Ray Swindle wrote:
Sure are a lot of friends hurting with illness in my world, my prayer list seems to grow exponentially. Dan and Jim, take care of yourselves and your family, remember, when it gets down to reality, family is all we have. Get well!
ps: Jan-Arie, you continue to be on the list until you are traveling to more airshows, miss your photos buddy!
Evening Ray appreciate this I'm ok for 85% we don't have any more shows in the Netherlands due to the famous nitrogen crisis.
So we have to go abroad to see something fly I laugh, but this are some sad time's we are living in.
I'm working full time in a new function, same boss so that take's up a lot of my time but put's food on the table.
The things I have lined up so far are maybe a big flying exercise in June not confirmed yet.
The International Air Tattoo in the UK that's confirmed.
And maybe the Reno Air Races combined with a small trip that is a organised trip not yet confirmed.
Still tinkering with my house but it's slow pace tried to look at some contactors but the current labour prices are somewhat ridicules over here so that's a no no.
And a little bit taking care of my mom, just finished a almost two hour phone call with Morgan Stanley's helpdesk in the US getting help retrieving her company shares that she had accumulated while she still was working back in the day.
She's turning 78 this year.
She's never ever logged in once after she got the shares I didn't know that much about it so the capable staff helped me and mom get her stuff back after some secured transfers of govt id and some other things.
Have to ask my mom's advisor what to do next because the share's have to go, I think there were some questions from the Dutch IRS so will see were that goes.
As for photo's still have some but they have to trough editing yet. Also have to find a slide light box to view some slide's I have found after clearing the attic they are from my late father when he was in the Dutch Airforce he served in Fort Bliss Texas training as a HiPr radar operator.
Noting more to report everybody get well soon for those who are on the mend and enjoy the weekend..
Ray Swindle wrote:
I always hope to get sports photos with eyes and ball. Well, being the non-conforming absolutist (yeah, I am often beside myself on thoughts), I will find goodness outside of the rules. The first one is a good, standard baseball photo, but the second one just grabbed me for some reason. Maybe it is her concentration watching her base hit or just the really good pose. Rules are made to be broken...
Thank you for the update Jan-Aire, glad you are getting better. Glad you were able to get good help from Morgan Stanley, financial institutions in the US are not very happy letting funds go. They want you to reinvest them. Sounds like the Dutch IRS is learning from our IRS. Money? Give us some!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Don't know what this bug is that JIII and I have been kicking around, but it doesn't want to go quietly. He's back down with a fever and I was up half the night hacking my brains out. Had an architectural shoot this morning and man was I dragging. Laying low and editing this weekend. Hope you all have a good one!
Hope you all get well soon, Jim! The spring allergy this year is killing us, it's really really bad. This morning current/former members of our bible study cell took a walk at a local park, one of the ladies is a physician, she said her allergy has never been this bad. Not sure if it has anything to do with the warm winter (no snow for the first time in my 27 years in Maryland).
Is that a gas turbine Jim? How rare is that? I doubt that pays for itself - just a cool thing to do?
Leaving Logan today I was at Gate B33. American Flight 11 departed from the adjacent Gate B32 on 9/11. American placed the flag on the jetway shortly after, and when American moved Southwest chose to keep it. United did the same at Gate C19, that was Flight 175 that hit the second tower. JetBlue now maintains that flag.
Just put together this first simple video for my petroleum clients, as the library grows we'll be able to create more sophisticated presentations. One week into their projects and they are now booked up through the end of 2023, with international expansion on the horizon.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Just put together this first simple video for my petroleum clients, as the library grows we'll be able to create more sophisticated presentations. One week into their projects and they are now booked up through the end of 2023, with international expansion on the horizon.
I am glad you were involved in preserving unlikable, to many people, energy products Jim!
I am waiting for the "How To" book on transitioning from fossil fuels to batteries, wind turbines, solar panels.......at the expected levels that will be required.
Great work!
RD
Thanks Dan! It's, for now, still a free country, if one doesn't like petroleum based energy and products, just don't use them, pretty simple. I'm all for battery research and invention, just don't mandate a bunch of things on a scale that doesn't work yet and ignore the realities because it fits the agenda. What we have right now is kind of like mandating that everyone use airborne transportation three weeks after the Wright Brothers did their thing at Kitty Hawk, great innovation, just not ready for prime time, common sense.......not so common these days.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thanks Dan! It's, for now, still a free country, if one doesn't like petroleum based energy and products, just don't use them, pretty simple. I'm all for battery research and invention, just don't mandate a bunch of things on a scale that doesn't work yet and ignore the realities because it fits the agenda. What we have right now is kind of like mandating that everyone use airborne transportation three weeks after the Wright Brothers did their thing at Kitty Hawk, great innovation, just not ready for prime time, common sense.......not so common these days.
And disposing of these EV products can harm the land worse than what they hate now! Look at China and India but look at who is #1 in 2020!.
"Come on man" get real! Yes the USA does help BUT the proportion is minimal when you equate where these countries get the coal!! US!!!!!!!
RD
I laugh, but this are some sad time's we are living in.
