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After stopping briefly to reload our luggage into the car, we offered gifts of good tidings to slaDE~s sister Sherry and son Ritchie, before heading to my Mom’s for a family Christmas gathering. My younger sister Aaron was already there and Sylvia (our adopted Aunt) was soon to arrive thereafter. The day was carefree and…
Can you believe it (I certainly can’t)? We’re seriously thinking about buying a house. Some sort of property to give us equity in economic times when investing in anything other than land and oneself seems to provide uncertainty and a bit of anxiety, considering the amount of $$ lost by many in the stock market….
The MV-22 Osprey is a controversial Tilt-Rotor Aircraft that has now been deployed to Iraq (contentious because “Three fatal accidents during testing, questionable maintenance records and a one-time fluke in computer hardware have left critics claiming that the Osprey is fundamentally unsafe). This aircraft is a tiltrotor vertical / short takeoff and landing (VSTOL), multi-mission…
In Albuquerque we were treated to a phenomenal tour of the Air Force base by a close friend (names withheld to protect the innocent), seeing the insides of all these wickedly cool special-ops planes and helicopters; how often does one get to walk through a fully kitted out C-130?! — I had fantasies of jumping…
The thought of dolphins being ferociously slaughtered makes me ill, makes me want to do SOMETHING. Although watching this video had me in tears, I thought it a good video to post, thinking it better to be educated and disturbed (prompting one to take action) rather than to sit idly by allowing for a Japanese…
In honour of the competition Thursday evening, I just HAD to find a copy of the movie “Cool Runnings” for slaDE and I to watch before his big debut! Gosh, how I love the Library … after several attempts of getting it before someone else managed to, I had my sticky little fingers on it….