I'm in the Netherlands now. We had a whirlind tour of Belgium including a high-speed train ride from Calais to Brussells. It was quite a thrill--I don't know how fast it was going, but I'm sure that it was the fastest I've ever been in a ground vehicle. Planes seem much safer, when you see all the landscape whizzing by (particularly when you pass another train a couple feet away at a relative velocity of whatever it is).

Drove down and had lunch in Ghent, then spent a couple hours in Bruges, and back east and up to the Amsterdam area. Taking care of business here, then back to Florida late tomorrow night.

On the previous post, I was going on the initial reports that Shipman was an astronaut, and hadn't gotten the latest (it was a frazzled week). And yes, regardless of her actual accomplishments, I should have know to refer to her as a Naval aviator, not a pilot.

[Update a few minutes later]

Sorry, that was sloppy wording in the last sentence. The "her" referred to Nowak, not Shipman.

I think Shipman is Air Force but if this is Tuesday then it must be Brussels.

Lisa Nowak is not a Naval Aviator. She is a Naval Flight Officer (NFO). The NASA bio really tries to gloss over this point, but the NFO wings are clearly visible in all her photos...

Shipman is a zoomie (aka Air Force)

Robert

Oh well, there goes the neighborhood.

But I'll give Oler this, at least he isn't afraid to sign his name to his posts.

He is definitely ten magnitude step-up from some of our 'anonymous' crew. While he may drive me nuts from time to time, I still think he is light years better than our troll chorus.

Cecil/Mike...always good to be wanted! (GRIN)

Robert Oler

Oh no! Oler is alive! And I thought that he was still on Howard Dean's staff.

:)

Also good to see that Oler has the groombahs to post via his name.

Hey Rand, be sure to smoke a big phatty for me !! "wheee"