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Several years ago I ordered some stuff from Midway. I was visiting my daughter in Atlanta. And I tracked this every day, because she lived in an apartment and I wasn't sure how they handled packages there. We shall say that it was due to arrive on the 8th. Because I don't recall the exact date. On the 5th the tracking said it was in Atlanta post office, and I was happy because I thought that meant I would get it 3 days earlier than I expected. On the 6th tracking said it was in Athens post office. On the 7th it was still in the Athens post office. But on the 8th it came back to Atlanta, and was delivered on the estimated day of arrival. Apparently it was against the rules to deliver it 3 days early.

The director said to park your car crosswise in front of the plane, blocking its access to the runway, and then advance toward the plane with your pistol out. I thought that was kind of dumb but I was neither the director nor the screenwriter.

If they did it in reality, I can see some of these reasons put forth here being correct. But did they do it in reality? Or did they just do it in the movies and on TV? Every cop show out there, there will be a scene where the plain clothes cops will see the person they're after, and from 30 to 50 feet away they will call his name and flash their badge, which always causes him to turn and run the other way, and he has a 30 to 50 foot head start. That's television. We have the exciting chase. But I can't help but think that in real life, the plain clothes cops would wait until they were standing next to their suspect, and they would grab him by the arm and show their badge, and that way he would not be able to run away. That just makes way too much more sense. But that would be reality, not television. As far back as I can remember, which would be the very early 60s, the drivers always got in the driver's side. I never ever saw anyone, in reality, get in the passenger side and slide across the seat. My truck has a bench seat. And a couple times I have slid across the seat. Generally because some moron has parked next to me so close that I cannot open the driver's door. Unless you keep the seat completely clean - as in no maps, no winter coats, no CD cases or cassette boxes - it's very difficult to slide across the seat. And then we have the transmission hump in the middle of the thing that you got to clear with your feet. As a kid, the parental units would shove us in one door and we would have to slide across the seat to make room for the other siblings. But that made it easier on them - all the kids were on the same side of the car. By the time we were in double digits of age, if we were going to sit on the left side of the seat we went in the left door. Sliding was just foolish.

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I also don't think she slept last night. Every time she tried to lay down that hard plastic cone would hit the floor making a loud noise, and she would get back up. She's flopped out snoring right now.

I believe she's going to be happier. As you can see from the first picture, the cone extended past the end of her muzzle. When she pees, first she puts her muzzle down in the grass and smells it to make sure it's a good spot to pee. With the cone she couldn't get her face in the grass, so she couldn't pee. She eats by taking a mouthful of food out of her dish and dropping it on the floor and then eating atIT a piece of theAT A time. With the cone she couldn't get her mouth down to the floor, so she couldn't eat. She could drink, after a lot of finagling, where the cone would be inside the bottom of the dish and she would be drinking out of the top of the dish. But when she would finish her drink and pick her head up, the cone would flip the dish over. That cone was not a good choice.

Forty, she said to tell you thank you for the suggestion. It is much more comfortable. And it is so much easier to get a drink. Her only problem now is she wants to be let outside, and the vet said not for two weeks, till the stitches come out. I'm to take her out on a leash to do her business, but I can't just let her go out in the yard by herself.

I don't understand why steel core would not, but stillSTEEL jacketed could hit a rock and create a spark and start a fire. That is my understanding of why steel jacketed ammunition is not allowed at outdoor ranges. I suppose if they were using a magnet to identify steel jackets, and the magnet reacted to a steel core, they would just ban that also instead of trying to decide which was jacketed and which was internal.

I wondered this myself, and I came up with what I think is the answer. They have a car parked at the curb. The camera is pointed at the driver's door. The driver gets in on the passenger side and slides across the seat. If the driver had walked around to the driver's side, they would have had to have had the camera further back so that they could see him circling the car, and the camera would have to be further back so there would be room for the door to open him to get in. And that might - might - make your ending picture smaller than the director has in mind. So everyone goes in and out the passenger side, and they don't have to have the camera so far away from the car. I have never seen anybody get in the passenger side and slide across in real life. Just old movies and TV shows.

He's not yet taking off. He definitely has not restrictedREACHED ROTATE ("restricted"? damn otto) speed. He's not even on the runway yet. He is taxiing over to the runway. See he's in front of a hanger. They don't have hangers out on the runway.

You have a small twin engine jet. The bad guys are escaping. The plane is getting ready to take off. (Don't you just love cell phone photographs of a DVD where you stopped something in motion?) But you have a guy with a 308 up on top of the control tower. They didn't do it, but I just got to wondering what would happen if he put a bullet or two (or five or six) in one of those engines. While I understand that a twin engine plane can fly with one engine down, can it take off? Seems like trying to hit the engine on a taxiing plane would be a lot easier than trying to hit a tire. You blow out the nose gear and he's not going to take off but that's an awful small target. (He didn't shoot out the nose gear either. But that seems to be a common television thing. They're escaping, so shoot out their tires.)

They said not to feed her anything after 10:00 last night. I wondered about that. I think when I had knee surgery they said nothing for 12 hours. But - so she had supper at 6:00. And on her surgical Bill there is a $48 charge for some medicine because she was throwing up her half digested kibble. From 6:00 at night to 9:00 in the morning and it isn't digested yet? Oh well. She is not happy. And she bumps that cone on everything.

They paint Corvettes too, but a Corvette is not supposed to protect your head if the side gets hit. I have heard that you are not supposed to paint fiberglass boats. You are supposed to color the fiberglass when the boat is made.

I found one article about "is it dangerous to repaint your helmet", and the guy said it could be, depending on the paint you used. Then he said the best thing to do was to get in touch with the helmets manufacturer and ask them what you could use to paint it. He said that most likely you would not be the first one to ask.

I may have asked this before - I know I wondered this before - but if I did I do not recall the answers. So here we go. Does it hurt in any way to paint a crash helmet? Would the paint affect the fiberglass? Or would you have to use a special type of paint? There's an online story. Cindy flies. The first time there's any mention of helmet, Cindy's helmet is white. Three chapters later Cindy's helmet is yellow to match the color of the plane. About six chapters later, different plane, and Cindy's helmet is now red, again to match the color of the plane. I suppose she could be buying new helmets - get a new helmet to match each new plane she flies. But I'm just got the impression that she's repainting them. Of course it could simply be that the author has forgotten he had her with a white helmet, so he gave her the yellow helmet. And the next time a helmet was mentioned was about 7 months later in real life, so he could have forgotten about she had a yellow helmet and he gave her a red helmet to go with the red airplane. But to get back to my question, would repainting a helmet hurt it in any way?

I'll keep that in mind, if I ever feel the urge to kill a block of clay.