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As we were getting started, Kim received a search page for an elderly man visiting his son in Falcon, and had not returned for two days. He left shortly before a snow storm blew through town. Kim and Brenda invited me to tag along (and I think to put me to work). We when to the home of the reporting party. I said would wait in the car with my dog, they would come out and we’d start a road search.

Not quite… Since I had been a member and was invited into the home. A short time later, I was placed in front of the radios passing traffic to the Aviation Division. Observing, asking questions, passing tasking assignments to the two aircraft we eventually got airborne and relaying their observations to the management team. This was not the vacation I envisioned.

We were going all day and reaching the end of any useful searching, and losing daylight, wondering what we would do next when we received a call from Elbert County that he had been found. Seeing the reaction reminded me of what made the work so worthwhile.

I’m thankful to Kim and Brenda for letting me tag along and to the rest of the team for letting me participate. It brought back a lot of good memories.

Technorati Tags: podcasts, zoos

Here’s my first post from the Day’s Inn in Grand Rapids. We start the Acton Institute program tonight. There are at least four other people from Talbot here.

I’m sharing a room with a recent graduate from Princeton who used to work for Robert P. George.

I’m in Atlanta. With the delay my four hour layover became a three hour layover. Not much to report here. Had a nice long walk hunting down a restaurant. Ended up at Sbrarro’s *Mmmmmm… Grease…” And there there really is an iPod vending machine.

We are in the air now.

Saw some interesting sites on take off. The Iwerks building is rignt next to the airport.

The in-flight movie is “Robots” I’ve got my iPod. I’m listening to Wil WRight talk about the development of game software. He recalls a few I remember from the early days of computing, “Flight Simulator” by Bruce Artwick and Bill Budge’s Pinball. I remember the wireframe flight simulator. I remember trying to fly off the edge of the “world” and finding that the simulated is round. Fly in a straight line in any direction, and you eventually return to where you started. Then if you were able to fly sraight up, long enough, you would probably find yourself below the ground. An interesting geometry for the universe.

Flight’s going to be a bit late – aircraft is coming from another local airport and it has been delayed because of the curfew at their airport. Orange County?

Anyway, I am traveling for the Acton Institute’s, Towards a Free and Virtuous Society conference.

My iPod Shuffle full of podcasts, so the layover in Atlanta should be entertaining

This looks like it would be fun to try out.