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I took the garbage out tonight
You know that life is good, when your garbage bin contains 12 empty quarts
of aeroshell W100, and 6 empty MGD bottles. Today I installed the oil "quick change" valve, then went flying for 30 minutes, then changed the oil. Oh that makes it SO much easier! No safety wire, no "channeling" the oil to a container. I have 3/8" tubing connected to the valve so I just fed it into a milk jug. Jug full, pinch tubing, next jug, etc. Hardly even needed a rag! Then this evening I took Nicole back to Abilene. I invited my Vietnamese friend to go along. It was a smooth starry flight. Filed IFR both ways but just got flight following on the way back so I could let Paul fly. I had a six-pack on ice back at the hanger for our debriefing. We cleaned up the plane. I showed him how "safety wiring" works, and we discussed some politics-- that Tytler quote*. He has some rather uplifting views of America, refugeed at 14 from Saigon in '75 just two weeks before it fell. We noted that flying to Abilene and back and enjoying a six-pack with a friend-- with nobody's permission-- were examples of great American freedoms. Like he put it, "It doesn't get any better than this". Just felt like sharing... Cheers, John Clonts Temple, Texas N7NZ *Sir Alex Fraser Tytler, in 1801: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." |
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