“Boiling frog”; You’ve heard the old story that if you drop a frog into boiling water, he’ll jump right out. But if you put him in luke warm water and slowly turn the temperature up to boiling, you’ll cook him.
I’ve been talking recently to a lot of pilots who feel like “boiling frogs.” They [...]

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Calistoga Half Mile action…(At the bottom of the page)
Hey, if you found your way here, you gotta love fast things! Come on out and let’s meet at the upcoming Calistoga Half Mile, July 31st. at the Napa County Fairgrounds.
You ain’t had fun until you watch guys slidin’ sideways, tryin’ to ride over the top of [...]

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Old dawg pilot discovers cat pee in otherwise pristine condo…

July 19, 2010

7/19/10
I gotta apologize for not getting back to you sooner. We’ve been dealing with some in house “issues”; like a few newly discovered cat pee spots on the carpet that didn’t show up until one of the hotter, more recent days. We decided to take a trip to Santa Cruz so we left the doors [...]

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Old Dawg Lifestyle adjustments, Thursday 7/8

July 8, 2010

We’re slowly getting settled into the new condo. The place is beautiful. Probably the nicest place I’ve ever lived in and definitely the best place that Janeth has lived.
It’s the last condo in an L shaped kind of cul de sac; it sits alongside a year round creek and under two big Oak [...]

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Update…7/5/10

July 6, 2010

Sorry about no new posts this past week. We’re finishing up a move from our old place, a mile or so down the road to a new apartment. Our old place is being sold so we had to move.
Finding our new place was pretty miraculous; it’s a beautiful location, reasonable rent. I almost blew it [...]

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An old pilot dawg’s blog on learning new social media tricks

June 24, 2010

It’s Thursday June 24th.
I wake up with the familiar feeling of dread, no, fear, that this is taking way too much time and I won’t learn enough to get my blogsite up and running before my company quits paying me the money they did to make me go away.
(The company I most recently [...]

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Dead Men Not Talking

May 28, 2010

Dead Men Not Talking:
Four guys at breakfast, all at the same table, each reading a newspaper; their backs turned away from each other as if they were acting out a mutual grudge or had been offended by the mere presence of one another. They were oblivious to anything but the pretty colors of the USA [...]

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Pilots in Command: Why Self Help for Men is a Bad Idea

May 28, 2010

Bert Botta
PO Box 803
Novato, CA 94948
415-577-4841
email: botajet@mac.com
7/19/10
Be careful if you’re an Expert
Most of us guys think we know lots more than we really do. Just ask the women in our lives. If I had listened to the women in my life I would be:
1. A millionaire ten times over 2. Retired a lot earlier than [...]

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Men, motorcycles and the meaning of life…

May 23, 2010

Having just completed a 4,000-mile cross-country motorcycle trip in three weeks, I felt the need to greet my first day back home a bit more gently. So I hopped on my mountain bike to do some errands.
I was living in St. Louis at the time and was still employed as a pilot for Trans [...]

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Important young men…

May 12, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_EA7aG-leI&layer_token=3e56ab31aa28f166

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