A note to my fellow G&G members: I may have to drop out for a while, because I've changed jobs (we contracted out and my old job was given to some low-paid civilian), my family structure at home has changed (my daughter and her daughter moved back in), and I'm looking down the barrel of an Air Force Unit Compliance Inspection - the dreaded ORI, as it used to be known - early next year. So, if I can't hang around and bullshit like I used to, at least you'll know why.. Now, gotta get back to...

From the AP:

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That little beauty flying along hauling a 37mm cannon behind it is an original "Bantam Reconnaissance Car" - one of the first U.S. Army Jeeps! The "go anywhere, do anything" original Jeeps were absolutely amazing, cost only a few thousand dollars of taxpayer money, and had reasonable ground clearance, reasonable mobility and reasonable power -- more in the Model "T" class, as far as it went, but enough that...

Been a long, hard couple or three weeks since I was on here last....

I've smoked since I was 15, except for three years when I managed to quit and then went back under a stressful situation and restarted. I've known for years I had chronic bronchitis, but I've been going along well for the past five years, even to the point of leaving my portable oxygen in the car when going into WalMart and similar places, trying to wean myself off the stuff.

Three weeks ago or so,...

Somebody was talkin' on our smokin' porch about his 6mm Hawg gun... I told him I had a couple of pix of a hawg that would have ate up his hawg gun.

I personally wouldn't get around one of these big tuskers without a couple of LAW rockets in my backpack. I'm a devout coward who enjoys living too much...

I don't remember who sent me these pictures, but that's a hefty hawg. Darned thing's almost as big as me...