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The river
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This gets way off topic... I started flying Sims as a kid even before I started real flight training. I started on my Commodore 64 with a simple jet sim. Then onto a PC, with an old sim I can't remember, maybe an early Falcon version. Then in the Air Force my neighbor had Falcon 2.0 and we played that some. Then came the internet and USNF '97 over dial-up, followed by ATF Gold. People were switching to Jane's F/A-18. I did not have enough computer to run it and I was spending WAY to much time playing sims, so I backed out of sims. I have problems with addiction....
I'll never be able to truly explain to another group how a frozen squirrel and flight simulators were woven into the same discussion.
I absolutely kicked ass in Janes ww2. According to the 'new' scoring system I won the last and final big competition - way back. (in the 'old' system I placed 7 out of 300 or so) For awhile I flew under the name 'Littledebbie' and defeated virtually everyone. It was fun in its day.
I intend to dive near the mouth of the river here this weekend, and to take pictures of random objects, having been inspired by Jon's virtuosity and talent for seeing the wonder of ordinary things submerged.
Jon has also given me the idea of running our river here when the bay freezes. Its really full of stuff - particularly fishing lures, old glass electrical line insulators, antique bottles, engagement rings, glass slippers, walther ppks, axes, knitting needles, dental floss holders (really!) portals into alternate realities, lawn gnomes, wigs, crayons, winter angst, vague nostalgia, muskrats, a thousand broken dreams , unending riches, vacant stares, toasters, old shoes, stories yet to be told, stories told too much, drowned sparrows, lamprey carcasses, Walleye and other mysteries.
I intend to dive near the mouth of the river here this weekend, and to take pictures of random objects, having been inspired by Jon's virtuosity and talent for seeing the wonder of ordinary things submerged.
Jon has also given me the idea of running our river here when the bay freezes. Its really full of stuff - particularly fishing lures, old glass electrical line insulators, antique bottles, engagement rings, glass slippers, walther ppks, axes, knitting needles, dental floss holders (really!) portals into alternate realities, lawn gnomes, wigs, crayons, winter angst, vague nostalgia, muskrats, a thousand broken dreams , unending riches, vacant stares, toasters, old shoes, stories yet to be told, stories told too much, drowned sparrows, lamprey carcasses, Walleye and other mysteries.
It's full of them, but fan you actually SEE them? The Illinois River here is filled with many mysteries of it's own, but they are lost forever. That is unless humans completely leave Illinois and Chicago (yes, they should be separate) for 1,000 years for nature to clean up the mess.
Impressive performance, and finding one of those would be sweet. We found a rifle in the wisconsin when they lowered it to fix the damn, but that was just puddle jumpin not diving.
All I remember about my jane days was that I flew with the callsign "Dingo" and was terrible at dogfighting. It came mainly from not knowing how to lock on, and I played that game constantly FOREVER... never figured it out. Good straffer and ground bomber though...
Re: The Outlet 2008
Went diving/swimming in the river with Jon today- Was Fun! The water was a balming 32 degrees. Good place to do dynamics- Very clear and lots of stuff to look at. Would do it again.
Jon caught a ROCK BASS with his hands- that was cool.
Went diving/swimming in the river with Jon today- Was Fun! The water was a balming 32 degrees. Good place to do dynamics- Very clear and lots of stuff to look at. Would do it again.
Jon caught a ROCK BASS with his hands- that was cool.
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Scott (Whopperhead) and I headed out to the outlet today since it's been on all week long. When we got there this morning you could see the outline where the openwater used to be- as of last night! The sub zero temps overnight put a nice layer of ice over the entire thing.:head
Since we didn't feel like breaking through the ice, like last weekend, we decided to hit the river instead. It was steaming pretty good as the 34F degree water hit the -5F air which felt a lot more like -15F with the wind.
We started out by Marquette elementary school and swam all the way up to the Washington ave bridge. The swim up river kept us warm and once we turned around we sailed along to our entry point in a matter of minutes. I think we were in the water close to an hour and a half- which was plenty givien the conditions.
We did have quite a few ducks joining us along the way and I even found a rock bass to play catch-and-release with- he was moving pretty slow in the cold water so I could grab him with my hands.
No crack pipes or computers to be found this time, but I did find a fire extinguisher, bike wheels, VW engine cover, and other goofy bits of urban life.
The one thing that we weren't expecting was the thin layer of skim ice that kept floating down river and smashed into our faces. :blackeye I don't know if it was stuff that broke off, and floated down, from up river or if it was the river itself freezing as it flowed- it really was that cold out so it could be the latter. eventually, we started diving under and swimming under the floating ice sheets to pop up on the other side. They weren't to thick that we couldn't easily break through, but they were an annoyance.
I guess I'll have to try and post pictures later on- something's wrong with the upload manager right now.
Jon
Since we didn't feel like breaking through the ice, like last weekend, we decided to hit the river instead. It was steaming pretty good as the 34F degree water hit the -5F air which felt a lot more like -15F with the wind.
We started out by Marquette elementary school and swam all the way up to the Washington ave bridge. The swim up river kept us warm and once we turned around we sailed along to our entry point in a matter of minutes. I think we were in the water close to an hour and a half- which was plenty givien the conditions.
We did have quite a few ducks joining us along the way and I even found a rock bass to play catch-and-release with- he was moving pretty slow in the cold water so I could grab him with my hands.
No crack pipes or computers to be found this time, but I did find a fire extinguisher, bike wheels, VW engine cover, and other goofy bits of urban life.
The one thing that we weren't expecting was the thin layer of skim ice that kept floating down river and smashed into our faces. :blackeye I don't know if it was stuff that broke off, and floated down, from up river or if it was the river itself freezing as it flowed- it really was that cold out so it could be the latter. eventually, we started diving under and swimming under the floating ice sheets to pop up on the other side. They weren't to thick that we couldn't easily break through, but they were an annoyance.
I guess I'll have to try and post pictures later on- something's wrong with the upload manager right now.
Jon
Those floating sheets get plucked from the bank, as well as the locks area (opposite the overflow). I'll bet they could open you up if they caught you just right.
I can't believe you guys went out today. I saw the outlet freezing over yesterday, and was wondering if they were going to turn it back on by the time you guys got out...
The ice was thinner than the normal stuff you see form and break off- which is why I was wondering if it was forming as the water froze in front of us.
I've dove colder so wouldn't let a little Alberta clipper keep me from the water. What I need to is to be able to jump in during the week when the outlet is running.
I'm still having trouble uploading pictures.
I've dove colder so wouldn't let a little Alberta clipper keep me from the water. What I need to is to be able to jump in during the week when the outlet is running.
I'm still having trouble uploading pictures.
It's a large Tape Worm coming out of his...... just kidding, It's Jon's float line. He brings his float to hold his key, crocs, ect....
just kidding, It's Jon's float line. He brings his float to hold his key, crocs, ect....
