Feedback contains information on updates and some background information that might be of interest to some readers. It also has comments from web site readers that might have wider interest than just to me. To that end, and to possibly prevent having to respond to the same questions and comments again and again, this page provides responses that answer some of your questions, even some you've not yet asked. Be forewarned that I write for enjoyment as well as for enlightenment, and hope that you'll appreciate my humor. If not, then send me a comment and maybe I'll post it here. Or maybe not.

As with other areas where I post items of interest, I'll include dates and have the newest first so you don't have to go scrolling through a lot of "old news" (is that an oxymoron?). To speed up page loading, entries have been divided by year, with larger years' entries split.

Jack Terwiel     

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March 1, 2010 – March Newsletter Delivery
The March newsletter was completed on Feb 28 and I started sending it. The program was not acting the same as it did in previous months. The hosting service has been having problems with the data base service (MySQL) and the data base hold the list of addressees to whom the newsletter is sent.

Although the program seemed to terminate normally when it reported the completion of the send process, I'm not sure that all the retirees received an e-mail newsletter. If you'd like to report a problem about receiving the March newsletter (or not receiving it when you are supposed to) please e-mail Newsletter@rao-osan.com. Not everyone needs to respond, but I'd like to get a sampling.

January 7, 2010 – Osan's Third Snow of the Season; New Neighbor
Snow started falling in the evening of Jan 3. By the next morning, there had been quite an accumulation as seen here and here. Even as the snow continued, shop owners were out early clearing the snow. By Jan 6, the base had clear roads and mostly clear sidewalks as seen here.

The Military Retiree Assistance Office has a new neighbor across the way. The shop was open for business on Jan 2 selling motorcycle accessories such as clothing, helmets and other items. On Jan 4, the shop was snowed in along with the rest of us. The local bird population took advantage of the new shop by enjoying the new perches that had been provided. This is a good location for the birds to see whether Punee had scattered rice for them in front of the MRAO.

December 28, 2009 – Osan's Second Snow of the Season
Light snow started on Sunday afternoon and continued into the evening before tapering off. By Monday mid-afternoon near the main gate the snow looked like this. The ROKAF snow removal equipment was out, i.e., shovels operated by junior Airmen. The only place where the snow was relatively pristine was in the former CE area.

December 6, 2009 – Osan's First Snow of the Season
We had a bit of snow on Saturday, so I braved a biting cold wind to get some photos. Then went out on Sunday to enjoy the sunshine. Near the main gate the snow looked like this. On Sunday afternoon, it looked like this. The snow on Hill 170 looked rippled from the strong wind. From Hill 170 I headed toward the Chapel as the snow picked up. A couple of balloons had blown past, me and I found groups clustered around the Chapel entrance here and here. From Hill 180, I saw a strange sight. The town of Jinwi, just north of the base, was bathed in sunlight while everywhere around it was covered by clouds. On a bright, clear Sunday, Jinwi looked like this.

November 27, 2009 – Retiree Corner Column Updated
The Retiree Corner column in today's Morning Calm newspaper needs to be updated. After submitting the column, I wandered through the electronics displays at Osan Main Exchange. Lo and behold, the netbook I wrote about is now available locally. So here's the column that should have been.

October 28, 2009 – Internet Explorer Change
One of the problems that bothered me without affecting the web site performance was how some titles were displayed. Internet Explorer decided that titles in the left navigation menu and titles on many pages should be italicized. This was not what I intended and not how other browsers displayed them.

So I did some exploring and found that IE has a problem if the selected font style (bold, italics, etc.) doesn't exist for that font. It selects another style that does exist, something the other browsers don't do. So I decided to change to another font that does display properly in IE; however, that one didn't display sufficiently bold in the other browsers. So what's a guy to do?

Go back to exploring. The solution turned out to be pretty simple. As I've done with a number of other areas on the web site, the solution was to create two style sheets, one for IE and another (the existing one) for other browsers. (The style sheet tells the browser the details of how the display is constructed.) So now IE users see the pages almost exactly how others see them — and I feel better.

October 17, 2009 – Around Osan
I found an acorn hunter (no, not that ACORN) on Hill 170 near the old CE buildings. She was picking up those that had fallen and putting them into the shopping bag at the left. Passing the airmen's dormitories near the Challenger Club, I found a lonely wheel, evidence that you keep what you secure.

Coming down Hill 180, I noted that the hillside behind the family housing had pretty good vegetation cover to minimize mudslides. In front of the housing is a radar speed detector to remind motorist to slow down near family housing.

Then I got a nice picture of the U-2 passing overhead on a maintenence flight. And another flyer, this one grounded, was a moth taken in closeup while playing with my camera's macro capability.

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