Recent content by bud01234

Spent 3 weeks on my shakedown cruise last December at Jetty Park. Very nice, full hookups, lots of OTA TV stations.  On the last evening, got to see the SpaceX launch (the one where they 1st stage came back down under power and for the first time landed from the pad where it was launched from. ...

1961-63 USN-R USS Constellation CVA-64. Thanks to All who served... Thanks to whoever started this thread. :)

Love the picture.  The big red one reminds me of our cat that we got as a kitten as few years ago. We were sitting on the couch trying to figure out a name for him and he was doing his usual zooming back and forth from room to room.  Just as he ran across both our laps, jumped down to the floor...

Now you're bringing back memories. I bought a Model I TRS-80 with 4K memory and a cassette player for I/o back in the late 70's.  I was a 1st year teacher and wrote a BASIC program that would actually run in the 4K of memory it had and used it for my remedial reading class.  It would do the...

My RV dealer is closed until next Monday and it's supposed to get below freezing starting day after tomorrow. He usually does my winterizing, but I'm going to at least have to drain my lines, hot water heater, and fresh water tank. I have a 1998 National Dolphin gasser, and I know how to drain...

Mine was March 17,1999... the night before my bypass surgery.  I'd been saving the last cigarette, and an inhalation therapist came into my room to test my breathing to see how long i'd be on a ventilator after the surgery.  He worked with me for 30 minutes; making me puff harder and harder. ...