[flipper35]

Jim, I thought Cali weather was always perfect?

The situation in Bend sounds like one of those 100 year storms.

Wayne, we have a mentally challenged young man on our softball team. It can be frustrating at times to work with him but rewarding when he does well and smiles all the time.

We have a LAN party scheduled for tomorrow, hope the ice stays south. One of the families coming over has a young boy close to our boy's age and is fanatic about airplanes so he should be in heaven for a while with the air combat. He is a pretty good kid and he and our boy fly paper airplanes together all the time when they are together.

Sometimes we start getting silly and do stuff like follow the leader so I flew the Harrier at full tilt through the hangar deck, tossed cluster bombs up from the inverted position to get them off my tail. Landed an Apache on the top of the AC130 when he was making slow orbits. A friend nearly jumped into the back of a C130 with a DPV but his timing was off (couldn't have been mine in the C130, I am perfect) and bounced off the ramp. Silly stuff to do when the noobs are learning the game. It does NOT work to drive a jeep out the back of a flying Chinook, big CG change there. It does work to hit the guy on the mounted in the jeep from behind with the skids of a Huey or scooping the guy up with the nose of an Mi8 climbing steep and doing a chandelle to drop him off at a bit of altitude while he is across the room yelling at you.

You might have to be there. Tomorrow 10:00, stop on up.