Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

The wife and I are coming up on 24 in June. Morning all. Ill have 40 in by 9. What are the odds of getting off early? Nil.

[azzarule]

Morning everyone,

Tweez hows it going, hows the job hunting, have you had that final interview with the possible job you were looking at?

Hubby just phoned and is having an early mark (sorry David, hope you get one too), and we will go out and do a little shopping, maybe look for Xmas prezzies for the boys, well young men really!

Just had the morning Coffee with home made Christmas Cake, yummo, pecan and cherries, light fruit cake, not one of those really dark fruit cakes, with a really big splash of scotch in the cake, better not drive!!!

Mike Tyson is on the View, I am not sure if he is "normal" anymore, if in fact he was ever "normal", he just seems a bit slow, but I wouldn't be telling him that!!!

[GH85Carrera]

Mike Tyson is a strange dude. Awsome fighter in his prime, but still a strange dude.

[Porsche-poor]

probably been hit one to many times.

[GH85Carrera]

Sometimes everything just falls into place for a simple project.

We had a regular customer call for a price quote for a piece of property in the middle of nowhere. We made the quote and then we took a small gamble. By pure chance we were flying right over it to go shoot another project. We gambled the cost of one frame of film and shot it anyway. We got confirmation to fly the project that day after we shot it. The film came back and I scanned it and we have the finished image ready in less than 24 hours after we got the order. The real bonus for us is the deployment cost was nothing. It was a profitable gamble.

[azzarule]

Glen, that's the sort of gamble that doesn't happen very often. Good stuff.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, we got lucky. The project was right on the way. If they did not want it we would only have lost the cost of one frame of film & processing. That is about $12 so it was not a big risk.

[Porsche-poor]

Cool when things work out well.

[GH85Carrera]

Ain't it grand when a plan comes together.

[Tervuren]

24hr race tomorrow, had a teammate tear his shoulder and not able to race. Gonna be a survival game.

[tweezers74]

Originally Posted by azzarule

Morning everyone,

Tweez hows it going, hows the job hunting, have you had that final interview with the possible job you were looking at?

Just had the morning Coffee with home made Christmas Cake, yummo, pecan and cherries, light fruit cake, not one of those really dark fruit cakes.

Azzy, I had the interview on Wednesday. It went well. Just haven't said anything because I don't want to jinx myself. I know she has to interview other candidates, the last being on Monday so she told me she would get back to me mid to late next week. The waiting is killing me. In the mean time, I have another good lead with another company but would rather have this job. Hoping!

Have a Holiday party tomorrow to keep my mind off of it and a 15K on Sunday. Why I thought it would be a good idea to run a 15K a week from running a half marathon, I don't know.

Today makes me sad thinking about Pearl Harbor. I never thought too much about until I actually went to Pearl Harbor. I actually started to tear up reading some of the accounts at the museum. How young those men were. How unexpected it was. It must have been frightening. I can't even imagine.

[RKDinOKC]

The hate runs deep too. My uncle (long time deceased) practically disowned me from the family when I showed up at a reunion in my first Porsche, it was 1988 and it was the first weekend spent with my 1976 914. He did not like it because it was a German made car. My dad said he *****ed about it the whole weekend of the reunion. Nobody dared get anywhere near him in a Toyota or Honda, he would go ballistic. He only drove Cadillacs. My dad was a Mopar man.

[azzarule]

Yes, we went to Pearl on the way back from France a few years ago, came through the USA to Hawaii. Hadn't been to Pearl before, although have been to Hawaii before, but only briefly. It is a sad place at the memorial, and an horrific moment in history. But it is sad because it was the catalyst that brought the USA into WWII and lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young American men and women.

People died in the millions during WWI and WWII throughout Europe, it was horrific there, all the men and women that died in those theaters of war, so many memorials for hundreds of thousands. Not to mention the Pacific Theater the tens of thousands of young Americans and Australians who fought defending the USA and Australia and our allies.

When you travel through the Somme, Normandy, Germany, along the Western Front in France through Belgium, and in the UK there are memorials everywhere, cemeteries everywhere to the war dead, so sad, it continually shocks you, it looks all so calm now, beautiful countryside, then you see the pictures the photographs in the local museum or memorials, and it seems so senseless.

[azzarule]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

The hate runs deep too. My uncle (long time deceased) practically disowned me from the family when I showed up at a reunion in my first Porsche, it was 1988 and it was the first weekend spent with my 1976 914. He did not like it because it was a German made car. My dad said he *****ed about it the whole weekend of the reunion. Nobody dared get anywhere near him in a Toyota or Honda, he would go ballistic. He only drove Cadillacs. My dad was a Mopar man.

The UK relations think the same way, they were always tsk tsking about the Germans and the French when we were living in France, they disliked them not personally but country to country type of thing.

Strange, they liked the German beer and the French wines though!!

[GH85Carrera]

Good luck with the job Tweze.

I would like to visit Europe and see the memorials, and the historic countries.

Oklahoma is a very young state. The really old buildings in town are from 1890s. I can't imagine cities like Paris that are OLD!

[tweezers74]

I have to say I never understood the hatred towards the Japanese from people during that era but now I can at least see where they are coming from. I have been mistaken as Japanese and have been called "Jap" (in not a nice way) many times. It doesn't bother me so much because I know it comes from a place of ignorance but I think back to the Japanese Americans living in Hawaii at the time. I remember reading about the treatment the Japanese Americans serving in the US Navy got after the attack. But yet they were so proud to be part of the US and called their own people "them". I guess the same way my parents think of the Communist Vietnamese. My father served in the US Navy and my mother worked for the US Army. To this day, if they hear somebody speaking with a Northern Vietnamese accent, let's just say they aren't exactly cordial.

[tweezers74]

Did that sound right? I meant that I understand where that hatred comes from. I would be like that too if I saw my country be attacked like that. It's hard not to. And when I referred to ignorance, I was speaking to the fact they did not know I was Vietnamese as opposed to Japanese.

Visiting that memorial made me think a lot of different things. Made me wonder about the days my parents lived through the war. They never talk about it. I mean NEVER. I get tidbits here and there but nothing like a full "story". I am sure it is because it is too painful for them.

[Porsche-poor]

Ahh the weekend. Band practice time. Baking. Wrapping. Lots of eating!

[Rick V]

Morning Y'all. Well this is the last sat I have to pull for a couple of weeks, have I mentioned I really am burnt out?

[Jim Richards]

Morning all. Mango pancakes are on the griddle. Mmmmmmm.