Solo work today

Today was a pretty meh day. Jake’s at the International Ground School until Wednesday, so I was the only intern in the office. I actually had stuff to do today. I had to update several of the CBT lessons and the powerpoint for the classroom lectures. It was pretty boring without Jake there to talk to. The guys there are nice but they are a little over the top sometimes so it’s nice to have someone like me around. I took a really short lunch and pretty much worked on the computer the whole time. I wish I could put my pictures on the internet, but the AA internet runs on a proxy so I don’t get any ports except http. So I can’t upload them anywhere. I’m planning on getting internet after my CFI ride if I can’t get on an insecure access point before then. I ran out of stuff to look at online so I had to ask for work. While I was standing in line for lunch some sly pilots looked over and saw my AA badge with “INTERN” written clearly on it. “There’s still time for a career change” they said to me. I just kinda gave them the “wha?” response while they talked about how much of a hassle it is to fly internationally and have your pay cut by 25% or something. “At least you get to fly for a living” was all I had the nerve to say. What I really wanted to say was that paycut or no, I’d be more than willing take that job from them in a heartbeat. Pilots can be some of the biggest complainers in the galaxy. Give a pilot an airplane and he’ll want one with more power. Give him a jet and he’ll complain about not having a full glass cockpit. Give him one and he’ll want auto-throttles. Give him auto-throttles and he’ll bitch that it doesn’t have a HUD and all the cool new airplanes have HUDs. Is it my destiny to be forever disappointed with my career too? I complain about a great many things, but I’ve always felt privileged just to be able to come this far. CFI checkride in 4 days.