Today our group did our quarterly cleanup of our area at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge...

Today twelve of us from Space Coast Sams completed our quarterly cleanup to our assigned area at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.  After the cleanup we had a nice lunch at New York, New York here in Titusville.  Snaps and video clips from the event...click here.

Our new Samsung Chromebook Plus arrived today :)

Our Samsung Chromebook Plus arrived today and we had it set up and running in like 10 minutes :).  Being an "old timer" I remember the old bad days in changing computers over...and it was NOT pretty!  This is a "convertible", i.e. Notebook and Tablet and so far I'm totally in love.  We've been using an HP Chromebook 14" and this is a lot smaller, but VERY responsive and the visuals are to die for.  I do believe Google is onto something with Chrome....so LITTLE hassle, and like Apple says...it just works :).  David and Ashley have inherited the old HP Chromebook....it took me all of 10 seconds to get it back to factory settings, and it IS just like new with the exception of a few fades on the keyboard.  So, we have this Chromebook which pretty much resides in the kitchen and is the downstairs PC.....upstairs is the Windows 10 notebook which we need to run the websites (Space Coast Sams and the HOA)....and we fill in with I-Pads ad I-Phones.  Three different OS's and different ways of dealing with information....but i'll tell you, I do believe Google is onto something with Chromebook.  No hassels, no virus issues...it DOES just do what you want it to do.

May 19th update:  Click here for my impressions on this PC after  having had it a few days....

Heading out for the Florida Good Sam Spring Rally....

Robert R. Payette feeling thankful.

1 hr · Titusville · 

From Facebook: Heading out today with some members of our Space Coast Sams Chapter (www.spacecoastsams.org) to the Florida Spring Rally in Okeechobee http://koa.com/campgrounds/okeechobee/ . Florida Good Sam has three Rally's every year, and it's a nice way to get away with friends and associates for a different pace. Click the following link if you're thinking about joining a Good Sam camping Chapter:
https://photos.google.com/…/AF1QipN_TgYTPa5hVWLHbHQs7td3ODf…

May 1st, 2017:  Google Photo Album from event: https://goo.gl/photos/AkBtrHsr2VouqfJNA

Rumors and Mr. and Mrs. Fitch

Busy weekend!  Friday night at the Melbourne Civic Theater we saw Rumors

which was absolutely wonderful! Great acting, a marvelous set...this comedic farce had it all!

Last night it was Mr. and Mrs. Fitch at Titusville Playhouse 2.  We enjoyed it.

Our regional theater here on the Space Coast is good and getting better every year it seems. Love it here!

Hitting the road with the RV for a bit...

We'll be heading out today with our Space Coast Sams group to Lazy Days CG near Tampa. From there some of us are going directly to Hillsborough River State Park.  Being in a Good Sam Chapter is a good way to get out at least monthly with your friends and keep the cobwebs off the RV :)
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Going to the Tico Warbird Airshow today....

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/10/thunderbirds-take-flight-tico-airshow-titusville/98965634/

This is my "rant" in a letter to the Editor of Florida Today:
We have been going to the TiCo Warbird Airshow in Titusville for many years.  Yesterdays show was, as usual, excellent and you can tell a lot of people put in a lot of volunteer time and effort for this event to be so seamlessly wonderful.  But, there is always room for improvement, and there was one thing that did not sit well with me, or the people I attended the show with......the Thunderbirds production.  Don't misread me here please...the flying and precision, as always, was awesome and inspiring. The Air Force does send their best pilots, no doubt. That being said though, the pre-show hoopla was too long, too self-congratulatory and the real kicker was the 'music' that was not only too loud but extremely irritating.  We were prisoners being forced to listen to TERRIBLE sounds for at least 20 minutes before the first Thunderbird left the ground.  If they had timed it right, and had the demonstration start right after the enlistment ceremonies, and  had chosen either patriotic music or anything else that was NOT an irritant, we would have left the show with a smile on a face instead of the comment: "WHAT were they thinking, and WHO do they think is their audience?".  Because of this, I will probably NOT attend another air show where the Thunderbirds perform...it was that off-putting.  Sorry for my negativity on this, but it really was a bummer.

Annual brunch with snow-bird friends at Tides, Patrick AFB....

It's always nice to spend a little time with good friends!