aeneas

Ever have one of those days when you drop off a roll of film and as you're driving away suddenly you wonder if maybe it contains photographic evidence which could lead to your arrest, conviction and eventual execution by lethal injection?

No? OK, maybe it's just me.

I was organizing my CDs yesterday morning and I realized that I have four different versions of "Mars, the Bringer of War" from The Planets by Gustav Holst (1874-1934). It's definitely one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

The first and second are two different performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy. (One recording is two seconds longer than the other. I...
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Song Ideas Concocted While Drinking Heavily:

"You say 'hey, I laid the ol' lady,' I say 'I laid the ol' lady, too!'"
(The Dixie Chicks. Say the title really fast. Now imagine it with banjo and fiddle. Yee haw!)

"I ain't that good-lookin'; you ain't all that smart."
(Brad Paisley)

"William Shatner's toupee is but a shadow in the glory of...
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Here I am . . . back at home. 31 hours later. (Uugghh.)

The good news is that I knew I would have a long layover in Fort Meyers. So I had rigged up a bed in the back of the airplane.

First I spread a foam-rubber "egg crate" pad across the bare aluminum deck of cargo compartments A and B. Then I laid three...
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Samantha and Michelle and I had lunch at Hooters in Pensacola yesterday afternoon.

The theory was discussed that, through an ongoing process of selective breeding, the men of the world were slowly causing the average bust size to increase.

"Out of my way! Gene pool emergency! Stand aside! Gotta do Darwin's work!"

Today is going to be interesting. I'm flying run #110, which lays over in Pensacola for about four hours. Sam is currently in Pensacola, of course, so we can get together while I'm up there. Odd twist. I'm sure we'll have lunch and maybe I can even take a nap at Dick 'n' Dawn's place.

I slept very badly last night. Knowing that I was...
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Got to do a checkride today . . . checkrides are a necessary pain in the ass.

I was in the supermarket Sunday. There are thousands of books and magazines for sale on the subject of health and fitness. It's a billion-dollar publishing industry. Honestly, how much is there to say on this topic? Here is everything anybody really needs to know about health and...
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This is going to be one of those weird lazy days. I went to bed fairly early last night -- about 10 or 11 -- and woke up this morning a little after 7.

I don't actually need to be at work, however, until about 8 P.M. (I'm flying the early Fed Special to Jacksonville tonight.) Meanwhile . . . well . . . here...
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Cool! It's raining! Thank the fucking weather gods. This means I don't have to set up the sprinkler.

I love the sound of the rain . . . well, at least when I'm warm and dry inside some kind of shelter I do. When I'm out in it, shivering and damp, then it drags teeth.

It's great to look out the window and see the...
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Wow, what a day!

First, I rode out to the Yalaha Country Bakery to hear the Hindu Cowboys play.

But it turned out that the Yalaha Country Bakery was an officially designated sacred site for a worldwide festival commemorating the "Harmonic Concordance." It has something to do with the lunar eclipse.

People were standing around in circles chanting and humming. Holistic healers mingled with aura...
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