One week ago tonight I was at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. We entered via Eutaw Street, which reminded me of a small elongated county fairground, what with food vendors and team merchandise sellers on either side. This ballpark was the first new stadium which attempted to recover the feel of the baseball-only stadiums of …
That’s military terminology for the number of days you have left in a specific place before the day you leave (that’s the wakeup part of it). I’ve had a struggle with the COPD in that the pulmonary doctors said I should probably take a High Altitude Simulation Test to see whether I could fly in …
It’s not precisely a 50th Reunion, although that’s standard naming. How many classes have met every year for 50 years? Anyway, for months I’ve been on the planning committee for my high school class’s reunion, and it’s now just a month away. I’ve already got a hotel reservation and my plane tickets. At one point …
All 103 people on board this plane survived. It’s Aeromexico flight 2341, an Embraer E190. It got to the end of the runway today and didn’t lift off. Forty-nine people were hospitalized, including the pilot and a passenger who are in “critical but stable condition,” but no deaths were reported, [Durango Governor] Aispuro said. A …
One and a half hours at the Satellite City Hall later, I have a renewed-for-eight-years drivers license. There was a $40 fee to the State of Hawai’i plus an earlier $5 fee for a notary to attest that I am Linkmeister and $25 to the State of California’s Department of Public Health for a certified …
I found my airplane Kindle book for this September when I head for the East Coast and my 50th HS reunion. I remember the year we lost Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby to assassins’ bullets within two months of one another very well. I’ve read at least one biography of Dr. King, but …
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Tomorrow at roughly 7:55AM EDT Cassini will commit suicide by jumping into a planet. Okay, maybe that’s a little too human a verb. Put it that it’s being sent down to the surface (?) of a gas planet whose radius is 36, 184 miles, second in size only to Jupiter. It’s traveling at 76,000 miles …
Anyone over 62 who travels to National Parks, Historical Sites, Refuges and other Park System facilities needs to know the price of a lifetime Senior Pass goes from $10 to $80 effective Aug. 28 of this year. You can beat the increase by going to a nearby park and buying a pass. You can also …
No, not here. I ran into a post on Facebook from a guy who’s trying to help his parents sell their 120-acre home and barn and woodshop in Wyoming. It’s beautiful country and it’s off the grid, although it’s got Internet, Satellite TV and most of the other mod cons. ‘Course, it is in Wyoming, …
Seems like every year when I take this car in for its annual safety check they find something expensive that has to be done before it will pass. This year it’s the CV joints. Those connect the transmission to the driveshaft, as I understand it, so they have to work. My poor credit card is …