SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9th:
1635 - Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom.

1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.

1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.

1812 - During the War of 1812 American forces captured two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia.

1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.

1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.

1888 - The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.

1914 - During World War I, German forces captured Antwerp, Belgium.

1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.

1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed by the *****. The dome was unharmed in the bombing.

1974 - Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt, Germany. Schindler is credited with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb."

1983 - Helen Moss joined the Brownies at the age of 83. She became the oldest person to become a member.

1989 - The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report included a trio of tall aliens that had visited the city of Voronzh.

1994 - The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.

1995 - Saboteurs tinkered with a stretch of railroad track in Arizona. An Amtrak train derailed killing one and injuring a hundred.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

Sunday coffee is ready.

 

Mornin, Scott. Thanks for opening the breakroom.

Mornin, the rest of ya. Inspection is over, we did great, I thought I was going to get fired.

Still pretty busy, but not as bad. Sipping some coffee, about to go jump in the hot tub and try to get my day going. Hopefully I can be productive.

 

Looking pretty slow in here, everyone must be at church.

 

Morning all. On my second cup of coffee.
madhat, I know how inspections can go. Sometimes I wish they would fire me so I don't have to go through it again.

 

Dude, that is the truth. I was thinking about going UA.

 

Scuze me

 

Sunday, church, are you nuts, football is coming on,good morning, go Steelers.

 

The only football worth watching is played on Saturdays. College ball.

 

afernoon all...lookin forward to this week ...leaveing my old job to start at ruger......yaaa baabyy

 

Prescott? or that other place?

 

The only football worth watching is the last game of the season. You know who the best two teams are and you'll know who is the VERY best when it's done.


Of course, it's NEVER done... there's post season, post post season, season recap, then training for the new season, pre-season games, and by the time all this gets accomplished, it's August again and the 'regular' season starts.


Afternoon all. Packing to get ready to leave for Michigan tomorrow.

 

Afternoon.

Ruger? Like, bang bang?

Football? I mentioned I have a 70" LED right? I don't watch football at all.

Scott, were you in Mass?

Just got done shaving the dog AND the cat... eating some cheese dip the wife made, drinking a beer, getting ready to go work on my radio again. Couple of other things, nothing much. Just trying to relax.

 

Me either. Too commercial or something. Seems like it just drags on and on all for the benefit of the advertisers.

Yep. Been here almost a month and will be back next month. And possibly in December.

I'm getting ready to go to my Chief's house for dinner. Lots of dogs, kids and chaos there. Ought to be interesting.

 

I don't watch any sports any more. They're not sports anymore. NASCAR was the last to go with Toyoyo being allowed. Tradition is gone in all of them. Players are nothing more than over paid cry babies.

I pass the time restoring my cars now. Even getting tired of the the NCIS reruns. LOL

 

Evening Yall

Had to work today. On a Sunday. And miss all of the football games that I dont even watch. Im with you Scott. If I do catch a game its the Super Bowl.

Been working 14 and 15 7s lately. Makes you think when your weekly time sheet is 40hrs regular time and 67hrs over time.

Looking forward to next Sunday. Trip home for a week.

Time to Blacktec

Gonna do my buddies 07 too while Im home.