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In a very hot and exhausting day yesterday, I passed my flight instructor checkride. The weather in the morning was super shitty. Would have been an awesome day to fly in the clouds, but I needed to fly in the morning with my instructor before we left, and we couldn't even get high enough to fly the traffic pattern. The checkride was scheduled for 11:30 am, and he pushed it back to Noon but said noon was the latest we could get started. Another guy I know named Brian Marsh was scheduled with me. Finally it started breaking up a little and I was able to fly with Nathan in the pattern for 2 landings. He signed my logbook and Marsh and I sped off to Medina airport at full throttle at a fairly low, yet not illegal altitude.
The examiner was his usual self; it's fairly easy to talk to him but you better not relax or say anything that he'll have you elaborate on. Marsh flew first as the weather barely cleared up to acceptable. His ride was fairly short. He passed, which is good. So up I go and we do about 7 or 8 takeoffs and landings. Luckily, I had some fairly good landings, even my emergency (he pulls the throttle to simulate failure and you have to land). He always likes to do it in a spot where you'll have to make a choice and I went for the right runway. That's good because I should be able to do it anyways though. After about 50 min of just traffic pattern work we finally went out for the maneuvers. Two steep turns, min. controllable airspeed, a departure stall, a lazy eight and two chandelles. My first chandelle was a little weak from not having done one in about 3 months, so he made me do it again. My second one was better. He finally said take me back to the airport so I did, expecting him to pull some sort of emergency again but he didn't, only said to make the last landing a good one, which turned out okay. It was so damn hot in that airplane. Oh well it's over and I'm a Certified Flight Instructor! Fear in the hearts of children!
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I know it's been a while since I posted about what's going on in my world down here in Texas. From June 25-July 2 Alison came down here because she had two weeks off from school. It was awesome having her here because I get homesick sometimes. We went to the CR Smith Museum, mini golfing, saw superman, and went to Six Flags Over Texas. Maybe not in that order. My CFI checkride was supposed to be on June 30, but because I didnt want to leave her, and a luncheon with American Eagle I cancelled it. It is now rescheduled to July 13 (soon!).
Work at American has been kinda slow lately. I got another project which I finished today; to create a new cbt lesson for the atlantic division. It's nice to have work but it's also annoying at the same time. I don't think I can be satisfied with a normal job. It's the same at Resnet. I hate having computers in the office so I work hard to get them all done so that there will be free time, and once they are done I'm sitting around bored wishing for work.
In other news, I went back home real quick to fly and see Alison and some other smaller reasons. Went to PittsBurgh with Alison and had a fun weekend until Sunday. We were driving out to Ikea and the airport when there was something weird happening on the highway, so we braked and ended up in a four car pile-up. It was not fun. Both of us are hurting from whiplash. I used to think it was something people made up for money, but it hurts like hell and is very inconvienent. I hope it's better by my checkride this Thursday. Poor Alison's car was banged up and we're talking to insurance, who will hopefully not cheat us. That would be the final kick to the crotch right now. I hope it will be okay...
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With only 30 days until the big event and even fewer than that to start planning for it, I've taken the liberty of setting up a schedule for Quakecon planning. It is open to suggestion, and is currently based around my work schedule. It involves everyone leaving CLE around 10am on August 1st, and returning around 8am August 8. I used Google Calendar to plan it because my calendar feature is broken (more like, not installed on Jo's server atm) and it looked cool. I can give other people with gmail accounts access to change stuff and add to it.
DGS Quakecon Google Calendar: Click Here I know Dan and Tim are going, as well as Tim(bro), Schultz, March, and maybe another. I suggest you guys all travel together. Even if you take separate cars, it's a big country and you guys can watch out for each other. I wish my forum was still operational, so you could organize it there, but this will have to do. Sound off in the comments for suggestions, and I will try to be on AIM and log any event changes here. Bookmark this entry!
Official Quakecon FAQ: Here
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Today is a day of many posts, probably. Most importantly, it's the day that 2004 XP14 was going to wipe out a small country or worse. Back when all those doomsday movies came out people were going crazy over this asteroid, discovered back in 2004, which actually did come close (between the Earth and the Moon).
Also, Today is the day of Earth's Aphelion, for which my server is named. It's the furthest distance from the center of the Earth to the center of the Sun, in it's elliptical orbit. Should be a cold day, right?
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 Me in the jumpseat
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