And with it, spring cleaning here at Paul’s Thing. Although I won’t rule out minor tinkering with site design in the days ahead, I’m happy with the blog’s new look and hope you are too.<\/p>\n
I was going to say spring has brought us a fresh new war as well, but I see now\u00a0Trump’s strike in Syria was a one-time limited attack, like the earlier one in April 2017, telegraphed well in advance to allow Assad and the Russians to move personnel and equipment to safer places. Sound & fury, signifying nothing. What to do about Syria? Hell if I know.<\/p>\n
Spring also brings a new season of Bosch on Amazon Prime, but we can’t watch it. The error message says “we can’t play this video at the present time; try again later.” We called Amazon and they say it’s an issue with Roku players\u00a0(friends in California are watching Bosch through a Roku box, though\u00a0… very irritating). BTW, I finally read a Bosch novel, the first of Michael Connelly’s series of books featuring LAPD detective Hieronymus Bosch\u00a0… you can read my review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The forecast for Tuesday’s trip to the Goldwater Range near Gila Bend is encouragingly springlike: sunny with a high of 75\u00b0. Perfect viewing weather for bombing and strafing passes by fighter aircraft from Davis Monthan AFB, Luke AFB, and the ANG base at Tucson International (A-10s, F-35s, F-16s). Now if only the schedule\u00a0turns out to\u00a0include Warthogs with their big guns. Donna’s coming along, and we’re planning to bring hats, sunscreen, and plenty of water.<\/p>\n Don’t know if it’s related to the season, but it started this spring: I’m getting up several times each night to pee. TMI? You wait until you’re older. Anyway, I broke down and made an appointment with my doctor. Hoping there’s something I can do\u00a0about the problem, which could really raise hell with the cross-country drive we’re planning in October.<\/p>\n And there it is, the first post on the redesigned Paul’s Thing. May it be the first of many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And with it, spring cleaning here at Paul’s Thing. Although I won’t rule out minor tinkering with site design in the days ahead, I’m happy with the blog’s new look and hope you are too. I was going to say spring has brought us a fresh new war as well, but I see now\u00a0Trump’s strike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,10,3,14,2,9],"tags":[158,2524,2525,1333],"class_list":["post-22109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reviews","category-current-events","category-flying","category-military","category-personal","category-war","tag-aviation","tag-bosch","tag-getting-old","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22109"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22117,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109\/revisions\/22117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}