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Utah Vacation Saga Post Three – North To Salt Lake City!!!

Sorry for the delay, but I’ve been trying to get all the pics uploaded to save time on the back side for each of the posts to come in the future.  Hopefully I’ll be able to get the rest of the posts up in the next couple of days   I’ve also managed to get [...]

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Picture(s) A Day – 26 July 2010

I’m finally getting around to going through some of the boxes in my apartment and I’m finding some pretty cool stuff   Just the other day I found most of my patch collection and I was wondering what to do with ‘em… And then I remembered all the space I have on the walls of [...]

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Picture(s) And Video A Day – 23 July 2010

Blogging – it’s been a while, hasn’t it?  Sorry for that, but work this past week was anything but relaxing or invigorating.  We had a few outages which meant I was busier than a bartender in Vegas on New Years Eve.  After work I just want to go home, decompress, and get some sleep. OK, [...]

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Cpl. Matt Garst – Another Reason Not To Tangle With The USMC

From the Digital Video & Imagery Distribution System: Few people survive stepping on an improvised explosive device. Even fewer walk away the same day after directly absorbing the force of the blast, but Garst did just that. Lance Cpl. Edgar Jones, a combat engineer with the squad, found a pressure plate inside the compound and [...]

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From the past

The following are some pics that I took in 1980 with a Yashica TL Electro 35mm SLR. I scanned the prints so they are not the best. But these few pictures are representative of a life that I chose so very long ago. The Black and White of eight of us Argonauts is an official [...]

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Oscar Winner James Horner Writes Music For The Horsemen Aerobatic Team

James Horner has written the musical score for a multitude of Oscar winning films including Apollo 13 and Titanic.  What I didn’t know until recently is that he’s also an avid aviation fan and a licensed pilot as well.  Now he’s teamed up with The Horsemen after becoming good friends with the guys on the [...]

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Largest Gathering of B-25 Mitchell Bombers Since WWII

Folks, it’s getting to be really late/early, but I know I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I didn’t get this posted first If you’re an aviation nut like I am, you’ll love this video.  Seventeen B-25 Mitchell bombers got together for a mass overflight of the Jimmy Doolittle Memorial at Wright Field in Dayton, [...]

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Ranger Up – New Shirt For Soldiers’ Angels

Leave it to Ranger Up to design another shirt to support Soldiers’ Angels that’s even more bad ass than most of their other shirts This isn’t in production yet and there are rumors of a lighter color with a female angel in the works, so make sure to stop by and let ‘em know what [...]

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Ranger Up – Kick Ass Gear for U.S. Military and Patriotic Americans

I’d heard of Ranger Up a while back, but it was only recently that I took a closer look.  What I found is that they KICK ASS.  Click here to see what I mean Before you look any further, you should know that everyone at Ranger Up is either current or former U.S. military.  They’ve [...]

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Summer Finally Arrives in Southern Nevada

Yes, I know I live in the desert   The first six months after I moved here were some of the coolest, wettest months that this region had seen in decades with greenery everywhere.  I kept joking that I thought I was supposed to have moved to a desert.  And then summer really hit and [...]

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