Fleet Week + SB 209

Folks, the Blue Angels are here performing as part of “Fleet Week”. If you’re in the S.F. Bay Area, I encourage you to take advantage of the perfect weather and go visit. If you cannot, this Hi-Def video is not too bad a bandaid/substitute (aka “Friday Fun Video”).

And for those of you who don’t enjoy such things, here’s another “interesting image”, for your weekend:

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“The New Gene Simmons ?” by Trish Hamme, courtesy of Flickr Commons

Today’s quote: “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” ~ Maya Angelou

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I’m Older Than Dirt (+ Sunday Beauty #52) (+ more)

Kinda hard to believe I have been posting a pretty picture on Sundays for a year now. (It seems to be a feature that has “caught on”.) Does anyone here remember the very first one? If you do, I’m mighty pleased you’ve stuck around.. And for those who don’t, let’s take a look back, shall we? See where it all started.

I think this is it.. (and it turns out, I posted a few before I thought of numbering them..)

Obersee (Königssee) by Andim. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Count how many of the following you remember: (No, I did not create this..)

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi’s
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You’re still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don’t tell your age
If you remembered 16-25 = You’re older than dirt!

And, thus, today’s title.
(I am “too young” to have seen #’s 6, 7, 8, 10,  11, & 25.)

Unrelated#2: I know they are not for everyone.. but when I was younger (and seem to have had more spare time), I could not get to enough airshows. Nowadays, I have to settle for videos like this one. The best of 2010?

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Today’s quote: “The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!”  ~ Unknown

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