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Glory Days

Posted on November 4, 2023November 4, 2023 by Paul Woodford

Oh, how I wish now we’d taken more photos back in those glorious days! Why couldn’t they have invented camera phones sooner?

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Posted in Flying, History, Military, Personal, PhotobloggingTagged EagleBot, SierraHotel, Soesterberg, ThereIWasLeave a Comment on Glory Days

Air-Minded: PASM Photoblog XXVI

Posted on October 11, 2023March 16, 2024 by Paul Woodford

Photoblog of a visit to Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona

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Posted in Air-Minded, Flying, History, Local Color, PhotobloggingTagged AirMuseum, PASM, PimaAir&Space3 Comments on Air-Minded: PASM Photoblog XXVI

22 YEARS LATER

Posted on September 11, 2023May 29, 2025 by Paul Woodford

Twenty-two years on, one scar’s still tender to the touch: the failure of our intelligence agencies and leadership to prevent an attack anyone could have seen coming (and many did, including me).

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Posted in Consumerism, History, Personal, Social Media, Terrorism, War, WordsTagged BigSeikoLittleDick, BojinkaPlot, BTVS, Metaplasmus, NineEleven, TimeHealsMostly2 Comments on 22 YEARS LATER

Sunday Bag o’ Dyslexic Orange Wreckage

Posted on August 27, 2023August 27, 2023 by Paul Woodford

My dyslexia is not the normal kind.

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Posted in Flying, History, Military, Personal, The Internets, WordsTagged AlaskaFlyingMemories, BushPilots, HistorialDyslexia, InternationalOrange, LiveInMiddleAgedDaughterUpdate3 Comments on Sunday Bag o’ Dyslexic Orange Wreckage

I Am Become … Oh, Shut Up Already (Updated)

Posted on August 13, 2023August 13, 2023 by Paul Woodford

Bitch all you want about Boomers, we do try to stay up with the times.

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Posted in History, Movies, Personal, Reviews4 Comments on I Am Become … Oh, Shut Up Already (Updated)

Tuesday Bag o’ This & That (Updated)

Posted on August 8, 2023August 9, 2023 by Paul Woodford

Hola, amigos! It’s been a while since I’ve posted a bag’s worth o’ miscellany.

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Posted in Bicycling, Current Events, Hash House Harriers, History, Local Color, Media, Memes, Military, Personal, Politics, WarLeave a Comment on Tuesday Bag o’ This & That (Updated)

The Glorious Fourth

Posted on July 4, 2023July 4, 2023 by Paul Woodford

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?

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Posted in Cooking, Critters, History, Local Color, PersonalTagged history, IndependenceDayLeave a Comment on The Glorious Fourth

Air-Minded: Nostalgia

Posted on June 14, 2023October 11, 2023 by Paul Woodford

That, right there, is where I spent the first four years of my flying career: Vance AFB in Enid, Oklahoma.

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Posted in Air-Minded, Flying, History, Military, PersonalTagged USAF_Pilot_Training, VanceAFB3 Comments on Air-Minded: Nostalgia

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