Annoyed at thread drift

[SW MP15]

Good Afternoon:

I just went to the bank. It's so hot and muggy you can't breath! It shows 86 degrees, but it feels like 94!

I didn't go get doughnuts, as much as I would have liked too. I can't eat em, it would probably put me in a sugar coma? My last check up, my A1c was 5.8. Not bad for an old over weight diabetic? And I'd like to keep that way.

Still no storms or rain, yet? But when it's this hot and humid, some will be set off? I'm guessing 3-4ish this evening?

So I hope everyone has an enjoyable evening. Please be safe. And stay dry, in our case meaning stay out of the heat. And be sure and eat a Doughnut for me!!!

 

[BigCityChief]

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[kwselke]

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You're right BCC, that image requires eye bleach or beer! I declare it Beer Time!

Today I'm having 5 O'clock Pils from Houston's Saint Arnold Brewing. It was added to Saint Arnold's full time line up a couple of months back, and this is the first I've tried.

It is your basic clean light Pilsner style Lager. It is heavily hopped for this style of beer, it is up front with floral woodsy hop flavoring . Decent mouth feel and overall taste. I would definitely drink this beer again, but there are other Pilsners I'd opt for if the price were equal. At 5.2% ABV it is a full strength lager, but not strong enough for two 12 ounce cans to get me to forget those shorts.

Cheers!

 

[timn8er]

This cat just doesn't realize who he's messing with...

 

[timn8er]

Somebody else pushing his luck...

 

[timn8er]

It happens to the best of us...

 

[timn8er]

Is that Parsely...working out Jedi style with a couple of buddies?

 

[timn8er]

Is that Parsely taking pics?

 

[timn8er]

My dream bike...from about forty five years ago. I'd still like to have one again!

 

[vonn]

Shutdown early tonight due to rain! Got three plus inches yesterday and one so far today. Sure had enough of the rain for now! Been doing research on mounting a red dot sight on one of my semi auto rifles for hog hunting and have run across some night vision scopes that look like they might have potential. Has anyone tried or know someone who has experience with night vision equipment? My only exposure goes back to Starlight scopes in Nam so I am way behind. Drift on!

 

[RSBH44]

Anybody remember this show? Man, I used to live for this show if I had nothing else going on.
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-GwdaKrn8[/ame]

 

[timn8er]

One of my all time favorite bands! Nobody can sing like Lowell George used to;I still miss him!

 

[Skeptic 9c]

We picked up Timmber Wolf the wonder coach yesterday afternoon. Hopefully everything is fixed, explained or good enough.
Departing extremely early Monday morning to get out of town ahead of the weather and before rush hour.
Geoff
Who is as ready as he can be, for small values of prepared.

 

[loknload]

Well the granddaughter show was the end of the year celebration, she was beaming ear to ear to see us all sitting in the front row! It's funny that I live in PA and this school is in Southern Maryland,the principle knows my wife and I by our first names thanks to our granddaughter?

Got my new Monkees CD with a new Bob Dylan CD with him doing a lot of old stuff from Frank Sinatra!
Really surprises me but not really who was writing songs for the Monkees. Little disappointed they only had one song that included Davy Jones, but it is what it is and for their ages they did a pretty good job with it!
Bob Dylan,,,,well he's another story!

 

[kwselke]

There's lots more of WW-II left for the USS Yolo, so it's back to 1945 and Lt. C. Homer Bast.

June 3, 1945

At 0230 there was a flash red. Again the enemy failed to penetrate the defenses. These aircraft are nothing more than hecklers. All on board agree that it makes good sense for the Japanese to pass up the picket ships and fly directly to Hagushi. Certainly if they press the attack hard enough some aircraft will get through. All hands turned to early to clean ship. Immediately after lunch, there was another alert lasting two hours. Indeed, at 1230 a series of raids involving 50 planes, commenced. At 1345 a Zeke crashed into the bridge of LCI(L) 90 off Taka Banare killing one and wounding seven. TAFFY and CAP downed many aircraft. Not a single plane flew south as far as Hagushi. Around 2130 another alert was called. It was in the middle of a cold dreary rain. Again the enemy tried to break through but with only 10 aircraft participating nothing happened. During this day and night 36 enemy were downed. Following the show most went to bed. The officers listened to the radio and played cards. Outside, a hard rain beat down. Ashore there is nothing but mud.

Admiral Refsnider commanded a small attack force that steamed from the Hagushi transport area to Iheya Shima about 15 miles north of Hedo Saki. The High Command wanted this island for the installation of long range radar and fighter directional facilities. It should help the pickets.

 

[RSBH44]

One of my all time favorite bands! Nobody can sing like Lowell George used to;I still miss him!

Love the uniqueness of this guy's voice too
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nBhpiUFSYWI[/ame]

 

[RSBH44]

One of my all time favorite bands! Nobody can sing like Lowell George used tfro;I still miss him!

One of my favorites as well !

 

[bigwheelzip]

Well the granddaughter show was the end of the year celebration, she was beaming ear to ear to see us all sitting in the front row!

You left out how her genuine joy at seeing you there, flat out melted your heart and made you want to bust.
That's OK, we'll keep it just between us.

 

[FastFossil]

My dream bike...from about forty five years ago. I'd still like to have one again!

I had a Suzuki GT750 Water bottle(two stroke, water cooled) around the same time. My last bike was a Yamaha FJR1300. I like your avatar with Casey Stoner.

 

[timjake]

June 3, 1945

... At 1345 a Zeke crashed into the bridge of LCI(L) 90 off Taka Banare killing one and wounding seven. TAFFY and CAP downed many aircraft. Not a single plane flew south as far as Hagushi. Around 2130 another alert was called. It was in the middle of a cold dreary rain. Again the enemy tried to break through but with only 10 aircraft participating nothing happened. During this day and night 36 enemy were downed...

LCI(L)-90 was an amphibious assault ship manned by a United States Coast Guard crew. The ship had quite an eventful history during its three years in commission - Sicily, Salerno, Omaha Beach, Okinawa.

From US Coast Guard History https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/LCI_90.pdf

Commissioned: 6 February 1943
Decommissioned: 8 April 1946

The Coast Guard-manned USS LCI(L)-90 was commissioned on 6 February 1943. She was assigned to LCI(L) Flotilla 4. After undergoing shakedown and training exercises, she sailed across the Atlantic in company with the other LCI(L)s of the flotilla and participated in the North African occupation in Tunisia, from 1 June to 9 July 1943. She then landed troops during the invasion of Sicily on 9 July 1943 and the landings at Salerno on 9 September 1943. She then sailed for England as part of the same flotilla, now renamed Flotilla 10, in preparation for the invasion of Normandy.

On 6 June 1944, she participated in the landings on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy. After acting as ferry and escort duty between England and France she left Falmouth on 5 October 1944 for Charleston, South Carolina.

She arrived at Okinawa via Eniwetok, Guam, Ulithi and Leyte on 3 June 1945. Ten days later while engaged in making smoke, she was hit by a Japanese suicide plane and departed June 14th for Saipan and Leyte for repairs. She remained at Leyte early in December 1945 when she returned to the United States arriving at Galveston on 14 February 1946.

The LCI(L)-90 earned five battle stars for her service in World War II. All LCI(L)s of Flotilla 10 were retroactively awarded the Coast Guard Unit Commendation for their service in the invasion of Normandy.