Showing posts with label geekout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geekout. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Getting set to ramp up 2015

​1st half of 2015 events list. All events tentative except SnF and Megacon

February 7 Boggy Bottom Auto Fest
February 17 Mr Big concert
February 21 Planes Trains and Automobiles

March 1 Kennedy Space Center and VAC
March 8 St Pete Festivals of Speed
March 15 TICO Warbird Airshow
March 21 Melbourne Air and Space show.
March 22 St Pete Grand Prix

April 3 Fast 7
April 10-12 MegaCon
April 22 and 26 Sun N Fun

May 8 VE Day 70th in DC (If in any way possible)
May 24 Omni Con

June 7 Star Wars Weekends

July 25-26 Fanboy Expo

August 1-2 Tampa Bay Comic Con

Sunday, March 9, 2014

In Proffessor Farnsworth's voice....Good News, Everyone!!

For those of you that enjoy my photography, I just got notified that I am part of the official PHOTOGRAPHER POOL for SNF 2014!!!!!! No fighting with the yokels for views this year!!  And, my new 75-300mm lens is on the way, so......

Keep your eyes open.  Now if only I can get my persuasive skills to work on a certain someone and get them to come with me ;P

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Long overdue catch up

I've noticed I've been getting a lot of new traffic from Deutschland lately, specifically from the boys over at flugzeugforum.de, which reminded me that I never properly did any blogging about my trip back home last summer.

Herren aus den Foren zu flugzeugforum.de, begrüßen. Vielen Dank für den Verkehr, und wenn Sie irgendwelche Fragen haben, fragen Sie bitte. Mein Deutsch ist furchtbar rostig, aber ich werde tun, was ich kann, um alle Fragen für mich zu beantworten. Nun, ich werde für den Rest meiner Leser zurückschalten auf Englisch, die wahrscheinlich gerade jetzt ein bisschen verwirrt! ;)

The worst parts of the trip to Germany were having to leave that amazing country again, and the flight over.  A little free travel trip.  NEVER TAKE DELTA.  Definitely not if you have to connect through Atlanta, as you may well never reach your destination. After a bit of trials and tribulation that involved Delta making us miss our connection to Stuttgart THAT WAS STILL ON THE TARMAC, I turned a bit Hulk and browbeat a poor Delta employee into getting myself and my parents on a flight to Dublin, with a later connection into Stuttgart.  Because there is no way in hell I was going to spend the night in the Atlanta airport.

All that "fun" done, we arrived in Germany and headed for our rental house in Winnenden, which is honestly the closest thing I have to a hometown.  Being there brought back a lot of memories, most too personal to go into depth nin on this public forum, which is not why you guys read this thing anyway.

So, in order to not make this one blog massive, I'm going to split the trip up into smaller bits, and do it in no particularly chronological order at all.

We all know I love aviation, especially American and Russian military, and nowhere on Earth do the two reside side by side better than in Germany, and most especially, at the splendid Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim outside München.  They had everything to make this aviation geek happy, from Early Age biplanes through to the Eurofighter EFA 2000 Typhoon.  But why just tell you, when I can SHOW you??