I was bored, so I decided to take a pic of what’s on my fridge.
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Monthly Archive for March, 2007
In 1994 [I think] a B-52 pilot was practicing for an air show, banked WAY too extreme, and crashed the plane. This was at Fairchild AFB, WA. When we went there to ferry missiles back to Barksdale, I stood on the spot it crashed. There’s a memorial there now.
This looks like the video used in the investigation. It shows the blatant disregard for safety some of these pilots were exhibiting at air shows and in general. From the high banking angles, to the extreme vertical angles. Rumor has it that the pilot flying the doomed jet was a full bird colonel, who was just about to retire. He was also known as a ‘hot dog’.
It’s long, but you see some of the crazy maneuvers they were pulling back then. Now, this would never be allowed… this accident is part of that reason.
I decided to forgo all the pain-in-the-assedness that goes with making a video private.. so I made it public.
Today , Jeni, Caleb, and I decided to take a drive. We went up the wild horse and burro farm [where they wrangle up wild horses and burro’s from the Navy base here] and looked at them, then we decided to drive to the Trona Pinnacles. While we were there, I gave Jeni the video camera to film Caleb and I playin on the rocks and formations. While we were behind one of the rocks, I gave Caleb the box the ring was in and told him to go give it to mommy. We walked back, with Jeni filming, and he gave it to her. I opened it and asked her to marry me. She said ‘Yes!’ [I'll post the video later]
We’ve been talkin about marriage for a few months now… we both knew it would happen, just a matter of when.
She was my dad’s nurse when he was in the ICU about 2 years ago. Then we met again at the 1996 high school reunion last summer. All my friends were ‘96, even though I was ‘95, so I went too. We all went to the bars later and I asked her out. That was 9 months ago.
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