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as I put on some pants here is a song.
Everything is perfect
Everything is sick, that's it
You can't tell me to stop it
You can't tell me not to quit, that's it
Revolve around yourself
It's you and no one else
Hard for me to stay
Swinging moods that change
From calmness to deranged
Unpredictable, unpredictable
You would see if
Only
You hadn't taken things out of my hands
Only
You never wanted to understand
Clasing ways to live here
Compromise for me
I'm at both ends of the spectrum
You're somewhere in the between
Ah, come clean
Revolve around yourself
It's you and no one else
Hard for me to stay
Swinging moods that change
From calmness to deranged
Unpredictable, unpredictable
You would see if
Only
You hadn't taken things out of my hands
Only
You never wanted to understand
Only
You hadn't taken things out of my hands
Only
You never wanted to understand
Only
You hadn't taken things out of my hands
Only
You never wanted to understand
Crucified, terrified, sacrifice, my whole life
My whole life, my whole life, my whole life
My whole life
If only...
I can't contain myself
I can't contain myself
I just can't take myself
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A section of what once was seating will soon become a control room for the Aircraft Structural Testing and Evaluation Center, an expansion of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University.
He pointed to where a scoreboard once hung and talked about how he can’t wait to drop a fuselage from there.
Tomblin, the executive director of NIAR, gave a tour Wednesday of the arena-turned-aviation-center, where NIAR will conduct full-scale structural testing. Its first client will be Bombardier’s Learjet 85.
Much work has gone on inside the building since Wichita developer and oilman Johnny Stevens bought the Coliseum complex from Sedgwick County last year for $1.5 million. He convinced Tomblin that it could provide him the space he needed to test aircraft as big as Boeing 737s and 787s.
Gone are the concession stands. Gone are the ticket booths. Gone are many of the seats where people went to concerts, hockey and soccer games, the circus and monster truck shows.
The whole thing started with a lunch between Stevens and Tomblin. Stevens had looked at the Coliseum complex because it was for sale.
“I knew that John was looking for more space,” Stevens said.
Tomblin had looked at the arena years before but didn’t think the site could fit NIAR’s needs. Stevens convinced him it would, with its tall ceilings and 265-foot clear span.
Sedgwick County Commissioner Dave Unruh came along for the tour Wednesday and said he was relieved the deal came together.
The future of the Coliseum complex had been in limbo since Intrust Bank Arena opened in January 2010. Britt Brown Arena was not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the county turned down proposals from developers for an entertainment and retail venue, and a rodeo resort at the site.
“This is much better than warehouse space,” Unruh said. “This is smart people building something.”
Stevens said he has put $4 million into remodeling the arena, including replacing a leaky roof. NIAR has spent another $2 million on renovations specific for its needs and will spend $4 million on equipment.
The Eagle first reported in March that Stevens and NIAR had signed a 10-year lease agreement. It includes three five-year options to renew. NIAR will pay $480,000 a year for the space.
The south end of the former arena has been opened up for a 70-feet-wide and 30-feet-tall hangar door made by a company called, in fact, Megadoor. Through that $200,000 door, made of a translucent fabric and designed in an accordion style, will come pieces of airplanes – wings, fuselages and vertical and horizontal tails. They will come by truck and train and undergo rigorous structural testing.
“We’ll put two to three lifetimes on the aircraft,” Tomblin said of the Learjet 85.
It was obvious Wednesday that Tomblin can’t wait to get his hands on the center’s first plane. Who else would get so excited about a trench cut from the mechanical room to both sides of what was once the arena’s hockey rink? It will house the stainless-steel hydraulic lines and 5-inch air lines required to test planes.
“That’s the heart, and this is the nerve system,” Tomblin said, pointing from the mechanical room, which houses the hydraulic pumps, back to the trench.
New chillers that have been installed will cool the pumps. The center has all new electrical work and plumbing.
The trusses that used to hold lighting equipment for concerts and circuses each can hold 33,000 pounds, which is perfect for testing planes.
Tomblin said work at the center will begin within a month on the floor of the former arena. The offices are scheduled to open the first week of January.
The center will have a perimeter fence. Because of military testing, the center will be restricted to clients and scheduled guests and will not be open to the public. A new parking lot will be separate from that of the Kansas Pavilions, which Stevens continues to operate.
About 80 NIAR staff will work at the center when it opens. Tomblin said he will add another 20 jobs by 2014 and another 10 by 2015.
He said he can look that far out because testing is a long process.
“It’s not a date. It’s a marriage,” he said.
Almost makes me want to cry for my youth.
Aaaaah! My dot is gone!
*Uncaps Sharpie, draws dots all over Kajehase*
*pokes Kajehase with sharp stick multiple times*
Wait you meant sharpie? Ah, never mind then.
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Bops into thread.
Going out for Brazilian food tonight, for a friends birthday party.
Meat, meat & more meat!
Yay, soon the weekend approaches. Like a vast behemoth it looms before you promising much, but it flits away so quickly like a beautiful lady at a dance.
Going out for Brazilian food tonight....Made with real Brazilians?
Hopefully, the birthday boy hasn't said what type of meat they serve. Hang on this is sounding more and more dodgy.....
And on that note, I passed a Circus Poster:'Ladyboys of Bangkok'. Now I don't know what happens under that big-top.
Did you ever have one of those days when you thought of something really insane and thought to yourself...
F*&@ THAT S@$*!!
Days....days.... don't you mean minutes?
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Days....days.... don't you mean minutes?Did you ever have one of those days when you thought of something really insane and thought to yourself...
F*&@ THAT S@$*!!
Oh no. I'm very careful with my temporal references, Otherwise you risk offending a time traveller. Next thing you know, you're erased from hist....*
And on that note, I passed a Circus Poster:'Ladyboys of Bangkok'.......I've heard of these Ladyboys....
F%*&ing creepy.
Yeah it was just in a window of a shop in a very respectable part of a respectable town...I was :O
Possibly I should have just stood staring at the poster to try and see wtf it was about....
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And on that note, I passed a Circus Poster:'Ladyboys of Bangkok'.......I've heard of these Ladyboys....
F%*&ing creepy.
Yeah it was just in a window of a shop in a very respectable part of a respectable town...I was :O
Possibly I should have just stood staring at the poster to try and see wtf it was about....
From my understanding (knowing people who have vacationed in Thailand), Ladyboys are young men who've had sex change operations because it's easier to make a living there as a prostitute.
It is often difficult to tell the ones who used to be male from the ones who've always been female. According to some co-workers, if she looks too good, she was probably once a he.
Yeah freaky!
In other news, I have every adventurers most useful piece of equipment - a bag of marbles.
I don't think that was quite the threesome Kajehase had in mind.
Also, this
And on that note, I passed a Circus Poster:'Ladyboys of Bangkok'.......I've heard of these Ladyboys....
F%*&ing creepy.
Yeah it was just in a window of a shop in a very respectable part of a respectable town...I was :O
Possibly I should have just stood staring at the poster to try and see wtf it was about....
From my understanding (knowing people who have vacationed in Thailand), Ladyboys are young men who've had sex change operations because it's easier to make a living there as a prostitute.
It is often difficult to tell the ones who used to be male from the ones who've always been female. According to some co-workers, if she looks too good, she was probably once a he.
Hmm, the Tigers are going to the World Series. It's Friday, and I'm off work on Monday. I'm eating bacon.
WHEN THE HELL DID I GET REPLACED BY A POD PERSON?!
Never mind. Never look a gift pod in the mouth.
Happy Friday, Earthlings!
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Meat party? No politics! Though a Bacon Party might get my vote.
Speak for yourself.
Hi, all.
hi everyone
Hmm, the Tigers are going to the World Series. It's Friday, and I'm off work on Monday. I'm eating bacon.
WHEN THE HELL DID I GET REPLACED BY A POD PERSON?!
Never mind. Never look a gift pod in the mouth.
Happy Friday, Earthlings!
The Yankees really need r show up to games more often... Injuries aside, that is.
Happy Friday!
Hope everyone has a happy weekend.
I, personally, plan to scorch some meat on the grill. Something I haven't been able to do the last 2 weekends.
Laters! :)
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Morning, all. What did I miss?
Well, Joe's insistence that he was actually a pod person was finally put to rest when, under hypnosis, it was shown that he had instead been subject to secret military experiments designed to create the perfect civilian. Meanwhile, Max's phone interview took a turn for the bizarrre when the interviewer began asking him such odd questions as "If you could be a dog, what breed would you be?" and "Paper or Plastic?". And, across town, a backyard grill accident meant a trip to the emergency room for....No, wait! That's my soap opera!
Feeling lawful stupid that I have to agree that my profile for career center is up to date to update it which it is not.