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Young Sheldon. Sheldon's mother struggled with her faith when trying to write a sympathy card to a family who lost their 16 year old daughter in a car crash. She was still struggling when atheist Sheldon came to check on her on the porch toward the end of the program. He came up with there were...

Thanks, I have been hanging around here enjoying reading the topics for years but never post much. In the USAF I was an electronics/radio tech. Later, after college I managed to work as an aircraft engineer. I didn't do much actual working on the big planes but I did get to climb around on and...

Here is a plane I worked on when I was an airman in LRAFB I fly little airplanes for fun and have worked on Boeing Douglas, Airbus, Sabreliner, Gulfstream before I retired. I still like airplanes.

I should have kept a list of books I have read. Just finished "Sex Object" by Jessica Valenti. It is kind of a rant but easy read and she does make some good points. Now reading "Myself in the World" a biography of William Faulkner. I may take a day trip to Oxford soon, fly or drive. I will...

Dogs can't see TV because of the screen refresh rate. but hey, getting laid is getting laid amirite?

The Harrad Experiment, Stranger In A Strange Land, The Hobbit books, Lots more that don't come to mind now. And something to keep in mind: Unfortunately, our human instincts are much, much stronger than our logic.

"The Pigeon Tunnel" by John Le Carre. An interesting look at the British spy stuff that he was involved with. And how he used his day to day life to provide material for his books he wrote. Wally

I agree!

"turkey baster"

Years ago, I knew a guy in MO. who had what he called a Penguin-cicle. He had it in his freezer, on a stick. It was a penguin he had collected on a field trip to the south pole. His day job was studying birds.

Or C batteries for that matter. They mostly went away when transistor radios became available. B batteries are/were high voltage around 90 volts or so and provided the high positive voltage to operate vacuum tubes. The C battery was used to provide bias voltage to the screen grid of the tubes...

Carrying Albert Home, by Homer Hickam. Subtitled "A somewhat true story of a man, his wife and her alligator. Homer is of course the coalwood, W. VA Rocketboy. Another of his great books and later a movie. He has written a really fun "yarn" in this book. Lots of giggles. At the end of each...

boiled peanuts are way too much work. You just need to drive around Savannah, Ga. and buy a bag of them. There was usually a guy with a pot of them going by the road on a vacant lot. At least that is what I did when I lived there. Yum! A friend, "Dirty Dan" tried selling them in jars in local...

Elmore Leonard "Road Dogs". He was the best at believable dialogue.

Kennedy certainly had good tate