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I’ve gotten behind a bit, but I still wanted to post these  29 July 2010 - It's still hot in Vegas - go figure July and Las Vegas means it’s hot, right? Well, here’s what the car said. Not only is it hot, but it’s also been humid.  29 July 2010 - Just a small pic of part of my apartment complex I’ll gladly take the humidity if it comes with something like a good thunderstorm. But no, we haven’t had any of those. Just hot sun, clear skies, and humidity. But them’s the breaks when you live here and I’ll deal with ‘em  Getting back on track with posting and all, I actually have another post for everyone  30 July 2010 - Weather in the morning for a change Rain came to our general area, but didn’t quite make it to our neighborhood. There was rain on Mt. Charleston, rain to the north, and rain to the east, but no rain in the valley. At least we had some clouds After work, it was time to head on over to Exotic Pets to get some food for Ziva. Yep, that means pics of animals!  30 July 2010 - Malagasy twig mimic snakes  30 July 2010 - Giant flying gecko  30 July 2010 - Blue azuras dart frogs  30 July 2010 - Blue azureus dart frogs  30 July 2010 - Yellow dabb lizard  30 July 2010 - Bumblebee dart frogs  30 July 2010 - Bumblebee dart frogs  30 July 2010 - Sorry, I forgot to note what type of frog this is  30 July 2010 - Blood red bearded dragon  30 July 2010 - Sugar glider  30 July 2010 - Hedgehogs  30 July 2010 - Citronella dart frog I tried to include a couple of cute & cuddly critters for those who don’t like the reptiles and amphibians Have fun everyone I have my obligatory rant about Judge Bolton and AZ SB 1070 over at Old Retired Petty Officer. #mce_temp_url# This link will get you there as well as the one on the blogroll here at PHJ&F. Warning! The Old Retired Petty Officer is given to a certain saltiness of language from time to time. The likes of obama, holder, napolitano, pelousi, reid, kagan, kerry, sotomayor, franks and company tend to aggravate that situation. I know I should be working on posting more pics and whatnot, but I just haven’t felt the inspiration lately. And I’m trying to stay away from politics for the most part – it’s more depressing than most things in my life and I’d just as soon try to keep my blood pressure down if you get my drift. So I hope y’all don’t mind if the place slows down just a bit. Of course, Kath or Glenn could post something too Anywho, I actually did have a couple of things to share with y’all real quick that are really rather suited to the technogeeks out there but I figure they might come in handy for everyone First is memorari.us. Memorari is a simple website that will automatically send you a reminder about anything you want via email, text message, or a few other means. Just put in the date, the transmission method, your contact info, and a message and it’ll show up where and when you want it to. The message and all info about it are destroyed for good as soon as the message has been sent. Downright useful, that is The second site is downforeveryoneorjustme.com which can be rather helpful at times. Have you ever tried to get to a certain website, but can’t and you don’t know if it’s just you or if the site’s actually down? Just go to this site, put the website you want to check in the search box, and it’ll tell you if it can be reached by that web server or not. Now you’ll know who to call if you can’t get to this site That’s it for tonight – have a great day I’m finally getting around to going through some of the boxes in my apartment and I’m finding some pretty cool stuff
 26 July 2010 - Hogjaw, Area 51, Road Runners Internationale, and former black projects
And then I remembered all the space I have on the walls of my cubicle at work Some of these patches are rather rare. For example, you can only get one of those CIA patches from the CIA gift shop. Thankfully, I’m an associate member of the Road Runners Internationale and the CIA is rather close to our group due to the history of the Road Runners’ projects like the U-2 and A-12. The CIA is so kind as to bring their gift shop to our reunions which means I get to shop where very few can The rest of the patches on this wall have something to do with the CIA, the Road Runners, or black projects in Nevada. Take the 547th Intelligence Squadron patch – these are the men and women who exploit foreign technology that’s been “acquired” by various means. The Road Runner feature prominently – check out their website for some really interesting Cold War secrets
 26 July 2010 - Jimmy Buffett, NASA, Cape Hatteras, and the USAF represented here
It’s not just Road Runners and CIA that I’ve got on display. There’s plenty of NASA and USAF patches here, too. I may have to pick up a few more when I get the chance to fill in the wall a bit more Let’s not forget that I’m still a Parrothead and you’re probably going to find some Jimmy Buffett items around
 26 July 2010 - Thanks for the OBX stickers, Kath
Gotta love the bumper stickers
 26 July 2010 - Road Runners Internationale - In God We Trust - All Others We Monitor
Ah, the good ol’ Road Runners 8) This is key tag is pretty appropriate when you consider that they were responsible for the U-2, A-12, SR-71, M-21, and D-21
 26 July 2010 - Who here can pick out the most black projects and symbols in this patch? I paid quite a bit more for this patch than I normally would for most. It’s a very limited edition and very cool – if you know your Groom Lake history Anywho, that’s about it for now. Have a great day 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, enough of that – here’s the pics  23 July 2010 - Guido & New Frontier Armory's new "deuce and a half" military surplus truck  23 July 2010 - Guido & New Frontier Armory's new "deuce and a half" military surplus truck I headed on over to New Frontier Armory / Infinite Arms after work after not darkening their doorway for two whole weeks  23 July 2010 - Geocaching vehicle travel bug I haven’t been geocaching in quite a while, but I still recognized this for what it is – a travel bug decal on a vehicle If you haven’t heard of geocaching, check out geocaching.com and see if it’s something you might like. All you need is a GPS receiver and a computer, but a pencil helps as well sometimes  23 July 2010 - Heading home under the desert sun It will likely come as no surprise that it’s been HOT lately here in Las Vegas Last, but not least I have a video for a change That’s it for now Racism. Works both ways. Today was the last clinical day and I cannot say HOORAY loudly enough to make it clear how glad I am that pediatric clinicals are over. Now, back to the title. I was at a day care again today. Day care in general tries my patience, because there is zero discipline at them. Little Billy could bite Little Susie’s ear off and he’d get a “stern talking to”. They can’t even stand the kids in the corner for misbehavior anymore and boy, those shitheads rays of sunshine know it. Today was a bit different than the other days, as I was at a different facility. It was an amazing place- amazing in the fact that only the little white kids did wrong. Seriously, during the entire day, all of the children acted like drunken squids, but only (and yes, I do mean ONLY) the little white kids were called down for their behavior. I raised an eyebrow at that about one hour into the day. Susie & LaQuinettaLaShequaDominiquatisa could have been doing the same thing & Susie was the one to get her ass reamed out over the transgression. All of the kids were suffering from EXTREME Hickory Deficiency, but the kids doing some of the worst things were overly praised, while others were chewed out for “smacking while eating”. I was not amused. I heard a lot of interesting stuff though, especially when it was “Learning Time”. This month’s theme is Africa, The Greatest Nation. (I shit you not. One child mentioned Hawaii & the “teacher” said, “We’re not talking about Hawaii & anyway, Africa is way better than Hawaii!”.) I learned some new stuff today and although I might be racist, not only in the way I mention it, but by mentioning it at all, here goes- 1) Africa is made up entirely of islands. There are no countries, just islands. 2) There is (and this is a real quote) “not a lot of climate over there because it’s too hot”. 3) Africans are famous for their paintings and contest dancing. 4) There is a “good Africa” and a “not good Africa”. In “not good Africa”, the houses all have skraw roofs. 5) Chickens and hens are not related to one another. 6) In America, we celebrate New Years Day with fireworks everywhere. 7) They have a different heritage of police. ??? 8 ) Their favorite game to play is chest. 9) African jury is made with two colors. (Jury=jewelry) 10) Two lakes run through the entire country, not continent. At this point, the “teachers” began to argue. The 2nd one said the first one meant Oceans, not lakes. They argued for a little while until I suggested they both meant RIVERS. Now I feel so much brighter. I cannot believe that all the geography teachers who taught me over the years were so stupid! Hope you feel brighter, too. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go soak my head in the toilet for a little while. >.< From a friend of Jeff and I. Pay close attention to it, folks. It does make sense. And is a laugh, in a sick and twisted way. Because it is so painful as to be almost funny. I will not divulge the name. Give me all the hell you can. I don’t care. I have had cancer and lived through it. You may not be familiar with Coal the Cat, but I’m going to miss him. If you want to read the previous posts up to this point, they’re here, here, and here. Coal showed up at our front door around midnight on 10 December 2008. I heard meowing when I went to get a drink and saw him outside through the window. It was seriously cold out and it took only a bit of coaxing to get him to come inside. Cindy and her niece Stevie had seen him earlier that night while doing the nightly walk around the storage facility she managed and we lived at but figured he’d go back to his home. He didn’t have any tags and after getting a better look at him it seems he was out on his own for a while after likely being abandoned due to a home foreclosure. I woke Cindy up after he came inside and everything seemed pretty good when he crawled into bed with Stevie. We eventually gave him to Stevie as a Christmas present  Coal the cat - First day in our home  Coal the cat - He sure was skinny!  Coal the Cat - Even when he was skinny and hungry he was curious  Coal the Cat - He wasn't sure about much at first...  Coal the Cat - He didn't want to stand still for pictures, either  Coal the Cat - Look at those big, yellow eyes 8) He was curious, but skittish which was understandable considering his circumstances. He didn’t like to be picked up much, but he’d come and want to be petted and loved after he figured out that we weren’t going to leave him like someone else had. Eventually he moved down to Arizona with Cindy’s sister and her family and then back up to Vegas a while later.  Coal the Cat - I last saw him on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 The last time I saw Coal was on Thanksgiving Day last year when I went to Cindy’s sister’s place for dinner. He was the same cat I remembered and he seemed to remember me as well I got word today that he had to be put down earlier in the morning. He’d been losing weight and not doing too well for a while so Cindy’s sister and her family took him to the vet where he was diagnosed with cancer. From what I understand, there was nothing they could really do for him and he’d only get sicker and hurt more over time so they did what was best for him and let him go. Coal had been abandoned at one point and we didn’t have him for all that long, but I’m glad we had him while it lasted I’m going to miss him.  DC-10 Fire Bomber Conversion done by Evergreen at Marana, AZ. Normally the field there is a boneyard, where airplanes go to die. But Evergreen has a large facility there doing maintenance and conversions. This is the most interesting conversion since the Aero Space Lines 377 Guppy and Super Guppy. It is a serious fire bomber. But don’t look for the California Forestry Department to use it. We have the governator and the moonbeam still screwing things up. But it is just a neat airplane! Victorville, Southern California Logistics Airport. Used to be George AFB.  Las Vegas weather - hot, dry and windy! It’s that time of year again here in fabulous Las Vegas, NV. The time of year you’d swear you live in a blow dryer. Take a look at those figures and try to imagine them all together. 109°, 12% humidity, wind 20 gusting to 28 mph. Those conditions mean that no matter what, you won’t feel cool outside. There’s nothing cool in the breeze. You’ll dry off in a heartbeat if you do get wet. I think I’ll stay in the air conditioning |
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Well, Guido who owns New Frontier Armory just got a new toy and I couldn’t pass up getting a pic of it 
I took this picture while heading home from NFA/IA when it was about 114° or so and yes, it’s just as hot as you’d imagine. At least the humidity’s down near 10% so it’s pretty livable