Parrothead Jeff

Law Dog is a law enforcement officer with a serious gift for writing I can’t remember how I came to find him online, but I’m sure glad I did!

I’ve read quite a bit of his archives, but the three stores I’ve liked the best so far are I don’t know if the ending is sad or happy., The Pink Gorilla Suit, and Next time I’ll keep my mush shut.

This guy is GOOD !!!
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If Obama Gets Elected We Have Lost Our Soul

Go. Watch the video.

Ever think you might need to make a change? Quick?

That’s me right now.

Must think this over…

Ya know, losing someone you know always sucks in a big huge way. I’ve lost one person I know in the past year - Cindy’s dad who passed away after a long fight with infection following heart surgery - and that was bad enough. A couple of years ago, I lost a co-worker, Don, who passed away during heart surgery.

Both of those were expected.

Today I lost a good friend and colleague who I’ve known for nearly four years. I just got the news this morning that he passed away over the weekend. Thomas was always careful, always thinking of what is healthy and what’s not. This is just completely unexpected.

We don’t know what happened or how or why, just that it did.

Godspeed, Thomas and rest in peace.

I got my real license plates on a while back, but haven’t gotten around to showing them off online. I’m not going to show the actual ones to everyone, but this gives you an idea of what they look like

I just couldn’t miss out on having a Reno Air Racer on my car

I finally got around to writing this post It’s been ugly at work to say the least and I’ve just now found some time to go through and edit the pictures and get them ready for publication

Here’s the whole trip in a nutshell:

• Saturday: Drive to Prescott from Las Vegas, buy 2 rifles at J&G Sales upon arriving, find my way to Mom and Dad’s place, unload and unpack, go for a drive with my brother, eat dinner, clean new guns, pass out dead asleep
• Sunday: Shooting range closed until 1300 hours so head into town with Mom for breakfast at The Dinner Bell just off the town square, shop with Mom at the arts and crafts fair around the town courthouse, go home to collect guns and Dad, shoot almost everything we brought (forgot .22 ammo back at the house :doh: ), back to the house, eat dinner, watch some TV with family, try to surf internet, but keep falling asleep on keyboard, finally go to bed and pass out
• Monday: Enjoy a fantastic breakfast with Mom, Dad, and Brother, pack, stop by J&G Sales to pick up a Mosin-Nagant 91/30 and a bayonet for the Steyr M-95, drive back to Las Vegas

Hit the jump for pictures and a few more details
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I don’t care who he says to blame, I blame Double Tapper for my finding this quiz and wasting part of my morning

Turns out I’m a John Wayne Western Bad Ass, but I also scored 100% for Clint Eastwood. I’ll take that result! :thumb:

Head on over and take the quiz yourself

What Kind of a Western Bad-Ass are You? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as John Wayne You a classic all American cowboy who does the right thing. When you’re sober. Which means occasionally. You like horses, the outdoors, whiskey, hot tempered women, whiskey, and bourbon. Clint Eastwood 100% John Wayne 100% Charles Bronson 88% Lee Marvin 75% Lee Van Cleef 75%

I was checking out my own blog to make sure things were working OK and looked right when I took a good look at this pic:

Yep, that’s one of the random header pics for this blog and I immediately thought about how that was one of the good times and it don’t get much better than that You see, if you look on the left side of the pic there’s a whole row of F-14 Tomcats from VF-101 - the “Grim Reapers” and just beyond on the taxiway is an F-22 Raptor taxiing back after a flight.

This picture was taken back in November of 2004, just a couple of weeks after I moved from San Diego to Las Vegas. The 2004 airshow at Nellis - Aviation Nation 2004 - was the last airshow where the mighty F-14 Tomcat strutted its stuff anywhere but at Oceana NAS. It was one of the first times the F-22 flew for the public.

I sure do miss the Tomcat, but at least I got to see one of her last flights - see the post Tomcat’s Last West Coast Hurrah for a video of that flight

Last time, Baby :thumb: ! Tomcats and Raptors - it don’t get much better ‘n that

One other pic that just came up was this one:

Yep, that’s the mighty F-4 Phantom passing in front of the tower at Nellis in full earth-shaking, soul-quaking, ear-breaking afterburner Add a Double Ugly to the Tomcat and Raptor and I’m pretty much set for the day

PS - Click on the pics for full size

It’s been really hot and really humid out here in Lost Wages, NV lately - the monsoon season is here. You really notice just how much it cools off when a passing thunderstorm shades everything and drops much needed water. I’ve liked thunderstorms for many years, but didn’t get to see them much in San Diego. Things are different out here in Las Vegas and I get to see quite a few thunderstorms during the monsoons.

Yesterday as I was driving home from work I noticed that it was raining a few miles up the 95 freeway and decided to just follow the road.

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Ever feel not so good in the morning or the night before? Did you think about calling in sick to work but figure you’ll go in because, well, the team needs you and it can’t be all that bad?

That was me this morning. I came in to work and it was that bad. Really.

Let this be a lesson to you - follow your feelings !