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2007-10-10

Gooood morning... Well, actually, good evening Boys and Girls.

I'm outta here tomorrow afternoon. Not sure whether I'll be posting over the weekend. I'm off for the weekend to see a close friend; looking forward to the drive. From what I understand, I can point the car west and go to sleep for a while. I'll let you know how that works out.

Ya know, when I was a kid, we were promised cars like that by now. That and a helicopter in every garage. Hell, I remember the little movie; I saw it in school at least two or three years in a row. -That movie and the one about the discovery of butyl rubber. Same narrator, if I remember correctly, and definitely the same production crew since the music and credits were just alike.

"Imagine..." (the grainy black and white shot would be pulling away slightly from a standard 1950s garage door,) "when you're your parents age, you'll be able to simply fly to work..." -And the "Dad," would pull the little copter out of the garage on a wheeled tripod, unfold the prop, and start the thing up with a tug of a cord.

Seems to me I remember thinking the far-away footage of the copter flying wasn't of the same contraption "Dad" had wheeled out of the little garage, but hey, I was pretty sure the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz were fake too, though, for some reason, I don't remember having any doubts whatsoever that Superman could fly.

Is this heaven? No. Where is it?


Be good to everyone.

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