Was watching a show about the C5 Galaxy transport plane last night, the largest in the US Air Force. A C5 was making a world record flight from an AFB in Pennslyvania nonstop to Dagrom AFM in Afghanistan, with a midair refueling. A flight of 48 hours straight. When it landed they got unloaded quickly, and took off as soon as it could.
The program also showed C5’s being refurbished at Lockheed in Marietta. I’ve always had a thing for C5’s since I was a young boy watching President Johnson christening the first C5 in Marietta.
Monday: left work shortly after five and headed to small group. Our leader wasn’t there, so we muddled on without his expert insights.
Tuesday: knocked out three miles on the treadmill, in 39 minutes. Left work after 5:30. Stopped by the driving range. My poor ball-striking this past Saturday carried over to the range. It is as if I have forgotten how to hit a golf ball.
Ate supper at Stockyard Burgers & Bones in The Avenue East Cobb. A good burgers and fries. Watched UVA vs St Bonaventure and some Hawks/Knicks. Also Mr. Mayor, starring Ted Danson.
Looks like Ozzie Albies is wearing his socks at mid-calf this spring, like Fernando Tatis. Perhaps in homage to his traded friend Christian Pache, who also favored the look. I consider this a good development.
Freddie Freeman played in his first game as a Dodger, and got as much press as the Supreme Court hearings.
Lifted weights at the YMCA this morning. Worked from home today, and hopefully tomorrow and Friday as well.
Looks like your friend Phil won’t be playing in the Masters. He had to know that when he took his stand what the repercussions would be. Guess he feels strongly about what he believes.
Article about members of Augusta National.
The two Catholic churches nearest to me are having spring yard sales this weekend. St. Ann in East Cobb on Thursday, half price Friday, and $5 fill a bag on Saturday. St. Andrew down by the river in Roswell on Saturday.
FRANKIE FRISCH [SABR Bio] played in eight World Series without hitting a home run, but homered from both sides of the plate in All-Star competition. Frisch batted in Series play in 1921, 22, 23, 24 for NYG and in 28, 30, 31, 34 for STL with 58 hits, not one of which was a home run. Then he homered off righty General Crowder in 1933 ASG and off Lefty Gomez in the 1934 game. No one has come close to equaling the record he set for most chance and assist in a single season. In 1927, his first year with St. Louis, he accepted 1,059 chances and was in on 641 assists. As a manager, he was a legendary umpire baiter. Here’s one example: manager Frisch was once confronted by Bill Klem, the authoritarian dean of umpires, who often drew a line in the dirt with his spikes and said, “Don't you dare cross that line”. Frisch kept circling Klem while the umpire kept drawing lines until Frisch chortled: “Hey, Bill, you're all fenced in.”
DENISON: a survey reports that 72% of Americans say the nation's moral compass is pointed in the wrong direction, suggesting there is a "right" direction we can find and follow. A Wall Street Journal reporter responded to the fact that "all my millennial friends are rethinking their lives" by choosing to embark on a "reassessment" for the sake of his "mental and spiritual health."
In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis noted: "In God you come up against something which is immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that—and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison—you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on people: as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."
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