Recent content by AM64

I read an article a few days ago - can't find it again, but the gist was that Heupel doesn't pressure recruits to sign when they visit, and the kids and their families respect and appreciate that. In turn it leads to a rash of commitments a few days later. This is an excerpt from a different...

Europe. He joined the KS NG when he could - think 1939; it was actually horse mounted cavalry at the time. Took him a long time to get released to Aviation Cadets, so he didn't get to Europe until after D-Day, but the bases started in France, then Belgium, and Germany. He didn't fly a lot of...

Pretty sure that's a hard no, but the impractical is what dreams are made of. My dad was a fighter pilot for 20 some years until he retired from the AF - started out training in a Stearman PT-13 biplane, flew P-47s during WW2, and ended up flying F-101s. When he came back from Korea in 1951...

Would Fereak Would Freak freak if we called it a Freak Show?

Told my wife she could get me one of these for my birthday. Pretty sure from the response it's not happening. Saab even builds them to take off and land on roads.

Anybody else remember listening to the song on the radio when it was popular in the early 50s?

Every 20 minute job is one broken bolt away from being a 3 day nightmare.

How's the new house going?

Little secret I discovered some time ago. Write the password etc down before you ever type it in ... and make damn sure you type what you wrote. Preferred method is type it in a text file and copy and paste. The wife has a new Chromebook that she bought her dad (he died in the middle of Apr)...

There's a reason besides age and feeling it that I quit working on my cars. Although, I did install a hard folding bed cover on the truck Tuesday. There's also a reason that no engineer without field experience should ever be turned loose to design anything. I spent many years working with...

Oh, cheap shot! I'll be 79 in a couple of months and feeling it today. I hope cattle with four legs to stand on are easier to deal with than an addled wife; but you are right, your dad needs to have time for himself and relax. BTW when Slice was talking about taking you fishing a few days...

Is the long view like 5 minutes with Trump pulling the strings?

Yeah, because I asked and didn't give an ultimatum; and because I would uphold my end and pay my obligation even if I didn't live there. I've been through a similar experience. A few months into a job, the company (in Nashville) decided they didn't want to continue on the path (repairing...

Yep, that's what I remember, too. Seems like some things got morphed.

I guess I wasn't clear enough that the lease is not the part in question. The part in question was could I change jobs knowing I had an obligation to your lease. If it's not worth paying for two places or you don't want to amend the lease, I stay put and consider what might have been. Those...