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Well, yesterday was fun. I don't get to fly the line that much any more. Seeing the Everglades from above is always cool -- as is looking down on the beaches, with the surf and the hotels and all the tiny people . . .

The weather was mostly awful. It's been quite a while since I had to shoot an ILS down to minimums...
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Getting up at 3 A.M. profoundly sucks ass. I went to bed super-early last night, so I got enough sleep, but still. It just doesn't feel right.

I'm flying run 125 today. ORL - FXE - OPF - BCT - ORL with a 5-hour layover at FXE. Oh well, at least there's a nice little restaurant right on the flight line down there at Fort...
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The SuicideGirls Burlesque Tour makes me think back -- way back -- to my adolescence, to the days before I had ever been to a real strip club.

When I was 15, do you know what I thought a real strip club was going to be like? I thought it would be like a dinner theater. There would be a great big stage up front....
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Flux has the best answer of all time to the question "why do you allow nude pictures of yourself to be published (on the Internet / in a magazine etc.)?"

I was just reading her profile, and under the heading WHY I DID SG she writes "by letting people whack it to you, you change the face of Desire. By changing what humanity desires, you...
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Right now I'm working on Flyboys by James Bradley. What an incredible book! I can't put it down. I went out with some friends on Halloween and we went from bar to bar downtown. I had the book with me the whole time and I just sat by myself reading while everyone else was drinking.

An exhaustively researched work of historical non-fiction, it provides a...
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Socio-political analogy for the day:

"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

Well, what if it's a really bad baby? At least you could always filter or distill the bathwater back into a usable form.