Thompson contender to keep my 45-70 old style TC company. That used to be the largest metallic wildcat that I could brag about. The Lee Book says that "reloading the 45-70 requires great peace of mind." Let's go shooting. I'm ready to start a new collection of G2 barrels. Hoo Rah.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-67836589771030539622007-03-10T19:15:00.000-05:002007-03-10T19:20:41.752-05:00~FOX DISSED BY LIBS~This is the latest from the loonie left:Here's the link.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-50787342877687551932007-03-09T22:14:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:27.412-05:00~COBRA~Just about the time I'm set up to kick ass... I mean after all... a pocket rocket is what that Velocity is... some old timers from Jax, guys at Cecil Field begin to use the Sanford airport to stage some AH-1Ws for training. Damn... drool drool. The first Cobras. Lookie lookie. Lousy picture but what can I do?BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-14548803746069649462007-03-08T23:15:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:27.500-05:00~Evelyn Keyes~Sue Ellen, the sister in Gone With The Wind, was in another movie last night. Good old Turner Classics. Evelyn Keyes in Dangerous Blondes came on the historical film line. She makes a good blonde as well as the sister that made her famous.She was married to Artie Shaw. As his widow she sued for his money. She lives on. 91 now and still working. Cute. She also was in the feature, Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-32476659961263393552007-03-06T00:14:00.000-05:002007-03-06T00:38:53.308-05:00~RUSS MAMAS HUSH PUPS~I'll have you know that that kid Russ's mama has a recipe for hush puppies that is to die for. We ate a lot of cornmeal based foods when I was growing up because corn meal was cheap. In fact,we could even take grain to the local mill and have it ground into flour, meal, livestock feed,etc. Cornbread or biscuits were almost always served at any meal I attended at many houses Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-5271173093712427242007-03-05T23:54:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:27.599-05:00~RUSS~ Hey... it was his first speck. Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-22876223838197933432007-03-01T18:32:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:27.650-05:00~CRANDALL~ Medal of Honor for pilot Lt.P. Crandall. Army pilot who in 1965 qualified for the award in the very first engagement with the VC that was glorified in that movie We Were Soldiers. Finally he got the MOH without being dead. Amazing.Class act. BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-59408569156102004432007-02-25T00:31:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:27.704-05:00~RICKIE LEE~ They say that Rickie Lee Jones is the female equivalent of Tom Waits. That pleases me no end. She was on Sound Stage tonight and completely filled my tanks with her special brand of goodness.All her quiet sadness continues to fill me with the sixties. There are lines around her mouth these days but the voice is still the same. I used to have a picture of her sitting with Waits. Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-27844095488513436222007-02-24T11:57:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:27.929-05:00~VIAGRA? WHAT?~ I went down to S. Fla. this morning to get some training using a variable pitch prop that I managed to pick up. This will make it possible to muscle my little Velocity in an ascending power lift. A necessary component for doing arobatic slips. That's a polite way of saying that you can do things that you probably shouldn't... at two hundred miles an hour. Anyhow, the factory wantsBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-6190897776922135052007-02-19T12:30:00.000-05:002007-02-19T13:06:54.332-05:00~JAN./FEB. book list~Not much free reading in the last two months... but here it is:The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle (this beast is nine thousand pages long. Why did I think that Carlyle would know why it happened? The last time I plowed through this thing I was a college student. Sigh.)Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by R.H. Davis (Letters from Davis to his family along Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-15790236442410093602007-02-18T21:49:00.000-05:002007-02-18T21:51:16.432-05:00~UH... ERIC~Hey, bud... maybe you should read this. Here's the link:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EXECUTION_MANUAL?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=USBobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-34274619924391553962007-02-18T21:13:00.000-05:002007-02-18T21:22:03.390-05:00~12 YEAR OLD "EMO" CUTTIST"I don't know what to make of this. Where does this come from and what can we do, as parents, to put this kind of foolishness at the end place? Good grief. Check the link:http://www.local6.com/news/11026527/detail.htmlBobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-67424121753808047262007-02-16T22:03:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:28.051-05:00~CAJUN WOMEN~For the last week or so I've been enjoying that cajun guy... his sense of humor, his pictures from work. The real deal.I have a friend from that wetland. She's one of them good looking coonass women who made Houma the kind of place where a fella can pull up a chair in her kitchen and take his time working through a plate full of catfish pulled up on the bank behind the house. The Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-89820804258870626172007-02-15T17:34:00.000-05:002007-02-15T17:41:40.846-05:00~HIZ ZONNER~I'll have to admit... this is one of the ugliest woman to ever run for POTUS. Here's the link:http://youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-60391901654174811832007-02-11T19:47:00.000-05:002007-02-09T22:11:18.425-05:00~WELL...~I had this idea that if I got closer to my kith and kin that I would have more "quality time" with my family than I had been experiencing. I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean, but I don't think that it has been held up to the light of day. Anyhow, my transition from DCF and DJJ to the classroom via Excel is supposed to give me a quieter life but what I'm finding is that the returnBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-88265696328102172432007-02-09T20:37:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:28.218-05:00~FRENCH TOURISTAS~I got the wine we bought in Provence this afternoon and I went through some of the pics I made of MA and her Mom walking in the footsteps of Cezanne there in the downtown hotbed of Aix. Dr. Mary was oblivious but her New York Mom was terrified of that tall black dude walking behind them. Well, I'll admit to being oblivious too. Of course, the city fathers of Aix knew a good Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-6567044312518661372007-02-04T12:25:00.000-05:002007-02-04T12:53:29.852-05:00~CAJUN HOHO~If you look over to the right you'll see Mostly Cajun. Besides the fact that he is one of those country boys who are honest to God conservatives, the guy has a superb sense of humor. I've already stolen one of his jokes... here's another:A Cajun named Thibodeaux went to his doctor to determine the source of his malady.The doctor, after a lengthy examination, sighed and looked Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-42193844621775321182007-01-30T20:04:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:28.317-05:00~FREE ENTERPRISE~I tell you... it's like a power that can not be denied. That man on the green mile who put the breath of life back into the mouse... he was just saying something that God had in mind. Same here. Some things really aren't meant to be commercial. Here's the link:http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21141340-421,00.htmlBobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-83368328049204783762007-01-28T12:34:00.000-05:002007-01-28T12:44:15.225-05:00~COWARDS~Academic liberalism is actually just the residue of failed Marxism. In the meanwhile, guys like this are saying it like it is. Here we go again:Recent surveys confirm that university faculties have been tilting steadily leftward, but I think it is wrong to assume they have been tilting toward “liberalism” as is commonly assumed. Liberalism worthy of the name emphasizes freedom of the Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-70811021716736295592007-01-28T11:36:00.000-05:002007-01-28T11:45:28.539-05:00~A JOKE~The folks over at Mostly Cajun sent out a Joke---A young boy, about eight years old, was at the store picking out a large box of laundry detergent.The grocer walked over and, trying to be friendly, asked the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do.“Oh, no laundry,” the boy said. “I’m going to wash my dog.”“But you shouldn’t use this to wash your dog. It’s very powerful and if you wash your Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-11824762747590348282007-01-27T15:02:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:28.464-05:00~RIO~I was watching Discovery this afternoon and they had a program about the iPod phenom. It was pretty good, but it didn't get to the core of the thing for me. I own an iPod. In fact, I own (I should say used to own) one of the new units that has a mass of memory onboard and plays videos... it's nice, but has the same limitations as the Gen 1 iPod had... by that I mean, you still have a fragileBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-75319613768461228752007-01-26T14:21:00.000-05:002008-12-09T04:14:28.606-05:00~WARI~This is a ceremonial skull that was found in Peru of the Wari Empire, a group that predated the Inca by 1,o00 to 1,500 years. What's interesting about it was that it was used as a trophy. Mounting holes are clear. Hard core... eh? Here's the link: http://www.livescience.com/history/070124_trophy_skull.html Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1169607047086828512007-01-23T21:26:00.001-05:002007-01-24T01:22:21.061-05:00~FLOOD?~I'm reading about the Army Corp of Engineers trying to assure the citizens that even if the old and frighteningly dangerous dam at Lake Cumberland (is that spelled right? I don't want Eric pouncing on my proofreading again... it seems I can't spell my grandfather's home town). They say that there is not much risk of a failure of the dam which would put a whole lot of Kentucky and Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1169408323619365972007-01-21T14:33:00.000-05:002007-01-21T14:48:51.623-05:00~DENNY DOHERTY RIP~Main male voice of the Mamas and Papas Denny Doherty died Friday of kidney failure. He had been on dialysis for a while and finally lost. So long buddy.Here's the link -- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2007/01/19/entertainment/e133017S15.DTLBobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1169406310833633702007-01-21T14:00:00.000-05:002007-01-21T14:05:10.866-05:00~LOCAL NEWS~There's a local guy who is butt grabbing at a local mall who has managed to get into the paper. No injury, just butt grabbing. So this is news? Here's the link: http://www.local6.com/news/10781796/detail.htmlAh, only in America.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1169273018071140612007-01-20T00:59:00.000-05:002007-01-20T01:03:38.096-05:00Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1169265221774397542007-01-19T22:48:00.000-05:002007-01-19T22:53:41.790-05:00~Paradise Point~ I'd like to think that this was one of those movies that caught the spirit of those times. What ever... Bravo found the money to put it on the box. Now ask me about my dreams this evening. Bravo! BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1169149995275904112007-01-18T13:52:00.001-05:002007-01-22T01:25:40.063-05:00~PASTY~It seems that all the bloggers on my paper route have discovered cooking. At least the love of cookery seems to be one of the key things in the lives of the pyjama wearing set. Anyhow, I decided to look into my own behavior and see if I fit. Now, I'm no cook in the Cooking With Julia fashion. I'm a guy who lives on a boat and don't have the kitchen skills necessary to be a chef. My cookeryBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1169066187027730872007-01-17T15:24:00.000-05:002007-01-17T15:42:49.710-05:00~BUM IS BACK~My friends Pat and Ali completed their circumnavigation over Christmas and have been loafing around Grenada waiting for the snow to melt in the frozen North. And wating for their folks to fly down for Santa Day. Nothing like having your family join you in paradise for the holidays. Here's a picture of the boat as the pot of gold at the end of a raindow while the owners are out Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1168831386249217202007-01-14T22:10:00.000-05:002007-01-14T22:23:06.276-05:00~Tenn. hunter~These guys from Tenn. are really a hoot! Eric... you know this guy?Here's the link: http://chattanoogan.com/articles/article_99710.aspBobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1168808314926055672007-01-14T15:54:00.000-05:002007-01-14T15:58:34.943-05:00~50 cal ~ Just a typical sniper team in today's Corps. Let's go shooting. Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1168633568494104572007-01-12T15:22:00.000-05:002007-01-12T15:26:08.520-05:00Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1168488937485999892007-01-10T23:08:00.000-05:002007-01-10T23:15:37.500-05:00~A SCOTSMAN~This guy has decided to ride a surfboard from Scotland to the US, then ride it back. I guess that in it self is proof of where the guy is from. Ya gotta love it. Here's the link: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2151687.htmlBobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1168472866221677622007-01-10T18:39:00.000-05:002007-01-10T18:47:46.236-05:00~Iwao Takamoto RIP~ Zoinks! The creator of Scooby Doo died yesterday. He was also a major actor with several generations of characters. Notably Cinderella, PeterPan,Lady and the Tramp... and The Flintstones. Imagine that! Sixty years of toons. Rest in Peace. You'll be misssed. Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1168347424280587932007-01-09T07:51:00.000-05:002007-01-09T07:57:35.506-05:00~41-14~Yeah. That's right. For a moment there (like the first fifteen seconds of the game) it looked like it was gonna be classic gator football.. you know, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory... but the defense was too much. Ohio never got off the bus. This is sweet. National champs in football and basketball together in the same season. Life is good!BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167963652382432102007-01-04T21:06:00.000-05:002007-01-04T21:20:52.413-05:00~AOPA Expo Tampa~ Even with the old paintjob... blue ribbon in the owner made experimental category. Automatic boner! Also, the 360 has been installed and we're up to about 180-210 mph now. The three spike prop makes this baby go straight up. It's like a jet. Like I said... autoboner.Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167804593183383502007-01-03T01:02:00.000-05:002007-01-03T01:09:53.203-05:00Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167796504260780732007-01-02T22:37:00.000-05:002007-01-02T22:55:04.276-05:00~XMAS~ Like I say, Christmas is not my favorite time of year. No school, no work, nothing to do but sit around and goof off. Me... I can only hang around the airport for so long before I start going nuts. Besides, playing with bags of nylon wing chutes is actually more expensive than playing with sailboats. There I was trying to get to my buddy Tommy's place over in St. Cloud (he lives on a Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167756074586113272007-01-02T11:24:00.000-05:002007-01-02T11:41:14.600-05:00~DARWIN~Elaine (the Redhead) accumulates Darwin Awards. I like this one:AND THE WINNER: FROM G-E-R-M-A-N-Y is.... Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167531168248753472006-12-30T21:01:00.000-05:002006-12-30T21:12:48.263-05:00~DEATH PIC~ The head of this particular snake has been struck from his body and I for one am glad to see him go. Now I'm sure that there are plenty of people from the liberal left loser class who wanted him to be made king, but I... and I'm sure that are more than a few... am delighted to see his rotting corpse hanging from the gibbet as food for the crows. So long asshole. See you in hell. Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167357138197047502006-12-28T20:39:00.000-05:002006-12-28T20:52:18.216-05:00~BALI~I fell across an ebay source of Durian candy from Indonesia. The durian is one of those fruits that you hear about and hear about, but can't get any place but the Pacific rim. It's a spiney monkey goodie that smells just awful but tastes to die for. My daughter and I turned on to it a decade ago when we took my boat to Indonesia, and put some of it in the mouth on a dare, and have been Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167198247996627982006-12-27T00:41:00.000-05:002006-12-27T00:44:08.013-05:00~PRESIDENT FORD RIP~ 1013-2006. A good man. Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167192792252785902006-12-26T23:10:00.000-05:002006-12-26T23:13:12.253-05:00~JUMP~Hey.... watch your stepBob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167192005993515442006-12-26T22:52:00.000-05:002006-12-26T23:07:56.266-05:00~HALO~OK. What did you do for your Xmas day? This is the pre-jump step where you load up on O2. Saturate your bloodstream with oxygen.BobThe pre-jump is the weenie way of making the jump. Asures you of having enough juice in your goose to find your way down without having special equiptment, bottles and stuff like that.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167081987539125172006-12-25T16:15:00.000-05:002006-12-25T16:26:27.556-05:00~HOUSE~ I got a copy of a picture of the house on Cleveland Ave. that was used in the movie The Christmas Story that was in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Xmas Day. It's been restored and I notice that they have the infamous leg lamp in the front window. Fixed up nice, eh?All together now.... You'll shoot your eye out kid! Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1167063878479108212006-12-25T11:18:00.000-05:002006-12-25T11:24:38.496-05:00~JAMES BROWN RIP~ Seventy three ain't so old. Right? Right? Damned... pneumonia. Must have missed putting his cape around himself. Frankly, I can't imagine him as gone. This is gonna take some adjusting. He just wasn't all that old. Right? Right? Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1166905510570053522006-12-23T15:20:00.000-05:002006-12-23T15:31:49.033-05:00~TWO...ornaments on death's Christmas Tree. Actually, I think they're Black Vultures. What a day!BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1166568751046994872006-12-19T17:40:00.000-05:002006-12-19T17:52:31.063-05:00~MILKBAR~ The 19th celebrates the first showing of The Clockwork Orange and I thought we should all go down to the Molokai Milkbar to celebrate the event. Ah, the good old days. So all you droogies and dovechics and malchics... say Happy Christmas and all that good stuff, put some lovely, lovely Beethoven on the box.... and try not to get rings on the table. Confession: I once dressed up as Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1166467540262853832006-12-18T13:41:00.000-05:002006-12-18T13:45:40.276-05:00~HOUMA GIRL~This is the kind of barefoot Cajun girl that can get you killed by her French speaking brother within sight of the River. Look at that smile!BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1166465558903099082006-12-18T12:56:00.000-05:002006-12-18T13:12:38.920-05:00~TIRED OF IT~Maybe I'm no good at being cheerful watching other people tooting their own horns, but I've got to admit... I'm really tired of all this "World's Greatest Blogsite" contests. Did I miss something last year? Does this crap have an end?Now Althouse is shilling herself for some kind of award for a homo website: World's Best Queer Diva with a Conservative slant. Excuse me... but ugh. Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1166338555766014182006-12-17T01:42:00.000-05:002006-12-17T01:59:04.063-05:00~CORRINE BAILEY RAE~I have a half baked theory about talent. I think that it can't be planned, or scheduled, or expected. If you see it coming it doesn't ever come up to the hype. It always surprises you and makes you feel pleasantly surprised and gives you a good feeling. That's the way this girl's voice feels. It seems like it sneaks up on you and suddenly makes you want to go buy everything Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1166293099443232172006-12-16T13:16:00.000-05:002006-12-16T13:18:19.456-05:00~WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?~Go look at this link.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1166227076645282622006-12-15T18:32:00.000-05:002006-12-15T19:16:14.243-05:00~XMAS CHEER~I've been camping with my daughter, typing on the latest opus (I figure that I'm about 3/4 through now... still plodding along.) and being fattened up like a prize heifer by the prodigal daughter. The kid has gone on a Mexican food kick. The most recent visible sample is shown here. It looked like a bowl of breakast cereal but it was mighty tastey. I may be ready for slaughter after Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1166142467227617372006-12-14T19:21:00.000-05:002006-12-14T19:27:47.253-05:00~BBC BUMPED~The satellite TV provider from Israel has dumped BBC World in favor of Al-Jazeera (sp?). The move will cost BBC about 50% of its audience. I say... good. I've figured for some time that BBC is a source of anti-Israel/anti-US propaganda. Good. I hope they choke on their own shit.Here's the link.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1166029680255825372006-12-13T12:04:00.000-05:002006-12-13T12:08:00.270-05:00~PETER BOYLE - RIP~ The guy who played Raymond's TV dad, Pete Boyle, died this morning. So long Pete. Thanks for the memories. BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1165857809743975252006-12-11T12:15:00.000-05:002006-12-11T12:26:56.283-05:00~CUPCAKES~Althouse has systematically been pushing my buttons for years. Now she has opened up a can of youknowwhat about cupcakes... sigh! I know that her intentions are good, but doesn't anyone realize how fragile my attachment to day to day life is in this cauldron of politically correctness? Please! Have pity on this divorced single parent daddy who wants to have as normal a childhood for hisBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1165797816401467462006-12-10T19:39:00.000-05:002006-12-10T19:51:18.126-05:00~CATFISH~Here you go Catfish dude . .. Florida fishing...St.John style.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1165795513204483542006-12-10T19:03:00.000-05:002006-12-10T19:05:13.220-05:00~5 SECOND RULE~Try this one out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1z6OCRJVksCute.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1165630660866005732006-12-08T21:10:00.000-05:002006-12-08T21:20:16.530-05:00~ALVARADO~I fell across some black and white photos of a San Francisco artist named Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado, a Philippino laborer who did some very good pieces of his family. When the Smithsonian was looking for some samples of Phillipino photo art this guy was all they could find. Look at those faces of his kids. Beautiful.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1165607300090870962006-12-08T14:44:00.000-05:002006-12-08T14:48:20.103-05:00~J. KIRKPATRICK -- RIP~ Here's the link. There goes the classiest of Reaganites. Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1165604455219318842006-12-08T13:51:00.000-05:002006-12-08T14:00:55.233-05:00 ~CHRISTMAS WITH THE STEEL DRAGONS~Just look at those horsemen. Go gettum guys.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1164992178818532192006-12-01T11:51:00.000-05:002006-12-01T12:01:43.070-05:00~GONE FISHING~All I said was "Let's go fishing". Somewhere Tom said "I think we need a bigger boat!"I always wanted to be able to say that. Just look at the size of that damned thing!BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1164590791803463822006-11-26T20:13:00.000-05:002006-11-26T20:26:32.780-05:00~Khe Sanh Today~ There's a VN travel agent in the complex that my Orlando office is nestled in who has been putting together memory tours for American soldiers. A guy from here in town went to Viet Nam and sent me some photos of my hottest bloodbath that rang my bells. Check this out. Looks like nothing's changed. That's the damned north hill. Jeez. I just had a chill go down my spine. Damn. WhatBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1164509004306625512006-11-25T21:16:00.000-05:002006-11-26T19:21:21.320-05:00~NOV. READING LIST~"The Missing Manual" by J.D. Biersdorfer (must have item for an iPod)"Frontpage 2000" by Sherry London (OK)"Black and White" by Dan Mahoney (OK)"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (very good if you're a McCarthy junkie like me)"The Haunted House and the Haunter" by Thomas De Quincey (old mystery good)"Nine Points of the Law" by E.W.Hornung (old mystery pulp good)"The Good Soldier" byBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1164424161402976862006-11-24T21:17:00.000-05:002006-11-24T22:24:41.730-05:00~ ONE SHOT...ONE KILL~A good friend of mine, Rick Flood, is an Army Scout Sniper serving in Iraq. He's in his third tour currently and has the dubious honor of being an expert shooter (for an Army scout I guess that's good. I keep reminding him that he hasn't graduated from the USMC Sniper School... considered to be the best of the best and the guys who coined the sobriquet 'one shot one kill'. Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1164105507862996222006-11-21T04:55:00.000-05:002006-11-21T05:38:28.000-05:00~RUSSIANS~Have I mentioned how much I hate the holidays? Yeah... I know. Every year about this time. Well, my kid hit me up for money to buy presents, including my own, yesterday. Well... here we go again. I'm not a skinflint, but I don't want to buy presents for anybody who thinks that I owe a gift to them. If I want to give one of my relatives a present I'll just buy it... I don't have to haveBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1164009156346207962006-11-20T02:32:00.000-05:002006-11-20T02:52:36.360-05:00~MADOX~ I have been sitting at this table all weekend listening to Scarlotti and rereading Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier"... a story of two couples who are muddeling through adulterous relationships where there are no winners, only losers, and ruminating about my own life. Hopeless, empty, berift of any redeeming virtues... Ford was the very first of the modernists, once shared the Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1163830038298853132006-11-18T01:05:00.000-05:002006-11-18T01:07:18.313-05:00Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1163707796150604352006-11-16T14:57:00.000-05:002006-11-16T15:09:56.170-05:00~LOOK OUT~ Tom's youngest daughter Ashley got married last weekend. I told her to please email me photos of the event because they were doing it at the hotel where "The Shining" was shot out on Mt. Hood. There were a few hitches, not the least was the fact that there was 25 inches of show on the mountain. The wedding party had to go to the chapel via snow cat. Jack Nicholson didn't show but Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1162887179525306992006-11-07T03:08:00.000-05:002006-11-07T03:12:59.540-05:00~BOMB~ Here's a UTube clip of a ordinance bomb from Iraq. Check it out. Here's the link. BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1162866406575086612006-11-06T19:32:00.000-05:002006-11-06T22:43:03.443-05:00~WELL...~The first volley in the silly season is winding down. Tomorrow is put up or shut up day. Me? I'll be voting my usual split and torn up ticket. First of all, I've decided not to vote for Charlie Stuart. When I thought about it, I decided that while I like Charlie and I like his brother George, I decided that there were too many negatives for me to vote for Charlie in the house seat that Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1162516379978263542006-11-02T19:36:00.000-05:002006-11-02T20:20:50.886-05:00~KERRY~UGH!~John Kerry continues to try to live through the Vietnam War. That's an interesting phenomenon, and guys in my demographic are very familiar with it. Go find a guy of that age (40-60) and start a conversation and soon you will find yourself arguing about that evil monster Richard Nixon and that evil monster "the military hegemony", and the evil CIA....in other words, everything Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1162312329258884332006-10-31T11:29:00.000-05:002006-10-31T11:32:09.286-05:00~JOKE~Here's a email from Tom:> Little Leroy came into the kitchen where his mother was makingdinner.> >> His birthday was coming up and he thought this was a good time to> tell his> mother what he wanted. Mom, I want a bike for my birthday."> >> Little Leroy was a bit of a troublemaker. He had gotten into trouble> at school and at home. Leroy's mother asked him if he thought he> Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1162156084522594802006-10-29T16:01:00.000-05:002006-10-29T16:08:04.536-05:00~YIKES~ And now, from the wilds of Hamilton.... the happy crapper still is out there. Perhaps gearing up to visit your house. Got Charmin?Check out this link. You can't invent this kind of stuff. Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1161996551729582572006-10-27T20:43:00.000-04:002006-10-27T20:49:11.743-04:00JONI REDUXI dreamed that you were dead. She spoke these wordsInto the dark. We lay among the sheetsOf satiated dreams. I thought I heardHer raise her hand to push away defeat.I'm not, I said. But that's the way it went.From bad to worse... from bad to very bad.I'm not, I said... and that is what I meant.And still she took my hand and we were sadThat everything in both our lives could endLike thisBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1161824517488058512006-10-25T20:54:00.000-04:002006-10-25T21:17:09.486-04:00~BENITO RIP~Benito Martinez, world's oldest living man, 126 year old Cuban, died yesterday in hospital in Cuba. Benito moved to Cuba in 1880 from Haiti, attributes his longivity to going easy on cigars, on booze, hard work, and not marrying.The Cubans actually have a club of 120 year olds. I may move... there must be something in the coffee. Tell me -- have you ever seen a Haitian that has lived Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1161695305396244572006-10-24T09:03:00.000-04:002006-10-24T09:08:25.413-04:00~TONIGHT~ This is it for Rollins. Unless the high court intercedes the switch gets flipped on the Gainesville killer tonight at 6 PM. Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1161284990710672102006-10-19T14:41:00.000-04:002006-10-19T15:18:28.683-04:00~POLITICAL STUFF~It was once said that all politics is local, and I think that I agree with that, and I got a big dose of that truism today: I was jabbering with a friend of mine... George Stuart... about his brother (Charlie Stuart (D)) running for House of Reps. District 8 against incumbent Rick Keller (R). I went to school with George. Trusty ole Edgewater High School in Orlando,FL (class of Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1161193497971143452006-10-18T13:35:00.000-04:002006-10-18T13:44:57.986-04:00~OOPS~ So this guy has this 70 million pound plus Picasso painting in his Vegas office and he's showing it off to some buddies of his when he manages to put his elbow through the thing. The title of the painting is "Dreaming". I'll avoid the obvious joke here. I'll only observe that a more apt name would be "Dickhead", both because of the owner's clumsiness and because the lady pictured does Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1161191445155371802006-10-18T13:05:00.000-04:002006-10-18T13:10:45.170-04:00~KOREAN PLEASURE HOUSE~There are complaints coming out of Korea about whorehouses where customers are using inflatable doll hookers, this because of a recent crackdown on the real thing. Oh, man. I knew there was something about those folks that was a trifle strange. This one should be in the Truth is Stranger Than category. Free enterprise will find a way, eh?Here's the link.BobBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1160785602482370162006-10-13T20:23:00.000-04:002006-10-13T20:26:42.496-04:00 Neat picture from JPL of Saturn approach.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1160757312624031812006-10-13T12:28:00.000-04:002006-10-13T12:35:12.640-04:00OK... so you tell me. On this day in 1307 the Knights Templar were all rounded up and and burned at the stake. Ah, those cool crisp Maltese nights! 10/13/1307. Just to be on the safe side... maybe I'll stay under the covers until tomorrow. Bob Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580052.post-1160591154275329602006-10-11T13:29:00.000-04:002006-10-11T15:01:37.486-04:00~FISH~We took off for some fishing off Anclote Key... killing some and keeping some others. Tarpon are one of those oily, inedible fish that no one wants to put into their mouth but are ever hunted. Fishing was great. Some of the monsters got on the line but I was after meat, not stuff to hang up. The only thing this critter managed to miss was the scale. I'm pretty sure that he was a keeper... Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807995066272144449noreply@blogger.com0