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Roundtrip Ticket to Paradise 2

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I think I wrote about it in my old Open Diary… but I forget whether or not. I do know I was going down to Anchorage to visit with ND. She, by the way, was the first woman not related to me to s...


February 06, 2015

Bill Berry Art Opening

Just a art opening for Berry, who designed a whimsical mural for the Children’s Room at the Noel Wien Library here in Fairbanks, as well as did true-to-life sketches and drawings of a variety of ...


…this is in response to an email sent to me referencing an email I sent to the “Pick.Click.Give.” campaign which is trotted out for Alaskans’ perusal during and after the filing period for the Pe...


January 22, 2015

Oh, just for fun...

From Leonard Lipton, author of what was originally a poem of “Puff, the Magic Dragon”: “Thank you, Puff the Magic Dragon” “Puff, the Magic Dragon, has been my friend for more than 50 years. It...


Several years ago, I picked up a woman in the taxi at Freddy’s West. She wanted to go to the downtown Transit Center (aka Transit Park or T-Park). On the way I found out she was trying to catch...


January 14, 2015

A Starbucks Tip...

A quick tip on saving money at Starbucks… If you like I get regular brewed coffee at Starbucks, as opposed to a designer espresso concoction, you’ve no doubt noticed they can be somewhat spendy… ...


January 05, 2015

The Hard Ride of Route 93

None of this entry is my original work - I am plagiarizing it out of an old National Geographic magazine, the issue of December 1992. I am reprinting it owing to the fact that, for some reason, i...


December 29, 2014

Phone Book, and a Dropped Item

Last shift I worked, I boarded a young man, ~25 or so, who had left his housekey at a popular local teenybopper bar. So, since the bar had closed about half an hour prior, I hustled him back the...


Since moving into the long-stay motel in March 2012, I’ve been overdosing on Turner Classic Movies (http://www.tcm.com), as the motel provides television with a local cable carrier’s hotel cable ...


December 26, 2014

Text Message Shorthand

Found This on American Redhead’s diary; not sure where she found it… ~ PIR = Parent in room PAL = Parents are Listening AITR = Adult in the room PAW = Parents are Watching PA or PA911 = Parent Al...


Figured I would trot this one out again in honor of the season… First heard it during the weekly Wednesday “Ice Jam” (folk/bluegrass) down at the coffee shop at the foot of College Hill. However...


December 06, 2014

Taxis and Tour Busses 2

Well, Monday got a phone call from Princess. Turns out they cannot offer me a job in their Transportation Department. However, I received an email from the Guest Services Assistant Manager, ind...


Back before Halloween, I bought myself a dog collar. It’s one of those stereotypical spikes-and-studs ones that you’d expect a cartoon bulldog or boxer to wear. Found it at a local pet shop. T...


…grabbed from Gypsy Spirit… ~ You wearing a hat? Not at this moment, but when I leave the building, I will. It’s a Carhartt’s khaki-colored watch cap, plus my top coat has a hood. Bottled water:...


November 23, 2014

Holiday Survey

…nicked from NegraLuna… ~ What is your favorite holiday? I’ll second NegraLuna with Halloween. When I was a youngster, it was Christmas, followed by Halloween. Do you send out Christmas cards? ...


I had several inspirations for “Departure from Moonraiser Airport”. First, of course, was the 1964 holiday television classic, “Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer”. Rudolph returned from his walkabo...


September 07, 2014

Departure (maybe) to Anchorage

This is the second half of a letter I just composed to the family, plus my sis KS’s BFF… the first half was Departure from Moonraiser Airport. ~ In other news, the Anchorage Daily News / Alaska D...


Shortly after Thanksgiving here in the USA, there would come a magical evening for a kid, announced here: and here it is in context: Yup… Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, usually the first holid...


”Moonraiser ATIS Information Bravo. Weather, 2000 feet scattered, ceiling 3000 feet broken. Wind 270 at 5. Visibility 4 miles in light powdery snow. Temperature minus 20, dewpoint minus 30. A...


5 Tips For Loving Someone With Asperger's Syndromeby rickeytickey 1 day ago Found this just now... life just keeps lining up more and more to my being an Aspie... challenges to overcome, by disc...


July 28, 2014

Survey

...stolen from Nicko the great... CAUTION - some of my answers might be offensive ~ 1 - What is your earliest memory? Hmmm... I think it was having my diaper changed on the (now) back bathroo...


Sent by my sis KS' bff, back in 2002 READY? um, OK, shoot. NAME: WorldPilot SEX: by myself, reasonably often. With others, ol' Mr Asperger tends to raise his ugly head. HOME: Paradise, still ...


As I mentioned on June 16, I did attend the Solstice Retreat June 18-21. It was nice to get away, and I suspect it was the first time since I was homeless back in 1997-1998 that I slept in ambi...


Next weekend is Summer Solstice here in the northern hemisphere. For the last three years or so I've heard of a Solstice Campout (actually, more of a retreat) here in the greater Fairbanks area....


...stolen from ColorSwirlz... ~ A - Age: 51... 52 come August 20 B - Bed size: twin: it came with the room and I'm too cheap to buy a bigger one of my own... plus all rooms are single occupanc...


Book Description

This is a continuation to my diary, formerly located at http://www.opendiary.com/ . Open Diary was taken off life support at midnight, February 7 2014, ending a sixteen-year life.

Fortunately I received notice of its impending death in enough time to download all of my diaries there onto flash drives, and have been transcribing my monster-sized main diary over here. The others will follow, in time.

~~

Welcome Aboard…

…to a flight of fancy of some of my random thoughts and writings. In here I share both my current life, as well as my hopes and aspirations for the future.

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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner’s Arctic Cam

Since Weather Pixie is offline for the time being, I found Weather Underground. Two stations report here: Fairbanks, Alaska and McMurdo, Antartica.

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I have recently been doing much personal work (see below), and am now in more of an “exploration” mode than I possibly have ever been, at least since early childhood. Many situations and topics which were previously forbidden are now on the table as interests and possibilities for my future life… see my first and second Profile Pages for a long list.

I live in Paradise, more popularly known as Alaska. My home is in Fairbanks, near the University of Alaska - Fairbanks campus. The population here is, according to the 2000 US Census, 82840, including not only the city but also the entire Fairbanks North Star Borough.

Again, welcome aboard; enjoy your flight.

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