Porterville II

By lex, on May 2nd, 2011

Because you’re dying, in the midst of all these international bewilderments, to know how that landing turned out.

So, anyway, your man had the aircraft wrapped up in a more or less continuous turn from the break, though downwind, to base, to final. Which is all well and good in the hands of an FA-18 jock doing his sh!t hot thing behind the ship, but then hizzoner wouldn’t have 1) me sitting in his trunk without, 2) an ejection seat, worse came to worst. We overshot final, like I knew we might, and the guy in front said, “lined up for to land on the right side of the runway” like it was the most natural thing in the world, what with no one to share the left side with and I had to admire his chutzpah.

Rolled out, taxied in and shut her down in the grass before clambering down to figger what was what.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

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— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex