45 Days on a Gen3 Hayabusa - 2023 Pashnit Touring

Paloma Rd led us to the western shores of Pardee Reservoir and across two different dams.

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Then a stop at the Pardee Reservoir Overlook.

Shorter days meant watching the sun go down in the west, producing long shadows and a quick group photo.

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Pardee Reservoir is very full
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Awesome day of riding equals high five

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It's growing on me. Quickly.

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Grass is red.

The first time I got into a heated argument over colors was grade school. The assignment was to draw a picture of your house, and surrounding my house was red grass. The art teacher stated I did the assignment incorrectly, but I was adamant. I was right, and she was wrong, and I wasn’t backing down. Don’t you see red grass? I was insistent. Grass is green, everyone knows that, she said.

40 years later, grass is still red, and I’m still right. But it gets better. The grass in the Sierra Nevada Foothills is special.

This grass is orange.

And the brilliant spring colors in Sierra Nevada Foothill regions glow this time of year. The rolling hills of orange grass coupled with undulating country roads are the best. At least that’s what the backs of my colorblind eyeballs are telling my brain.

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I'm colorblind too, and I see lots of brown and orange grass, but some is actually green, lmao
So I'm told, anyway.
I could read one number out of all of them in the circle dot tests the Army and Air Force gave me.
 
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sixpack577 said:
I'm colorblind too, and I see lots of brown and orange grass, but some is actually green, lmao
So I'm told, anyway.
I could read one number out of all of them in the circle dot tests the Army and Air Force gave me.
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Ha! One of the best memories of joining the Marine Corps. Failed 90% of the colorblind cards they showed me while doing MEPS.
The Gunny giving the test seemed very annoyed when I couldn't see anything, He sighed heavily and finally simply said, You can't be an electrician. :D
 
pashnit said:
Ha! One of the best memories of joining the Marine Corps. Failed 90% of the colorblind cards they showed me while doing MEPS.
The Gunny giving the test seemed very annoyed when I couldn't see anything, He sighed heavily and finally simply said, You can't be an electrician. :D
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Lol, In 1995 the Army had 320 entry level positions, I qualified for all of them.
I wanted to be a helicopter pilot, and you had to be 19 to go to Warrant Officer flight school, so I picked bomb squad for the first year.
Colorblind then disqualified me for all but 18 positions...and flat feet disqualified me from the rest.
I went back later for the Air Force, as they weren't bothered by the colorblind, but didn't like my feet or some screws that I have, so they turned me down.
My recruiter appealed it to the Surgeon General...6 weeks later I got my official denial letter in the mail.
But the colorblind has always been 'fun'
especially with anything electrical, as you well know.
 
sixpack577 said:
Lol, In 1995 the Army had 320 entry level positions, I qualified for all of them.
I wanted to be a helicopter pilot, and you had to be 19 to go to Warrant Officer flight school, so I picked bomb squad for the first year.
Colorblind then disqualified me for all but 18 positions...and flat feet disqualified me from the rest.
I went back later for the Air Force, as they weren't bothered by the colorblind, but didn't like my feet or some screws that I have, so they turned me down.
My recruiter appealed it to the Surgeon General...6 weeks later I got my official denial letter in the mail.
But the colorblind has always been 'fun'
especially with anything electrical, as you well know.
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Seemed like I was always testing for something in the military......I can't remember the original testing I undertook to join.....it was just too long ago now...
 
Bumblebee said:
Seemed like I was always testing for something in the military......I can't remember the original testing I undertook to join.....it was just too long ago now...
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Uh oh...sounds like a conspiracy...your mind has been wiped and reprogrammed after your service was up.
Your wife was your 'Handler' in the military, and once you were retired, rather than be eliminated, she decided she needed someone to go to walmart and shovel snow...
lmao
I have an extra tinfoil hat if your head gets cold out there...
 
sixpack577 said:
Uh oh...sounds like a conspiracy...your mind has been wiped and reprogrammed after your service was up.
Your wife was your 'Handler' in the military, and once you were retired, rather than be eliminated, she decided she needed someone to go to walmart and shovel snow...
lmao
I have an extra tinfoil hat if your head gets cold out there...
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I do remember some of the training I did, and chose to forget that as most of it was pretty intense...

I do believe you are correct though, my wife probably was a plant to mind control me ...I met her when she was in the military......

Oddly enough, I just bought an industrial sized roll of tin foil this morning...I may have to make an entire tin foil body condom...
 
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