FLvector

Doug28450

My grandfather had one of those. He lived in a neutral spot in rural Indiana. He could get stations from Chicago, South Bend and Indianapolis. We were down there on Sunday and he was turning the antenna boasting about all of the stations he could get. My dad and I were looking at each other in amusement. Finally, my dad said something along the lines of...dad you're getting the same three programs on twelve different stations, stop playing with that thing.

WalksOn2Wheels

Wow, so I'm 33. I guess @Mumonkan is a touch younger than me. He didn't say what grade of HS he was in during 9/11, but it was my freshman year of college (well, the first freshman year, anyway).

While I know I'm not old, I do find my particular generation that fell in the gap between Gen X and Millenials has a rather unique perspective on life. Basically, the internet was getting it's legs when we were in high school, but it was pre-social media, smart phones weren't a thing (hell, cell phones were only just then a thing), we still had cassette tapes when we were kids, had film developed, etc. And then we went to college and social media+smart phones seemed to just explode and cause a sea shift in modern society and we were there for the whole ride. It's really quite crazy.

You hear about these people born just before the depression (Like my Grandmother, RIP) and you always hear "Just imagine all the things they've seen!" But I can't remember another generation that experienced so much change in such a short amount of time. Gen X'ers were on the back end of the real tech evolution and a little out of touch while Millenials will know only this way of life going forward. I feel pretty fortunate to have been placed in a unique point in history.

WalksOn2Wheels

So in cycling related news. I mentioned I went to the gym and did maybe 4 exercises, 3 sets of 10 each. I woke up this morning and my legs were in deep pain. I had taken the day off to do some more house prep for the baby, but got a quick 25 mile ride in. I thought I could just take it easy, get some good spinning in, don't push the hills and the ride will help get the muscles working, get them relaxed, etc. Yeah, NO. These things hurt. Getting up is a chore.

So in short, this is awesome. I haven't had pain in my quads like this since I first started riding over ten years ago. No matter what length of a ride or intensity of a ride, my legs never hurt the next day. This pain is telling me that the weight lifting component could be extremely useful on my road back to fitness. I think I'll go back next week, once my legs recover a little more. I have a month free pas from my friend, so I'll try to make it a 2-3 times a week thing while I can for free and see how it helps.

FLvector

Too bad you missed the good ole 8 track tapes and sliding a pack of matches under the case to help the tape contact the heads properly.

Mumonkan

i was born the same year as the challenger disaster, we were probably both freshmen at the time just on a different level

that is a great point though @WalksOn2Wheels, ive often wondered a way to describe our strange generation. all the other ones have their "thing" and i always said were kindof just...there. your description sounds a lot better. lol

UnfilteredDregs

40 on the rollers (2 hours 10 minutes...)... z2/z3...nekkid for a while so I could fine tune my saddle tilt.

Pirkaus

and the radio is still set on AM

rjones28 

My dad had 8-track at home and in his car. I never liked 8-track.

FLvector

Was kidding. Cassettes were a big step forward.

f4rrest

Definitely do some Bulgarian split squats as well as weighted hip thrusts if you'd like to work on the track thighs and glutes.

f4rrest

Normally, one of the children was nominated to sit on the little stool next to the TV to be the "remote."

3alarmer 

...whoa -- family forum, buddy.

LesterOfPuppets

I'd pay good money for that!

f4rrest

Lol. *Blush*

surgeonstone

wait until you're sixty. You get to be in pain all the time. Really awesome����

surgeonstone

That would have been me.

qcpmsame 

Oh yes, Luftstalag 3, know it well. I did the QC engineering/field, for the AIMD hangar across the street from their Sqd, bldg, to get ready for the T-6A, and to put in the blast containment bunkers for the ejection seat charges, just North of the VT-6 parking area. BTW, the little gedunk inside the fence has closed, I miss those egg sandwiches and coffee from there on cold mornings along the flight line.

Doug28450

I was out of there long before the T-6A came on line. In fact, when I was there we had just started looking into possible replacements for the T-34C. I was selected by the Wing as an evaluation pilot for the T-34 replacement. I had the fortune of flying a few of the prospects, but as the replacement program was in it's infancy it was very inconsistent.

Those were some good egg sandwiches. They had good burgers there too. It was always amusing to sit in a brief with a student before an Aerobatics flight eating a greasy burger.

Dan333SP

Being naked helps you adjust your saddle how, exactly?

I don't even want to know what my wife would say if she caught me riding the trainer sans pants.

Dan333SP

Got you beat by a year, I was born in '85. I was a sophomore in HS on 9/11.

I was in Miami and on the football team, and we practiced the next day. Our field was normally on the approach path for MIA, and we'd have airliners flying over every minute or so on a normal day. Eerie that there were absolutely 0 aircraft flying that next day, except a pair of F15s that did a low pass on the way out to Biscayne bay for a patrol of some sort.

I'm in that "special" age bracket where my incoming college freshman class was the first to have access to Facebook when they expanded out of the first 2 or 3 schools, which at the time was a big deal because I "met" a lot of people before I ever set foot on campus.

Doug28450

Compared to this, the 41 isn't so bad after all.

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indyfabz

Seen in Custer, SD:

Mumonkan

i was actually told about FB from a friend in england before anyone here. i heard that when it first came out, college campuses were had accts for students so they could network with each other, "study" make friends etc. essentially anyone that went to college had one even if they didnt want it. i didnt go to college when the rest of my age group did, so i wasnt in the loop, many friends had it but i only got it because my ex made one for me about 7 years ago. i deleted it post breakup and dont miss it one iota. lol

same thing here though with the planes, im surrounded by 3 major airports and not seeing anything but fighter jets in the sky for weeks was definitely strange

rpenmanparker 

Some years ago when Ellington Field was still operating to some extent for military flights, there was a restaurant across the street called P. T.'s Cajun Barbecue. Many days you could be eating lunch with a group of Air Force pilots from North Dakota, etc. who had flown down to log some hours and walked across the street in their flight suit to get a sandwich before flying back home.