May 8, 2020

A Week In Camp Would Do Me Well

Last weekend while in Cary we ate like royalty, this week more of the same (except for hot dogs, red hot hot dogs) and tonight SWMBO went to Cox's for takeout, Queen's cut prime rib, get it?

Moving on, we have a special on this fan this week:

I wonder how many thousands of these we have sold in the past, and sure enough as soon as I announced it we got orders for several pallets. 

                      

Selling is easy, anyone can do it! Especially when it is a product that is priced correctly, performs exceptionally, is in stock and can ship quickly; hey, what is the common denominator? Anyone care to guess?

Happy Mother's Day! I wrote a devotion about mothers for our church: https://www.firstpresmhc.org/daily-devotions-of-staff

At the time of this post it hasn't appeared yet, they are subject to censorship and may not make it, but it has to do with mothers duhhhhhhhhhhh I know SWMBO had it rough, especially with a husband who wasn't that good at being a father and wasn't around all of the time, but honestly, how do young mothers do it now during quarantine? With all of the other duties let us throw in teaching, and by the way all of the kids are at home all of the time!!! Notice how I compartmentalized all of mothering into "all of the other duties?" While you're dipping your bullets in poison and looking up my address throw in "giving birth." A day isn't enough, I say let's give them two days.

And not to spoil the surprise but I gave SWMBO her fishing license for Mother's Day. I know I spoil her, but that is a Riley tradition, except for the fact that Dink loved to fish, as did my other mama Lottie.

Tomorrow is an off day, Sunday we fish, or I fish, we or I will have to see. Hopefully I will post some pretty ocean and maybe even fish pictures next week. 

In the words of the credit manager at Trion so many years ago: happy mudders day to all you mudders.

Oh yes, what camp you asked? Don't ask. 

May 5, 2020

Sinko de Mayonaise

Happy birthday to Keelyn and Betsy Vann on this special day:

We ventured out of Carteret County Saturday, feasted on delicious rib-eyes with Elizabeth and Jackson, homemade flapjacks in the morning, then sang happy birthday to my mother-in-law, accompanied by an idiot on his ukulele:

               

As a special birthday reward I was treated to CharGrill hot dogs, banana pudding frozen custards and a tank of gas! Should have gone fishing..........Happy birthday to me!

April 24, 2020

Know This Guy?



SWMBO wants to cut my hair using his nickname for clippers. If you don't see me I'm under the tomato plants

COVID-19

It is hard to believe that it has been a month now and probably will be another.
This thing

........has disrupted our lives like nothing else has ever. And I see that my last post was in August, 2017. Anybody still there?

Jerry Lewis

After all this time I am compelled to write
Rest In Peace Jerry Lewis
Your contributions on behalf of handicapped children are enormous and will never be as well recognized as they should be...........................
You did well

OK, That's Enough!

After returning from seeing Spectre last week it seemed as though we were watching the results of an evil genius in Paris Friday night. Very sad.....

We saw a trailer for the new Star Wars movie, take a close listen:

Whoa! My father has it? I thought he got killed...............................which would mean my father had it. Should be fun, I'll start camping at the box office tomorrow. If you need me call the pay phone at the corner, and let it ring for a while.

Some neat pictures of my brother and nephew from a training flight last week:

No I know what you're thinking: they didn't let him fly it or go up and down the yo yo, as a matter of fact I don't think they let him touch anything. What an experience!

For Throw Back Thursday I found this picture in a cigar box in my office; a Liberty ship that had to be cut loose while in tow around Hatteras. It was in the mid 70's when the FO and I went "fishing" down there and got caught in a helluva storm, that might have been the time the Bonner bridge broke. I remember going across some boilerplate they put down where some sections separated. Great memories............................

Maybe

And you know what? I think that's about all I have to say. 

OK, So one last piece of advice, it's not always about you..............................or me

Bond.....James Bond Bond Bond James..............

Old family joke there, when the kids were young they tried to imitate James Bond, Niece Kristi couldn't quite master the introduction and therefore whenever we discuss James Bond we always call him...................got it?

Spectre: Well it is a Bond movie so that means a lot; but nowhere near Skyfall or Casino Royale. There were some interesting twists throughout and a truly evil bad guy spoiler alert (it is the return of Blofeld once again) The chases, scenery, etc. were as always amazing, but the girls were just so-so. Yes I know I'll get in trouble for that, but there are some shots of Vesper......oh Vesper Lynd. What does Vesper Lynd and Jay Riley have in common? No fair answering that one Jay, I know you know. Anyway as risky as 007 makes it, I have to keep reminding myself that he will make it to the end of the movie. SWMBO commented afterwards "he certainly tears a lot of stuff up." The opening scene from Mexico City is classic. Enjoy. 

In industry news this week, and you're going to think I made this up but I didn't:

Sony puts Betamax out of its misery.

Assumed to be long dead by many, Sony has officially announced an end to its Betamax tape format. Sony will end production of the tapes in March of next year, 40 years after the product was introduced into the market and 30 years after it became more-or-less obsolete.

“This will make the final shipment of all our memory media for Betamax,” Sony said in a Japanese-language statement. The company made its last Betamax video recorder in 2002.

Betamax is best known for its role in the videotape format war that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. Sony’s Betamax was pitted against JVC’s VHS format. The latter eventually won the war, with consumers adopting the VHS format en masse.

Last year, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai praised the Betamax and the standards it set way back in 1975. “Watch whatever, whenever,” he said. “This idea still resonates and defines everything people desire and expect even today.” [via CoS]

Yes, that is hard to believe, but true story. 

If you read this blog regularly you know I enjoy the noise of a combustion engine, especially one which delivers high performance. The motorcycle I ride has a torque-y engine, especially at speeds up to 100 or so, not the top end speed of the four cylinder "flying bricks" BMW builds, but extremely responsive at 0-60 (4.0 flat). I digress............Anyway, as much fun as it is to ride, the "noise" just isn't there, but I have found a low cost solution:

And I'll bet we all know who plays a trombone, well actually a couple of guys who do.

Speaking of the FO I found a picture from his childhood the other day, he loves to fish more than anyone I know; as a matter of fact he will not stop fishing to do "the essentials" sometimes.

Elizabeth had a birthday this week and I got to enjoy dinner Wednesday night with the birthday girl and Jackson. Looks like she had a boo boo:

OK that might have been a few years ago, but a great picture of her and her mom attending to her. Happy birthday young lady, we love you

Happy birthday Shorty Simms, beat Macon. If you want to get to the good part zip ahead to 1:15, Jackson's last game

We went to 28379 last week and saw a

And this week:

Photography is so easy, no just got lucky with a couple of shots.
Next week: BigFoot!
Speaking of BigFoot, guess where he is today?

Your tax dollars at work..............this goes with landing on an aircraft carrier a few years ago, wonder what his next adventure will be?
Mine? Supposed to take a couple of days off next week to ride the bike to the mountains, but rain looks to be in the forecast Wednesday and Thursday so earlier today I scrubbed that trip. Maybe try for Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday of Thanksgiving week?
And an old friend in Glen Burnie is retiring so maybe I'll run up there and visit with him once more, and meet his replacement? Who knows?