Comments on: Packing

By: FbL

FbL — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:46:27 +0000

The older you get, the more the absence of family, privacy, peace and quiet grate on you.

I’ll buy that. By the time I got my master’s degree at age 30, I was so sick and tired of the roommates and itty-bitty apartments of life as a college student (had shared a room/apt since I was 13 and in boarding school). Then, last year when I changed jobs I moved to a place where most of the new teachers shared housing (since it was a resort town). I couldn’t bring myself to do that, so I happily spent a huge chunk of my paycheck on solo housing. It was wonderful.

By: CPT J

CPT J — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:11:00 +0000

In my time in the Merchant Marine, I learned the wisdom of an old cowboy saying about cattle drives:

“I like the going out, and the coming back. Everything in the middle stinks…”

The older you get, the more the absence of family, privacy, peace and quiet grate on you. It’s just ‘one more day on the Grey Funnel Line’

By: FbL

FbL — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:52:35 +0000

Come on guys. You really think, this Lex we are coming to know, doesn?

By: FbL

FbL — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:52:35 +0000

Come on guys. You really think, this Lex we are coming to know, doesn’t have the charm to talk some LT in taking him up for a spin?

I don’t think that for a minute! The “no longer flying” comment was merely in context of flight pay… nothing more…

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:17:37 +0000

I have my share (more, my wife would say) of sea time… I love working with the people and doing the job, but don’t enjoy it out there… too far from here (where the wife and kids are). My $.02.

By: Ima Fake

Ima Fake — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:13:45 +0000

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.