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Looking up

One of those long Winter nights on the way to Ypsilanti, at cruise at 41000 feet, S_____ asked me how many constellations I could name. I told him well, there’s Orion right in front of us, and there is one of his dogs, Canis Major. I admitted I knew he had two dogs but didContinue reading “Looking up”

“Hit it.”

I had been flying Lears for some time at this point, and had a good working relationship with E_____. We were primarily hauling boxes, part of the just-in-time freight network that the automotive industry developed in the ’80s to reduce the amount of parts they needed to warehouse. Instead they had an intricate logistics networkContinue reading ““Hit it.””