Paul on December 12th, 2008

It is hard to find anything more pleasing than a nice morning sunrise when you do not have to go to work.  The beauty of my situation this morning is that it is the end of the year and I have some use or lose vacation time that I have to burn so I took [...]

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Paul on November 18th, 2008

As many of you may know I have posted about how the government does everything the hard way.  Everything we do is usually impacted by a new rule or policy that makes our jobs harder.  Over the last two days at work we have received this message or some rendition of it on our computers.  [...]

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Paul on September 5th, 2008

If you are familiar with Oklahoma summers you may have heard the peculiar loud clicking sounds coming from the trees.  This cicada is the culprit and when you hear them you know that it is not just summer but the hottest part of the summer.   For some reason, the locals call them locust but they are really [...]

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Paul on June 27th, 2008

Not too long ago I spoke that I moved to a new job at work and how excited I was about this move. Shortly after that I seemed to be dissatisfied with the fact that I was their as a trainee and no one would show me anything. I do not like to have the [...]

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Paul on June 6th, 2008

Last night I was getting drowsy and was dozing on the couch when I decided it was time to go to bed.  We started hearing a lot of loud bangs outside when it hit us that it was the final Sunday before Independence Day.  Every year this church that is about 400 or 500 feet [...]

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Paul on January 21st, 2008

I was going through some important documents that I had saved from my time in the U.S. Air Force and stumbled on some interesting things.  In the picture above, I show the cover page for our base newspaper at RAF Bentwaters in England.  I was there from 1991 to 1993 and my youngest son was [...]

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Paul on March 21st, 2007

81TFW_RAF Bentwaters_c1985_B_002CE_Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II_81-0949, originally uploaded by YAHQQLIGAN.
This was taken by YAHQQLIGAN at RAF Bentwaters. My wife, two sons, and I were there working on those planes in 1991-1993. We first lived in a town called Leiston, then Felixstowe, then RAF Woodbridge. I was in the 510th Aircraft Maintenance Unit (AMU), 81st Aircraft [...]

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