USNRET Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 The wife is in Korea visiting family... The kids are at UIL competitions for the weekend... I am off until Monday (and NOT on call)... What to do??? Like me think...can't, need a cocktail. Got it. Tunes? Why not. Mr. Barcardi and I thew up a Spotify list. My bud barcardi (note the lower case) threatened me if I went for the tubes. Did I tell you that I have been home ALONE (miss'em after an hour) since this morning? I might be having a flash back thanks to one of our recently retired forum buddy in the great northwest. I enjoy his musings and I took the ones he questions as humor in my twisted way. Carry On! oh, to the tunes: I went conveniently LAZY without getting off the couch to switch speaker inputs so... McIntosh MX151 pre pro (using the Mc internal DAC) Mc MC8207 amp nVidia Shield steaming from my QNAP NAS over wired Ethernet Mr. Alvin Lee playing The Bluest Blues The pre pro reads 53% volume The amp meters are a steady 20 watts and just occasionally flash a 200 WPCTwo of the front three CORNWALL III throwing it out to me at 14' The Rat Shack analog at C Slow showing a steady beat of 100 - 104 dB gotta go, my little empty rum glass be empty mateone intentional mistake and many unintentional I'm sure 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted October 27, 2017 Moderators Share Posted October 27, 2017 Good for you, you deserve a break, remember the craziness of flights for the last hurricane, sit back and take a break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Wake UP!!!!!!!! It's time to turn over the record 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 have a blast man. Bachelor night is every night at my place ... sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Do something just for you that you normally wouldn’t with the family around.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted October 27, 2017 Author Share Posted October 27, 2017 lower your voice please, i am unstable dental surgery followed by liquid medication planned the time off to coincide couch potato(e) ready for the ball game@dtel it hasn't stopped since August; usually two flights per day supplies, evac and air cover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted October 27, 2017 Moderators Share Posted October 27, 2017 1 minute ago, USNRET said: it hasn't stopped; usually two flights per day supplies, evac and air cover I had no idea, if you listen to the news you would think nothing is being done over there. 4 minutes ago, jimjimbo said: Do something just for you that you normally wouldn’t with the family around.... Oh no don't tell him that, there is no telling what will happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted October 28, 2017 Author Share Posted October 28, 2017 Just now, dtel said: I had no idea, if you listen to the news you would think nothing is being done over there All you have to do is look at our crews and you wouldn't need to ask. They are worn out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted October 28, 2017 Author Share Posted October 28, 2017 Our birds are heavy already with electronics so we can only carry about 3500-4000 lbs of supplies which is all hand loaded up the ladder. Preflight, load, fuel and a 3+ hour transit to land, hand off load the supplies and then take off and hover around doing air traffic advisories to the military helicopters coming off ships. When fuel is at Bingo fly back to home, repair the aircraft and go again. Take the evacs to local lodging in new to them S. TX and promise that they are not forgotten. Doing a propeller change in Puerto Rico due to leak was problematic. Added an additional mechanic to the trips to help out but that just shortens the home crew doing the turns at night. The boys are doing good, haven't missed a mission for over 45 days and counting. No such thing as weekends..... I am a wussie so I took a couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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