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About 12 years ago, TxDOT opened the privately funded SH 130 toll road that bypasses Austin and was supposed to alleviate traffic congestion in Interstate 35. Trouble is, it’s so far outside of town and so expensive that few people use it. It routinely takes longer to bypass Austin on the toll road than to sit in…

Monday morning. Time to gas up and get going.

Any big plans for the weekend? Maybe hang out and shoot some pool? I’ve got an opera performance tomorrow night and a couple of other gigs. I’d rather not do the other gigs; it’s been a long week. But money.

Welcome to This Date in Aviation History, getting of you caught up on milestones, important historical events and people in aviation from November 7 through November 9.

As further evidence that everything in Australia will kill you, an Australian teen has died after spending more than a year in a coma and being paralyzed for eight years after eating a slug that carried a worm that gave the kid rat lungworm disease, known by its much easier to say scientific name Angiostrongylus. The…

Spotted on my way to work tonight.

No, this is not a political post, though I suppose it could be construed as such these days. This is a poem by Langston Hughes, written 90 years ago. Not much has changed.

My son is stuck in traffic on the marching band bus and sent me this picture. Please forgive him for taking it in portrait mode; he’s only a sophomore. But what car is this?

Gotta brag on my 7th grader. He took the District band euphonium audition today and placed 5th out of 16, the second highest 7th grader in the room. Lots of 8th graders behind him. He said he just didn’t want to finish last. He certainly didn’t do that.

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Captured German aircraft, wrapped up to protect them from the salty ocean air, are carried back to the United States. There are a couple of Me 262s, some Fw 190s, a couple of Dornier Do 335s, and two Heinkel 219s. And that’s just what we can see in the photo.

For some reason, I have had a scrap of Joni Mitchell lyrics in my head for the last few days (“I looked at life from both sides now”), so I dug into it on YouTube this morning. Both Sides is a powerful song, especially for somebody my age. And even though Judy Collins made it famous, Mitchell’s version of the song is…

Y’all be safe trick or treating tonight. My boys have decided they don’t want to go this year. So we’ll just be sitting home and handing out candy.