OSH '05 Comments

("Rich S." wrote)
[snip]
(No, I didn't rent a scooter, but I had to lean on trash cans every 50
yards).


Not DDD, thank goodness, but right leg issues - which then morph into foot
and back issues.

1 Vicodin ....about 10am. Another around 3pm if I was 'walking' around
during the airshow.

State Fair, Oshkosh, (big) tractor show, and anything that puts me on the
ramp at my airport (volunteering) 10 hours a day x three days. All get 1
Vicodin in the late morning.

Other than that, I can quit whenever I want. :-)


Montblack
"Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible"

("George Patterson" wrote)
He said he wanted a tent, not a hangar. :~)

8' x 8' isn't a hangar. That's only a little larger than the Spaulding
dome tent I use.


All this tent talk. For me, it was all about the air mattress this year.
Mine is almost 20" high.


Montblack

Actually, I appreciate any and all information I can gather on this.

And even though I didn't know about seam sealer and don't doubt that it
should be used, none of my soakings were from leaking seams. My
problems have always been mechanical - rain flys that seem like an
afterthought and don't keep out blowing rain (or collapse in the wind).

Tom

George Patterson wrote:
Matt Barrow wrote:


He said he wanted a tent, not a hangar. :~)


8' x 8' isn't a hangar. That's only a little larger than the Spaulding
dome tent I use.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

("Robert Bonomi" wrote)
50/50 is (Black or Red) (Odd or Even) at the roulette wheel - that's about
it. Most everything else in Vegas is house advantage. Good luck.

Not even 50/50 on those. if the d*mn 0 or 00 come up, you lose either
of those bets. which makes the actual odds of winning 47.36+:52.63+ A
'mere' 5.55% 'advantage' to the house.


You're right. Even betting football games (50/50) ... you have to factor in
the juice.


Montblack

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

He said he wanted a tent, not a hangar. :~)

8' x 8' isn't a hangar. That's only a little larger than the Spaulding
dome tent
I use.

Eight Feet? 64 square feet?

What do you camp with, a harem?

Matt Barrow wrote:

Eight Feet? 64 square feet?

My air mattress is 4.5'x6'. With the 8'x7' floor of my tent, that is barely
enough room to keep the mattress from touching the walls and let me stick a few
items around the edges. Mine is billed as a "2-person" tent which, as other
posters have already pointed out, really means a "2-pygmy" tent. As I said, the
Cabela's tent isn't much larger.

That extra foot in width would give me enough room to make sure that my bag
wouldn't start a leak by touching the tent wall in the rain. I was also
impressed by the wind test -- I rode out one T-storm in mine and am not anxious
to repeat the experience.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

Eight Feet? 64 square feet?

My air mattress is 4.5'x6'. With the 8'x7' floor of my tent, that is
barely
enough room to keep the mattress from touching the walls and let me stick
a few
items around the edges. Mine is billed as a "2-person" tent which, as
other
posters have already pointed out, really means a "2-pygmy" tent. As I
said, the
Cabela's tent isn't much larger.

The picture made it look as big as a garage! :~)

That extra foot in width would give me enough room to make sure that my
bag
wouldn't start a leak by touching the tent wall in the rain. I was also
impressed by the wind test -- I rode out one T-storm in mine and am not
anxious
to repeat the experience.

I stopped "tenting" several years ago when the bones got to rough for that
sort of thing.

Now I take the sissy way out and bought a Coleman pop-up. I actually look
forward to T-storms now.

And if they suspect you're counting, they kick you out, and never let you
come back. I've always thought that that was really crummy. "You're
skilled enough not to lose? Get the hell out of here!"

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"John T" wrote in message
...
Actually, Blackjack is about the only game where a player can have the
advantage. Catch is, they need to know basic stragety and counting.
The advantage is pretty small though.

John

George Patterson wrote:
john smith wrote:


George, that's not a tent!
That's a portable mansion!


Check the smallest size.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.
But they are heavy! I looked around the site and saw the Alaskan
outfitter. There were a number of those in the volunteer section of the
camping area (i.e. folks who have camped at OSH for YEARS)

Margy

Matt Barrow wrote:

The picture made it look as big as a garage! :~)

The picture is almost certainly their 12x12 model.

Now I take the sissy way out and bought a Coleman pop-up.

Sort of hard to tow that behind an aircraft.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.