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[John G.]

Three!

[Jane]

Two days in a row where I fell asleep before 7 pm

Did you sleep all night?

[John G.]

The first flight is to Phoenix, then home.

[Jane]

No Juneteenth holiday at my office

I expect only government employees get this off.

[elmore3003]

Vibes for DR ELMORE - ZOOM and otherwise.

Zoom went quite well for 85 minutes, and now I am back to work.

[Jane]

Kristi's office now has Juneteenth as a company holiday, so she's here and I think we're going to tackle a couple of housecleaning projects together later.

I guess I am wrong about who gets this off

[singdaw]

~~~CONTINUED SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES~~~ for DR John G.!!!!!!!

[singdaw]

I can't remember if I posted this already. if I did, I apologize.

[Jane]

Back in 1975, a friend and co-worker had a license, and invited me along on an hour-long sightseeing & practice flight he'd reserved a plane for at Santa Monica Airport. I'll have to check this, but as I recall, that was in the afternoon of Christmas Eve in 1975, a perfectly gorgeous day in Southern California. That ride was the greatest thrill, and I regaled him with questions on what it would take for me to learn how to fly. My parents were visiting from Ohio that week, and I'm afraid I talked their ears off about that flight the rest of the day. It took me another year before I finally had the chance to jump in, but I took the ground school and then the flying lessons starting in 1977, and a year later I had my piece of paper.

I was living over the hill in L.A., but I did all of this at Van Nuys Airport because the huge company I worked for had divisions in the Valley, and one of their many extracurricular benefits was a flying club through which I met the most wonderful people and private pilots.

Before I was to move and go through other everyday life changes that saw me eventually giving up the flying activities, I had decided that my very next "upgrade" would be to go out to some lake or wherever it was available and take lessons in a seaplane to get that rating added to my license. That didn't happen, but I had very much looked forward to it. Weirdly, though, to this day I have never been in a seaplane.

Great experience and story.

[elmore3003]

Elmore, I recall Mary Tyler Moore was a big part of the fight to save Pale Male’s nest.

Yes, indeed. Her apartment is in the building where the birds nested. Pale Male's mate First Love tragically died after eating a pigeon someone had poisoned. At the time of the Nature episode, he had been through three mates and nineteen chicks.

[Jane]

Local post office, banks and federal/state buidings are closed for the day.

Everyone else is business as usual.

Fortunately for us so Keith can get his treatment today.

[elmore3003]

~~~CONTINUED SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES~~~ for DR John G.!!!!!!!

Ditto!

[Jane]

DR Ron, now I know why Keith always has been text and say we have arrived

[Jane]

DR George, vibes you are covid free today and don't have to wear a mask.

[Jane]

Have fun celebrating your mother.

[Jrand74]

DR RON PULLIAM the exact same thing has happened to me a couple of times - with folks who are NEVER early!

[Jrand74]

The actor on Perry Mason is Martin Horsey - who was the original Artful Dodger in OLIVER in London in 1961.....

[John G.]

I loved that documentary, Pale Male. But not again. JB was very upset by it. Wanted to protect me from the evil hawk.

[John G.]

Thanks for the travel vibes.

[John G.]

DR Jennifer has inspired me to start Quordle, which is quite fun. I don’t get all four words all of the time, but a word in the last day or two there helped me get Wordle today in 3.

[ChasSmith]

OMG, I cannot stand something like that happening. (I'm referring, of course, to DR Ron's restaurant adventure.)

It isn't even just my being early or late, or someone else's being early or late. It's the whole out-of-sync quality of the experience that completely blows it for me.

That food line would have totally killed it for me, too. And I can't stand being the last one with food and being the only one left eating, in any event - doesn't matter what the circumstances are. I, too, would choose to just blow it off and wait till later, however hungry I might be.

[ChasSmith]

Here are a couple of the pictures - me in the Cessna 150 (two-seater) I learned in, and a close personal friend in the Cessna 172 (four-seater) I later flew.

And yes, I still have Snoopy. He needs a good cleaning.

[Rodzinski]

Snoopy? That looks like the famous WWI flying ace in his Sopwith Camel.

[Rodzinski]

Pretty infuriating experience, DR Ron. At least you got a nice visit out of it.

[Jane]

Thanks for the travel vibes.

I had to leave before sending them.

[Jane]

Safe and easy travel vibes for DR John.

[Jane]

Here are a couple of the pictures - me in the Cessna 150 (two-seater) I learned in, and a close personal friend in the Cessna 172 (four-seater) I later flew.

And yes, I still have Snoopy. He needs a good cleaning.

I love the photos and am glad you still have Snoopy.

[Ron Pulliam]

The first flight is to Phoenix, then home.

By the time you get to Phoenix, I'll be watching TV...( guess Glen Campbell would not have sung that lyric).

[Ron Pulliam]

Snoopy? That looks like the famous WWI flying ace in his Sopwith Camel.

LOL!  It really does!

[Ron Pulliam]

Pretty infuriating experience, DR Ron. At least you got a nice visit out of it.

I did.  As for the infuriating part, I'm more mad at myself for not getting in line when it began forming.

As we were saying our goodbyes, Benjamin hugged me and said I had been an excellent role model for him.

I was nonplussed as my contact with him has been sparse over the years.  When I expressed surprise, he said it was because of things my relatives have told him about me over the years and because of the way I have related to him when we were together.

I must say I have thought of that quite a bit.