The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[MillieDynamite]

Well, it's been real and fun, but not really fun. I'm outa here, back to writing.

 

[old_prof]

Well, let him out! Look, they should lock up Prince Andrew for his kid fucking, but in a can?

But his brother likes getting fucked in his can. Maybe Andrew does too?

 

[Duleigh]

The original was fantastic. The new one disappointed me. Even when Brent Spiner reprised his idiot role. I gave up on it, midseason, midepisode, last year. I did like seeing John Larroquette in his Klingon makeup (but his ridges were different).

I gave up the second one halfway through the season so I didn't get to see Brent Spinner. The only thing that the new Night Court had going for it was Dan Fielding, and he wasn't Dan Fielding, he was a sweet old coot playing lawyer. I watch TV to be entertained not lectured. I streamed the origina show end-to-end and realized how many shows I missed because I was sent to Korea in Night Court's final 2 seasons.

I wonder if I can sue the government for wrongful damage because of that?

 

[_Lynn_]

Breakfast is a plain bagel and cream cheese. I'll edit while I eat.

The amaryllis that are done flowering had a vacation on the patio yesterday. They probably will for the rest of the week, so they can soak up some rays and get stronger. The ones that are still flowering will wait.

There was a thread in the last couple weeks where a question came up about influential comments, or something along those lines, and I've been thinking about it on-and-off since.

@_Lynn_ gave me the most important editorial comments I've had. It was in my first year here, and I was giddy about the story I recently submitted. She read the first couple paragraphs, found several mistakes, and predicted that I overused "then."

She was right about "then." More importantly, her comments made me look at my own work more realistically. It didn't all soak in immediately, but it eventually changed the way I view my work. I still use the experience to fuel my self-editing and to ground my expectations.

Writing this morning, then more work on the table for the garden shed. And I need to water what's left of my lawn.

Thanks, NW. I appreciate your kind words. I've often wondered what impact I made on those I edited for. Many were first time writers and needed a lot of help. Some decided writing wasn't fun like they thought it would be, but more of a job, and quit. That you learned and improved says a lot about your determination to the craft.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Just popped in to make sure there is fresh coffee for the night shift (or day shift if you are on the other side of the world).

Just saw in the news that F-22s were spotted in Israel. Hard to believe I worked on that program 38 years ago (first flight was 28 years ago) and there is still no plane in the world that can touch it.

 

[Duleigh]

F-22s were spotted in Israel.

Guess they're not as stealthy as advertised.

first flight was 28 years ago

My bird's first flight was 74 years ago and I loved that old beast like a daughter. I got to help convert the B-52H from an all nuke platform to the worlds largest, baddest close support aircraft that it is today. I even helped teach that old dog a new trick - air launch cruise missiles. It was a busy time on the old platform.

 

[NotWise]

I finished the work bench for the garden shed. It weighs a ton, but I managed to drag it out of the garage and into the shed.

Had to take tylenol for the left hand and back. Both took a little too much abuse.

According to wherever Alexa gets her information, the temp reached at least 79F this afternoon. That's about three degrees higher than the official high, but that's usual. No big cool-down in the long-term forecast. The weather service has a chance for rain at the end of the long-term forecast. It's been there for three or four days now.

 

[MrPixel]

I even helped teach that old dog a new trick - air launch cruise missiles.

I would figure the X-15 was your role model for that.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I would figure the X-15 was your role model for that.

Role model? Why do you think Mr D still carries Beemans in his pocket?

 

[SimonDoom]

My bird's first flight was 74 years ago and I loved that old beast like a daughter. I got to help convert the B-52H from an all nuke platform to the worlds largest, baddest close support aircraft that it is today. I even helped teach that old dog a new trick - air launch cruise missiles. It was a busy time on the old platform.

That's impressive. It's amazing how long the B-52 has been around. And it's expected to continue to be in service until the 2050s. That will make it 100 years of service for a warplane design. That's incredible.

Growing up, I lived not far from a base where B-52s were stationed, so I saw them flying all the time. I could always recognize one at once because of that distinctive profile. It also has its own sound in flight.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Woke up to find a blanket of snow on the ground and more coming down, even though the temperature is 35 degrees. It looks pretty but will soon melt. My BP was down 14 points this morning so I'm happy about that.

I've got a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is hot so you can have a cuppa. There are snacks on the counter and I'm going to make a cornbread later today.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. After some additional research, I'm going to need to change the timeline by a few years and rewrite a portion of the story. Oh, well, it'll actually help me in the long run ...

BTW: I did get to meet Brig Gen Chuck Yeager (USAF Ret.) in person once at a Dining In and he was quite the character. He had been retired for about 12 years and had a lot of funny tales to tell and his language was salty to say the least.

 

[SpicyBean99]

Hello!

I’m not sure if this is still the right place to post newly published stories? But here is one of my most recent… as always I write for fun, and as a hobby rather than anything more serious, I study full time and so writing has taken a back seat.

However, I had this exert sitting in my drafts for a while and thought… screw it… even as a short story I think it could be enjoyed by… well anyone!

I’m happy to hear all and any feedback

https://www.literotica.com/s/foot-boy-3

 

[NuclearFairy]

Hello!

I’m not sure if this is still the right place to post newly published stories? But here is one of my most recent… as always I write for fun, and as a hobby rather than anything more serious, I study full time and so writing has taken a back seat.

However, I had this exert sitting in my drafts for a while and thought… screw it… even as a short story I think it could be enjoyed by… well anyone!

I’m happy to hear all and any feedback

https://www.literotica.com/s/foot-boy-3

Hello! This isn't a horrible place for it I don't think, but this thread is mostly for hanging out in and feeding the dragon.

There are two excellent threads for it though! Such as the stickied thread in the Story Feedback forum: New Story Advertisements. And the not stickied thread floating around the Authors' Hangout: What have you posted Recently?

Also, you could always make a thread in Story Feedback to get some more specific feedback on your story.

Pull up a chair though, grab a cup of your favorite brew, throw your most annoying plot bunny to the dragon, and hang around awhile.

 

[Duleigh]

I would figure the X-15 was your role model for that.

I never touched the X-15. My birds are
F-4C and D
F-4E and G
B-52H and G
F-16C and D (Block 50)
F-111F
EF-111A
A slight bit of A-7D and F-15C

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I have some un-fond recollections of a few F-106 Delta Darts.

 

[Duleigh]

I have some un-fond recollections of a few F-106 Delta Darts.

I fully understand. I saw one whose landing gear collapsed on landing, they tried to life it up with a huge inflatable pillow and it slid off the pillow. TWICE. It just wanted to lay in the dirt. It was great entertainment for us maintenance types for a day or two. The missile launchers on that thing looked fragile yet over engineered at the same time, and the AIR-2A rocket was just terrifying. It's the only weapon I refused to touch. But if you ever got the thing off the ground, it was the coolest looking plane in the sky.

 

[NotWise]

Coffeeee! I feel it flowing through my veins.

The season has advanced enough that it's light in the east when I get up and twilight by the time I have coffee. Daylight Savings Time starts a week from the coming Sunday then it will be dark again. On the flip side, the evenings will be light long enough to grill dinner on the patio.

I've written two sentences this morning, and edited them both twice. Momentum. I need to build some momentum.

 

[Duleigh]

I've written two sentences this morning, and edited them both twice. Momentum. I need to build some momentum.

I've got something weird going - last week I cranked out a 16,000 word story in 4 days, then I fired out two 750 word stories in 3 hours. But the story I've been working on for a month is dragging, it doesn't want to be written, If I can get 300 good words in a full day I'm making progress, and I have people waiting for this story.

 

[MrPixel]

I never touched the X-15.

Of course not. That was NASA, not AF, anyway. What I meant is it was possibly the inspiration/prototype for the pylon-launched cruise missile on the B-52 you worked on.

Dad worked on the X-15. That program was cancelled in 1968, well before the brief time I worked for NASA-FRC.

 

[Duleigh]

Of course not. That was NASA, not AF, anyway. What I meant is it was possibly the inspiration/prototype for the pylon-launched cruise missile on the B-52 you worked on.

Dad worked on the X-15. That program was cancelled in 1968, well before the brief time I worked for NASA-FRC.

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That would have been cool, I even applied for the load crew position on "Balls Eight" the B-52B in your photo but EVERYBODY applied to load Balls Eight. It's been replaced by an H model which is also called Balls Eight - the tail number is 60-008. The X15 was a BIG load. They had to cut away a portion of the Fowler flap on the right wing of Balls Eight to make clearance for the tail of the X15. That was such a sensitive load that it was done by civilian specialists. The new stuff they're loading, the hypersonic test missiles are mounted on a ALCM style pylon which I was very familiar with, and it was loaded using an MHU-173/m heavy stores lift trailer which I was highly experienced on. So the USAF in their flawless intellect sent me to the 429th Electronic Combat Squadron to run the Weapons Flight on EF-111, an aircraft that didn't carry any weapons.

https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/2/3/4/0726432.jpg?v=v40

 

[BeechLeaf]

The Sidewinder missile is also that age, and also scheduled to be in use for its centenary.

 

[Duleigh]

The Sidewinder missile is also that age, and also scheduled to be in use for its centenary.

Sweet missile, it's a great short range companion to the AIM-120 AMRAAM. I hung tons of Sidewinders on F-16s. It's a great missile to load if you don't have a chance to hit the gym on occasion.

 

[MrPixel]

I did get to meet Brig Gen Chuck Yeager (USAF Ret.) in person once ... his language was salty to say the least.

Yeah, there were two kinds of test pilots back then - characters, and all-business-all-the-time. I've mentioned before that Neil Armstrong was a regular in my dad's poker group. He was sort of in-between. But they did keep the adult language at a minimum when they gathered in our kitchen 'cause of us kids; most of the time they played at a bachelor engineer's house and I can imagine it was pretty raucous.

So the USAF in their flawless intellect sent me to the 429th Electronic Combat Squadron to run the Weapons Flight on EF-111, an aircraft that didn't carry any weapons.

Ah. I think we've talked about it. My first year I was assigned to an F-111 research project in the stability and control office. I think I mentioned a lot of the flight testing involved WUTs trying to address the problem where poor airflow off the nose would blank the intakes.

 

[Duleigh]

Ah. I think we've talked about it. My first year I was assigned to an F-111 research project in the stability and control office. I think I mentioned a lot of the flight testing involved WUTs trying to address the problem where poor airflow off the nose would blank the intakes.

you guys must have fixed that because that thing flew like a bat out of hell. My favorite EF-111 story:

The "Wonder Lemon" had a killer move they called "The Raven Dive" He just gets up to an uncomfortable speed and turns on the terrain following radar and the F-111 transitions from 20,000 feet to 200 feet in the blink of an eye. It's said there's a Mirage shaped hole in the desert where an Iraqi Mirage tried to follow an EF-111 during Desert Storm. We were deployed to King Abdul Aziz Airbase - "Burn Pit City" It was a disability factory. Everyone in my unit is disabled now. Anyhow, we had a fantastic engine troop named Wednesday who was awarded Airman of the Deployment and her prize was a ride in the right seat of an EF-111. We bribed the pilot with everything we could come up with (including some Aramco Hooch) to make her puke. (In the USAF using a $45 Million dollar aircraft to make someone puke is called "Fun.")

They came back and the pilot looked like he was ready to puke, we asked what happened and he said, "I had it up to 30,000 feet and hit the TFR and we dropped like a rock, I never dropped so fast in my life. It scared the hell out of ME! We hit 200 feet and leveled out so fast it hurt my back. I looked over at Wednesday and she looked at me with a huge grin and said, "Do it again!!!""

 

[Duleigh]

Woes of an Anime Nerd - Dusk Maiden of Amnesia

I fell in love with this on Roku. It's one of the sweetest ghost stories I've ever seen. The ghost haunts the closed portion of a Japanese school building. The ghost finds that one day a teenage boy could see her and she fell in love with him. She would even go to class with him and sit on his lap. Like any good Japanese school student she started an after school club, a ghost hunting club. Another member joined who could see her, and that new member turned out to be the ghosts great-niece. There's a lot of great humor, like when they find the ghost's skeleton the ghost is (nude) screaming "DON'T LOOK AT MY BODY LIKE THAT" (I thought it was funny) but it's also very sad and poignant when they begin to discover the history of the ghost and how she died. Then she has to leave, breaking the boys heart.

This isn't crap animation, this is high class artwork. The shading for the different areas of the school stands out, the art is beautifully drawn and shaded, the change from scene to scene is creative and different each time, the colors are rich and you can almost feel the textures. I love how the people that are not important to the scene are well drawn, but they don't have faces (which is kind of how I see some people). Unfortunately it was on the Roku HiDive live channel which means they play the anime straight through, episodes 1 thru 12, no pause, no rewind, no option to record (how primitive!) So I went to the encyclopedia of Anime - MyAnimeList.net which shows that it's streamed by HiDive and by Crunchyroll. I have a Crunchyroll membership so I went to that site, and Dusk Maiden of Amnesia is not available. I went to the HiDive site and Dusk Maiden of Amnesia was not available there either. I even looked for the DVD and it is only available on Blueray and the price is anywhere from $30 to $65. I eventually found it on Prime Video but you have to purchase each episode individually.

I didn't buy it, but I know where it's at, so when I'm done with Fate/Stay Night [Unlimited Blade Works] and WONDER EGG + PRiORiTY (two real mind-benders) I can start to watch the show at my pace.