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It's been a while since I've written anything. It puzzles me how fast days go by even though the majority of it is spent by me sitting around bored out of my mind. After my CFI ride on Friday, I went to Kennywood with Alison. It was fun although the lines there were killer and every ride we stood in line for broke right before we got on. Had to jumpseat back Sunday morning to go to the international ground school. Jake liked IGS so I was kinda looking forward to it. I work on International ground school stuff all day every day at work so most of it is stuff I've seen before. The instructor also liked to pick on me because I am an intern and because "I still remember all those fed. aviation regulations" so it was a make fun of the intern and also quiz him a lot kinda week. Bleah. As I get back to my normal job Rich and Pat hand me a huge stack of paper which is a whole new lesson for me to create from scratch. Ugh. Thursday night and I jumpseat back to CLE, hoping to fly and move my dad's website to jo's server. The airplane was about an hour late and full of the hot and suck. I didn't get to fly and jo was at work so it was all for waste. Friday I went from CLE to ORD (O'Hare) and then to PIT to see Alison again. We didn't do a whole lot this weekend, but we did go to see Cars, which is an awesome movie and I highly recommend it. We drove to CLE Sunday morning for father's day. I went to the akron fulton airshow with my dad and it was cool, I enjoyed it. I wasn't able to make my plane from CLE to Ohare (eventually from ohare to dallas later) but there was a direct flight to dallas at the next gate so I walked over and got on that one. It was cool seeing the thunderstorms and navigating around them. That's something we don't get to do at KSU. So now it's the normal week and I'm back to my huge project. Jake was walking around begging for work so I let him type some of the script for me and he made a whole bunch of typos that I didn't catch and I got to take the blame for it. Oh well. I wish I was in a better mood right now but I'm not so this is all you get today.
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woohoo just failed my CFI checkride. Got through the 5 hour oral exam with not much problem. The weather was god awful today so I was just going to do the landings and discontinue the ride so I could do the higher altitude maneuvers another day. Ended up busting on the emergency landing because I forgot to check the fuel selector. So not too pleased with myself but then again almost no one passes their first time and even on the second time you dont see a lot.
Got to go to the bank and do some stuff then spend the rest of the weekend with Alison so yay.
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Today involved deleting slides in powerpoint and scanning charts to put into powerpoints. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I was out of stuff to do in about an hour. Today’s highlights included setting a new background picture on my powerhouse of a computer. I noticed it was a Pentium ][ 333 and not a Pentium Uno like previously thought. Regardless of the fact that I have the slowest computer in the office (not by much) I am still blessed with a Stealth 32mb video card that allows me to run at 1600x1200 on my 21” monitor. So it’s not all bad. I used the blue default background of OS X 10.4 as my background in stark contrast to the American Airlines backgrounds everyone else has. Airplane backgrounds are cool and all, but most of theirs look like some crappy greeting card in which they used mspaint to put the airplane in the background. So my computer not only looks the sleekest (in my opinion), but probably runs the fastest. It’s Windows 98 so of course it freezes around noon every day with no explanation. I can live with my yash-age computer, and it’s actually fine for most of the work I do (Office 97), the only thing I don’t really like is that the internet works through a proxy (how old-fashioned) and I’m only allowed port 80, so no ftp’ing pictures to you guys and no streaming audio or ssh or anything. All I have for entertainment is web so I read wikipedia a lot. The highlight of today was the flight back to Cleveland, which was supposed to be my first jumpseat experience. Turns out the CRJ has one of the air conditioning packs MEL’d (broken) so apparently it’d be too hot in the cockpit. I was lucky enough to get a seat in the back where I’m actually writing this post. It is a given that whichever seat I choose the person in front of me has to lean back all the way so I have no room for my laptop. It’s pretty uncomfortable. Also, there is the screaming kid© that for absolutely no reason at all refuses to wear the seatbelt during taxi and takeoff. It’s a federal law that people on board wear the seltbelt during taxi, takeoff and landing, so I think a few days in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison is in order. I’m gonna go play some crappy KDE games until the flight is over.
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My background check cleared so I'm now free to move about the country.
Whoops! that's Southwest
Planning on being in CLE Thursday for a flight before my CFI ride. If anyone wants to go out to eat, comment. I spend all day sitting around online watching if webcomics or my friends update their sites so do me a favor and entertain me :P Also, Once I get home I will make a picture blog post here and maybe get my actual site online again.
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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.
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