What cheered you up today?

[Erich]

with a tin roof. dang it is about to ready to rain again for a week ......... who needs this as i will gladly send it your way . . . . ?

 

[Matt308]

You can keep your rain Erich. We have enough thankyou.

Little Matt the Marine. How can that not cheer anybody up?

 

[Erich]

just got a very cool portrait photo signed to the Mrs and myself from another pilot friend of the 356th fg via the mail this afternoon with a nice roster of the squad from 1989 now to go through and see who is still with us .......

 

[Maestro]

My check from my publisher for August 2006 - February 2007 arrived this morning.

I sold four more books ! Three in North America and one in the UK. YAY ! I hope my website will help me to sell more books...

 

[twoeagles]

Just had a 2 minute phone call from my daughter who is into her third week
of Navy boot camp at Great Lakes. She sounds like every recruit in boot camp: telling how much she hates it and can't wait for the 8 weeks to be over, and then telling me all the cool stuff she has been doing and what cool stuff she'll get to try this week. She laughed and I got kinda choked up. Oh yeah - my son solo'd the T-34C at Whiting today...

 

[Matt308]

Well done TwoEagles. Well done.

 

[twoeagles]

Thanks, Matt - it is excrutiatingly lonely and quiet at home now. Kids
around for 22 years, and then none...

 

[Matt308]

I worry about my wife over exactly that. Not sure how she will change gears when the time comes. Have a way to go though.

 

[Henk]

Better you guys than me now for the kids leaving home.

My new job is great. I have such freedom and now we are busy growing even more and will now be changeing owners now we can start to pump money into the shop and do what we see fit to make it grow even more. I realised that I have great friends and should appreciate them more and give them all my support.

 

[Erich]

as for children leaving........well it's a part of life, very strange from busy once and then empty next. think about what our own parents wne through when we left (for those of us who have)

Hendrik look on this positively and not on your comments for the annoyed thread: your ex-boss will pay his dues in time, they all do. the sky is brighter around the corner and do not despair

 

[Henk]

Yes I know Erich, but I can not afford what he is costing me now because of his childish stuff, but yes I must look forward not backwards.

 

[Erich]

you are not working for him anymore correct ? if not you need not look back and move on .......... I was dealt the same blow before I moved into a private practice by a former stooge employer. I thought revenge would be soo sweet, it was not

 

[twoeagles]

A flight of several dozen yodalling Sandhill Cranes flew over my house, far up
in a clear blue sky. Spine tingling noise.

 

[Matt308]

Shhhk, Shhhk... [steady]

 

[Erich]

put it down Matt !

got off the phone with another 356th fg pilot vet. named his P-51 "Stratoliner" after his first mission in November 44 chasing a Fw 190A-8 upwards of 39,000 feet, and popped him. I just made a copy of his ops report and sending out a letter soon ...........

 

[Matt308]

Making some progress with turbulence detection and NASA involvement.

 

[Erich]

that has something to do with the Korean Nukes right ??

 

[mkloby]

Coming up on my mid-stage check for instruments. Halfway to my NATOPS checkride... damn I've been busy! I'm hoping for Saturday and Sunday off!

 

[Heinz]

Picked up a thunderjet kit for a good price

 

[Matt308]

Oh yeah, what brand?

Nothing annoyed me today. Well except Adlers annoying "what annoyed me today" message.