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Shock and awe(ful)

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Where do you go from a beautiful day spent piloting a plane over the gorgeous waters of South Florida? Nowhere but down, that’s where. This week has been one of shock and awe…and at times just plain shockingly awful.

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Three if by air?

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

If it’s one if by land and two if by sea, light up three lanterns, baby, because I’m airborne!

I haven’t managed to do a whole heck of a lot since moving down here to Ft. Lauderdale, but somehow last weekend I managed to pull the coolest weekend ever out of the bag! I was a bit late leaving work Friday afternoon because I had a few things I was trying to get done when a guy who’d been in my training class IM’ed me to say hey, and five minutes later I had an invite to go flying in a four-seater Cessna the next morning. Score! I’ve always wanted to do that! Apparently a guy he worked with was a flight instructor as a hobby on weekends and asked if anybody wanted to go for a flight. Umm….yeah. Yeah I would. I can hardly stop grinning whenever I fly on ordinary jumbo jet airlines, put me in a fun little thing like a Cessna and I might need a minute alone.

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Happy post

Friday, August 11th, 2006
So tonight I finally felt like writing something. I was all set and ready to go when I noticed my laptop wasn't connecting to my wireless connection, and I've become too much of a wireless snob to use a network cable ... [Continue reading this entry]

Sad Post

Friday, August 11th, 2006
Part of the reason I've been putting off updating my blog is that I haven't really wanted to go into a sad subject. I couldn't very well not go into it though, so I decided that I'll just post about ... [Continue reading this entry]

Lazy days of summer

Monday, August 7th, 2006
Actually, things have been extremely busy and not too lazy at all, but I haven't been able to muster up the brain power to try and tackle everything that's happened in the past few weeks. And today is no different. ... [Continue reading this entry]