911

To my legions of loyal followers, which consists of Chris, I apologize
for taking so long to update.
Today I want to talk about a 35 year old man who I'll call Maurice.
Now I use the term "man" loosely because of an incident which everyone
I know from Texas to floyds knobs has heard about. The infamous
calling of 911 for a stalled vehicle. Maurice's car quit running on
the on ramp from 265 to 64. He thought to himself, "I'm a man and I'm
gonna take care of this without bugging my friends for help." so he
called 911, and I remind you the car wasn't even on fire or upside
down in a river. He then sat there for 1 1/2 hours with his seatbelt
on and watching his rearview mirror, certain that someone would come
down the onramp and rearend him. 1 1/2 hours!
Luckily the officer who arrived, and somehow managed to not use his
blackjack on Maurice, had a list of tow trucks to call. Sigh....
Emergency handled.
Hey, do you think Maurice's insurance has tow coverage? I bet it did.
Deloris wouldn't send him out into the big bad world without the best
possible coverage. To bad he didn't think to call them first.

Hammer

2nd st. Bridge

I've always thought about walking that bridge but I never had a reason
to. Today on a whim I parked downtown and walked to the middle of the
bridge and took in this beautiful sight. Hope my legions of loyal
followers enjoy it as much as I did.

My first blog

Well, now that I have an macbook, iphone and 7 email addresses I figured it was time I took my good friend Arash's advise and set up a blog. I'm now one of millions of people who believe they have something so important to say that it must be posted in cyberspace for the world to see.

Please check out my mindless ramblings whenever you feel like it. I'm sure once in a while you'll find some small dollop of information that will make the whole affair worth your time.

I'd like to start off today by asking if anyone can name these two pieces of cinema? I loved them as a child but have since forgotten their names.

The first is a movie about a boy genius who is always building exciting things. He makes a rocket bike that cruises down the railroad tracks and keeps him from being late to school early on in the movie. I believe that later on he makes a submarine type device that he uses to dive deep into a lake to maybe find a Loch Ness type creature. IT IS NOT FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR, as many have suggested.

The second piece was a tv show in the 80's I believe. It had sort of a Twilight Zone kind of feel and I only remember one episode, though I watched it religiously. This episode was set in WWII. A group of bomber airmen were coming home from a mission in which their plane had been severely damaged. The landing gear was blown away or malfunctioning and there was an airman trapped in one of the gun turrets on the belly of the plane. As I remember it was an emotional performance where everyone on board knew the young man was going to perish when they made the emergency landing at the air base. However, in a twist ending the young man, who was an artist, took out his sketchbook and drew their plane with wheels. When the plane came in for a landing exaggerated cartoon wheels lowered from the bottom of the plane and they landed safely.

If any of my loyal blog followers know the answer to these quandaries I command you to tell me.