Tim Tuttle and the Flying Car

I was in a car just like this when we managed to get it airborne . . . twice. You want excitement anonymous?? - more on this below??
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It's Veterans Day. Buy a vet a beer.

When do wars really end.

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. However I feel that WW1 never really ended. It was really just on hiatus for a few years.

The War to End All Wars left 9 million solders dead and 21 million wounded plus another 5 million civilians that either died from disease, starvation, or exposure. The peace treaty which was signed in 1919, The Treaty of Versailles, at the time brought the war to an end but it destabilized Europe further and laid the groundwork for World War II, or actually a continuation of WW1.

North and South Korea are still at war. Their war began in 1950 and while there is no open shooting the war still exists. In 2007 at the second Inter-Korean Summit in October 2007, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il signed a joint declaration calling for international talks towards a peace treaty to formally end the war. But nothing has really been done.

Iraq. Talk to any historian in the early 90's and they will tell you that when the Gulf War ended in February 1991, it was not over. It was delayed. Most agreed that the war was not over by a long shot. And thus we have what some call Gulf War II.

I remember when the first bombs started falling on August 2nd 1990. I was throwing up in a bucket. I had come down with the flu and the news came on TV with bombs falling and me hurling. Not that anyone cares about my hurling.
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I'm looking into making Columbus Postcards. I think I have exhausted my Public Enemies cards at eight. I know there have been requests for post cards of Columbus but the problem is that they would cost $1 each. This is much more then the generic $0.22 cent cards of a cow that has Columbus Wisconsin or a pretty river that says Columbus.

Another problem is that I need to get the store owners to purchased post card stands. They are missing out on sales.
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Speaking of Columbus - HOW can I get information from the Water Department. The said they send out water reports but it is only a report on how much or the lack of icky things. I need a report on Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg) and Alkalinity (CaCO3). Then I can make cool charts like this that will tell me what I need to do to correct the water for certain styles of brew.

I took a PH test of my mash (when the grains are "steeping" to convert alpha and beta enzymes) and the PH was off my scale. This would tell me that the Columbus water is pretty much like Dublin, suggesting dark beers are the best. But in order to make other styles correctly I need to know how to modify the water (or the mash actually).

SO - anyone know who I can talk too??? I've called the Water Department and have been told twice that don't know that data (which I find rather odd).
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I DO NOT LOOK LIKE REGIS!!!!

anonymous 9:06 said yesterday "You are out of your slump. Even if you had not mentioned PE at all".

I've been writing a daily blog 5 days a week for 3 years and understand completely. I was actually in a slump about a month ago. I realize fully when I'm slumping (writers block some call it). As for Public Enemies - you try coming up with something intelligent when there is nothing to say that has not been said before.

Something I have learned recently is that there are CD's with my entire blog floating around. One person contacted me saying they had put every one of my PE blogs on a CD all the way back to March 3rd and was there a way to get posts previous to March 3rd. Having my entire PE blog on CD is something I certainly did not expect. And having a number of them from various people AND having one person contact me asking if I had one for sale . . .that's just crazy.

I had to explain (or did I??) that my first blog on blogger was actually October 22 2005 when I blogged about the TelevisionPreview.com scam and before that I had another year on my own website mostly about Poker. But nothing about Public Enemies until March 3rd 2008.

HA! I was just looking over that blog. Remember Harriet Miers? I was mentioned on her blog once. Ahhh - the good ol' days.

Tim Tuttle and the Flying Car.

Many moons ago my friends and I were cruising around in Tim Tuttles dad's car. It was a Ford County Squire. We were just driving around with Tim at the wheel and me next to him in the front seat.

There is a hill in Jefferson that was pretty steep (not called Dead Man's Hill - or something like that) and near the outskirts of the town. Steep enough so if you were on a bicycle you would slow down before coming to it. The kind that normal driver's slow way down and put the brake on all the way down the hill.

Rick next to me (three in the front seat) says "floor it" jokingly, and Tim, not knowing about the hill and always up for a spontaneous moment does just that. He floors it. We all scream NO!!!! But it's too late.

There are three of us in the front seat and 3 in the back. All I can remember of the first flight is looking over at Rick whose head is touching the sealing as we seem to be levitating in mid air.

The ground is rushing up at us like we're in an automobile ski jump and the first landing is rather hard but we're back in the air again for a second airbourn event and we have touchdown roll to a stop.

Laughter breaks out . . . except for Tim who is still gripping the wheel in a death grip staring straight ahead.

We all step out of the car to kiss the earth (I think Steve and Elweed both did this act) and after we see everyone is OK notice that all four hub caps are missing.

Spreading out to look for hub caps seems like a good plan when a patrol car drives up and stops next to us. He looks at us and asks if there is a problem??? "No no officer, we're just looking for a wheel cover that we think fell off."

This satisfies him and he drives off. We believe people that live in the house on the hill noticed a flying car and called the police.

Finding 3 of the 4 hub caps we pile into the car and decide that we were pretty bored of driving around and perhaps we should head back and relax at my apartment.

Upon arriving back in Fort Atkinson we head upstairs to my place (not knowing until latera year that the police were monitoring the place . . . . . that is a different and also interesting story) for some R & R.

Tim leaves to go home and notices that there is a lot of gas under the car. Steve, a car guy, comes out and does a once over and says it looks like the gas line took a hit and it's leaking a little.

Hmmmmmm! One hub cap missing and a gas line crack. Things are getting a little harder to explain.

Tim takes the car home and his dad takes the car to the shop to fix this unexplained leak. A day later Tim is told to go get the car.

On the way home, Tim stops at a stop light . . . . . and, the entire front left wheel falls completely off!

BUT wait - it's not over for Tim yet.

The very next day he is working for his dad at the pharmacy as a delivery guy and he is broadsided totaling the drugstores only delivery car.

BUT WAIT!!

Tim has now been reduced to a bicycle and Tim, Elweed and I, the very next day are racing around on our Schwinn 12 speed bikes. We are speeding through town on Main Street keeping up with traffic with Tim was in the lead. Elweed yelled something at him, he turns around and says "WHAT"?

At that very moment, the car directly ahead of him, stops and Tim's bike slams in the back end of the now stopped Maverick propelling Tim OVER the top of the car and landing him on the hood of car.

I really don't have a clue what happened after that as both Elweed and I were on the side of the street trying to keep from peeing our pants from laughing so hard.

Tim now lives in Naples Florida and I have not heard from him in 20 years. I should try to contact him as (I'm afraid to say it) he was actually one of my most normal friends!!

And that is the story of Tim and the Flying Car.

Rod