Was reminded of the US spy plane that fell into Chinese hands in 2001. A Russian jumbo cargo plane, larger than the Lockheed C5 Galaxy, returned the spy plane fuselage to Dobbins AFB. The landing was on a Saturday morning, so I took the kids over to Cobb Parkway to watch the landing. A big plane.
Representative Larry McDonald died in a 1983 airplane crash. A 747 jumbojet airliner was shot down for drifting into Russian airspace, and was shot down by a fighter jet. Created an international incident. His wife finished out his term. A stretch of interstate highway was named after him.
New sports included in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: skateboarding, 3 on 3 basketball, sport climbing, karate, softball, baseball, surfing, and six team fencing events. Given the loud cheering fans at Japanese games, Olympic baseball be interesting for a change.
This coming Saturday looks to be a good football lineup.
0830 small group
1100 Skyhawks open house
1230 GT@VA
0330 LSU@AL
0700 MO@GA
0730 Clemson@NCState
Just had a thought: who subscribes to hard-copy magazines and newspapers any more? Those 20-40 or 40 & older? The decline in the magazine industry certainly has to do with the ever-increasing popularity of the internet, but I’d say the ever more liberal content published by the increasingly liberal “journalists” is being rejected by the subscribers, who in general are more conservative than those writing the liberal stories. It’s us older generations that more often subscribe to print media. Sports Illustrated’s print content is running off their subscribers. Contributes to the decline of their subscriptions. Who changed? Not the subscribers. The SI magazine content changed. Like if a cruise magazine only printed articles about vacations to the mountains.
Example: this summer Sports Illustrated published an article by Michael Rosenberg (a writer I like) about whether next summer’s Tokyo Olympics will bring US citizens together - or drive them further apart. But the article itself was divisive. While these days I’m sure SI is more concerned with their web traffic, it seems like the magazines are showing up in mailboxes filled with articles most subscribers are in disagreement with.
I don’t watch much, but nowadays Fox News has several anti-Trump newscasters on air. Even Trump has attacked the network.
Felicity and Lori: Ceil used to like Lori’s Hallmark Channel show “When Calls the Heart” set on the American frontier. I think it unrealistic that Lori played the mayor. Revisionist history.
I like the Amazon free shipping. Got home last night. Had left just after five but it was dark when I got home. There was a car in the driveway trying to deliver Amazon, but it was for 2209, across the street.
Got a decent amount of work done yesterday. There’s always more. Ceil was at her women’s ministry. I cleaned up and did the dishes. Watched Fresh Off the Boat and the live performance of The Little Mermaid, with John Stamos. Packaged two eBay shipments and later sold yet another pair of sneakers (below). I still have too many. Yes a big kickoff to the college basketball season. Nice win by GT.
Years ago Ceil and I tried a Mexican restaurant at the Roswell Mill. We’d never been to it before. Nice deck overlooking a bunch of trees. The waiter spilt water all over Ceil. We never went back. Might drag Ceil to Buca di Beppo, an Italian restaurant on Mansell at 400. Dishes served family style. I’ve never been, but foodie coworker Jonathan has taken his young family. Thursday night the fam is getting together for Ceil’s birthday dinner at W&MC’s house.
I will have to check out the Diane Moody books. Right now I am reading my second straight WWII book. First was a Truman biography, the second on the defeat of the Japanese. I remember that interesting story about Reid’s icy cold maneuvers in Slidell.
Hawks unveiled more photos of their black and peach City uniforms. See where Golden State’s Steph Curry is out for several months?
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