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It was a fortunate series of events. Dawn had to go to College Station to meet with someone about a work event on Thursday, so I was going to drive up Wednesday and go with her, and maybe we’d go meet with one of my partners (Tom) who lives up there and have lunch.

Wednesday I was having a meeting with Tom in Houston and another partner (Jim) about the business and Tom and Jim started discussing a meeting they were going to have on a different venture in College Station also on Thursday. When I mentioned I’d be up there and could attend if needed, Jim, who owns a private 4 seat plane, remarked that he could fly us up since that was how he’d get there.

So voila, Dawn & I got a personal ride in a nice 4 seater Mooney to & from BCS. The wind was very hairy for landing in BCS but Jim (who has been a pilot since Viet Nam) got us down without problems. Way Cool.

Here’s a pic of a shopping center I snapped on the way back from about 2K feet. Processed a bit and a fake “tilt shift” applied to make it look like a model in a toy train set.

We were in Texarkana last week for a bell ringing get together for Dawn. I went to do some Geocaching (got about 15) and take pics, but it rained for 3 of the 4 days we were there.

Managed to get a few pics, here’s an old hardware warehouse/factory I payed with.

Testing new service to add a zoomable image to check out.

On this sample I uploaded, zoom into the cars to the left - you can read a small sign, invisible in the normal picture, that says “Buses Only”.  Pretty cool.

David Bowie has a song called “Space Oddity.”  It’s about an astronaut named Major Tom and his tragic flight into space.  His capsule/ship encounters some kind of problem in space and fails, thus he dies while returning to Earth (home).

Peter Schilling did his own version of the song (and it’s often confused for David Bowie’s), which has some differences yet has the same theme (his is called “Major Tom (Coming Home)” youtube video link ).

So the song is about a person who’s vehicle fails him and kills him.

Now wouldn’t that be a stupid song to put in a car ad?  Well Lincoln did it!  Twice - previously for the Lincoln MKS and recently for the Lincoln MKZ.

At least they were smart enough to edit the song so it only has the “happy part” and beat.  But if you know the song, it’s a bit ironic and an Epic Fail!  Here’s the commercial: Youtube link