Rest peacefully, timberlandko

Missed say'n, CJane is great-looking.

Truly wonderful see the faces of people I've "known" for such a long time. Now I have to adjust my mental images.

On a serious note, I grew up in a military family, with Dad being a relatively senior officer, while both Mom's and Dad's immediate families were moderately prominent, more-than-just-comfortably-well-to-do, as well as fairly well-connected politically, and my "growing up" was mostly in the '50s, so there was a sorta class thing going on there to some extent, and of course I was aware of it, but I pretty much didn't play into it - a circumstance which occasioned not a little dismay among my elders. I've always kinda leaned toward taking folks for what their words and deeds show them to be, regardless who or what they purport to be, and I've never had much use for folks who show they consider themselves "better" than anyone.

I live in a rural area now - have for many years - and I love it; a more accepting, outgoing, downright nice-and-freindly, always eager to help, "egalitarian" society hardly may be imagined - even if some of them might have no idea what the word "egalitarian" means.


Well except for looney old Olaf - but nobody likes him ... been that way since FDR was President, from what I understand. Still, ain't nobody shot the sumbitch.

Thanks for the photos everyone ... I'm finding this very theraputic.

When I found out, I was sitting in a parking lot at a country club in Houston. My band was playing that night, we arrived about an hour early to beat traffic. My sister called and said he had a heart attack. I already had a few beers and said, "Oh that tough o' timer will pull through." I didn't get the official word until I was inside the venue. I was completely flattened ... just try to sing and play music with that in your head.

The past three weeks have eased up, it's good to release it all, then I got a photo from my mom of Kevin and Sam. I looked at the photo and I was fine, then I turned it over, it read "Together Again" and I just lost it again.

I too expect Timber to find a way to get a post up here...

Thanks for the hearty welcome -- I see why he spent so much time "in here." As we say in Austin, Y'all are good people.

T

Thanks for the hearty welcome -- I see why he spent so much time "in here." As we say in Austin, Y'all are good people.

T

It involved a more or less unscheduled, unauthorized, and, as events transpired, thoroughly ill-advised "what if" using an energized TV set, its CRT impacted by a standard remote-release swinging hammer (used among other things to test the tensile properties of glass, ceramics, and similar materials), in an enclosed space the atmosphere of which had been liberally (too liberally, apparently) dosed with a flammable gas - hydrogen, to be exact - the catastrophic implosion of the CRT caused the TV to do some really neat sparky things, then, a split second later the gasseous atmosphere detonated - detonated, as oposed to merely ignited, mind you - blowing out the sides of the inadequate to the task for which it never had been designed containment structure - an enclosed, ducted, fume hood, more or less, releasing an impressively expanding fireball and scattering burning debris, which unexpected event dislodged the externally mounted (and admittedly jury-rigged) hydrogen cylinder from its mounting, causing its feed nozzle to separate from the still-pressurized tank, which rocketted through a very sturdy, closed-at-the-time metal roll-up door some yards away, spewing around a 30' gout of flame as it made its way out into a fortunately empty paved parking area, where, after some aimless but vigorous spinning, it settled down. The building, as it was used for such things as flammability (but not explosivity) experiments, was (I suppose still is) independent of and somewhat distant from the other buildings of the complex, and equipped with a very efficient fire-suppression system, which did its job admirably. The shock and awe of the moment was capped by a sudden, thorough drenching of the building's interior, and us as who were in the building at the time, with an amazingly effective water-foam mixture of the sort used to combat aircraft fires. The deluge was almost simultaneous with the hydrogen cylinder's exit from the building, and went on a fair while - a couple minutes at least. The suds were several feet deep on the floor when the system either ran out of stuff or determined there was no more fire. I'm sorta hazy on the details of exactly what went down in the aftermath of the show; I wasn't with the firm for the cleanup. In fact, it happened around 10:30 AM, mebbe 10:45, and I wasn't with the firm at lunchtime that day.


Edit to add: never did get a refund for the unused portion of my pre-paid cafeteria pass.

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I could probally throw a rock at your house.... !

He was widely known in our family for using the phrase "and so on, and so forth." Does anyone here have any evidence of this catch phrase?