The evidence is clear

Grandkids rock!  It has been nice having several of them around for the Thanksgiving holiday.  Now that they are gone and they house is quiet, we don't even want to pick up the few things left from their visit.  Yes, the evidence is clear, grandkids have been here.  And we love every minute of their visits!

The evidence is clear

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Reach for the sky

"Do not fear mistakes.  You will know failure.  Continue to reach out."  Benjamin Franklin

Mr. Franklin had it right.  Reach for the stars!

Reach for the sky

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Again?

So nice to hop on a plane and travel the country, or the world for that matter.  Hmmmm, it seems like I have been here before.  Yep, I have been seeing a lot of this lately.  Again?  This time at sunset...

Again?

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High above it all

Somewhere in mid-America at 32,000 feet, 530 mph on the busiest travel day of the year.  It's okay, my flights all ran on time although the airports were jam packed.  Home for the holiday.  Happy Thanksgiving all!

High above it all

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Home for the holiday

Okay, the work 2,000 miles away from my wife/best friend gives me new appreciation and empathy for the bachelor life.  So YES, I am excited to be headed home today for the holiday.  So what if it is the busiest travel day of the year and a storm is headed for the Northeast just in time to mess with air traffic all over the country.  As long as I make it back, all will be well.

"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch and a miserable [and I say lonely] dinner."  Francis Bacon

Home for the holiday

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Which room is mine?

Out of town again.  Hotel rooms galore!  I am sure one of them is mine.  Which one is mine?  No, really?  Yes, they do begin to all look the same.

"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure."  Petrach

Which room is mine?

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Watched

Walk through this hotel lobby at the Hilton resort in Orlando and one cannot help but feel like someone is watching.  It feels like you are in a zoo and the monster fashion ladies all 'blinged" up are looking down at the little people walking through the lobby.  Now I know how those zoo animals must feel.

"The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching."  Dave Chappelle

Watched

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Train Tube

The train tube.  Have you ever seen it?  If you have you would remember that this is the view of the airport terminal shuttle train from outlying terminals back to the main terminal in Charlotte, North Carolina--the U.S. Air hub.  Looks very science fictiony....doesn't it?  I thought so too.

Train Tube

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High Maintenance

So I walk into the Hilton Hotel in Orlando to register for my room (visiting for some business meetings) and find this "high maintenance" woman looking down on me--literally.  This, and many others very similar, are large (like 20 feet by 20 feet maybe) ceiling panels illuminated from behind.  Something about the Florida sun/water fun theme.  Although I have never seen anyone hit the pool with this kind of bling....

High Maintenance

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We have landed

We have landed.  Wheels on the ground.  It's a nice feeling to be back.

"If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing.  If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing."  Chuck Yeager

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Take Flight

Early morning sunrise.  19 degrees outside, plane has been de-iced, motors started (finally!  the ground power was not working so we all boarded the plane in this 19 degree weather and froze for awhile until one of the engines could finally be started to generate some much needed heat.) and we are cleared for take-off.  Time to take flight and get the heater fired up!

Take flight

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Walk this way

First time through the Charlotte airport on the way from sub-freezing Augusta to Orlando.  Still so cold in Charlotte that I did not remove my coat during the two hour layover.

Riding this moving sidewalk I thought to myself "walk this way" and the quote:
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.  Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.  Just walk beside me and be my friend."  Albert Camus

By the way, this is the only place I have been where I remember ever seeing bathroom monitors in the restrooms.  Men who greeted everyone who walked in, talked up a storm of positive conversations with the visitors, wiped up water drips on the counters, and pretty much kept the place spic and span and left the visitors with a positive experience with someone full of enthusiasm (and yes, people would stop and put tips in the tip jar).  I left feeling better than when I walked in and not just physically....

Walk this way

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Somebody's got to do it....

Yep, when living alone with no hotel maid service, there are just some things that have to be done.  I guess it is my turn this time.  Or, I could just live in squalor.....  No, not a chance.  Somebody's got to do it and I am the one on deck...

Somebody's got to do it...

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Tool of the Trade

I learned just how much I depend on computers today as I spent the day with my I.T. person trying to set up my computer--converting from my previous calendar and contacts to a new system.  Still did not get it done but spent most of the day trying to make it work.  Computers are wonderful yet at the same time they can often be a regular pain in the behind...  Today was a computer pain day.  Can't live without them and can't live with them.

Tool of the trade

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I was warned...

My brother, a veteran of the South, warned me.  He warned me not to tell him about the food found at chains.  He only wants to hear about the food at the local restaurants--because the South has so many great local restaurants one should not waste precious time eating at chains.

Well, I ignored him and ate at a small chain.  So I won't tel him about the food.  Or your either.  Other than the fact that I will never order the chicken their again--it was so dry and over cooked that it was almost at the "jerky" stage.  The mild salsa was good though.

I was warned....

I was warned...

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Welcome

I just began a new job.  Open the office door and you are greeted by The Man himself--a lifesize Chuck Norris.  Yep, I am in Georgia now.  Welcome my office...

Welcome

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Love -- the flower of life

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."  D. H. Lawrence

Love is the flower of life

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Gotta get out more...

All day new job orientation meetings.  Informative but I gotta get out more...

Image from yesterday posted today because we did not get back from dinner last night until almost today anyway...

Gotta get out more...

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Walk this way...

This reminds me of the old TV series Time Tunnel--a series about time travel that kept me entertained in my younger days.  I love how the colors turned out after some post processing and turned this tunnel into a fairy tale looking entry way.

Walk this way...

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Let in the light

This photo was for yesterday's post.  However, since I left my home of 22 years yesterday and traveled across the country to start a new job and did so without a computer in hand, this post was delayed a day.

On my last day before embarking on my new journey, I visited my surgeon for a follow-up visit relating to some work he did a few months back.  This skylight entryway leads out of his building.

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."  Plato

Let in the light

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Breathing Easier

Okay all you diesel Dodge truck fans.  Eat your heart out as the Banks Monster-Ram pumps my engine full of cooler, denser air.  This flat our destroys the competition--and looks great too.  Can't miss this bright red intake elbow helping the machine breath a little easier.

Breathing Easier

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The Big Boss's House

Mt. Vernon, Virginia.  Home of George Washington.  Tall for his age and, as owner of over 55,000 acres of land in the U.S. when he died, he was also one of America's richest.  Oh, that we had more leaders like the man whose profile is stamped into our quarters.

The Big Boss's House

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A river runs through it

Out at American Falls on the Potomac River with a couple of granddaughters.  Playing tourist.  We noted that the high water mark from historical records puts the water level well above the kids heads.
"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else."  Hal Boyle

A river runs through it

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They went that way!

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."  Henry Ford

Henry had it right.  And my granddaughter points the way as she stands on a bluff overlooking American Falls on the Potomac River (you'll have to take my word for the river part since it is on the other side of the rocks and hidden from view in this photo).

They went that way!

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Hungry Tiger from the past

I grew up watching World War II fighter plane filled movies and TV shows--which is probably why I wanted to be a pilot for so many years in my youth.  I built many a plastic model of both World War II fighter planes and bombers while growing up.  There is still something about the rumbling roar of these piston and prop planes that stirs me deep down inside.  The sounds are few and very far between these days.  And I certainly don't see any of these Hungry Tigers from the past flying around in the movies or on TV anymore unless I dig out the oldies channels.

Hungry Tiger from the past

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