Wow, Grumble. I'm really happy for you and that your trip is going so well. Hope you continue to stay safe, healthy and happy! God bless ya', feller!!

DB

Yay! I'm so happy you are having a good time as you continue your journey! Now...get that vegemite out and MAKE PF have a bite (like you did for me and Mr. Lixy)!

Oh...and DON'T thow the cow over the fence....................some hay...while you're in Cleveland, hun! They just may not understand! TeeHee!

I know you must have butterflies at this point Ian! It's normal...even if we now know you are anything but normal! *giggle* JK hun...you're as close to normal as they come!

Hug PF for me (like I showed ya...lol!)!

Don't hit him PF! Just close your eyes and think of me!

And...when you are done smooching and what not (*wink*) with curvy...give her and the kids a hug from me and hubby as well!

Keep us posted on your trip! Love ya! *hugs*

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~

what is "composed"? [/B][/QUOTE]

i just meant it was very well framed and made not only a nice shot of grumble but was also quite artistic... you have an eye for what makes a nice picture is all.

Glad you're having a wonderful time, Grumble. I hope PF is keeping you busy!

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

TY Osuche, he is and I have got all those aircraft pics onto disc now. I had a nice time with you sweetie. Take it easy LOL

To other pixies that is near impossible, Osuche is abnormally and impossibly busy, it mkes you tired to read her schedule. I have said before she is gorgeous and the face to face reality just reinforces that opinion.

<blushing profusely>

I enjoyed my time with Grumble -- but it was unfortunately brief due to the aforementioned schedule.

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

Well Grumble I am glad to hear you are having a great time!!!!! Hope it gets even better

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Would you cater to every fantasy I've got? Would you hose me down with holy water if I get to hot? Can you take me places I've never known?

Sucks, Fucks & Kisses

The Great Grumble has moved on to more pleasant company. While his visit seem too short, I was happy to dispatch him to the more “receptive” Pixie that he is SO elated to be changing from anticipation into reality.

I can’t tell you what a pleasant and enlightening visit we had. Once the reality of meeting a true Pixie you become aware that it is unlike meeting a stranger in the normal sense. As Grumble reasonably puts it, we have come to know one another from the inside out. It’s true that the attitudes and intimate openness that characterizes a bond that even our individual personalities and perspectives do not diminish.

The man is a witty and intelligent person with an open mind that removes pretense and implore sharing. We actually only had a true 3 days (71 hours) that was so event filled it bordered on over load for us both. After our rendezvous at a Bob Evens outside of the city, we first set about disposing of the rental car that was taking FULL advantage of a traveling foreigner. They DID shamefully put to bricks to him with the add-ons.

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Grumble and I had been in contact and having mutual technical working backgrounds and experience, discussed topics of insight and interest. We have some pics for the FEW people left that actually are involved with producing the tangible items used in our existence. The others among us may find this quite boring. We beg your forgivness.

After we dumped the car at the plane-port ( ), the logistics let us visit the company of a personal friend involved with some rather hi-tech processing of cutting tool coatings. It is owned by a Russian-Hungarian doctor of physics I became aquatinted with years back while involved with a research and development program at a local university and have been doing consulting work for since the founding of his company 10 years ago. All of his staff are Russian immigrants and perhaps the most intelligent and best educated group of a small hands-on organization I know.

Here is a pic of Grumble watching the charging of a plasma field used for standard Titanium Nitride coating. The company is doing some interesting development of ion beam implantation as time and cash flow permits.

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Here Grumbles is discussing a processes system developed for the cleaning preparation of parts to be coated. The gentleman he is talking with is a medal holder of the Order of the Russian Federation for his development of a single stage purification process to 0.5 ppm.

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We left there for a quick visit the other extreme of industry at a wire brush manufacturer. Here Grumbles “tries” to pretend he is looking a the finished product of a process he just studied.

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Grumbles stands with Tom, the owner of the 126 year old, family owned company, looking at a proprietary machine that processes material for use in wire wheels.

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Tom explains the modifications to a machine that will produce a new product.

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We finished our whirlwind afternoon with a quick stop a one of the local (and not the largest) used machinery dealers with three acres of machinery under roof. Grumbles found it worthy of recording.

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My daughter and son had looked forward to meeting my “Pixie friend" and we all spent the evening with the families at her house and a fine dinner. I’m going to have to get more Pixies to visit.

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