Air Force Reunions

The utterly ugly October weather continues in west central Ohio, and around the Midwest in general. Most years, weather wise, October is my favorite month...last year it was great, 70s and 80s and sunny for most of the month. This year, Halloween month is an exception...the weather has stunk. Cold, wet, and basically miserable....last year I wore shorts for all the under varsity football games, right through the end of the season...this year, I've been wearing long pants and knickers since the end of September.

Today, scheduled at Spencerville for a 5pm Junior High game...40 for a high, maybe, and a cold rain is falling at this time...snow flurries possible for tomorrow night's Varsity games....usually we don't get this stuff until mid or late November.

October, Air Force Reunion Month____

http://www.vspa.com/aspprotect/vspa-nav-index-menu.asp

The old geezers from my Vietnam days usually get together for their annual reunions in October....The Vietnam Security Police Association{VSPA}, where I am Life Member #575, just finished up it's reunion in Phoenix, and the Tan Son Nhut Association kicks off their annual reunion in Tennessee today, down in Dollywood Country.

http://www.tsna.org/mainpage.html

I didn't make the VSPA reunion again this year....next year it's in San Antonio, and 2011 it will be in Dayton at Wright-Patterson AFB...if still kicking, I will make that 2011 for sure.

I have not joined the Tan Son Nhut Association yet, only because with football, baseball, and basketball officiating and other things on the plate, I don't feel I could do justice to all the associations. I left the American Legion, and never signed up with the VFW for those reason as well. Another association is the 377th Security Police Association...the next reunion for that group will be in the spring of 2011 in Branson, Missouri.

http://webpages.charter.net/cepenley/377th/index.html

Maybe one of these days, I will get around to participating in these events in a more timely manner...but for right now, I will continue to set up our "Mini-Reunion" for Air Force Vietnam and Thailand Security Police from the war years...our plans are to meet back at the AF Museum in Dayton in early March 2010.....perhaps down the road, I can give these other organizations the time and attention they need.

Computer glitches___

Seems our computer has a problem with the "Floppy Drive"...whenever I try to start a program or download a photo from my old Sony Digital{which uses the 3.5 floppy disks} the computer shuts down....guess it's either time to upgrade my camera, or take the computer into the shop....troubleshooting on site has not worked so far. So the only photos for now, will be from the Internet, or old stuff I have saved to the computer....ahhhh! The small things in life that piss just you off!

How's the Type 2 Diabetes Diet going you ask?___

Well maybe you didn't....

But so far, so good....I'm down from 208 on September 3rd to 195 this morning...still drinking my daily beer or 3. My BP has settled in with an average range in the 133/70 with a pulse rate at 62 or so...not bad for a 60 1/2 year old, heading for 61....so far no meds for the Diabetes, and I'm hopeful, at the next Doc appointment, I can dump the BP meds as well.... as I said, so far, so good.

I'll leave off with that...back later>>>>

Photos-Top Left/Our Mini Reunion of AF/Vietnam Sky Cops from last January, and patches of Associations I am close to...The VSPA/The Tan Son Nhut Association, and the 377th SPS at Tan Son Nhut, RVN.