Google Earth is an easy distraction for me. There is so much to see there.

After looking up the museum in NYC, I started poking around the city. Now, I've been on 95 through NYC several times, and I've seen these buildings, but they always go by in a blur. Just look at these things. How can those few skinny posts under the bridge hold up that huge building? Just look at it.

I stayed up waaaay too late finishing reading The Girl Who Played With Fire last night and now I'm having a great deal of trouble functioning, so I thought I'd come to the cellar and see if there's anything happening that might wake me up.

When I attended high altitude physiology and wind tunnel training at Wright-Pat, I had time to tour the AF museum. I still have a silver dollar sized bronze medallion I bought at the souvenir shop the sales from which help support the museum. I wish the same could be done for the shuttles in lieu of an admission charge (rather than as a likely addition to it). Unfortunately, this seems to be being done on the cheap for the government; so, they'll probably even do the same thing the Smithsonian was chastised for by Congress by selling mostly foreign made souvenirs. At least my souvenir was made in the USA.

It's a fascinating place, isn't it?

Here's the press release from the museum:

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

4/12/2011 - DAYTON, Ohio -- The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force was not selected to receive any of the operational shuttles or the gliding prototype Enterprise.

Although unfortunate for the Air Force, we respect NASA's decision and will move forward with our plans for a new fourth building to house the Presidential Aircraft Gallery, Space Gallery, and Global Reach Gallery featuring cargo and tanker aircraft. The Space Gallery will be populated with exhibits featuring the Apollo 15 Command Module, Mercury and Gemini spacecraft, and a Titan IV space launch vehicle for future display, as well as an X-15, X-24 and other assets which helped develop shuttle program technologies

THAT made me smile!! That was so sweet.

As for the Smithsonian - it's the one Smithsonian museum you have to pay to get in.

Technically, it's free to get in the museum, but you have to pay to park, and there's no walking access. The Enterprise is there now; I saw it a few weeks ago. You don't expect how big they are.

Once they extend Metro out to Dulles, they should put in a sidewalk to the museum.

Plenty o' room for anything here. :mad:

(I'm not done in the bitter barn, I'm going to play in the hay awhile):

That would be a bit of a hike, and walking around the museum is a bit of a hike already.

Though there would almost have to be some sort of Metro arrangement, if its already so close.

cellar.org? cellar.orgasm would get so much MORE traffic.....

My talents are wasted on mere mortals.

that is so true, munkie. mankie munkie. infinite mankey

...... I digress.....

This morning I went from asleep to behing the wheel with contact lenses in in less that 2 mins. And I sleep nude. Is this a new world record?

And yes, we caught the schoolbus. And no i didn't get pulled over for driving nekkid.

We're both superheroes, you know.

I'm not liking my costume......

I wore my button down shirt inside out for a couple hours the other day. You think YOU don't like your uniform? Off the hanger, still buttoned, pulled over head, two hours later my cow orker says "WTF? Is that a fashion statement?"

:blush:

Unmade bed of a woman.

I wore a blue t-shirt and grey sweatpants and no knickers or bra to the bus stop this morning ...and my 12yo's turquoise Crocs.

Fly the shuttles instead.

My brother used to work for USA. It bummed him out, because he got a job with NASA, and after a short while, they moved him into USA. He was still doing the same work, but would have preferred saying he worked for NASA. It has a certain ring to it.

I'm really really really really really sorry, but I have to go drink some beers. Ciao! ;)

I loved the Scream trilogy. A little campy, a little scary. Now there is Scream 4. Same cast. I'm wondering if it will be any good. If I don't go to my brother's new place this weekend I'm thinking of going to the theater. It's been so long since there's been anything I've been interested in seeing.

A review. I might go.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertai...,3371025.story

Pictures or it never happened.

no fucking way. it never happened. the world will be a safer place for believing that, anyway.

I am completely loving The Crimson Petal and the White.
I liked the book, but I found it ran out of steam. This seems more promising, as 2 of 4 is still very well acted and visually stunning.

I've seen Chris O'Dowd's knob more than once.
And Mark Gatiss is in it.
Or was in it - he's out of the storyline now.

It's wonderful.

Today I'm going to get my hair done. I've decided to go back to my natural colour for the first time in years. I have a couple of inches of regrowth, so hopefully my hairdresser can match it all up and I'll be set.

It'll be nice to get my hair done. I haven't been to a salon for anything other than a trim for a couple of years now.

Man, I miss going to the salon to get my hair done. I'm saving bucks though by cutting and coloring it myself.

That's what I have been doing too Pico, but it's starting to look a bit tragic. lol It's time to let a professional have at it.

I swear I just heard someone whisper my name twice. No one is there. But I heard it!

Raptor Jesus is calling you home.

Oh crap. What should I wear?

:bolt:

Any bloody thing you want.

I love Raptor Jesus.

HAhahhahahahahahaa...

Today's poll on CNN.com: Will the royal wedding inspire you to get married?

:lol:

Um, why would it?


It might, however, inspire me to convert to British. ;)

I'm thinking Dana and MTP must be really bored, really drunk or both. lol

They're just teaching someone a couple of lessons: Keep A Stiff Upper Lip and Don't Mess With Texas.

FTFY

I wish! Just playing games though. Have better stuff to do, but don't wanna.

I just realized it's two week's until Mother's Day. I need to start thinking about this.

surprise buttsecks!

cellar meta is cellar team screwed up.

I have an irritation down the sides of my tongue, like I have been eating fresh pineapple.
But I haven't.
Please don't let me have any more food reactions!

I do have one stalking me, in that I've had a couple of reactions over the years and they have become progressively worse. The last happened when I was here (the Cellar), and survived six days of anti-histamines before giving up. That was when I had the hives on my hands. When we had allergic reaction training at school recently, they showed photos of wheals like mine as an example of when an ambulance should be called...






Yes I know, it's FAR more serious in children and I certainly don't pretend I needed to go to the hospital. Also my wheals developed over 24 hours, not immediately. But I do worry that the next one might be more extreme - the more so since I have no idea what the trigger is.

Hey - it's a post whore thread.

But what did you eat? Write it down here for posterity, so when it happens again in 6 months you'll have something to cross-reference.

:o I had Levi Root's Reggae Reggae Chicken & Sunshine Rice
The tongue irritation didn't survive the night, so I'm not worried about it any more.

Double the raggae, double the yum!

I want to go swimming so so so so so so so so so so so badly.

In a nice pond or quarry. Ice cold water.

Ahhhhh, heaven.

I like waves, like the ones at Ogden dunes on a windy day.

I think our pool opens this weekend. If not this weekend, then next. Yay!

I just came from the pool. It was like walking in swamp mud. Mind you, i was just watching, not swimming ;) Hebe's first long course meet. 200IM tonight, she did OK for never having swum in a 50y pool before.

See, body of water I want to get in. Especially with how humid pool halls are. :)

I initially read that as "a soy pool," which was a horrifying thought indeed.

it was 50m anyway.

Som what?

5omewhat longer than usual.

eggzactly. she kicked ass today :D took 2 seconds off her 100 backstroke seed time -which is apparently equivalent to a 5 second drop in a 100Y race in a 25Y pool. Which is almost unheard of at her level (backstroke is her worst stroke, though).

And she won her breaststroke heat and dropped the equiv of 1s in short course yards time which is most excellent. ....because this is "her event", so dropping a couple of hundredths is noteworthy, a second is like a royal wedding announcement :lol:

... to keep whoring and bragging.... There were 113 participants in the women's 100m breaststroke event, including one who swam in the Michigan grand prix last month against the olympians ... Hebe was seeded 31st and came in 22nd. She's not yet 13.5. It's pretty cool methinks.

Go girl go!

My 8 year old niece ran a 5k on Saturday. (She actually beat her mother, who runs all the time!) Then they rushed to her dance recital, at noon, which I attended. 3 freaking hours, that thing ran. She was in a hip hop group, little flight suit on, so cute. Of course, she was only on for their 4 minute part then she was back on for the finale. There had to be over 30 groups. Then they had another show at 6 pm!

Yesterday we were playing with the basketball and the older girl said S was too lazy to chase the ball. S said "I ran a 5k yesterday and had 2 dance recitals. You CANNOT call me lazy!" Well said, beautiful little one, well said. :)

Now it's softball, I think basketball and volleyball are over! :lol:

I get how the kids can do it all, but the parents must be exhausted. :)

eta: Oh yeah, and she gets straight As. ;)

Is mobster on vacation or something?

Me miss mobster. I have a code in my nobe, that's why I can't say her name right.

I thought you were until I saw this post! When you are both gone I am bored! :neutral:

aaw :o I was at camp in The Wilderness (just north of Detroit). No interwebs there, the ganstas done stoled it all. Ziplining in the snow. awesome. :rolleyes: :lol:


Very proud of my camper, who was the first all the way up the climbing wall to ring the bell at the top, got a dead center bullseye in archery and can shoot/arch/whatever accurately with both hands, was the only kid to get the ring on the hook multiple times and was noted for his leadership, manners and helpfulness. :love: :D

No prizes for the first one to FTFY "mainlining the snow" Just sayin' It's old now.

scuse me, how many the fuck teeth does James Brown have in the lower jaw? he is shark?