Bull

I'm trying to forget, and haven't visited there in 15 years.......

Bull

My God Woman! A few weeks in Floriduh, on the Redneck Riviera, and you need a remedial class in being PC. I'm sure it won't take you long to become Californicated again though.

Veloce Raptor

Unfortunately, I spent a night in Monroe, Louisiana last May while towing back from Barber. It made Shrevepit look like frikkin' Monaco.

I also spent 2 weeks in Nawlins directly after Katrina hit. Wow, talk about a humbling experience (especially while we watched the po-lice looting on multiple occasions & nearly got into a firefight with one group of them who drew down on us at a gas depot).

Bull

Mother Nature has her ways of making a man feel humble!

My memories of Monroe (two syllables, MON - roe) are that when we flew out of Shreveport, we would sometimes make a stop in Monroe, not listed on the printed itinerary, and dependant on whether or not they had a passenger in Monroe that day. "Y'all, were goin' to be doin' a touch and go in MON-roe to pick us up a passenger today".......

OK, so who have we missed here this morning? Oh wait, here is a question....does Mike still wear the Clogs in Why-O-Ming, and do they scare the sheep?????

Bonster

I have not sat on a pilot's lap, but I have sat on the flight test engineer's lap -- flight test engineers make more money. And yes, I have certainly seen a grown man naked. I love 'Airplane'!

I am still Californian, and thus, I have never been de-Californicated. I was raised in the country, actually, so any place with more than a couple thousand people is culture shock to me, which is probably why I claim SoCal to be another country. I'm flat out scared of that place. There is of course a chance that I'll move to Florida in the future, but I'm not sending out wedding invitations yet, lol.

Being a Republican, I did feel more at home in the panhandle of Florida than here in Sacramento, actually. Have I been converted? Nah, I was always this way. As the Democrats seem to be taking over the place, I have felt more and more like moving the heck out of here. It's just now I have somewhere to go. Democrats -- I'm definitely not one . . . "not that there's anything wrong with that!" (Seinfeld quote)

Robert Henriksen

Fistfight with the (armed) PO-lice?

How did you get so lucky as to be in NOLA post-Katrina?

Veloce Raptor

Not a fist fight. We were also heavily armed. It almost got very ugly (and we actually had superiority of numbers & firepower).

I was there with a team of my guys, providing protection for top executives of the giant construction company tasked with initial fixing of the levees, fixing of the giant pumps, and draining of the areas that flooded due to leveel failure. They were also tasked with evakuating the Superdome & Convention Center for either demolition or renovation. Lemme tell you, escorting these guys into the Superdome & Conv. Center, in September's heat, while wearing full haz-mat gear & rebreathers, and while fully armed, was a real treat. The high point of the assignment was that our client put us up on a luxury barge docked at Lakefront Airport on Lake Ponchartrain, where the air was clean, we had all the hot water showers we wanted, and superb food service. In fact, we ended up feeding a bunch of National Guard folks stationed nearby at the marinas & floating casinos, as well as other the Coast Guard station just down the road.

Robert Henriksen

This clashes rather heavily with my prior perception that you're a finance guy.

Veloce Raptor

Nah, not a finance guy. Mostly a software sales guy, but at the begining of my career, I worked for 6 years for what was called the Diplomatic Security Service and is now called the Bureau of Diplomatic Security of the Department of State.

http://www.state.gov/m/ds/

Bull

Yeah, and I was an "Advisor" at one time in S.E. Asia, with a focus on "Economic Development".....we didn't have "software sales" at the time.

Veloce Raptor

Hey, now, pipe down over there in the cheap seats. The world needs more Christians in action...

Bull

Amen Brother!

Mike in Chi

While you were racing your motor mouth this morning, I was racing a sportscar in Ohio. At least until the clutch went, which was after the turbo by pass valve failed which was after the kill switch failed, which was after I got to fill out a full accident report form...

But man I like that track

Mike in Chi

Memo to self:

Only give VR grief when you are sure he is at least 1,000 miles away.

Bull

Ah, that would be racing my nimble fingers across the keyboard. I know the new multi-media world is confusing for you!

I didn't realize that you were attending the M-O race, although it was nice and quiet around here! Sounds like you had a couple of problems there, I'm sorry to hear. What's up with the "accident report form"? Was it on track? Charlie Boyer reported that it was a very "clean" race, with him only remembering the contact incident at the start of one of his Sprint Races, which he posted video of on the Racing Forum (spinning 914 mates with following 911).

Was GhettoWannaBe with you?