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  1. JimWagner

    This or That

    Fried chicken. Potato salad or mashed potatoes?
  2. JimWagner

    This or That

    Lying out on a beach in the Caribbean. Summer or winter?
  3. JimWagner

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The majority of customers did their own shopping when I was doing the deliveries, but there were a number of mainly older people in town who either didn't or couldn't drive and depended on deliveries for groceries and medications. I should add that delivery service was free where I worked. I...
  4. JimWagner

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The grocery delivery boy dissappeared in my lifetime. I used to do that in high school when I worked in the grocery. Customers would call in their orders, I'd do the shopping and then deliver the groceries by pickup truck and collect the money. Some groceries around here have recently started...
  5. JimWagner

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I'm sure my take on this will not go over well. Prior to WWII most, if not all, people who went to college were from the "privileged" class and were there to get the kind of education that made it possible to socialize and move in those circles. Possibly engineers were the exception to that...
  7. JimWagner

    Normal House on the Outside, 17th Century on the Inside!

    Looking up at the ceiling in the master bedroom would certainly put a damper on things. Unless they are selling it furnished I agree that putting modern furniture in there would totally ruin it. Maybe another SCA type would buy it. For sure it's going to take a special buyer.
  8. JimWagner

    Attaching Morale Patches On Leather Flight Jackets

    Was your Pop the squadron commanding officer? I only ask because traditionally the CO's crew is designated Crew 1 and the XO's is Crew 2.
  9. JimWagner

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When our kids were young, and even ocassionaly now that they are grown up and not living with us, we've had our kids' friends over for dinner. We never "kept score" and were happy to have them. I can tell you that my wife and I are both good cooks from large families and an extra mouth or two at...
  10. JimWagner

    Laugh to keep from crying Chippewa engineer boots

    That's just sad.
  11. JimWagner

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    And that was precisely my point - neither do many of the people using social media today. I cannot tell you how many times (many) I've had this discussion and the other party just looked at me with no comprehension at all. The idea of not sharing everything online is alien to them. And it's not...
  13. JimWagner

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    To look like an asylum? Sorry, couldn't help myself.
  14. JimWagner

    A tragic, need help with some solutions.

    I'd try a little heat from a hair dryer to soften the waxes and then buff with a towel. Repeat.
  15. JimWagner

    Ham radio

    NN4JW here. First licensed in 1988. Most of my recent HF activity was in Navy-Marine Corps MARS, but that was abolished by the Navy this past September. These days I've mostly been exploring DMR - digital mobile radio. Too many hobbies, not enough time.
  16. JimWagner

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I probably could have written my post a little better. I meant that those giving up that privacy seem to think that it is a should be - not that I think so. After all, I did start that post with "It disturbs me how the concept of personal privacy seems to be dissappearing.".
  17. JimWagner

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    It disturbs me how the concept of personal privacy seems to be dissappearing. It's not just that actual privacy is threatened but that every little thing in your life is shared nearly real time with essentually the whole world and that's as it should be. There really does seem to be a hive mind...
  19. JimWagner

    Attaching Morale Patches On Leather Flight Jackets

    When I was first assigned to VP-24 in 1967 we were stationed in Norfolk, VA and flew on P-2V7 Neptunes. I spent 3 months that year deployed to Key West, FL for the 2nd Cuban missle crisis that I'm not sure ever made the news. 2nd best duty I ever had. In 1968 we transitioned to P-3B Orions and...
  20. JimWagner

    Attaching Morale Patches On Leather Flight Jackets

    Yes, that's my old squadron. But that patch is later than the ones we wore. This isn't my original jacket (obviously) but the VP-24 patch is original from my days.
  21. JimWagner

    Attaching Morale Patches On Leather Flight Jackets

    Yes, back in my day all flight equipment for enlisted men were turned back in. Another example was helmets. Officers had their own. Helmets for enlisted were kept on the planes at the flight stations and you wore whatever was there and left it on the plane after the flight. You never knew what...
  22. JimWagner

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My dentist told me, when I asked that question, that it was a safety measure that came about with the spread of AIDS. Spitting blood - not a good practice when dealing with blood born contageous diseases.
  23. JimWagner

    Attaching Morale Patches On Leather Flight Jackets

    Ah, the difference between being an officer and enlisted. I guess what I was describing only applied to us enlisted crew :-) I would have like to have been able to keep my jacket, but it wouldn't have continued to fit for long after I got out anyway.

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