What Cheered You Up Today?

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I loved the fact they parked the MO nearby.

Where it began, and where it ended...

 

[Gnomey]

 

[Greg Boeser]

New flagstone pavers: $0.39 per pound
A dozen new perennials: $100
Getting buzzed by a B-25: Priceless

 

[Hardlydank]

This didn't happen today but it cheers me up when I think about it. I graduated a month ago and during the ceremony which was outside there were 2 unofficial warbird flyovers. The first was a P-51 a ways off but the 2nd, during the valedictorian speech, a B-17 flew directly over us low. It was beautiful and loud. I'm lucky to live near both a commercial airport and a CAF airbase, so I get to see warbirds flying around occasionally and jetliners constantly.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Just found out that a Japanese Zero crashed near the hangar I am working at during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The wreckage was stored in my hangar for evaluation. They have pics of it on a placard in front of the hangar. Always neat to be sitting in history.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Received a promotion today.

 

[Bucksnort101]

So last night I went to guitar center in search of a guitar case and there was a father and son (around 7 or 8 years old) in the store. The kid was sitting on a bench picking some scales (slowly), happy and proud as can be, when all of a sudden he broke into a song intro. I'll give you one guess as to what song it was

I laughed internally as I wondered how many kids learned this particular riff when first starting out. What's your guess?

 

[Snautzer01]

So last night I went to guitar center in search of a guitar case and there was a father and son (around 7 or 8 years old) in the store. The kid was sitting on a bench picking some scales (slowly), happy and proud as can be, when all of a sudden he broke into a song intro. I'll give you one guess as to what song it was

I laughed internally as I wondered how many kids learned this particular riff when first starting out. What's your guess?

A father of 8 years?, well truly an ealy starter. For the song Ace of Spades by Motörhead comes to mind

 

[Bucksnort101]

Nope, think harder. And the son was 7 or 8, not the father. He was a bit older

 

[at6]

Got my last Covid injection today. Now I'm fully vacced

 

[Airframes]

Yesterday, I was invited to have a look around the two-seat Buchon, and the two-seat "Grace" Spitfire Mk.IX at Sywell, and see if I could actually get in to the rear cockpit of both, with a view to a flight at some point in the future.
Unfortunately, I was so damned stiff and sore, after being on my feet most of the previous day at the airfield, that I wouldn't even have been able to walk out to the aircraft, and I therefore had to give my apologies and decline.
Not a happy bunny !!

Oops ! This should have been in the other thread !!!

 

[Gnomey]

Premiership final: Exeter Chiefs 38-40 Harlequins

CHAMPIONS!!!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Two-day affair: Yesterday I ran my mother's meds up to D/FW. She's staying extra time there for family reasons and after a ten-day vacation was critically short. Because I had to work this morning at 5 AM, I couldn't stay overnight, so I did about 500 miles on my truck Friday. Saw my mom and my cousins for about an hour, and then did the didimao back home so I could work today. Good thing #1: saw my mom in her time of grief, and my two favorite cousins, so could offer some personal solace.

It so happened that until the Med Emergency (which I was told of Thursday night) scuppered my Friday plans: I had booked yesterday to change the oil in my truck, recharge the A/C, and do other touch-up maintenance. Yesterday being relatively unavailable for shade-tree work, I made do with today, getting off work at 2 PM and handling business the last couple of hours.

So now mom's got meds and hugs, cousins have hugs, truck has fresh oil, and the only spanner in the works is that the recharge didn't change the lack of A/C in the truck, so I've got more work to do.

8/10, would do again.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I loved the fact they parked the MO nearby.

Amen: the first loss bookended by the final denouement.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

So last night I went to guitar center in search of a guitar case and there was a father and son (around 7 or 8 years old) in the store. The kid was sitting on a bench picking some scales (slowly), happy and proud as can be, when all of a sudden he broke into a song intro. I'll give you one guess as to what song it was

I laughed internally as I wondered how many kids learned this particular riff when first starting out. What's your guess?

SCOM, lol

I'll be shopping for a Taylor acoustic here soon. Not looking forward to hearing the guitar-spam, but GC has the best used deals on Taylors locally, and I won't buy a guitar without playing it first.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Both my older sons are home from the Marines for my eldest son's wedding.
Question: Is it good form to pull out your ribbon board representing 20 years service, when the groom only has the NDSM?

 

[SaparotRob]

Both my older sons are home from the Marines for my eldest son's wedding.
Question: Is it good form to pull out your ribbon board representing 20 years service, when the groom only has the NDSM?

Bet your ass it is.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Both my older sons are home from the Marines for my eldest son's wedding.
Question: Is it good form to pull out your ribbon board representing 20 years service, when the groom only has the NDSM?

Fruit-salad belongs on the picnic table Congrats to your son and please pass on my thanks for his duty.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Saw the Swamp Ghost today at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum.

 

[ARTESH]

May their souls rest in Eternal peace.