Some gathered thoughts, 
wisdoms, and . . .

 

Yellowstone National Park Trip

Over 80 walls posted at:
Viewstuff
 

(Left click will take you to the site.
Right click and "save as" will
save the Full Size jpg -- 1024 x 768)

 

Buffalo (aka American Bison) --
up close and personal

The Black Hills (and more) --
Crazy Horse Memorial

 

Are you an organ donor?

Consider it -- you have nothing to loose, trust me.
Rob's First Theorem: There is a very high probability that decisions based on small samples will be horribly wrong.
Murphy was an optimist.
Best Advice my Mother ever gave me: never pass up a bathroom.
Found on web:

By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion.
By the beans of java do thoughts acquire speed,
do hands acquire shaking,
     the shaking becomes a warning.
By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion.
  The Standard should not be perfection,
The Standard should be the alternatives.		  
  The last twenty percent of a project can easily use eighty percent of the resources.
The last five percent of a project probably isn't worth it.		  
Arthur C. Clark: The technology of a sufficiently advanced culture is indistinguishable from magic.
JFK: The rights of all are diminished when the rights of one are denied.
Blade Runner: "Have a better one."
BD: The light at the end of the tunnel here is usually a freight train.
On Pets --

Someone once said that every child should have at least four pets to teach them about life: dogs, cats, fish, and hamsters.  The dog for loyalty, the cat for independence, and the fish for tranquility.  The hamsters . . . they are for life cycle.

 
J: (relative to sewing machines, but if it fits . . . )

It's a machine.
You can get mad at it, but it won't help.  It's just a machine.
R: When someone points out to me the violence in the world, I point out to them that it has been a long time since the Roman Legions marched up the valley, the Vikings waded ashore, or the Indians (and let's not forget the Cavalry either, for that matter) came riding over the ridge.  The world has always been a casually violent place.

Did I mention -- best advice my Mother ever gave me: Never pass up a bathroom.
A hard lesson to learn: Just because you can, doesn't mean you you should.
"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. 
In practice, there is." 
Two great loves of my life (not counting my better 3/4s):
at 80 feet on Bloody Bay Wall on Little Cayman, (although Belize has great diving too), 
and inverted as number four pulling 6gs.
I love the word: syrup    I (used to) have trouble saying: synthesizer
If we aren't supposed to eat cows, why are they made out of beef?
[unknown]
There are 10 kinds of people in this world -- 
     Those that understand binary and those that don't 
           (and if you don't get that, you don't).

From Hitchhiker's Guide --
     The answer to life, the universe, and . . . everything: 42

     The question: " What do you get when you multiply six by nine?"
                  101010
Did you know that there was a native aboriginal people in the Americas before the immigration of the "native" American peoples -- 
ever wonder what happened to them?
During the Australian Olympics one announcer said: You Americans settled on the shores of a great continent, then traveled inland to form a great nation.  Our ancestors settled on the shores of a great continent, then traveled inland -- and died.  80 percent of Aussies live within 15 minutes of the beach.  You can leave most cities and drive for a couple of  hours and be in a world of hurt if you are not prepared.
"Exercise" -- you said a dirty word, go wash your mouth out with chocolate immediately.
In the end, everything will be alright.  If it's not alright, it's not the end yet.
Commit an act of random thoughtfulness every day.
  It's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

 

 

  
  Got to love words --

          iron -- n. ore, appliance, golf club   v. press

          wind -- n. air   v. tension

          wound -- n. bleed   v. wind

 

  
  From The Usual Suspects:

     The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled
     Was convincing the world he didn't exist.

 

  
  From The 13th Warrior:

   Lo there do I see my Father.
       Lo there do I see my Mother, my Sisters, and my Brothers.
       Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning.

    Lo they do call me.
        They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla,
        Where the Brave may live forever.

Also:

    For all we ought to have thought,
                      and have not thought,
    For all we ought to have said,
                     And have not said,
    For all we ought to have done,
                     and have not done,
    I pray Thee, God, for forgiveness.

 

  
From Ride with the Devil:

               It ain't right.
               It ain't wrong either.
               It just is.

 

  
     

Still working on these . . . more later . . . . 

 

 

 

A few favorite pictures . . . 
Albert in my favorite pose
(I was a Physic's major).		 A tunnel in the Cayman Islands,
off Bloody Bay wall -- wowser!		 Earth
(as seen from Mars)
Olde "Hero" picture (I still had hair) by a USAF T-38 -- The "Great White Whale". My "Sweetie" in her "Hero" picture (Yah, a T-38 also, she got a ride). Completed the local civilian fire training program -- the prior year it was the police course.
MAC ("Midnight" Airlift Command) Lockheed C-141A Starlifter . . . always got me there. Son makes HSA Open Water diver -- pretty good for someone in a wheelchair. Other kid's new "toy"
1967 Skylark, de-chromed and
big block hot
 

 

 

     
 

High Flight

By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.


Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-slivered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and
soared and swung

High in the sunlite silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through the footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.

And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

 

  
     

 

     
 

Ode to a C-141
 

I never fully understood his feelings for her. He loved her and I had to share him with her. She was hard and cold yet he loved her and put his life in her hands every time he boarded her.

She carried him many many miles, to and from everywhere in the world.

At times he would ask her to carry the burden of completing a mission with an engine shut down and she would. Hydraulic fluid could run down her belly, or her landing gear would fail, yet, as he spoke her language she would come through and bring him home.

He knew her needs and would go to her defense when no one else would. It didn't matter, she was a part of him.

-----------They knew each other---------

As he sat at her panel and flipped her switches they became one. He touched her - she responded. He felt her fluids run, her power build and a surge would go through him as if life itself joined them.

She never made demands - just answered his call..

This special lady sat proudly as troops ran to her sanctity. She hauled them, dropped them and supplied them. She brought home the wounded and gave commrades their final ride home.

A round she never fired even when her sides were peppered by enemy fire as she sat with engines running to load Marines in Laos, babies in Viet Nam, Students in Granada or troops during Desert Storm.

When asked she would land on Artic ice, desert sand, or sub-standard runways in South America . She would sit and wait for the next mission of mercy, ask no questions, but give it her all....

Her name is STARLIFTER. She takes to the sky like an eagle and dances on clouds like a ballerina ---She touches the face of God---



b Lynda J. Case

Widow of Retired, deceased Cmsgt William L. Case lll
C-141 flight engineer Hq. Mac 1982-85
 

 

  
     

 

Please, do come back again 
(I do update . . . eventually -- LOL).

 

 

WALLS -- CLICK ON THE
Master Wall Index
 BUTTON >>>

   

   

 

This is the Welcome page --
It contains information
about the site.

  

This is the Links page --
It contains information about A.B.P.T.S-F
   

alt.binaries.pictures.tv.scfi-fantasy

newsgroup -- contact your ISP.

 

 

No electrons were harmed (although several were misplaced, a number were recycled, a lot got sworn at, . . .) during the development of this site.

Update: February 2009

Developed with M$ FrontPage 2003 (got to love M$ -- it's in the license!).

e-mail: rjprowalls@yahoo.com

 

Click here to go to the Top >>>