I really didn’t have anything I wanted to write about tonight. It was a Friday off from work, and besides from some everyday heroics, fixing a toilet & helping a neighbor trim a tree, nothing blogworthy happened. I was going to cop out, scan a picture from the past and use just it as my thousand words. But this comes from one of my stints in a detachment aboard the U.S.S. Midway during my Navy days and needs a little explaining.
All the spaces assigned to the squadrons of the air wing were on the two levels just below the flight deck. Along the passageways there, you passed the doors belonging to the numerous work centers required for the upkeep the aircraft, all painted with the squadron insignia and colors.
Wanting to show our squadron pride we decided to paint our door too. We didn’t have “official” colors, but we did have several spray cans of blue paint laying around that we used to identify our tie down chains. Someone scrounged a can of yellow from another squadron and we were in business. We taped up 1″ metal letter stencils of all our work centers, airframe, hydraulics, avionics, etc. and pretty soon we looked just like the rest of the air wing. Almost. While all the other squadrons had a different space for each different work center, all of ours were behind this one door. Look inside!
Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/08: 286
I spent most of the evening erasing all traces of Ubuntu Linux off the laptop (I never did get the wireless card to work) and reinstalling XP. Then coincidentally I had trouble getting the wireless to work under Windows as well. But that was just a security issue and semi-easily solved. This left little or no time and motivation to blog, so here, enjoy a sunrise from our HHI weekend a couple weeks ago. 
