Reminiscing

[Rastus]

So does anyone know how Kid Shelleen and Johnny Bravo are doing?

[m25operator]

Johnny called me out of the blue a month ago  ( working long hours and beat), all he told me about Kid was he was not doing well at all ! Please everyone keep him in your prayers. He did say he speaks with TW Yacht, and he's OK.

[crusader rabbit]

I still stop by fairly regularly if only to see what Bogan is up to.

It's true that the Forum sort of dimmed when several of the stalwarts found other interests.  Haz has been up to his eyeballs trying to keep body and soul in a single package.  Deepwater stops in now and then, but with his studying for promotion, getting promoted, and all the work that goes along with being Chief Engineer, he's literally at sea.  When he gets back to land, he has a new "old" Jeep he's fixing up and he now seems to enjoy Jeep-abouts with his cute little bride more than hanging out with us.  And M'ette seems to have run off with a cowboy or something, but she's rarely around to send any of us to the corner.

And, there's another thing or two...  Back when Odamna was first in office, a lot of us complained about what he was doing. That kept the Forum jumping. Then the re-election happened and a lot of us became hopelessly depressed.  It's hard to be upbeat when you see your fellow Americans make the same idiot mistake twice.

Now, we have the preliminaries to another election and the Repub front runner is a whack-job who wants to force the military to obey illegal orders, ship 11,000,000 Mexicans back over the border, and build a 50' wall so they don't get back.  That means we are giving the election to the Hildabeast if she doesn't get sent to prison before the general.  We are forcing an insane choice on a population of stupid people and expect to get a rational conclusion.

Friends, if those are the two choices, we are well and truly screwed and may as well sign up for Bogan's Revolution.

Anyhow, between other social media outlets (none of which I use) and near clinical depression at the current state of affairs, I don't think a lot of us have all that much socializing we want to do.

Just a few thoughts, FWIW.

Crusader Rabbit

[tombogan03884]

M'ette is on facebook about every day, Marshal is there frequently.
Not much worth commenting on here any more, beyond, "if you tolerate it you don't deserve any better".
Nobody posts any gun stuff any more except Alf.

[Timothy]

I found some mags for my aging Sig on eBay! 

There, some gun stuff!

Screw the election...  They keep up what they're trying and the RNC will GIVE it to the Beast!!!

Find a senator to fire -and a few congress rats...

[Sponsor]

[deepwater]

HEY!!!! I'm here toooo!!!!!! the war dept and I are in Norfolk until tomorrow morn, and then on to St Petersburg. and then on to Peru. who knows what the hell we'll be doing after that. you know. we do plan on driving out West this summer and then return via the Northern states and down the East coast. why not. she needs to see ALL of the United States. beside, what's the sense in having 6 months of vacation per year if you don't take advantage of it?

I see we have another radio weenie! well, TW has also gotten the bug. I'll try to get him up on HF for you, Rastus and Pathfinder.

Deep.

[ellis4538]

6 Months of vacation!!!!  That's almost like being retired....almost.

Richard  AKA  Retired Old Fart!

[deepwater]

6 Months of vacation!!!!  That's almost like being retired....almost.

Richard  AKA  Retired Old Fart!

yeah, it sometimes works out as more or less, depending on the trip, but 3 months on 3 months off is normal. rough life. 

[Rastus]

TW on ham radio...could be dangerous the two of you transmitting from the water. 

ARRL's dx weekend ongoing right now.  Spoke with Aland Islands, Morocco, France, Sweden, Lithuania, Spain, etc.  Using dual band dipole made from 450 ladder line in the attic on 100 watts.  15 meter conditions were good today.

[Rastus]

Sorry to hear the Kid is not doing well.  I saw something about the owner of that company or CEO, whichever, going to trial.  I hope they put him in jail.  Johnny Bravo needs to stop by and update us from time to time if he can.

Glad to hear that Haz is still kicking...miss him on here too.  Saw that he's in and out in the last few months.

TW...he's been gone for ages and added a lot to the conversation.

Glad you are back with us Bennie and it's nice to hear what CR has to say also. 

Deepwater it is good to see you weighing in.  Are you going to mix some training with your traveling?