Four Pieces Of Mail Today: All Good

While incoming mail was light today, all kinds seem positive and good. I make that my topic for this blog.

The first letter caught my attention came from the St. Louis County Assessor.  You remember, last year we voters set this up after years of unhappiness with the appointed person.

This letter told me they had compared my home with properties that recently have been sold and arrived at a smaller valuation than last year, which will result in a savings of several hundred dollars to me this fall.

So I marked that down as a good mail.

The second incoming was both on e-mail and telephone in which my daughter Diannia happily informed me that granddaughter, Melissa, who is involved in People to People work had reached her second goal and became the winner of the 2011 Science Fair competition, and both were giddy about that. Another good mail.  Congratulations, Melissa.

An e-mail from San Antonio informed me, with a story complete with impressive pictures of the first FA-22 fighter plane as it was delivered to Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.  One picture showed it flying in formation with an old F-15, a class to be replaced by the FA-22.

We were told that in every test compared to other fighters, it won with a total of 15-0.  It is engineered to have stealth technologies so it cannot be detected and equipped with what is known as b.o.b., that is a "Black-out Button." The button can be used in case a missile is detected to be fired at it, the pilot will have the option to hit the b.o.b. and because while most fit pilots can stand up to 15Gs in a turn,  the Raptor as it is called, can make a U-turn which will generated up to 22Gs and the pilot will know that will avoid any missile and the plane will return to straight and level flight until the pilot can recover from unconsciousness.   

Anyone who would like a copy, send me an e-mail and I will forward the message to you.  I sent out a couple and had good replies from those who enjoyed them.  A good mail. My address is GeoBoots@aol.com

Then so-so mail in which my oldest daughter in California was concerned about possible dust from the trucks moving fill past my house [for the Forby Road project in Eureka].  I had to tell her that so far, no dust, rather heavy on mud instead. A so-so mail. 

The fourth mail was an answer from Bill McClellan of the Post when I complimented him on an article in which he discussed what grade school graduates had to know to pass their tests in 1930 and now few college grads would be able to pass that test.  After reading his story, I sent him my QE blog and he didn't waste words, simply saying that he didn't know what it meant. So I marked that as a good mail also.

For dinner this evening we divided a BBQed half chicken from the Lions' operation in downtown Eureka, and saw the no parking signs that take affect in a few minutes as the entertainment there begins.  Enjoy yourself.