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My lowest blood sugar levels are in the afternoon, around 2-3pm. Its usually in the low 90s. But, I've had readings as low as 78. Its never there long, and I doubt I spend any time in ketosis. I can have a reading of 100 at bedtime (10pm), after having had a normal 6pm dinner. And, then...

I'm sure they just did a bang-up job on this breaking story. But, I don't care about or trust the NYT as a valid news source enough to pay to find out. https://news.usni.org/2023/11/20/navy-p-8a-poseidon-overshoots-hawaiian-runway-splashes-in-kaneohe-bay-crew-safe

The weirdest one I know of was the plane that landed, taxied in and parked by the fence in front of the flight school. A guy in a Land Rover pulled up and parked on the other side of the fence. They offloaded some stuff and the Land Rover departed. The guy hopped back in and went to start up...

4 bone custom prime rib, big pan of cornbread stuffing (the stuff that goes in the turkey, but without a turkey), Au Jus for the gravy, and (of course) Cranberry sauce and creamed horseradish. All served with veggies! Absolutely no dried out turkey breast, no turkey tetrazzini leftovers, and...

2 older 172s my friend has taken on leaseback have come in with cracked filler necks. Owners squawk about the repair bill till we show them the damage that was easily missed on their pre-buys. After we caught a young ramper hanging the nozzle on the filler neck of a different aircraft, our...

I’ve never asked for money. But I have a non-pilot friend who has, on occasion, insisted on either buying lunch or splitting the cost of the gas.

I took an old chip chaser and cut the handle off. Then I cut a v-groove into one end. It holds the screw in place with the clamp snugged up giving me free hands to start the nut.

We quit doing the big turkey dinner some r years ago. We realized that what everyone was doing was mixing dark meat and stuffing and drowning it in gravy. We always ended up with all the dry white meat and an ugly Turkey carcass leftover. Took some of the fun out of it. One year we tried a...

Marker buoys don’t care whether you come in bow or stern first.

'Port wine is red!' (Actually, its more of a brownish. If its green though, throw it out!) I could never let that go. Being also a sailor, I gripe about the folks that put red and green lights backwards outside their garage doors. Its always "red-right-returning".

They started wearing these after I retired from the Navy. I'm not really sure why, except to maybe cut down on wind noise over ICS.

I did the UPRT program at Sean Tucker's school in King City, CA quite a few years ago. Loved it so much, I stuck around for some aerobatic training. If you think 1-3 turn "spins" are fun, try a fully developed inverted spin in a Pitts. The over-the-top entry to an inverted spin is a whole...

I'd think, wrt all of those, you could arguably say one has led to the other. We have all these rights to be what and who we want to be, society be damned. And, for some of us, that is confusing and depressing.

Check out the book "The Coming Wave:..." by Mustafa Suleyman AI+Bio engineering+ plus "bad-actors" = a big nightmare!

This reminds me of a "continuing education" reading for healthcare providers that popped up some time ago. In particular, the appendix on "understanding gun culture". https://www.netce.com/coursecontent.php?courseid=2343#chap.11 You cannot argue with someone who knows they're right. This...

Sorry, I saw "There are savings accounts at about that rate now..." and completely missed the rest of your post. A Vanguard money market fund is a pretty far cry from a retail passbook savings account.

I'd be a little leary of sticking large sums into some of those high-yielding internet banks. Yeah, they're FDIC insured. But, if they do run into a liquidity crunch and start locking down, your "quick access" may not be as quick as you think.

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My attitude towards guns has slowly changed over the years. I used to believe that every citizen should receive at least a basic level firearms safety and marksmanship training. But, time has proven that to be an impractical real world view. I believe they call it "magical thinking" these...

I got an invoice for the final payment on my Hartzell BA prop from Van's earlier this month. They said Hartzell was ready to ship this month. Its been crickets since I paid the balance. Hope my prop isn't lost in the kerfuffle. It should not be part of this Van's shake up since they ship...