2022

[Ssnake]

31 minutes ago, futon said:

New Zealand has three warships along with aircraft making rounds to Tonga, HMNZS Canterbury

[futon]

43 minutes ago, Ssnake said:

That's one of the few series I should have watched. 

[Ssnake]

What's stopping you from doing it now?

[futon]

TV series time is with the wife. The current one is a different show. If not TV... internet. Biden and other press conferences. I know I have the boring life when the things I watch often have less than 500 views on YT. And making tanks. M4s.. got one for North Africa, late Europe easy eight, Peleliu, Cape Gloucester, Leyte. Currently working on an Iwo Jima style M4. One could assume the numbers are matched with Chi-Has. I keep making them and thinking or listening to st, music or one of those hardly viewed blah blahs while making them. But The Expanse has been recommended to me before and I've read about its plot. 

[Ssnake]

There's still the novels, of course.

[futon]

Yeah, the Japanese Army/tank stuff occupies the book slot. It's a full plate. 

[Ssnake]

You alternate between tank books and Expanse. Then, when you have set everything up in a disciplined fashion, you'll eventually binge through the first three or four novels. Then you think the quality is going down and pause for a tank book. Then you start with novel 5 and it's "holy shit" again so you binge the second half. And then you return to your regular schedule of tank books.

No, seriously. They may appear like thick books, but they're fast and easy reading.

[futon]

Heh, well I still have other history books both English and Japanese that I want to get through but just sits there on the shelf. And then there's also other space related stuff. And there's Japanese grade school stuff so I get a sense of what the little one (soon to be ones) will have to go through. And then TN and other cyber places to not take for granted the ability to voice. もう限界。If it was still the 1990s, I'd probably feel more at ease to dive into fiction stuff. But I'm compelled into other stuff. I've been accused of worrying too much. Maybe their right. Won't gut what's on the plate though. I still have luxery to make tanks. Good enough for me.

[Rick]

10 hours ago, futon said:

Heh, well I still have other history books both English and Japanese that I want to get through but just sits there on the shelf. And then there's also other space related stuff. And there's Japanese grade school stuff so I get a sense of what the little one (soon to be ones) will have to go through. And then TN and other cyber places to not take for granted the ability to voice. もう限界。If it was still the 1990s, I'd probably feel more at ease to dive into fiction stuff. But I'm compelled into other stuff. I've been accused of worrying too much. Maybe their right. Won't gut what's on the plate though. I still have luxery to make tanks. Good enough for me.

My first duty station was on Okinawa in 1978. We thought the Japanese cartoons were the best! I faintly remember the space ship Yamato. 

[futon]

47 minutes ago, Rick said:

My first duty station was on Okinawa in 1978. We thought the Japanese cartoons were the best! I faintly remember the space ship Yamato. 

That's nice to hear. One other who hasn't posted in a while seemed to regard his time in Okinawa positively which was, maybe, I guess, around 5-10 years before yours. Sounds like people on both sides back then did something right.

[futon]

A JASDF C-130H crew member was tested positive. And there was a corona outbreak on HMAS Adelaide. Chances of getting an A at risk.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14531390

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/100779816

[futon]

Up until now, 4 personnel have been tested positive along with 36 suspected close contacts. They have been moved to isolation from the base of operations and accommodation facilities. Consequently, JSDF aid flights between Tonga and Australia have stopped. A C-2 with replacement personnel has departed Japan. As they arrive, the aid flights between Australia and Tonga will resume on the 29th.

https://www.nhk.or.jp/politics/articles/lastweek/76496.html

 

[futon]

Two Y-20s directly from the PRC delivered 33 tons of aid to Tonga. The 10,000km flight mission was announced on Wednesday. PRC sea vessels will deliver a second batch of aid sometime later.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202201/1250144.shtml

 

Edited January 28, 2022 by futon

[futon]

Two Tonga port workers positive. No A.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/02/tsunami-hit-tonga-goes-into-lockdown-after-workers-helping-deliver-aid-catch-covid

[rmgill]

On 1/22/2022 at 7:49 PM, Ssnake said:

You alternate between tank books and Expanse. Then, when you have set everything up in a disciplined fashion, you'll eventually binge through the first three or four novels. Then you think the quality is going down and pause for a tank book. Then you start with novel 5 and it's "holy shit" again so you binge the second half. And then you return to your regular schedule of tank books.

No, seriously. They may appear like thick books, but they're fast and easy reading.

Really good HARD sci-fi. 

The battle scenes are really quite good too. 

 

 

[Rick]

 

Youtube's C.S. Lewis

 

Edited February 2, 2022 by Rick

[sunday]

That Hunga Tonga eruption belongs to the same class as 1883 Krakatoa