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As some of you know, and I’m sure, some of you don’t know, I’ve always been interested in airplanes. Commercial aviation, mostly.

Growing up, I was either going to be a commercial airline pilot, or a computer programmer.

Due to a variety of reasons, I picked computer programmer. Am I sorry I picked it? Not really. An airline pilot of today is nowhere near as glamorous as it once was. I actually probably would be out of a job after 9/11, had I gone down that path.

But I still keep up on aviation, reading such sites as Airliners.net, FlyerTalk, among others.

I think a lot of that is the fact that my father worked for Trans World Airlines for over 30 years. It was a part of our family.. Both in the good times and the bad. And I’m speaking about both my family and the airlines good times.

Unfortunately, like other airlines, TWA didn’t make it. It’s still one of the oldest airlines that we had in the US. And of course, it’s long history with such people as Howard Hughes and Carl Icahn.

Over the years, I’ve aquired quite a few bits of history of TWA. I’ve decided to setup a website, TWAHistory.com, where I can show some of the stuff I’ve amassed. Hopefully other people will chime in too.

So if you get a chance, take a look. Come back every now and then. We’ll always have new stuff.

twahistory.com

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So Palm Beach, FL doesn’t seem to like Starbucks too much.

Someone is trying to open one there. Of course, residents are fighting it. I liked this quote from the article, from a resident fighting it:

“Those folks hang around for hours, and you will positively love their dress code and personal grooming,” McIntosh wrote in an e-mail to the town.

Nice.

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Ahhh yes. Bob Barker’s microphone.

A thing of beauty, she is. Okay. Maybe that’s going too far.

Maybe you could own your own?

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After using Movable Type for the last year as my blogging software, I’m ready for a change.

I’m working on moving my site to WordPress, a pretty decent program.

Of course, this is completely meaningless to most of you, so it’s no biggie. It does mean some cool new features.

The Nintendo Wii. I think this is going to be one cool system.

The controller alone is going to make for some interesting games. I think (hope?) this is going to be an early Christmas present in my household.

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Can’t go wrong..

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Let’s just say, you have to watch the video. It’s obviously a little hard to see us in the audience. Good times, noodle salad.

It’s Quicktime, so if you don’t have it, get it.

Click below to check it out!

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..would have to be me editing an episode of “The Price is Right”.

Yeah. Very strange.

Wow. We weren’t in the episode that much.
Video coming soon.

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Take a look at this…

Doesn’t look like much, does it? Click read more to see what, exactly, this is.
Continue Reading »

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Thinking of things to put into this here blog.

But, my mind is blank.

I could rehash something. Like talk about Tivo. Or TVMax Cable. Or Indepenence High School. Or my life as a secret squirrel.

But that would either be A) boring, repeated information, or B) not really true.

So, life is just waiting for Cassie’s Birthday, the next ‘big’ event in the household. (October 6th, for those of you keeping track.)

I’m finally getting the video of us on the Price is Right edited. From an hour, it will probably be 30 seconds long. Stay tuned.

5 years since the infamous events back East. Weird.

I remember the night before, I really worked late, and had to meet some coworkers at the datacenter at noon. So I slept in till about 9am.

I remember the alarm clock going off to the radio, and them saying something about the second tower is now falling. So I get up and turn the TV on, and am just amazed at what I’m seeing. Crazy.

I do end up meeting my coworkers later that day. It was weird driving to work from Chandler to Tempe, and not seeing any planes or trails in the sky. Very surreal.

Lunch at Native New Yorker Pizza, and it’s so quiet in there, you could hear a pin drop. Everyone is focused on the television and CNN.

Our memories here ‘in the West’ are nothing like those of people that lived there, I’m sure. Very sad.

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Figured it was September.. The least I could do would be to update the website.

Nothing super-major.

The wife last week was having issues, though. She had some back problems, that caused a great pain just to stand up.

After talking her into staying home, she got better. But I actually had to help her up and walk around, it was that painful to walk.

And then, one day, she passed out from the pain, falling and hitting her head in the process. I was 5 seconds away from calling 911 when she snapped out of it. Her eyes were open the whole time, really freaky weird. Oh well. Good times(?)

And, as if to continue the back issues, my Uncle broke his neck while mountain biking the other day, fracturing his c-2 and t-4 in his neck. The doctors were quite surprised he is still here, let alone walking.

Luckily, though, he’ll just have to wear a “halo” for about 3 months, and should be fine.

Other than that, hey, we’re here.
And I need to pour out a 40-ouncer to The Crocodile Hunter, may he rest in peace.

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