25 Years Ago TODAY!!!

Hi Jimmy,

Do you remember what YOU were doing 25 years ago today? I DO!!!

I was standing waist deep in freezing coastal water along the Causeway leading into KSC. I had been up all night with a group of friends, one of whom worked for Rockwell Int and had gotten special passes to bring in a car load of people to watch THE FIRST SHUTTLE LAUNCH EVER!!!!!

I'm telling you, there was nothing like it. Yeah, the Saturn Fives rocked, and so did the Saturn 1B night launch for SkyLab.....but that HUGE machine breaking free, rolling over and then heading out for space was just too cool for words!!!!!!

I always wondered if you were there, given your star status and all that. I know the band Rush was, as I saw their bus roll by to the special vistors area ....lucky bastards! A couple of months later they had a tour bus with a painting of a shuttle launch on the side all to themselves. It was way cool...


So today I am wearing my loud screen printed tee shirt I got at KSC last December....it's covered in flames and has a shuttle blasting up at you on my chest. Its gotten a number of comments thus far, all of which I use to let everyone know why today is just so damned important and cool!!!!

Yeah, airplanes are cool, sailing ships are too...but Spacecraft are a notch above both of these. They live in a Space of their own.....hey, were you at the Spaceship One launches? They were just like NASA in the good old days, with a total "Can Do!" attitude going on. Then agan, probably the coolest thing in the end was watching the Spacecraft being towed along the flightline with a good old Ford Truck afterwards....with Richard Branson sitting on the tailgate swinging his feet!

SPACE RULES!

Now just where is my Estes Spaceship One model hiding.......?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHUTTLE!!!!!!!

Struggling with the BIOS Gods....

Hello Jimmy,

Not much to report today, I am falling behind in my projects as I struggle to get a new video card to work in my computer. It all DOES have a longtime goal....as I want to be able to actually use the MS Flightsim I have to get closer to flying on my own some day.......


Guess I better reboot and get back to things....

Letters To Jimmy Buffet

Ahoy,

Here it is. Figuered I needed to get in gear after reading the Intro to "A Salty Peice of Land" by Mr. Buffet. I have ben sitting on my ass far too long and not getting much done. Mr Buffet always kicks me in the ass and gets me dreaming again.

This blog is a completly shameless attempt to catch Jimmy's attention, meet him in person, and get a ride in that sweet Seaplane of his...with him at the controls. Guess I can get on to that after explaining how I went from hating him more than any other musician on the planet to finding him to be just about one of my favorites. (Must leave room for Mike Scott and the ever waywar Waterboys crew...!).((Oh, and Van Morriosn too...)).

Along the way I'll also be making notes as to how the changes in my life are going, what I am improving, and what happened to such well thought out plans along the way. (I can just hear Mike singing "If ya wanna make god laugh...tell him your plans!). At least this way I will be going somewhere again. I got my sites set straight ahead, but I ain't sure what I'm after....sometimes.

Cast off the lines...