• Jackpot!

    Hillsborough: How did this wind up in Ybor?

    The other day someone found a Patriot Missile at a scrap yard over in Tampa (a quick ride over the bridge from here).

    Airman Lucas Mefford, a member of MacDill’s ordnance team, said the missile still had its rocket motor and guidance system. He said it appears to have been a training model.

    “It’s pretty rare to find a Patriot,” Mefford said. That’s rare, as in never.

    I wonder if I can get me one of those?

    The missile part found at the scrap yard on Fourth Avenue was about 10 feet long and was marked “inert,” signifying that it wasn’t explosive. Training models typically never contain explosives or propellants of any type.

    Well that’s no fun.

    (Via The St Pete Times.)

  • Protected: Test of the password protection system

    There’s nothing here. It’s just a test.

  • Oh yeah!

    Yesterday I started up my stimulant habit again. That’s right friends, America’s Favorite Stimulant rides again! The post-chemo heartburn has been a memory for a week now – and many of you know how draining a case of insomnia can be, so it was high time for some fine grind brew.

    Ummmm, UMMMM! I love my coffee. Three hearty tablespoons of beans (freshly ground), three cups of water heated to just short of boiling, sugar, Hershey’s chocolate, a pinch of cinamon, three minutes in my beloved french press, and my Thermos-Nissan work of insulation genius… equals gustatory nirvana.