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One Step Beyond
LA had a weekend. The Dodgers swept the Nationals for a four-game winning streak before heading back to LA for a series against the pretty good Rockies, starting tonight. The Dodgers' starting pitcher tonight is from Lexington, a fast-throwing kid named Walker Buehler.
Lit out early yesterday morning to pick up Tegyrius and head up to the Air Force Museum. I hadn't been in a few years, and the facility has seen a lot of improvements since then. All of the experimental and Presidential aircraft that had been moved out to a hangar on the base proper were back museum grounds in a nice new display building. The spacecraft are in their own structure now, too. The museum was pretty busy - Saturday was Armed Forces Day, and the B-17 Memphis Belle exhibit was opened on Thursday with a lot of events on the schedule - visiting aircraft and all that. We saw a B-17 flying around and heard it making passes over the museum. The Belle is on display raised on pylons with her landing gear up, so she's always in flight, and she's surrounded by displays of her career as a warplane and as an advertisement for war bond sales. Beautiful aircraft. The real star of the museum, for me at least, is a B-1B in the Cold War hangar. I've always loved the look of the Lancer, and the museum's plane is from the 7th Bomb Wing out of Dyess AFB - my dad was stationed at Dyess as part of the 7th when he and Mom met in 1967. After the museum, a visit to a game store just off-base, and then back to Kentucky. A very good day out.
Stayed up way too late reading last night, slept way too late this morning as a result. Sent out a few applications and talked with Dad. Doing what I can to maintain momentum and keep the mindworms at bay.
Lit out early yesterday morning to pick up Tegyrius and head up to the Air Force Museum. I hadn't been in a few years, and the facility has seen a lot of improvements since then. All of the experimental and Presidential aircraft that had been moved out to a hangar on the base proper were back museum grounds in a nice new display building. The spacecraft are in their own structure now, too. The museum was pretty busy - Saturday was Armed Forces Day, and the B-17 Memphis Belle exhibit was opened on Thursday with a lot of events on the schedule - visiting aircraft and all that. We saw a B-17 flying around and heard it making passes over the museum. The Belle is on display raised on pylons with her landing gear up, so she's always in flight, and she's surrounded by displays of her career as a warplane and as an advertisement for war bond sales. Beautiful aircraft. The real star of the museum, for me at least, is a B-1B in the Cold War hangar. I've always loved the look of the Lancer, and the museum's plane is from the 7th Bomb Wing out of Dyess AFB - my dad was stationed at Dyess as part of the 7th when he and Mom met in 1967. After the museum, a visit to a game store just off-base, and then back to Kentucky. A very good day out.
Stayed up way too late reading last night, slept way too late this morning as a result. Sent out a few applications and talked with Dad. Doing what I can to maintain momentum and keep the mindworms at bay.