Providing a running commentary....

Today I will clean and reorganize everything 
for a fresh start point.
A mulligan for those with OCD.
OCD

When everything is cleaned and in it's place,

perhaps after this reboot...?

 I may be able to:

Address stalled projects

Work longer

Create more...

This has been a bad week for news..

I'm not even going to begin to discuss any of it.

Too many people are saying too much shit anyway.

Darryl from the Walking Dead starred in

an independent SF film.

It should be released soon on DVD?

I'm ordering it.

In my most recent read--Big Safari.

The history of U.S. cold war aerial reconnaissance.

There was an amazing fact.

During WW2 American troops discovered

2 tons of glass hidden away which was made by German scientists.

This wasn't just glass, it was absolutely pure, perfect glass.

Despite investigations and examinations,

the creators of this amazing glass remain unknown.

The U.S. was never able to duplicate this glass.

The recovery of this glass is important because it was the

prime ingredient in the construction of huge camera lenses.

Which were installed on massive cameras in early spy aircraft

 such as the RB-50, RB-47, U-2 and SR-71 as well as early spy satellites.

This Nazi glass made it possible for the early amazing high altitude photographs, 

for example Russian launch sites in Cuba in 1962.
Aerial reconnaissance allowed us to survive the cold war.

This glass was considered so valuable it was declared a 

Nation asset and named the National Glass reserve.

It was stored guarded and released only for special

construction projects.

The last known location of the National Glass Reserve was the

Rock Island Arsenal.

Today apparently no one knows what actually happened to the stock

of the National Glass Reserve.

By the way, 

on examination during the U.S. failure to replicate it

 the glass was discovered

to be radioactive?

We are insane binge watchers--
All of season 5 of the Walking Dead.
In a single day---Oh My!

Don't try this at home we are professionals.

Eric Clapton will be 70 years old Sept.16th.

70 fucking years old?????

This can't be happening man, this can't be happening!

Slow hand is now old hand?

( thanks bill ! )

I received the Russian SU-34 I ordered from Tamiya Japan.

Perfect arrival time since the afternoons are once again

in excess of 103 degree's.

I'll post progress on this kit as it occurs.

My National Panasonic RS-4150LJ 

arrived safely this week.

It is a beautifully designed box, all of the features

still work perfectly 40 years after being manufactured.

(Photos of my new box below)

Japanese designers apparently attempted to out-German

German designers on this box's Teutonic styling.

All black and a really stunning simplistic style.

This particular boombox has a very rich sound.

No thumping bass, but the overall sound is very full.

I am extremely happy to have this model in my collection.

History of U.S. cold war aerial intelligence gathering.

Saying sorry don't feed the bulldog pal....

Lazy has been creeping up on me.

Slowly but surely.

I hold several theories as to the why behind my apparent slow-down?

8 retired months of hard work on catch-up homestead projects,

may have caught up to me?

I may simply physically require a break, to charge my performance batteries. 

Standing at the back of the theory line is the ever present,

 'i just may be getting old' theory

 awaiting it's inevitable acceptance.

A rational explanation could be that it is

simply very hot here in New Mexico at the

moment, and extreme heat tends to sap the will to perform 

even the most mundane tasking,

causing me to sleep in and spend my afternoons

in the cool indoors building plastic model aircraft

rather that rebuilding the roof or something similar?

I cannot determine if i am being incredibly smart in this heat,

or

 has lazy has become my new normal for retirement?

Time will tell I suppose,

I'm too lazy to decide right now.

Hillary's private email server existed for one reason only.

To hide any possible damaging emails written while she was in any

form of power and to prevent her communications from being accessible

 to either the government or the people.

Any regular government employee would have

been immediately fired for transmitting government business

on a personal email account....

much less the fucking Secretary of State for God's sake????

Once again the Clinton's are beyond the rules

of the little people--

Just who the fuck would vote for her?

Here's a link to a very useful site on how to

observe the International Space Station

from wherever you are on Earth.

where is that thing?

Mathematicians just discovered a new

Pentagon.

I slept through math what is a Pentagon?

The new Pentagon displayed below is capable of tilting a plane

interconnecting together without spaces or overlapping structures.

Other than weird bathroom tile 

what is this new Pentagon good for you may ask?

Self-assembling nano machinery would be one example--

which could change the world...

The people who solved this problem

I have completed my 1/72nd scale Soviet TU-95 Bear.

I had originally intended to create an entire airfield diorama around

this beast of an aircraft.

The shear size of the completed model

 ruled out that concept since this model simply dwarfs 

any supplemental field equipment displayed with it.

As you can observe by the below photographs displaying

the model completed measured against the size of the dining room table.

I will use the supplemental display material with upcoming smaller

aircraft models and display the TU-95 on a plain base.

I must admit and even I am pleased with the outcome

of this three week long project.

Displayed below in the nerd cave.

Placed high due to it's two foot wingspan requiring

more space than what can be addressed on a standard shelf.

The TU-95 is impressive, even on it's only-for-the-moment jury-rig stand. 

I will, in the future have to rebuild the display area.

I have more Soviet aircraft projects in route:

Interesting boomboxes had seemingly disappeared

or become restrictively expensive for awhile now.

My searches have provided negative results.

I had been following the below illustrated

National Panasonic RS-4150LJ for months on

 Ebay always listed as a buy it now item.

Over the course of 6 months the sellers price

kept dropping with each re-posting until it finally reached the reasonable 

enough price point for me to hit the buy it now button.

This box is now on the way to my collection.

National Panasonic was a Japanese electronic corporation,

 the forerunner of the International Panasonic we all currently know now.

National Panasonic created electronic products

 for use within Japan's home marketplace.

National Panasonic boomboxes are rare here in

the US and the all black RS-4150-LJ model is especially a rarity.

 National Panasonic boomboxes are a bullet proof design based

 on the demanding Japanese consumer culture by their use of the boombox as a mini home 

stereo system in smaller living spaces.

Producing outstanding sound quality,

the RS-4150-LJ was manufactured in Japan in 1976 and everything

on my example is reported to work perfectly.

The seller even provided a video of the box in operation.

On arrival I will provide additional details and photographs.

Season 2 on DVD.