"LOL"

On Tuesday, Burnley beat Liverpool in the FA Cup for the first time in 52 years :-)   It was only the second time since I moved to the USA that the Clarets have been live on mainstream TV over here.  Sean kindly taped it for me, I avoided the score all afternoon and watched it in the evening.   Traore put through his own goal in ridiculous fashion to give us a famous 1-0 victory. Thanks to <ahem> The Sun, we can watch the famous moment over and over again!

Bournemouth at home in Round 4. Strangely I'm less confident about that than I was about Liverpool.

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"Greetings!" to my new-old keyboard

Thanks to the wondrous eBay I got myself, very cheaply, a Yamaha PSS-680 in great condition and full working order. By modern standards it is not a fantastic keyboard, but it's as good as anything you can get for $200, and this was $23 plus shipping!

...and, of course, this is John Shuttleworth's keyboard!

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Christmas Present

For Christmas, Janet had Dave Matheny (who is a writer and illustrator for Sport Pilot magazine) do a lovely original illustration of the Citabria, emphasising the aerobatics theme. Thanks Janet :-) 

We now have a matching pair, as last year I had Dave do an illustration of Janet's Nanchang for her birthday, emphasising the Chinese-aeroplane-being-chased-by-tartan-clad-Chinese/Scottish dragon-with-enigmatic-message-in-Chinese-characters theme.

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