Sadly, I have not found that time yet.

I still can’t land for shit.

Fly? Yep. Airmanship? Getting there, but am adequate right now.

Correcting for wind? Easy Peasy.

Navigating? Not that hard, really.

Pilotage? Meh, a breeze.

Pattern? Not that difficult.

Not beating the plane up trying to return to the ground? Yeah, That’s a challenge still.

Were it not for landings, I’d have soloed by now.

Of the 31 landings I have done, 2 were good by skill, 5 more were adequate due to skill. The others were hard, or drifting, or not centered, or too fast, too early, too late, too hard, etc. Any other good ones were, at best, luck.

Tomorrow promises steady winds at 8 from the east. I shall try again to get my “Aha” moment.

Remind me never to buy a plane that has been owned by a flight school.  

Just bizzy.

Plus, I got nothing to say.

Go read the folks on the left. They are smarter and more insightful than me anyway. 

For all the folks (and survivors) of the church attack in Texas.

Seems to have been a “Fizzle“.

Rumor has it that it was because the new IPhone was released the day before, and the Antifa participants were too busy figuring out the new features on their new phones to participate in their special day.

I shop at both Home Depot and Menards. Often, Menards has an 11% rebate, which makes their pricing somewhat more competitive…However, also, often the quality of Menards products is….lacking compared to items sold at Home Depot.

Did you know that Home Depot will price match? And that Home Depot will give you an 11% rebate that matches the rebates offered by Menards?

Yep. It is true. If the Menards in your area is offering an 11% (or any) rebate, then the local Home Depot will do the same.

And, the best part? You can apply for it online.

HERE

No paper form and finding an envelope and a stamp.  The rebate come faster, and on a gift card rather than a paper form like Menards.

One wonders why the Home Depot folks don’t advertise this…they lose business to Menards every time there is that (well advertised) 11% rebate at their competitor. 

Yep, that they did.

HERE

That it ain’t the Amish…

It isn’t the Jews
It isn’t the Bhuddists

Not Koreans
Nor Thailanders
Nor Canadians (except recent immigrants)
It isn’t the South Africans
It isn’t the Australians (except recent immigrants)

‘Taint the Russians (except those from predominantly Muslim Countries)
It’s not the Hindus
Not the Chinese (except those from Muslim areas)

Not the Latinos
Not, mostly Christians (in all their various flavors)

Nor the Native peoples from North America, nor even the poor Mexicans who are invading the US….

It is one group that does this. Not all of them, but predominantly from one group. Islam. (I am just glad they all seem to be so terribly inept, so they aren’t able to kill more of my countrymen, of whatever culture/race/religion)

Yet the mayor of New York wants, somehow, to vet people so this sort of attack like the one perpetrated on 1/1/17 in his city doesn’t happen again……but he doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feeling, either:
“There should be very, very careful vetting of anyone where there is an indication of concern, but not because of their religion or not because of their country of origin,” he said.

And he is hungry for an Omelette, but he doesn’t wanna break any eggs either.

Terrorist Driver (Won’t name him again) could have used the materials available at the Home Depot where he rented the truck to ……Fortify, as it were, the front end of the truck,,,,which would have allowed him to do much more damage for a longer time.

It isn’t like he was gonna get his damage deposit back anyway.

A drill, a set of bits, some 4 x 4’s and some carriage bolts and an hour or so would have made the front of the truck much more substantial.

It’s a good thing he either couldn’t do it or didn’t think of this.

(I’m posting this only because I think the likelihood of a Jihadist/AlohaSnackbar type being a follower of my blog is very low, and if they are, then they are smart enough that they’ve already considered this)

So some folks feel unsafe because of a plaque.

Fuckin’ Snowflakes.

Fuck ’em.

It is history.

“The plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome,” leaders said, a reference to the fact that Washington was a slaveholder.

Christ, what has our society become? Is it all Goodspeak/Badspeak that runs our society anymore?
Y’know, George Orwell wasn’t supposed to be a prophet. 

So folks have finally figured out that a truck, with lots of mass and an engine with lots of power, can be used as a weapon. (Not that anyone who has driven a truck like that hasn’t figured that out).

Sadly, it was used on a bike path in Central Park in New York.

Amazingly only 6 dead.

It would appear that the terror that has happened in Europe has indeed come here, even if on a smaller scale. Plus the dude did cry “Aloha Snackbar!”…..or something which sounded like that.

I expect to see calls for limits on horsepower on trucks. No one needs 400 horsepower in normal use . There is no sporting use for 400 horsepower 6000 pound trucks. Drivers of such trucks should be specially trained and licensed. Nobody needs that kind of horsepower to haul 2 x 4’s or drywall.

(Please note that in New York this is a BIG TRUCK. In “Flyover Country” this is normal truck, driven daily for farm or construction use…..or just because we like ’em).  And, oddly, few of those thousands of trucks go on a rampage. It is, of course, the user, not the tool.

My thoughts and prayers for the victims and those affected by this.

ETA: the suspect, Sayfullo Saipov is reported to be from Uzbekisan. His photo makes him look like a fundamentalist.

I am surprised that they admitted that it was terror and that it was a muslim, especially so quickly.