The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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that's so funny Richie,
i'm under the table (yeah laughing)

baby birds all flown away now. Only two made it.

Got this in an email today, for those of you who are into it, it's a heck of a deal.

AMC theaters will also have an Indiana Jones movie marathon on Saturday, September 15th starting at 10:30am, that will show all four films, a collectable poster and lanyard, and $5 Bonus Bucks for AMC Stub members. All of that can be yours for $25 dollars..... http://www.amctheatres.com/events/india ... s-marathon

and, it's that time again. and they FINALLY have the military onboard helping. Could have used them during the last two disasters. This one is just a couple of stubborn fires out in the east, rural. They're gonna merge, and the winds will kick up, but there's no Santa Anna, so no huge feeling of panic here. But, oh, I HATE summer.


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Late Wednesday morning, flight crews from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar answered a call from Cal Fire to join in the effort to subdue the blazes. The northern San Diego USMC base sent eight helicopters -- CH-53 Super Stallions and CH-46 Sea Knights -- to help shuttle personnel to the fire lines and make water drops.

The CH-53s belong to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadrons 462, 465 and 466, Marine Aircraft Group 16, and are stationed at MCAS Miramar. The CH-46s belong to Marine Medium Helicopter Training Squadron 164, Marine Aircraft Group 39, based at Camp Pendleton.

Members of the public with questions about the fires were encouraged to call a Cal Fire information line at 619-590-3160 or follow the agency's progress via Twitter, @calfiresandiego.

They finally have enough Marines stateside to help, I guess...

The heat finally hit up here, too. There's a pretty massive fire east of Cle Elum, just off Interstate 90 - last I heard, it's about 22,000 acres, with 25% containment, and 70 houses lost, and the Forest Service spokesman says it won't really be "out" until the first snowfall. Another fire started recently up in Okanagan County, too, near a town so small I'd never heard of it. And the fact that there's been no significant rainfall for over a month (in western Washington!) isn't helping matters any...

Up the Creak without a paddle Topic

This is my first post since way last year. I have been working on my writing and now I am a first time grandmother to my grandson Jake. I had promised not to post in this forum since I had angered a few members (three years ago!), but since I had something new to report I thought I would drop in. I will be a WP irregular, now.

The site seems about the same, many new members, and I am glad to see Hartz, DeaconBlues, richie, et al.

See you from time to time. Great to read some posts.

Deacon - yeah, with the heat everywhere this year fire season threatens to be really bad. I know a good section of New Mexico burned already, and Arizona, and now there's some damned newspaper reports claiming that the baddies from the middle-east have been told to consider starting fires in California to act as an attack on the USA.

Well, duh, put it in the newspapers, and make everyone even more paranoid and ready to drop bombs....

Drop a bomb and people still won't read newspapers. If the bomb hit close. you don't need no stinkin newspaper. Bombs come in colors. They still don't vote and newspapers don't educate.

Hi Postie, I'm always glad to see your posts.
Grandmother topic: I have five. Leaving next week to visit three of them in Cleveland and Florida. Hope to spend a little time in NOrleans too.

Wow, Niel Armstrong died today.

THAT is the end of an era.

I can honestly say I feel like my time has passed. Not that I'm kicking the bucket or anything, but I'm on glide now. I've raised my kid, the world is marching on and I am peeling away off the column to walk more slowly off down a path of my own. It's not a bad thing, it feels natural. There are others filling in where I was, ready to do the hard charging.

It's so odd, I can remember very clearly where I was when Apollo 11 landed. My father had to attend some college classes in a nearby town to keep his teaching job. We had moved there for a few months. I was laying in my parents' bedroom watching a small black and white tv, with the coverage. I'd been glued to it all day, didn't even eat. I kept calling to my mom (I don't know where my father was, probably off studying) saying, "Mom, you have to see this, they're going to land on the moon!". She couldn't have cared less and didn't bother to come in to watch. For me, it was the ultimate of magic moments. I always wanted to be an astronaut, from the time we first heard that little pathetic-soundling bleat of the Sputnik coming over my father's amateur radio set speakers. And then Alan Shepard and John Glenn, and the others. There was so much waiting out there, and I wanted to go to the stars. I never did, but thank goodness they did.

So now it's time to peel off the column and go down the other path, and enjoy watching them march by. And wish Godspeed to Neil.

All day watching, along with sibs and parents. Dad used to take us out and show us the satellites moving across the stars.