JerrySTL

The public speaking part. My instructor in military academic instructor course told me at graduation that she didn't think that I'd make it to graduation. A couple of years later I started working on my BS in Occupational Education to improve myself. Once I started being an adjunct facility member at a local college, I actually started liking teaching plus the money was pretty good for a part time job.

Food poisoning is a great weight loss plan. I had a severe case from eating a fish sandwich at a restaurant when I was 15 YO and to this day I don't like to eat fish.

Religious vocations? Less than zero. In the other sense of the word, I'd say two. I wanted to become an aircraft mechanic as a child, so I did. Later I was drawn towards database work. Being an instructor both in the military and college level certainly wasn't a vocation. I had to work too hard to be good at it and really didn't like it all that much.

I thought that MIL's went into the back seat and a Del Sol doesn't have one.

I don't have Netflix so I'm not sure. Heck I'm subscribing to 4 other streaming services right now. I need to dump a couple.

Job? What's that?

I read The Three-Body Problem. Excellent. Let us know if Shards of Earth is any good.

30.5 miles on the tandem.

I look for "pull throughs" also.

Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft is something that I can't wrap my head around. Having a pilot practicing jumping out of an aircraft might give me nightmares.

Great mimes sign alike.

20.35 miles on the tandem. Katy Trail. St. Charles to Black Walnut and back. Hot!

Approximately 2,000 steps per mile so 5 miles. A lot depends on your stride. I guess it would be around 1,300 steps per kilometer. WoJSTL wears a Fitbit on her bra. It shows about 500 steps per mile when we are riding the tandem. That is about the number of pedal strokes per mile so it must be picking them up.

WoJSTL has a friend whose dog has killed over 35 squirrels. That dog is quick and quiet. Our dearly departed collie Rosie would chase squirrels without luck. When a puppy, she treed a squirrel and kept barking at him. The squirrel proceeded to pee on Rosie. Rosie quit barking for a while and sniffed around. Then she really started barking!

We did too until we bought a new dining room table and chairs last year! Ours were starting to fall apart with some of the pegs popping out.

It could have been cats.

What could go wrong? WoJSTL. Heck she just gave me the stink eye earlier today when I wanted to check out a tandem. I mean, we only have one!

Looks like a Commander. My first car was a 1962 Studebaker Hawk GT. I wish that I still had that car and my second car which was a 1964 Chevy Impala SS.

I pulled an elaborate joke on my admin troop when I was in the USAF. I ran a school for aircraft maintenance people and could have around 100 students at one time. I had various people call the office looking for Captain Smith. I made sure that we didn't have a Captain Smith in a class. The first time Bob went through all the class rosters looking for Captain Smith. After the second call, he looked again. About the fourth call, he started asking each instructor if they had a Captain Smith in a class. About the 10th call, he was checking with the base locator roster. I hadn't thought of that, but luckily there wasn't a Captain Smith. Towards the end of the day, and about 20 phone calls, I had someone call Bob and say "This is Captain Smith. Did anyone call for me?" Bob was so apoplectic that he couldn't form any words. That's when the whole office burst out laughing. Bob should have known something was up as almost everyone was crowding around the office at quitting time.

I once pulled a prank that nearly got me beat up. I put a few cigarette loads into a few cigars of a coworker. Cigarette loads explode when the fire gets to them. At night he played in a C&W band, and I happened to go see them at a local bar that night. During a break between songs, he pulls out a cigar. Oh shit! Even worse, he gives one to a bandmate who had recently been in a car accident and had some stitches on his face and elsewhere. Sure enough they started playing the next song and the cigar exploded on the guy who had been in the car wreck. I think that I must have put three loads in that cigar. A few people dived under tables thinking it was a shooting. The guy with tobacco in his stitches looks at my coworker like he was going to kill him. Of course my coworker points the finger at me. Oh shit! About that time people started laughing. I think that might have saved my life.

20.13 miles on the tandem. Excellent weather.

What if the aliens have CDs or Blu-ray? Or maybe they are so advanced that they have MP3!

Go to the grocery store and get some Minute Maid OJ. Put that in your fridge so there's something different in it.

Yes. Two feeders. According to Hummingbird Central, they were been spotted in the St. Louis area last week. https://www.hummingbirdcentral.com/hummingbird-migration-spring-2024-map.htm

Give it a month and there might be mold. I often check to see if the fridge is running. If so, I catch it and tie it down.