A margin note from a monk in a middle ages monastery:

“He who does not know how to write, imagines it to be no labor; but though three fingers only hold the pen, the whole body grows weary.”

Reminds me of an elementary school poem:

The gingham dog and calico cat side by side on the table sat. Twas half past 12 and what do you think not one or the other had slept a wink.

The gingham dog went bow wow wow and the calico cat cried meow; and the air was littered for an hour or so with bits of gingham and calico.

I was stationed at NAS Chase Field, Beeville TX as well (76-78). We had a flight instructor from Australia. He was nearly impossible to understand with his Aussie accent.
Buy the way the Navy closed Chase Field; it is now a jail.

Yes. Go online to NTSB.org (National Transportation Safety Board.) Look for Office of Aviation Safety. You can search for accidents by month/data and other criteria.

Reminds me of Back to the Future, part III.

Is the lighthouse located on Macinac island or Macinaw City, or in the UP?

Pilot and controller clearances are not always so undecipherable. When I was 19 and having earned a private pilot's license, I was flying a Cesnna 150 building hours and experience in the vicinity of Vero Beach Fla Airport. Vero Beach is 116 miles south of Daytona on the Atlantic coast.

As I was boring holes in the sky, an Eastern Airlines flight departed Vero Beach airport, and asked the Miami Air Traffic Center for clearance. Center replied, "Roger Eastern 123, you are cleared to Miami up the beach." Can't get much simpler than that.

Question: What is MBP?

I accepted a position as the editor of The Catholic Times, the newspaper for the Diocese of La Cross. Do you remember Bridal Veil Falls?

Highlands NC is where we vacationed as a family 60 or so years ago. It was a great place. We stayed at the Highlands Manor every summer, until it burned down. We went to enjoy the Smokey Mountains and escape the South East Florida heat and humanity in August.

In response to: Remember the commercial with the fishbowl on top of the car...

I left my keys on my bumper of my pickup once. Later my wife and I went into town in the truck using her key. Several days later I couldn't find my keys, not uncommon. I promised a reward to my kids if they could find them. Finally after several searches of my house and garage, we came to the conclusion that they were lost for good.

A week later, I went to the Post Office to see if I had any mail in my PO Box. I did, and on top of the mail were my keys with a note attached! A man found the keys at a railroad crossing. He went to the post office asking if they could use the key to my PO Box to return the keys to me. What a pleasant surprise... it reaffirmed my faith in humanity.

After reading the recent post on cataract surgery and glasses, I decided to ask a similar question on hearing aids.
I am 71 and my hearing is not as good as it used to be. The Mayo Clinic confirmed my wife’s assertion that I don’t listen. (I told them that she needs to enunciate better).
Seriously, the Mayo hearing aids start at $4,000 and go up.
I’ve seen listings on Facebook, Amazon and elsewhere from $75 - $500. (The cheaper devices were usually hearing “amplifiers”).
Anyone have any suggestions? If I’m going to spend $4,000 I would prefer to buy a FF camera and better glass.

Why I am not taking the Vaccine. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/501-deaths-10748-other-injuries-reported-following-covid-vaccine-latest-cdc-data-show

Second reason. Former Pfizer VP: "The vaccine is not necessary" https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-pfizer-vp-no-need-for-vaccines-the-pandemic-is-effectively-over

The only reason for masking is political control.

Good question, and apologies for my delay in responding. The production of vaccines using human stem cell lines does not require the continued use of new human embryos or fetuses. “Once these stem cell lines have been produced by the manipulation of the original stem cells, they enjoy a quasi-immortality and can be multiplied almost indefinitely.” (Catholic World Report online, 21 Jan 2021).

The HEK-293 and the PER.C6 cell lines used in the preparation of the majority of the COVID vaccines available or in development were derived from aborted fetuses in 1972 and 1985 (respectively). Many vaccines whether produced from aborted fetal cell lines or not, are still problematic, as they use abortion-derived cell lines to perform quality control tests during production.

Many institutional and individual supporters of these vaccines justify their use with the use of what in moral theology is called remote, passive, material cooperation with evil. However, in a statement Bishop Athanasius Schneider (Astana, Kazakhstan) and Bishop Joseph Strickland (Tyler, Texas) explain that “This principle can hardly be applied to the case of vaccines made from fetal cell lines, because those who knowingly and voluntarily receive such vaccines enter into a kind of concatenation, albeit very remote, with the process of the abortion industry.” (Crisis Magazine online, 11 Dec. 2020)

Also, I am not inclined to trust a vaccine rushed into production in a year instead of the normal decade.

I’m not going to take the vaccine. The ends do not justify the means for a drug developed using tissue from an abortion.