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Hurry Up and Wait. Postscript (Maybe)

Your Horoscope for Today, Virgo: Today is not an auspicious one for travel plans, especially if they involve a distant destination.

Okay, thanks to a certain major carrier cancelling a buncha flights ("We can get you as far as Charlotte or Atlanta, but then you'll have to take a cab to Jersey..."), my original 10-day sojourn south of Messrs Mason 'n' Dixon's chalk line has turned into a fortnightly foray. And still no luck on the elusive Flyable AH-1F.

*grump*

I'd have paid more attention to that horoscope, but us Virgos are notoriously skeptical -- as well as being passionate, artistically-inclined lovers who are totally devoid of a sense of humor. Ummm -- waitaminnit. I misread this -- Jupiter's in trine, Saturn's in the parking lot and Mercury's in Chinese tuna. So, ix-nay on the assion-pay.

Especially since my present domicile isn't within walking distance of anything but the parking lot of the mall, and *that* closed at 8pm due to electrical storms.

I sense something otherworldly about this.

A touch from the Beyond.

The hand of...

...Carborundum.

Hmmpf -- I'll remember this, dude (unless that short-term memory deal kicks in, anyway). Think you got nonplussed in Nam Can? Messed up at Moc Hoa? Upset in the U Minh? Once I get Cobra Current, you'd better have those newbies primed to hit the ground at a flat-out, dead run, bruddah!

*grin*

I can see the pinion-flurry now...

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I don't know if you're still looking for an "F" model, but I'm pretty sure the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation out of Atlanta, has at least a couple that are flyable. They have a website here: http://www.armyav.org/
 
See, I thought about 'it' and this happens. It's a jinx thing. ;)
 
Taking a fellow Virgo's advice I elected to stay home while my wife goes grocery shopping today... I have no desire to sit in traffic, have a car breakdown or otherwise change vehicles all while holding various food stuff's....therefor I'll sit on the couch and watch my Tennessee Vol's College Football recordings from last year....
 
Of *course* I did it, you refugee from the law of averages--how else do you think I'm going to get the FNGs trained in time for the big stuff? I've *almost* got them not crossing each other's flight paths now. Yesterday we paid a visit to Detrius in the Mental Recovery Facility so they could see for themselves what can happen. It was art therapy day. He uses a lot of red paint. Do us all a favor and stay away from stairs, falling anvils, alcohol, spicy chili, motor vehicles, banana peels, oil slicks, Ponzi schemes, rabid Chihuahas, electricity, and trans-fats.
 
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