SoCal used to be so chill. Especially south of the Orange curtain. But like the rats in a maze experiment- over development and out of state transplants has kind of sucked the aloha out of it.

Wound my heart with a monotonous languor.

We can’t bring in any cellphones etc to our office spaces but senior people insisted on wearing their fitbits and other smart watches. Smh

Why would you pick that name????

The M113 Super Gavin

When wife was pregnant she ate 8 of them before we even got our entrees.

They are technically CVS but still named Longs. I laughed the other day when an old guy called Macy’s Liberty House.

meanwhile in Hawaii

You went that far? Just closed the curtains and chilled. Relax dis ain’t da mainland! Lol

At least their house was underground. Most Hawaii houses are single wall on cinder block foundation. No fallout shelters except old WW2 coast artillery bunkers

Coworker said he just got out the marshmallows. Lol

That was my first clue something not right. The sirens were not going off. They test them on the first of every month for tsunami. Just recently added the old air raid tone. I told my daughter to just hang out in her room and closed all curtains. Not much else we could do. I remember duck and cover drill as a kid too.…

It’s probably because they have their combat engineer school there. Bridging boats.

The dreaded “where are you from?” To be followed by “you speak English real good”

The dogfights looked good because they used real aircraft instead of CGI. Just like Wings or Hells Angels or even Great Waldo Pepper.

Extra trivia. Antoine de St Exupery flew and eventually died in a P38.

Han Solo agrees

And the bombing run of 633 Squadron was an inspiration for the Death Star trench run