My son is a monstor!

[lazs2]

yep... if she can open the safe or... if she can work the hammer on the Kimber and grip the grip safety and pull the trigger at the same time on the nightstand gun.

I am teaching her about guns and hot rods... the real deal... not the stuff her teachers and the TV and euro trash UN people will be telling her.

as kids we were all raised around guns that were often loaded and within easy reach.   We treated them with respect.   It is laughable what people belive about guns these days...  course we were given safety instructions and training and they don't do that anymore in the interest of..... of safety?

lazs

[Nilsen]

Hehe.... You managed to mix both the UN and euro trash into this too lazs, you are something special


Lets try another random question and lets see what you can get out of it:

What do you think of plain wallpaper?

[lazs2]

neilsen.. you are the one who managed to bring guns into the topic...   I simply repplied to your question in the most thourogh and accurate way.

I was a painting contractor for a dozen or more years with wallcoverings my main trade.   Are we talking 54" vinyl or paper backed vinyl or flexwood or what?

lazs

[StarOfAfrica2]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Hehe.... You managed to mix both the UN and euro trash into this too lazs, you are something special


Lets try another random question and lets see what you can get out of it:

What do you think of plain wallpaper?

And so this one too shall learn.

[AWMac]

Gunslinger


Welcome to the Wonderful World of D.A.D.

Despretly Analizing Destruction...

Just kick back and smile, it throws the wifey off and the boys and /or girls.

It helps to mumble the words "Hmmmm...Mortals" every now and then...throws a damper on the Choas.

I've raised 2 Daughters who are now 21 and 16 and I have a 6 year old Son.  I went from Barbie Repairman to Model car repair guy.  Thought I'd space my kids out abit so I wouldn'd be poor all the time...LMAO it didn't frikken work!!!

So now instead of tromping on "My Lil Ponies" in the middle of the night , I have a fond affection of finding every metal airplane with my bare feet.

Just one note... rid the house of any "Furby's" you may have..they are evil and in the middle of the night, on the way to the pisser, if you bump one it talks and will scare the BeJesus outta ya!

Just some hints...

DAD Level 3

Mac

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by lazs2
neilsen.. you are the one who managed to bring guns into the topic...   I simply repplied to your question in the most thourogh and accurate way.

I was a painting contractor for a dozen or more years with wallcoverings my main trade.   Are we talking 54" vinyl or paper backed vinyl or flexwood or what?

lazs

You lost me with the technical terms regarding wallpapers. I have a room in the house that has not been finished, and i would like to get it done (or my missus would). Rest of the house is painted on the inside, but i was thinking about trying wallpaper for this room. I like things plain and simple in the house, but my missus wants this room to have some patterns and stuff on the walls... not just plain. Its not big, its 4x5 meters with a window on one of the long and short walls.
Cant say i look forward to tinkering with all that glue and stuff and getting it straight is gonna be hell..... imagine me all tangled up in glue and wallpaper bits with bottles of beer and food stuck everywere on my person:D

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by eagl
BTW, what did you do to that poor viper?  Sucks to hear about your award submission getting pulled.  I hate to see it but everyone in the force is so on-edge that single incidents seem to get blown way out of proportion nowadays.  I have 3 NCOs working for me right now and I really hope I don't overreact like that.  As painful as it is to write awards packages, I'd rather do that than holler and shout anyday.

I performed an "un-scheduled functional test of the emergancy oxygen activation system" if that says anything.  Funny part was that the O2 bottle is an easy fix, but the little part that I broke no longer has a valid NSN so it couldnt be ordered without red tape.


Yup I totally agree with you guys 100% about the suger.  Any soda in the house should not go to the kids it should be my mixer for liquer.  Normally they arent this bad but like any kids they have their days.  Last night after my wife got home I made my son perform a task in order to get his freedom back.  He did his chore with out back talk or complaint so he got to come out of his room and join the family.  The kids were great the rest of the night and went to bed on time.  

the worst part about being a parent is when you dont see eye to eye with your spouse on how the kids should be raised.  quite often I am the sole disciplinarian and it kills me to be this way but it has to be done.  The secret to overcoming this is proper communication.  Somthing that is also lacking sometimes.  Either way my kids are my life and I love being a daddy.  I get no greater satisfaction from anything else I do in life then when I see my kids succeed at something.

[AWMac]

quite often I am the sole disciplinarian

Dude step away from that space. You do not want to be the BAD guy in raising your children.  

It's the "Wait til your Father gets home"  scam that all women play out.  And never play the "This is gonna hurt me more than you" bit...  Your children will only resent you for years to come. You'll never know why either.

Mac

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by AWMac
Dude step away from that space. You do not want to be the BAD guy in raising your children.  

It's the "Wait til your Father gets home"  scam that all women play out.  And never play the "This is gonna hurt me more than you" bit...  Your children will only resent you for years to come. You'll never know why either.

Mac

I know exactly what you mean but it's either me or nothing sometimes  (not allways)  I recognized this years ago so I make sure that I find extra things to do with my kids and extra ways to reenforce my love for them.  It is a fine balencing act on a tight rope if you ask me.  BUT, at least for the most part the kids listen to me 90% more than the other two adults in our house.  The woman here use more emotion were I try and use logic.  I ALLWAYS talk to the kids after I punish them and discuss the whys and hows of what happend.

[eagl]

You didn't turn an ejection seat O2 bottle into a rocketship did you?  Catch your toe on the ejection seat and pull up one of the handles?  Seats are dangerous...  Lots of little bits just begging to be tugged on by mistake.

Except for over-Gs, I think the worst I've done to a jet is dropping stuff in the cockpit.  I had a radio volume knob just fall off during takeoff roll and I don't think they ever found it even after removing the canopy and pulling both seats.  I did once accidentally move the fire extinguisher lever to DISCHARGE instead of TEST, but since I hadn't pushed any of the fire lights nothing happened.  If it had discharged anyhow even though the system wasn't armed, I'd have been in deep shxt.

[storch]

Originally posted by lazs2
yep... if she can open the safe or... if she can work the hammer on the Kimber and grip the grip safety and pull the trigger at the same time on the nightstand gun.

I am teaching her about guns and hot rods... the real deal... not the stuff her teachers and the TV and euro trash UN people will be telling her.

as kids we were all raised around guns that were often loaded and within easy reach.   We treated them with respect.   It is laughable what people belive about guns these days...  course we were given safety instructions and training and they don't do that anymore in the interest of..... of safety?

lazs

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by eagl
You didn't turn an ejection seat O2 bottle into a rocketship did you?  Catch your toe on the ejection seat and pull up one of the handles?  Seats are dangerous...  Lots of little bits just begging to be tugged on by mistake.

Except for over-Gs, I think the worst I've done to a jet is dropping stuff in the cockpit.  I had a radio volume knob just fall off during takeoff roll and I don't think they ever found it even after removing the canopy and pulling both seats.  I did once accidentally move the fire extinguisher lever to DISCHARGE instead of TEST, but since I hadn't pushed any of the fire lights nothing happened.  If it had discharged anyhow even though the system wasn't armed, I'd have been in deep shxt.

no I did the equivilent of pulling the "green ring"  it's really not a big deal but in my profesion perfection is the standard or people die/pilots don't eject.  The seat got stuck druing install and I overlooked the fact that we allready conntected the floor lanyard when we raised it up to correct the condition.  This snaped the landyard and activated the bottle.

As far as FOD goes we were pullin seats on a B modle and underneath the FWD seat we found an etched flashlight that the pilot didn't report missing and in the aft we found a set a sunglasses.  I'm still waiting to find that lost wallet with $100 bills in it   Stupid officers   JK

EDIT:

Did you hear about the Unintentional inflight ejection of a 15 pilot from eglin?  He claims that his O2 hose caught the handle and as he turned his head he punched.  Most of us Egress types call BS on it cause it takes 40lbs of force to pull the handles!

[AWMac]

ROTFLMAO "Officers are like that, Yeah they are."

handsomehunkes will try to blame an Enlisted.


Mac

[eagl]

You're a life support or egress guy?  If so, thx for the good work you and your guys do.  The success rate is pretty darn good nowadays and that depends almost 100% on how the gear is fitted and maintained.  I bet you got one hell of a lecture about "following the T.O." blah blah...  Yea, that works until you run across a problem the T.O. or work card doesn't cover, and then you make it up as you go along just like every other guy working on planes throughout history.  Hopefully you can shrug it off and do the next job perfect.

At least you didn't drop the canopy on the wing  I've heard that's expensive.

We had a shop strip down an F-15C here for a big avionics upgrade, but they didn't tie the nose down IAW the T.O. or OI.  The next day, 3 kids hopped up top to continue the work and the jet tipped up on it's tail, hitting a work stand in the process and tumbling a couple of the troops off the jet.  Oops.

At least the seat and canopy didn't fire on you...  Then we might have been reading about another death in the AH family.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by eagl
You're a life support or egress guy?  If so, thx for the good work you and your guys do.  The success rate is pretty darn good nowadays and that depends almost 100% on how the gear is fitted and maintained.  I bet you got one hell of a lecture about "following the T.O." blah blah...  Yea, that works until you run across a problem the T.O. or work card doesn't cover, and then you make it up as you go along just like every other guy working on planes throughout history.  Hopefully you can shrug it off and do the next job perfect.

At least you didn't drop the canopy on the wing  I've heard that's expensive.

We had a shop strip down an F-15C here for a big avionics upgrade, but they didn't tie the nose down IAW the T.O. or OI.  The next day, 3 kids hopped up top to continue the work and the jet tipped up on it's tail, hitting a work stand in the process and tumbling a couple of the troops off the jet.  Oops.

At least the seat and canopy didn't fire on you...  Then we might have been reading about another death in the AH family.

I'm egress.  Life support usually gets most of the credit and most pilots think they maintain the seats.  No biggie.  Yup the TO in cases like this is a perfect pad to rest your knee on instead of the stand.  It wasn't covered and I got tunnle visioned on the problem at hand and lost my attention to detail.  Alot of the stuff we do is "improvised" but it's what's needed to get the job done.  God forbid a jet doesnt make mission.

here at edwards we have to be extra precautios with the weight and balence of our jets.  Most of them dont' have guns in them and will imidiatly tip without tail jacks installed.  My boss wasn't mad at me but the fact that the part we had to order was no longer in the supply system turned on the spotlight.  I hate being in the spotlight.