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Sep 16

On the road

Saw this flier today. Well sure, I thought to myself:

I must say this: there are no lame cat fliers full of typos all over the bulletin boards here. That, in its own way, is just another small relief.

We are traveling this weekend, to Georgia. For a wedding. A wedding in the Deep South in the fall on a Saturday. Georgia and Tennessee are playing in a rivalry game. I don’t care about either team, of course, but given the locale of the wedding, it might come up among the many lovely guests.

Here’s my rule: If you think enough of me to invite me to your wedding, and it is on a fall Saturday, I will attend if I can. No football game would get in the way of that. I will also make fun of you about it throughout your wedded bliss.

So that’s what we’ll be doing tomorrow, which meant traveling today. Which meant the road, which meant dinner on the road which meant, in Nashville, Tennessee:

And today is Friday which means Friday is Pie Day:

Interesting tidbit, meanwhile, about Bloomington: You can’t get pie anywhere.

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Sep 16

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I’m playing with gifs this evening

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Mar 15

A day in Georgia

Today we were at the New Hope memorial for Southern 242 – Georgia’s largest aviation disaster.

The Southern 242 committee just unveiled their upcoming memorial sculpture.

Around the pedestal, the committee says, will be the names of the 72 fatalities and 22 survivors of the 1977 crash.

A terrible storm, bad radar brought on by the storm, a bad forecast, complete systems failure on the plane and human error on the ground led to the crash. The pilots, former military aviators, then steering a glider, desperately attempted the unprecedented: landing a DC9 on a country road. Witnesses on the ground say Capt. William McKenzie and co-pilot Lyman Keele, with 23,000 flight hours between them, put their front wheel on the center line of the two-lane road. But for power poles. The wings hit poles, snapped trees and spun the plane out of control.

When the plane came to rest, emergency workers couldn’t get to the site for the debris. Survivors were carried through that house, into the backyard, through the woods and to a parallel road. Everyone that made it into that house and out the back door survived.

At the memorial, they prayed and sang and rang bells for the dead. Over the years it has turned into a reunion. I wrote about all of this a few years ago.

We had a late lunch here, a nearby north Georgia barbecue joint that had good brisket.

And then in walked this guy:

Isn’t that a great photo?

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28
Dec 14

Catching up

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Doing up the northern experience in the proper fashion:

They make their own chocolate here. I’ve never tried it, because it costs $3, but I’m curious about what a seagull tastes like:

Never put on someone else’s glasses. This happens:

The traditional shrimp cocktail, of which you may never have enough:

It is a pretty special thing when Sammi lounges on you:

My wife’s godfather’s train world is quite impressive. The next several shots are from an industrialized city that is always in progress:

We saw this locomotive in Denali, Alaska. He’s ridden it. And when you’re a train guy, and you ride a train, you go buy the train:

And now a bit about model details. You can’t even see most of the ice factory unless you’re leaning directly over it, but check this out:

He’s even got distressed tracks, and earth erosion on the berms. The man is masterful:

The Seaboard was running when we visited yesterday. From 1967 until 1983 the Seaboard system ran from Florida to Virginia:

If these are the last Christmas lights we’ll see this year, let’s be happy their huge:

Part of my run today: