The Hands Don’t Forget

By lex, on October 2nd, 2011

Two hops today, adding a whole 3.1 to my previous 4.1. Amazing to think that you can nearly double a month’s flight time in a single day, but that’s the simultaneous curse and blessing of very small numbers.

Was up at 0530, as I ordinarily am. Quietly got dressed and prepared to go to breakfast, then to work. The fellow I’m staying with cracked an eye at 0730 and allowed as how he’d come along. I know what you’re doing, he said. You’re being the TOPGUN guy, trying to get there first, spend the most hours. Nothing of the kind, I’m a full-time employee, and on the clock. But it’s Sunday. You’re right, I forgot. The days run all together.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex